(HBO) – The Hoa Binh provincial People’s Committee has held a meeting to review the emulation movement and rewards in 2018 and launch the patriotic emulation movement for this year.
The event
was attended by Bui Van Tinh – member of the Party Central Committee and
Secretary of the provincial Party Committee; Tran Thi Ha – Deputy Minister of
Home Affairs and head of the Central Committee for Emulation and Rewards; Tran
Dang Ninh – Standing Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, Chairman
of the provincial People’s Council and head of Hoa Binh’s National Assembly
deputy delegation; and Nguyen Van Quang – Vice Secretary of the provincial
Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee.
In 2018, the local patriotic emulation movement
was expanded and became more substantive, attracting the participation of the
whole political system, businesses and people, thereby greatly helping to
successfully fulfill socio-economic development tasks.
Hoa Binh recorded a gross regional domestic
product (GRDP) growth rate of 8.36 percent, ranking second among provinces in
the northwestern region, fourth in the northern midland and mountainous region,
and 19th nationwide. Per capita income has reached 50.7 million VND (2,187 USD)
while the household poverty rate has been brought down to 14.73 percent.
Another 13 communes in the province has met all 19 new-style rural area
criteria, raising the number of such communes to 63 in Hoa Binh. Meanwhile,
almost 3.38 trillion VND was collected for the State budget.

Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Tran Thi Ha, head of
the Central Committee for Emulation and Rewards, presents the first-class
Labour Order to Bui Van Tinh – member of the Party Central Committee and
Secretary of the provincial Party Committee.
Bui Van Tinh, member of the Party Central
Committee and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, presents the
third-class Labour Order to persons with outstanding achievements in the
province’s patriotic emulation movement.
Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee
Nguyen Van Quang presents the Prime Minister’s merit certificates to persons
with outstanding achievements in the province’s patriotic emulation movement.
In 2018, many outstanding collectives and
individuals in the patriotic emulation movement were granted with noble
rewards. The State President posthumously bestowed the "Heroic Vietnamese
Mother” title upon one woman and presented the third-class Independence Order
to two families whose only sons are martyrs, the second-class Anti-US Resistance
Order to two people, the first-class Labour Order to one person, the
second-class Labour Order to one collective, and the third-class Labour Order
to eight collectives and 10 individuals.
The Prime Minister posthumously granted the
revolutionary soldier insignia to 30 people while presenting the emulation flags
to 12 collectives and merit certificates to nine collectives, 37 individuals and
nine families with successful production and business activities in Hoa
Binh.
Meanwhile, the provincial People’s Committee
granted 1,034 collectives and 950 individuals with different emulation titles
and rewards.
At the meeting, Chairman of the provincial
People’s Committee Nguyen Van Quang launched the 2019 patriotic emulation
movement, themed "the Party organisation, administration, armed forces,
business community and people of all ethnic groups of Hoa Binh province look
towards solidary, discipline, integrity, action, creativity, breakthrough,
efficiency”, to successfully carry out socio-economic development tasks in
2019./.
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