Senior Lieutenant General Phan Van Giang speaking at the meeting According to report delivered at the meeting, the whole military has strictly maintained combat readiness and effectively followed situation in their designated areas. Particularly, together with observing combat readiness regulations, naval units have actively carried out search and rescue mission at seas, while border guard troops have strictly performed their duties at 1,600 checkpoints to prevent illegal migration and COVID-19 pandemic. According to Deputy Chief of the General Department of Politics Senior Lieutenant General Do Can, all on-duty troops have demonstrated their firm political stance and high determination to undertake and fulfil assigned missions. The whole military actively carried out policies for troops and their families, took care of policy beneficiaries, national contributors, and needy people, and hosted New Year events for their troops. They also made preparations for the tree-planting festival and worked with localities to prepare for the enlistment drive in 2021. The mission paying tribute to President Ho Chi Minh At the event, General Giang wished troops, militiamen, and defense workers a happy new year and encouraged troops on duty in remote and needy areas to fulfil their assigned missions. Giang recalled that despite impacts of the COVID-19, Vietnam recorded a growth rate of 2.91% last year while ensuring absolute political security and public order and strengthening cooperation with other countries. In the year, under the leadership of the Central Military Commission and Ministry of National Defense, the whole military comprehensively fulfilled all military and defense missions while effectively preventing COVID-19 pandemic. Praising achievements obtained by troops, defense workers, and militiamen, especially those on duty in border areas, General Giang asked them to promote revolutionary heroism and glorious tradition of the …
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HCM City to relocate water supply sources amid worsening water pollution HCM City authorities plan to gradually relocate its water supply sources further upstream of the Sài Gòn and Đồng Nai rivers as part of its effort to ensure clean water for local use. Experts have warned that the current main source of water has become seriously polluted due to the impact of socio-economic development along the Sài Gòn – Đồng Nai river system. The city currently draws some 94 per cent of the water for treatment at a spot downstream of where the Sài Gòn River meets the Đồng Nai River, at the Hòa Phú pumping station in its Củ Chi District, and at Hóa An in Đồng Nai Province. Under the city’s 2020-30 water supply plan, the city will relocate the Hòa Phú pumping station to a new location, about 20 km from the existing pumping station and 15 km upstream from the junction of Thị Tính and Sài Gòn rivers. According to the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, water in downstream Sài Gòn River is suffering from severe microbiological pollution and slight oil contamination. Pollution indicators like ammonia, microorganisms and manganese have all increased, exceeding the permitted standards of Việt Nam and the World Health Organization. Dr. Hồ Long Phi, director of the Centre for Water Management and Climate Change under the National University of HCM City, said that pollution in the Saigon River remains ‘serious’. He said it was vital to develop hi-tech water treatment plants if the city continues to draw this water for local use. “The water upstream in the Sài Gòn and Đồng Nai rivers is in the safe zone, which is less impacted by climate change and sea level rise in the next 50-100 …
“Special cases” are superior in terms of political virtues, practical capacity, and reputation
Q: What can be considered the highlights or new in the orientations for building the Party Central Committee, the Politburo and the Secretariat, and introducing key officials for the 13th tenure? A: Personnel preparation is closely and directly supervised by the Party Central Committee, the Politburo and the Secretariat to ensure the principles of democratic centralism, unity, and high level of consensus; and to uphold the effectiveness, logicality, orderliness, and comprehensiveness in line with the motto “Do step by step, procedure by procedure, position group by position group, starting from the lowest, ensuring that decisions are made prudently and deliberately". The issues between criteria and composition, universality and specificity, one’s field of training and one’s forte and practical capacity, and between experience and development trajectory, have been dealt with, with strong consideration paid to effectiveness and quality, while ensuring that the ratio in terms of geographical matters, fields of work, age, gender, or ethnicity will be suitable. With that being said, we will not lower the criteria for the sake of ensuring certain quotas. We absolutely won’t let in those who are unqualified and unworthy into the Party Central Committee, and at the same time, we won’t pass up on people who are truly virtuous, capable, esteemed in the Party ranks and highly regarded by the public. The personnel procedures for the 13th tenure Party Central Committee must take into account the quality and ratio issues, as well as aspects like stability, continuity, renewal, undisrupted development and a coherent transition between generations. On the basis of the personnel preparation works, at the 13th, 14th and 15th Plenum of the Party Central Committee, the 12th tenure Party Central Committee has prudently come to an agreement on the list of candidates to submit to the 13th National Party Congress for consideration and election in line with regulations. Q: …
