(HBO) - Member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of Hoa Binh province’s Party Committee Bui Van Tinh had a working session with the provincial Department of Information and Communication on its implementation of political tasks in 2015 – 2017, major tasks in 2018-2020 and some other relevant matters. Attending the meeting were Nguyen Van Toan, Head of the provincial Party Committee’s Commission on Information and Education, and Nguyen Van Chuong, Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee.
Bui Van Tinh, Party Central Committee member
and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, addresses the working session.
In the period 2015-2017, the information and
communication sector has developed strongly. Specifically, the post and
telecommunication industry has improved quality of services, while information
safety and security was insured without network congestion, thus better serving
the direction and management work of Party Committees and administrations at
all level and meeting people’s demand.
As of 2017, the province had 216
postal service points with a network of 26 post offices with 10 secondary mail lines
and 34 third level ones. All communes, wards, towns, and agencies received newspapers
during the day. Networks using optical cable have reached all districts and
cities across the province, and the centres of 209 out of 210 communes,
accounting for 99.5 percent, while 184 out of 210 communes had broadband
internet infrastructure.
The province has 743 thousand
mobile phone subscribers, and 50 percent of the local population using the
Internet. Telecommunication revenue is about 1 trillion VND per year, with over
80 billion VND channelled to the State budget per year.
As much as 100 percent of the communes have accessed
central and local radio and television broadcasting services, while 93 percent
of households have television sets, 80 percent of households watch digital TV
in different forms, and 71 out of 210 communes have their own local system of
loudspeakers.
Regarding key tasks in the coming time, the provincial
Party Committee Secretary requested departments, agencies and press agencies
pay attention to promoting the image and socio-economic potential of the
locality, and organise events effectively.
He asked for more attention to cyber
security issues in order to prevent the abuse of Internet to commit law
violations, and urged the authorised agencies to consider issuing mechanisms
for information provision, improve the quality of press briefings, and hold
emergency press conferences when necessary.
The provincial leader also
suggested holding more meetings online, while improving the operation quality
of websites of sectors and localities, well implementing the regulations on spokesperson,
and re-evaluating the results of coordination with Nhan Dan (People) Newspaper.
Press agencies should increase
activities to popularise the Law on Cyber Security, he said, adding that the
provincial authorities should design plans to enforce the law effectively./.
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On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory (May 7, 1954 - 2024), Nguyen Phi Long, alternate member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee, and other officials of the province and Lac Son district on April 25 visited and presented gifts to local soldiers and pioneering youths who directly engaged in the Dien Bien Phu Campaign.
A delegation from the Fund for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and the Hero of the People’s Armed Forces Phan Trong Binh Social Work Fund on April 22 had a working session with leaders of Hoa Binh province.
The Hoa Binh Food Safety Sub-Department – the standing agency of the provincial Steering Committee for Food Safety on April 15 launched the action month for food safety in the province in 2024.