Over the past few years, together with synchronously adopting comprehensive measures, Factory Z755 has stepped up studying and following Uncle Ho’s teaching to create drivers for improving productive efficiency, contributing to both implementation of defence, security missions and participation in socio-economic development.

Being imbued with President Ho Chi Minh’s teaching that: “Participation in production is the military’s glorious mission assigned by the Party and State. Although it is a difficult task, disadvantages are temporary, whereas advantages are numerous. There needs to bring into play advantages and overcome disadvantages”, cadres, employees, and workers of Factory Z755 have ceaselessly leveraged their intelligence, potential, and strength to surmount difficulties and accomplish all assigned tasks. Increased productive efficiency, successful completion of strategic-level communications technical support in the South, effective prevention and response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and active participation in socio-economic development are appreciated by the Signal Corps and Ministry of National Defence (MND).

In recent years, to carry out enterprise restructuring, the Factory has attracted considerable investment in equipment, technology, and facilities while streamlining its organisation. Meanwhile, most of its labour force are still young and have insufficient experience. Although the Factory is entitled to perform economic function, it is an accounting entity and has financial autonomy, thus being greatly affected by fierce competition in production and business operations, under intense pressure of military communications technical support and improving living standard of cadres and employees. To get over these difficulties and challenges, the Factory Party Committee and Board of Directors have concentrated leadership of undertaking all operational aspects by many drastic, synchronous solutions, in which the study and imitation of Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, morality, and style, in association with the campaign of promoting tradition, devoting talent, deserving to be Uncle Ho’s Soldiers in the new era, is the key measure to arouse the aspiration for devoting to work as well as self-reliance and resilience of cadres, party members, and workers.

On thoroughly grasping the teaching: “The more difficult the work is, the closer to the masses, general policy, and private direction the leadership must be,” the Factory strengthens party committees’ leadership of production and business activities at all levels. On the basis of resolutions and directives of the Party, Central Military Commission (CMC), and MND on military businesses, the Factory Party Committee and Board of Directors develop themed resolutions and leadership plans with specific, scientific targets suitable to functions, mission, and areas; instruct party committees and heads of departments and units to concretise into their own resolutions and implementation plans, ensuring closeness to conditions at the grassroots level. Apart from adopting many measures to improve competency and skills of the corps of cadres, especially those directly involving in production, the Factory requests party committees and leading cadres at all levels to make the most of their role and responsibility for maintaining, inspecting, and reminding production units of the need to enhance manufacturing quality and repairing communications equipment. Propaganda and education are stepped up in order to raise awareness and responsibility, create consensus and unity, and encourage cadres, employees, and workers to eagerly participate in production and business as well as to be readily deployed to repair military communications systems, especially the VSAT equipment in military units stationing at the Spratly Islands, DK1 structures, islands, border areas in Southern provinces, etc., as needed.

Increased restructuring to promote production efficiency is a measure that attracts drastic instruction from the Factory Party Committee and Board of Directors. To achieve the effectiveness of restructuring, the Factory has established the Corporate Restructuring Board; developed and promulgated the Corporate Restructuring Project; released sufficient information about restructuring plans for each department, enterprise, and centre; cared for policies towards people concerned. Moreover, it has developed appropriate manufacturing, technical, financial, social plans and set specific targets for departments, enterprises, and centres; accelerated the breakthrough of enhancing corporate governance capacity. It has also issued many contracting decisions; used the human resources properly; managed production closely and scientifically; addressed many emerging problems thoroughly and successfully delt with some limitations in production and doing business; effectively exploited technologies, especially the new ones; regularly reviewed and amended operational regulations. The Factory has proactively upgraded the production management software in connection with effectively carry out the 5S model, contributing to increased productive efficiency and effectiveness.

Currently, the Factory has a fairly rational structure and staffing, whose quantity and quality are suitable for functions, missions, operational areas, and governance mechanism, matching the production process and other activities. Operations of various elements are connected and harmonised without overlapping functions and missions. Each technological position is occupied by one or two people. The people are flexibly used to meet requirements of manufacturing and repairing technical equipment. Departments and units focus on improving management efficiency to step by step reorganise production; strictly abiding by the Enterprise Management Regulation and other regulations on technical work; repairing many new, modern equipment; manufacturing many types of spare parts. Although the Factory has to repair many next-generation communications systems and increasing output of defence products, it still fulfils all the targets, timely meeting the requirement of communications support in the entire military.

On realising Uncle Ho’s teaching that participation in economic development also helps to fulfil its task, the Factory attaches importance to production and provision of defence, security products and services. Accordingly, the Factory’s business activities are only undertaken on the basis of exploiting the redundant capabilities and properly using equipment and facilities to improve the living standard of cadres and employees and contribute to state budget. The Factory has collaborated with departments and units concerned to timely adjust repair, production output; concentrated most of its resources on repairing technical equipment and manufacturing military communication systems and materials; provided equipment and materials for technical maintenance in support of missions at sea and on islands. Over the past few years, despite significant influence of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Factory has concentrated its efforts on improving management efficiency; gradually reorganising production; leveraged skills and experience of the corps of cadres, employees, and skilled workers; enhancing the effectiveness of using technological equipment; expanding cooperation with military and civilian partners; successfully completing production, business plans, especially the targets set by the Ordinance on repairing and manufacturing defence goods as well as the tasks of the Program on targets and missions of mobile repair and other unplanned missions. Therefore, output of defence goods for recent years has made up the major part of the Factory’s turnover (between 60% and 65%).

Being deeply imbued with President Ho Chi Minh’s teaching: “Science and technology are of significant importance; thus, all industries and people have to participate in scientific, technological work in order to increase labour productivity to create enormous wealth for building socialism successfully”, the Factory Party Committee and Board of Directors lead acceleration of technological work, research and development of prototypes, and quality control. Special importance is attached to participation in successful implementation of missions assigned in the “Investment in mastering production, repair technologies for wireless communication devices and IP-based network equipment.” To achieve this goal, the Factory seeks to make good technological preparations; strictly comply with discipline and technological processes during its production; step up the campaign on leveraging technical initiatives and innovations; develop technical records and design documents; develop technological processes for products; test and perfect research products and prototypes; promote research and development of products as ordered by the higher echelons. Currently, the Factory has a corps of engineers and researcher capable of programming, designing, and developing many types of high-tech products such as microwave engineering, software defined radio (SDR), automation, and so on. The Factory, therefore, has manufactured many high-tech products to meet the requirement of rapidly modernising military communications systems, including transceiver circuits of the satellite communication systems (BUC, LNB, FEEDHORN), VSAT antennas for ships, elements of optical transmission systems, NVIS antennas; successfully innovated some radios, switchboards, circuit boards of radio communication systems, and spare parts of military communication systems. The products, including the 91Z shortwave radio adapted for use at sea and on islands, circuit boards of VRU611 and VRU812, housing for Viettel radio communication devices (811S, VRU611, Ragono, military tablets), the vertically integrated systems (VIS) for 631 device, innovative VSAT devices for use at sea and islands, etc., are appreciated by units.

The recorded achievements are honour and pride that cadres, party members, employees, and workers of the Factory Z755 wish to present to beloved Uncle Ho. These are vital premises for the Factory to further step up studying and following his ideology, morality, and style, creating dynamics of completing all assigned tasks.

Senior Colonel NGUYEN NGOC ANH, Factory Commissar