Thoroughly understanding the meanings and importance of the studying and following of Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality and style, the armed forces of Lai Chau province have been promoting the implementation of Conclusion No. 01-KL/TW of the Politburo (13^th tenure) with many synchronous solutions, helping to create the general strength and excellently accomplish all assigned tasks.

Right after the Politburo (13^th tenure) issued Conclusion No. 01-KL/TW, dated 18/5/2021 on continuously implementing the Direction No. 05-CT/TW of the Politburo (12^th tenure) (known as Conclusion No. 01-KL/TW), with the high determination, activeness, creativity and effective movements and models, the studying and following of Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality and style has been widely spread in the awareness and actions of all cadres and soldiers in Lai Chau province’s armed forces, through which, helping to build the pure and strong party committees and party cells, excellently strong public unions,  comprehensively strong, “typical and exemplary” units deserving to be the core forces in building the all-people national defence, the national defence posture connected with the people’s hearts and minds posture, the strong Provincial defence zones, maintaining the political stability and creating suitable conditions for the fast and sustainable development of the Province.

Troops of Lai Chau Provincial armed forces participate in disaster relief

Presently, in accordance with the general policies, Lai Chau provincial armed forces have attentively restructured its organisation, built the “elite, compact and strong” forces according to Resolution No. 05 of the Politburo (13^th tenure), Resolution No. 230 of the Central Military Commission with many intertwined difficulties and challenges. Meanwhile, the hostile, reactionary forces and political opportunists have taken full advantage of issues related to “ethnicity”, “religions”, “democracy and human rights” with many complex tricks to arouse free migration, illegal missionary work, the propaganda of “Hmong government”, etc., which have certainly affected the awareness of all ethnic groups in general, the cadres and soldiers of the Provincial armed forces in particular. In order to successfully accomplish the assigned missions, together with comprehensively implementing all working fields, the Provincial Military Party Committee and Military Command have continuously promoted the studying and following of Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality and style according to the Conclusion No. 01-KL/TW with main solutions as follows:

Strengthening the education, improving the self-awareness for cadres and soldiers in studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality and style, especially the self-reliance, resilience and desire for a prosperous and happy country. To this end, all offices and units, especially the ones in borders and combatting units, need to flexibly use the grasping and learning methods, making sure they are suitable with the reality and participants; applying the “studying and following of Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality and style on the self-reliance, resilience and desire for a prosperous and happy country” into their annual plans of political education. Doing this will make their cadres and soldiers understand that studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality and style is the motivation and a great strength so that all cadres and soldiers of Lai Chau provincial armed forces and the people could prove their inner force and overcome difficulties to successfully accomplish all assigned missions. The studying and following of Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality and style should be considered the regular work in all party cells, offices, units, cadres and soldiers. Together, all units continue to strictly implement Resolution No. 847-NQ/QUTW, dated 28/12/2021 by the Central Military Commission on Promoting the qualities of “Uncle Ho’s Soldiers”, firmly preventing the individualism in the new situation and Conclusion No. 21-KL/TW by the Central Party Committee (13^th tenure) on strengthening the construction and rectification of the Party and the political system, firmly preventing, strictly punishing cadres and party members degraded in their political thought, morality and lifestyle, having expression of “self-evolution" and "self-transformation". By doing this, the units, in their implementation, could create the unity in the awareness and responsibility of all-level party committees and commands, cadres, party members and people, heightening the spirit of serving the Homeland and the people, deserving to be “Uncle Ho’s Soldiers”.

Closely coordinating the studying and following of Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality and style with the implementation of the unit’s political tasks is much concerned and put into their implementation plans by the Provincial Party Committee and Military Command. To gain high results, the Province has directed offices and units to continuously complete, improve and concretise 5 standards of “Uncle Ho’s Soldiers” in the new era, making them suitable with the assigned features, functions and missions. The Committee has regularly completed the plans on studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality and style connected with the programs and action plans on implementing the unit’s resolutions; with all contents having focused on “Building the Provincial armed forces which are strong in politics, thought, organisation and morality connected with building comprehensively strong, “typical and exemplary” units. Each individual has built the commitment, registered the plans related to the assigned duties and tasks which have been approved by the party committees and commands; periodically reported the results to the party cells who are doing the inspection, examination and supervision. The registered contents should focus on improving the awareness and responsibility for carrying out the units’ political tasks; proving the cadres and party members’ exemplary roles in educating politics, training and combat readiness; joining the construction of the local politics; maintaining the discipline, building the regularity, saving, preventing corruption and wastes, etc. In the implementation process, it is necessary to study and follow President Ho Chi Minh’s thought, working style, behaviours, noble, clean and simple life, the common and democratic and exemplary lifestyle. These are considered as the standards and models of behaviours for all cadres and soldiers, and also the guidelines orienting all actions in their tasks implementation according to the motto of “the superiors setting good examples, the inferiors actively following” and “party members going ahead, followed by the public” when studying and following Uncle Ho with practical actions.

Being imbued with Uncle Ho’s teachings, i.e. “A live example is more valuable than hundreds of propagandised speeches”, the Provincial Party Committee and Military Command have required all-level party committees and cells to promote the exemplary roles and responsibility of all cadres and party members, especially the leaders’ of offices and units in studying and following Uncle Ho. To well implement this content, all-level leaders and commanders must have stable thought and correct viewpoints, dare to think, do and take responsibility; own the scientific, democratic and practical leading and commanding style, always be the core of unity, motivation and collective intelligence; maintain the leading principles, making sure the objectivity, comprehensiveness, justice, publicness, clarity and accuracy. They need to continuously study, self-improve and train their revolutionary morality to be exemplary in their personality and lifestyle; be industrious, economical, integral, public-spirited and selfless; honest, simple, straight, sincere, uncorrupted, etc. They also need to regularly make self-criticism and criticism, protect the rights and fight against the wrongs. All offices and units well organise the political activities of “self-considering, self-correcting”, self-criticism and criticism, which could help cadres, party members and people rightly evaluate the results and timely repair their shortcomings and weaknesses, making them actively self-improve, train and maintain the ethic quality and lifestyle of “Uncle Ho’s Soldiers”; be “exemplary, leading and positive in their work, talking the talk, walking the walk”, successfully accomplish the assigned missions and be the good examples for soldiers to follow.

To gain the practical effectiveness in studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality and style, the Provincial Party Committee and Military Command have enhanced their examination and supervision. According to the requirements of the Province, all-level party committees and supervisory committees need to build their examination and supervision plans for 100% party cells and members based on their duties and tasks connected with the studying and following of Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality and style. All contents should focus on self-improving and training the political quality, morality, lifestyle, discipline observance and the task results; timely detecting the violations to correct and prevent, strictly punishing organisations and individuals having wrong awareness, thought and behaviours. It is necessary to connect the examination and supervision of all-level party committees and supervisory committees with the ones by the commanders towards cadres and soldiers under their command; well prove the supervisory role of the public unions and the military council for the party cells, cadres and party members in doing their exemplary responsibility, especially the all-level leaders of party committees and commanders, through their learning, working, activities and accomplishing the tasks. It also needs to periodically make partial and total summaries on studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality and style at all levels; seriously learn from experience, make repairs and strictly fight against the disoriented thoughts and wrong behaviours, at the same time, give praises and rewards to groups and individuals with achievements, new models, creative and effective working methods in their studying and following Uncle Ho, making contribution to the drastic spread of the image of “Uncle Ho’s Soldiers”.

Together with the above solutions, the party committees and commands at all levels need to prove their motivation and creativity, flexible and practical application, making the studying and following of Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality and style become their own need, self-aware and regular action for all organisations and each cadre and soldier. They also need to overcome all difficulties, be ready to receive and successfully complete all assigned missions, together with the Party Committee, government and people of all groups in Lai Chau province, bring into play the self-reliance, resilience and all-people great unity to successfully complete all targets of socio-economic development, defence and security according to the assigned action program on implementing the party resolutions at all levels, deserving to be the loyally and reliably political and combatting force of the Party Committee, government and people of all groups in the Province

Senior Colonel THAO A PINH, Commissar of The Provincial Military Command