Implementing the 12th Politburo’s Directive 05-CT/TW, the Army Corps 2 has deeply, widely, effectively carried out the work of studying and following Uncle Ho’s example via specific, practical deeds, thereby contributing to promoting the virtues and tradition of “Uncle Ho’s soldiers”, building a strong Corps comprehensively, successfully fulfilling all assigned tasks.
Fully aware of the importance of studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality and lifestyle, the Corps’ Party Committee and Command have strictly, creatively executed the Politburo’s Directive 05 in line with the Resolution of the 12th Party Central Committee’s 4th Plenum on the Party building and rectification and the Campaign “promoting tradition, devoting talent, deserving to be Uncle Ho’s soldiers”. As a result, the movement of studying and following Uncle Ho’s example has made positive changes, deeply impacted on cadres and troops’ awareness, responsibility and self-improvement, and contributed to making the Corps’ Party Committee strong politically, ideologically, organizationally, and morally, enhancing its synergy, manoeuvrability, and combat strength, and maintaining readiness to undertake and fulfil every assigned task.
The studying and following of Uncle Ho’s example have been expressed in cadres, party members, and the masses’ improvement of morality and lifestyle. To raise troops’ awareness and make Uncle Ho’s moral and lifestyle example absorbed into each cadre, party and soldier’s thought and action, the Corps has encouraged the work of propagation and education on Uncle Ho’s ideology and career in diverse forms. At the same time, it has organized activities, such as “Uncle Ho’s teachings on this day”, “learning one teaching of Uncle Ho everyday”, dialogues, forums and knowledge contest under the titles: “the Army Corps 2’s youth study and follow Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, morality and lifestyle”, “the Army Corps 2’s youth follow Uncle Ho’s teachings” as well as emulation movements.
Notably, offices and units have taken the implementation of the Directive 05 as the main measure to heighten a sense of self-criticism and criticism, correctly identify the signs of degradation in political ideology, morality and lifestyle as well as “self-evolution” and “self-transformation” from within among cadres and party members. Based on moral criteria and plans for self-improvement in accordance with the task of offices, units and schools, all cadres, party members and the masses, particularly key cadres at all levels have registered the studying and following of Uncle Ho’s example and committed to implementing the Resolution of the 12th Party Central Committee’s 4th Plenum on the Party building and rectification. As a result, cadres, party members and the masses’ morality, lifestyle and discipline observance have positively changed; they have always matched their word with their action, led an honest, healthy, simple life, respected and helped the people, strictly observed the military discipline, dared to think, dared to do and dared to take responsibility.
In the training and combat readiness work, being imbued with President Ho Chi Minh’s teachings: “to make our Army to be determined to fight and determined to win, it is necessary to improve their tactics and skills, particularly step up political education”, the Corps’ Party Committee and Command have grasped higher echelons’ resolutions and directives on the training work, directed offices and units to develop training plans, given instructions on training according to each speciality, directed, managed, and operated training and exercises in a uniform, synchronous manner. Due attention has been paid to renewing and improving the training quality under the motto of “basics, practicalities, thorough grasp”; providing synchronous, specialized training and making it relevant to reality and objects of struggle; increasing nighttime and field training; improving individual skills and detachment-level capability in conducting exercises.
Consequently, the Corps has successfully fulfiled the training task; skills, tactical capacity, and morale of cadres and troops, leadership and command capability as well as capabilities in coordination with local party committees and authorities and in mobilization of forces and means in the defensive zone have been raised, thereby maintaining readiness to undertake and accomplish the assigned task in all situations. The Corps has successfully fulfiled the tasks in recent strategic-level operational exercises and joint exercises, which has been highly appreciated by leaders of the Party, the State, and Central committees, sectors and ministries.
Being imbued with President Ho Chi Minh’s teaching: “the military and the people like fish in water”, the Corps has effectively executed the model of “clever mass mobilization”, thus contributing to consolidating the close-knit bond with the people. Grasping higher echelons’ resolutions on “strengthening and renewing the Party’s leadership over the mass mobilization work”, the Corps has ordered offices and units to develop the plans and regulations on this work in a serious, close way; to regularly improve the capability of cadres and troops in charge of mass mobilization. Units within the Corps have cooperated with local party committees and authorities in persuading the people to follow the Party’s guidelines and the State’s policy, in raising public vigilance against the hostile forces’ plots and artifices, thereby contributing to maintaining political security and social order and safety in the stationed areas.
Furthermore, with a sense of responsibility and sentiment, the Corps’ staff have spent tens of thousands of working days on helping the people dredge the channels and construct rural roads; organized many activities of “Gratitude” and visited and assisted poor households; provided free medical examination and medicine for the poor; cooperated with localities in building and effectively implementing projects for search and rescue, and fire and explosion prevention and control. During the process of carrying out mass mobilization work, the Corps’ staff members have always obeyed the regulations on the military-civilian relationship. The results of the Corps’ “clever mass mobilization” movement have contributed to promoting socio-economic development, consolidating defence and security in the stationed areas, improving the qualities of “Uncle Ho’s soldiers”, and strengthening the people’s faith in the Party, the State and the Military.
Being imbued with Uncle Ho’s teaching: “the Military must strive to do animal and crop husbandry in order to be partly self-sufficient and reduce the people’s burden”, over the past years, the Corps has fostered agricultural production to improve troops’ life. To do that, the Corps’ Logistics Branch has formulated plans for agricultural production for each year and in the long term; planned agricultural production in line with the master plan for the camp site; organized synchronous agricultural production at all levels on a concentrated, sustainable, closed, fundamental, and focalized basis. Units have developed the model of “five basics” (garden, pond, barn, pergola, and food processing station), and diversified livestock and crops. At the same time, units have developed the concentrated animal husbandry zones to create the stable source of food and prevent the impacts made by the market price; closely combined food production with food processing; actively applied technology to agricultural production.
As a result, since 2015, the Corps’ total revenue of agricultural production and service (excluded the cost) has reached tens of billions of VND, thus directly improving its troops’ life.
In addition to agricultural production, the Corps has always set store by the practice of thrift and the fight against corruption and wastefulness according to President Ho Chi Minh’s example. All-level party committees and commands have regularly raised cadres and troops’ awareness towards the practice of thrift and the fight against wastefulness while adopting measures to save the budget, materials, property and troops’ time and labour. The Corps has reviewed, supplemented and completed the system of regulations on managing and using the budget, petroleum, electricity, water, and camp tools; widely publicized regimes and policies, and assigned targets and rationing to each task and unit. The role of all-level party committees and commands in inspecting and supervising the tasks directly related to the use and management of material resources, particularly the budget and capital construction has been encouraged. Thus, annually, the Corps has saved tens of billions of VND and made a positive change in cadres and troops’ self-awareness and style of thrift.
The studying and following of Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, morality and lifestyle have strongly, widely, positively impacted on the Corps’ staff members’ work, daily life and task performance. Those recorded results have greatly contributed to making the Corps comprehensively strong, promoting its traditions of “lightning speed, daring, determined to win” and “proactiveness, activeness, creativity, and self-reliance”, and successfully fulfilling all assigned tasks.
Maj. Gen. Nguyen Trong Trien
Commissar of the Army Corps 2