The event was attended by Politburo members including Permanent member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat Vo Van Thuong and Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission and Minister of Defence Gen. Phan Van Giang.
The contest was jointly held by the People’s Army Newspaper, the Vietnam Journalists’ Association and the Military Commercial Joint Stock Bank.
According to the Organising Committee, the results of the contest have made an important contribution to the effective implementation of the Politburo’s Resolution No.35-NQ/TW, dated October 22, 2018, on “strengthening the protection of the Party’s ideological foundation and refuting wrongful and hostile views in the new situation”.
The second prize winners at the ceremony.
Speaking at the award ceremony, Lieutenant General Trinh Van Quyet, member of the Party Central Committee and Deputy Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army, emphasised that protecting the Party's ideological foundation is protecting the correctness, stature, scientific, revolutionary and humanistic nature of Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought, as well as protecting the Party's guidelines and the State's policies and laws, causing the Party's ideology to spread and penetrate deeply into the political and spiritual life of the society.
The contest attracted the participation of more than 500 entries from 30 press agencies across the country. A total of one first prize, five second prizes, seven third prizes and 15 consolation prizes were presented to the most outstanding entries.
The first prize went to an article entitled “Protecting the basic ideas of Party building” by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tran Dinh Huynh, former director of the Institute of Party Building under the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics.
