Over the past years, the Party Committee, government and people of Tien Du district have always thoroughly grasped and concretised the Party's line and point of view, promoted socio-economic development associated with defence and security consolidation, and successfully implemented two strategic missions of Fatherland construction and protection.

Tien Du is located in the core urban chain and urban linkage between Bac Ninh province and Hanoi Capital, so it possesses many potentialities and advantages for socio-economic development, while holding an important position in defence and security. Recognising this characteristic, the District Party Committee and People's Committee have always been proactive and creative in seizing opportunities, implementing many synchronous guidelines and solutions to promote economic development together with strengthening defence and security. As a result, after more than 20 years of re-establishment, the district has made important and comprehensive developments. Its economy has enjoyed a high growth rate, averaging 13.5%/year; socio-economic infrastructure has made great progress; people's living standard has been markedly improved. By 2020, the provincial budget revenue was estimated at 4,935 billion VND; average income reached 85.4 million/ person/year. The entire people's defense and people's security potential and posture have been gradually strengthened; the overall quality and combat strength of the district armed forces have been improved; Political security, social order and safety have been maintained. The district is one of the first two localities in the province to meet the standards of a new rural area.

To achieve that result, first of all, the District pays attention to the leadership, direction, and implementation of propaganda, education to raise awareness and responsibility of cadres, party members and people for the tasks of Fatherland construction and protection. Every year, the District directs its Propaganda Commission to coordinate with the Council for Defence and Security Education, the Party Committee, the authorities at all levels, the unions and the district armed forces to well conduct the studying of the resolutions and directives of superiors; promote education, fostering and dissemination of defence and security knowledge for subjects, especially key and presiding cadres at all levels; improve the quality and efficiency of propaganda on national defense and security tasks on mass media; strengthen democracy, build and consolidate the great unity bloc of the entire people and the “people’s hearts and mind posture” increasingly firm, consolidate the people's confidence in the party committees and authorities at all levels.

The district's militarty party committee's meeting on defence and security task

Together with thorough education, the District focuses on building a pure and strong political system and Party Committee; promote administrative reform, build a constructive government towards people’s satisfaction. Implementing Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW, dated October 25, 2017 on “Some issues on continuing to renew and restructure the organisational apparatus of the political system toward streamlined and effective direction”; Resolution No. 19-NQ/TW, dated October 25, 2017 on “Continuing to renovate the organisational and managerial system, improve the operating efficiency of public apparatus” of the Party Central Executive Committee (12^th tenure) and the direction of Bac Ninh province, over the past time, the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee has built up a thematic resolution on “Improving the quality of the political system”; Action plan to implement the Resolution No. 18 and 19 of the Party Central Executive Committee. At the same time, to step up the implementation of the Central Resolution No. 4 (12^th tenure) on Party building and rectification in association with Directive No. 05-CT/TW of the Politburo (12^th tenure) in the entire Party. The district actively mobilises investment resources to build and perfect e-government, publicizes and simplify administrative procedures, etc., contributing to preventing bureaucracy, corruption, waste, and creating a driving force for socio-economic development.

As a convergence point of natural and geographical conditions favorable for economic development, implementing the development policy towards “modern, cultural, ecological, intellectual and smart city”, the District Party Committee and the District People's Committees have always actively combined economy with national defence and security right from the master plan, socio-economic development plans of each department, branch and locality, especially the spearhead economic sector. Accordingly, in industry, construction and service branches, the district has issued mechanisms and policies to attract all economic sectors to invest in infrastructure development, develop high-tech industries, and dual-use industry in the direction of modernity; attract projects with big investment capital, and land less intensive and environmentally friendly ones. At the same time, it pays attention to developing handicrafts and traditional craft villages; improves the efficiency of production and business operations of small and medium-sized enterprises; diversifies commercial activities, services with many types of modern distribution, etc. In the agricultural and rural sectors, the District facilitates the attraction of resources for agro-development, especially agricultural enterprises; gives priority to the application of biotechnology to the development of clean agriculture and organic agriculture; organises production according to the value chain; encourages the development of technologies for harvesting, preserving and processing agricultural products, ... to ensure stable and high quality, meeting social defence needs and defence.

Along with focusing on economic development which is identified as the most important task, the District focuses on national defence and security tasks, ensuring that each step of economic development is associated with defense and security strengthening. The district concretises, leads and directs the implementation of the Central Resolution 8 (11^th tenure) on the Strategy for Fatherland protection in the new situation; steps up the building of an all-people national defence, the all-people’s defence posture associated with the people's security posture, focusing on building increasingly solid defence areas. Actively implements the annual resolution of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee on the leadership of local defence work in the period between 2015 and 2020; the Project on ensuring national defence of the province in the period between 2015 and 2020, with a vision to 2030. At the same time, directing the military and police agencies to appraise and closely monitor socio-economic development plans and projects, especially in key areas. Up to now, the district has adjusted the master plan on defense establishment combined with socio-economic development until 2030, in line with the province's urban chain development planning.

The district focuses on leadership and direction in building strong local armed forces, in which, forces who are on mobile missions and conduct combat readiness tasks are prioritised; builds an all-strong contingent of cadres, military agencies and police at all levels. For the past time, the district has well implemented projects and plans on the work of militia and self-defence forces, reserve mobilisation, military recruitment; posted regular police to commune level; elaborate and complete documents and plans of combat, defence mobilisation, people's air defence, flood and storm prevention and combat, search and rescue, and conducted training and drills in a serious manner according to regulations. Directs the strict implementation of the regulations on coordination between the military and the police according to the Government's Decree No. 03/2019/NĐ-CP, dated September 5^th, 2019; proactively prevents and successfully handles defence and security situations, not to be made passive and unexpected. In the 2015 – 2020 term, the district has directed 100% of communes and towns to conduct defense combat drills combined with the drills of flood, storm, forest fire prevention and fighting, search and rescue. In 2016, the District successfully organised a terrorism prevention and combat drill in the defence area. Through these drills, the operational mechanism and regulations of the defence area were supplemented and improved; leadership, direction and administration capacities of the party committees and authorities at all levels, and the task performance of the forces in handling defense and security situations have been improved, which is an important premise for the District to well implement the two strategic tasks in the coming years.

In order to realise the goal of developing Tien Du district into a town, Bac Ninh province into a central-governed city, in the 2020 – 2025 term, the Party Committee, government and people of Tien Du district will continue to promote it revolutionary, cultural and historical tradition self-reliance and self-sufficiency spirit, and its potentials and strengths to earn socio-economic fast and sustainable developments associated with defence and security strengthening, contributing to the whole country in the successful implementation of the two strategic tasks of Fatherland construction and protection.

NGUYEN XUAN THANH, Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of the District Party Committee