Party chief urges upgrade of mass mobilization

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has asked mass mobilisation committees at all levels to revitalise the content and modes of mass mobilisation work, and seriously implement grass-root democracy regulations.

The Party leader made the request at his working session with the Party Central Committee’s Commission for Mass Mobilisation in Hanoi on Oct. 3.

Trong emphasised the important role and position of mass mobilisation , saying the close relationship between the Party, the State and people, is a decisive factor for all successes in the revolutionary cause of the Party and people.

Mass mobilisation work needs to be heightened and attached with importance at present, he said.

The Party chief emphasised the necessity to promote the dissemination of information to raise people’s awareness of mass mobilisation role and task, create a high consensus in the society and bring into play the role and responsibility of mass organisations in the political system and the entire society for mass mobilisation work.

At the working session, leaders of the Commission for Mass Mobilisation and representatives of other Party commissions discussed the renovation of the content and modes of mass mobilisation work at present, bringing into play the role of people in implementing the Party’s policies, and increasing the quality of mass mobilisation staff and mass mobilisation work.

State President works with Academy of Justice

State President Truong Tan Sang has asked the Academy of Justice to take the initiative in renovating training methods and developing a line-up of lecturers with good professionalism.

Working with the academy on October 3, President Sang said the academy should step up scientific research and application of advanced training methods, along with expanding international cooperation to serve judicial reform of the country.

To become a major training centre for judicial cadres, the academy must make greater efforts to improve the quality of training, the President noted.

Since its inception 13 years ago, the academy has trained more than 25,000 judicial cadres and provided professional skills for a large number of judges, procurators, lawyers and notaries.

Vietnam, Cambodia localities boost cooperation

Ho Chi Minh City has great potential for cooperation with the Cambodian northwestern province of Banteay Meanchay, the city leader said. 

Chairman of Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Le Hoang Quan made the remark while receiving a delegation from Banteay Meanchay, led by its Governor Oung Oeun on October 3. 

At the reception, the two leaders affirmed that many businesses in Vietnam and in Ho Chi Minh City have launched trade promotions and engaged in effective investment in Cambodia’s localities recently, with two-way trade between Vietnam and Cambodia reaching about US$2 billion. 

Quan said the visit would contribute to promoting the multifaceted relations between the two localities. 

Oung Oeun expressed his pleasure at witnessing the strong and dynamic development of Ho Chi Minh City and said he wished to further strengthen and tighten cooperation between the two localities and the two nations in the future. 

Oung Oeun introduced Banteay Meanchay province’s potential for development of tourism, agricultural and mineral exploitation to the HCM City’s leader, hoping that Vietnamese businesses will invest in producing wheat flour and cement as well as in planting rubber trees in the province. There is plan afoot to replace 40,000 hectares of forest with rubber trees.

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