PARTY COMMITTEE OF PROVINCIAL
AGENCIES BLOCK
COMMISSION FOR COMMUNICATION
AND EDUCATION
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No.: 24 - CV/BTGDU
COMMUNIST PARTY OF VIETNAM
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Thai Binh, 14 January 2013
“Ref: Propagandizing the 123rd anniversary of
establishment of Thai Binh province (1890-2013)”
To: Party Committee, Party cell executives at grass-root levels
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Implementing the Official Document No. 760-CV/BTGTU dated 09 January
2013 of the Commission for Communication and Education of the Provincial Party
Committee on propagandizing the 123rd anniversary of establishment of Thai Binh
province (1890-2013).
Party cell executives at grass-root levels are kindly requested to base on the
Instruction on propaganda work at the 1st quarter of 2013 of Commission for
Communication and Education of the Party Committee of Provincial Agencies Block
(Instruction No. 08 - HD/BTGTUK dated 10/01/2013) and “Propaganda outline at the
123rd anniversary of establishment of Thai Binh province (1890-2013)” sent in
attachment to this official document to strengthen the propaganda work on the
occasion of the anniversary./.
HEAD OF COMMISSION
Recipients:
- Commission for Communication and Education
of the Provincial Committee of the Party; (to report)
- Standing Party Committee of the Block (to report);
- Veteran Association, Youth Union;
- Party Construction Commissions, Office of the Party
Committee (to coordinate and implement);
- As the part “To”;
- Archives: Office of the Commission.
(Signed and sealed)
Bui Tien Luc
PROPAGANDA OUTLINE
The
123rd
anniversary of establishment of Thai Binh province (1890 - 2013)
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1- Role on geographical position and establishment process of the province
Thai Binh is a coastal province under the Red river delta, natural area is 1,533 km2,
and the population is nearly 1.8 million people. During the improvement, experiencing
hundred thousands of years of the Northern delta area, Thai Binh land was formed mainly due
to the alluvial deposition of two big rivers namely Red river and Thai Binh river with the
work of bordering the dike, breaking fresh ground and encroaching the sea of many
generation of residents. In the work of exploiting, occupying the delta of the ancient
Vietnamese people (about 6,7 centuries BC), the first resident class from the foot of Ba Vi
mountain, Tam Dao and valleys, midland in Phu Tho, Son Tay…progressed gradually to the
marsh areas near the sea at downstream of the Red river. A part among them adhered to the
basin of river, resided on high land ranges in Hung Ha, Quynh Phu, Thuy Anh, Thu Tri (old).
The attraction of the coastal land area which was fat, alluvial, favorable for fishing, planting
water rice quickly attracted more and more residents successively to find the residence area.
Thai Binh land was broken fresh ground, civilized over the periods, dynasties, formed the
areas focusing the residents, and created the diversified, busy life.
Together with the process of forming the land, residents, Thai Binh territory was
introduced into national administrative geography with many different levels and changes. At
the beginning the Christian era, Thai Binh was located in the final Southern land area of Chu
Dien district, Giao Chi district. To Tran dynasty, from the 13th century upwards, Thai Binh
territory was really clear in the history of country construction and country preservation. Thai
Binh belonged to Long Hung district and Kien Xuong, An Tiem district. At Nguyen dynasty,
the third Minh Mang year (1822), initially, entire Thai Binh belonged to Nam Dinh town,
later it belonged to two provinces of Hung Yen and Nam Dinh.
On 21/3/1890, Governor-general of Indochina made the Decree on establishing
Thai Binh province, including the districts: Thanh Quan, Thuy Anh, Dong Quan, Truc Dinh,
Thu Tri, Vu Tien, Tien Hai, Phu Duc, Quynh Coi (belonging to Nam Dinh) and Than Khe
district (belonging to Hung Yen). In the 6th Thanh Thai year (1894), 2 districts of Hung Nhan,
Duyen Ha (belonging to Hung Yen province) were cut to enter again into Thai Binh. At that
time, Thai Binh province as a province - an independent administrative unit includes 3
prefects with 12 districts.
In 1969, the Government Council made the Decision No. 93-CP on integrating the
adjusting the border, Thai Binh had 7 districts and 1 township. In 2004, Thai Binh Township
was recognized as City directly under the province (under the Decree No. 117/2004/ND-CP
dated 29/4/2004 of the Prime Minister).
2- Basic achievements over 123 years of construction and development
With the feature of forming the land, from the beginning dates, Thai Binh - the land
region in the downstream of the Red river always contained two parallel factors: advantage
and disadvantage. Experiencing the process of reclaiming, recovering, struggling, facing with
severe nature and hostiles doing whatever they liked, to improve the land area which was
marshy, sour, salty, full of reed and weed to become rich, fat land area, Thai Binh residents
early formed good natures: industrious, creative, brave and eager to learn, etc… Those good
natures and traditions were favorable conditions for one generation to connect other
generation to gain resounding feat of arms in the war against the invasion such as the feat of
arms of General of the army Bat Nan, Ly Bi, Dinh Bo Linh, Hoang Cong Chat, Phan Ba
Vanh… Thai Binh was also the place with tradition of being eager to learn, land for literature
- competition-examinations with cultural famous men such as Le Quy Don, Nguyen Bao,
Quach Huu Nghiem, Bui Si Tiem and so forth, eminent monks, religious groups, typical,
symbolic architecture works such as Keo pagoda and it was also the cradle of culture,
traditional art: popular opera singing, literature singing, sing like a strolling blind musician,
water puppet, traditional games; famous handicraft products such as Bo La, La Soc silk, Ngoc
Duong tussore, Hoi village sedge mat, and Dong Xam silver.
The profound pride of talented people, famous men of the hometown and cultural
components being soaked with traditional nature, created for a long time and became the
sentimental string to tighten Thai Binh people with the native land. That tradition was
incessantly consolidated, reinforced, became the will, indomitable strength of resident
community living in Thai Binh land in the war aimed at incessantly opening, constructing as
well as protecting, preserving fully such achievements.
The October revolution of Russia was successful, Marxism-Leninism was as a new
wind blowing the revolution movement in the whole country. In Thai Binh land, MarxismLeninism seed sprouted soon. Nguyen Duc Canh, Nguyen Danh Doi, Nguyen Cong Thu, Vu
Trong and so forth overcame the training classes opened by leader Nguyen Ai Quoc in
Guangzhou (China), in which Mr. Nguyen Duc Canh was the person having decisive role in
establishing Dong Duong communist party (17/6/1929) and founded the Communist Party of
Vietnam (3/2/1930).
Immediately after Vietnam Youth revolution Association was developed in the
country, at the beginning of 1927, in Thai Binh, two first “Youth” cells were established at
Minh Thanh private school (Township) and Trinh Pho (Kien Xuong). Since having
organization of Vietnam Youth revolution Association, the revolutionary movement in Thai
Binh moved to new stage, the propaganda of Marxism-Leninism was carried deeply and
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widely in the public. The wars had big scale and coordination of localities in the province at
different levels. That was the demonstration of Duyen Ha - Tien Hung farmers dated 1/5/1930,
the demonstration of Tien Hai farmers dated 14/10/1930 created favorable premise for the
Party during the leadership of local revolutionary movement on the next stages.
In 8/1945, as having order of general uprising, Thai Binh was one of the provinces
gaining the government the earliest in the whole country. Only within 6 days (from 18/8/1945
- 23/8/1945), the revolutionary government belonged to the hand of people. Over 1 year
(9/1945 - 12/1946) of revolutionary war, the Party Committee and people of Thai Binh
overcame many difficulties, hardships and gained important victories in the war against
internal enemies and external invaders to preserve and consolidate the revolutionary
government, protect order and security, overcome the state of flood, roll back the starvation,
construct the revolutionary force, implement the duty of eliminating the illiteracy, mobilize
new life, prepare to step into the war for founding the nation. In 1946, Thai Binh was
honorable to welcome Uncle Ho coming to visit twice.
With the wicked intention of invading our country once more, French colonist broke
their promise, turned back the conditions in the Preliminary Treaty dated 6/3/1946 and
Provisional Agreement dated 14/9/1946. On 8/2/1950, French colonist focused the force to
approach Thai Binh. Promoting the patriotic tradition against invaders, the people in province
under the leadership of the Party was heroic, unyielding to struggle violently with the enemy,
preserve the land, preserve the village, gain the right to own in every aspect, progress to
liberate Thai Binh in 6/1954. Mixing with the atmosphere of struggling against French
colonist of the whole country, ten thousands of Thai Binh young people joined the army, ten
thousands of tons of food were supported timely to Dien Bien Phu battlefield. Ending the war
against France, Thai Binh was granted the flag “Military and people wholeheartedly wiped
out the enemy” by State President Ho Chi Minh, Nguyen Xa village was granted the flag
“Model resistance war village”, many individuals were honorable to receive the title of Hero,
in which there was Nguyen Thi Chien, the first female hero of the armed forces in the whole
country.
As the peace was restored in the North (1954), Thai Binh people were ardent to heal
the war wound, recover and develop the economy, culture. In 1958, the whole province had a
good crop, all people were literate, Thai Binh was horable to welcome Uncle Ho visiting for
the third time. In 1962, in front of the achievement of military and people of Thai Binh,
especially the achievements of bordering the dike and encroaching the sea, Uncle Ho visited
Nam Cuong (Tien Hai) - the fourth time, Thai Binh received the teaching words and warm
sentiments of Uncle Ho.
The struggle against the destruction war of American invader stepped into drastic
period, Thai Binh took charge of struggling against the destructive war and took charge of
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supporting people and property with the spirit “Rice will not be lacked one kilogram, soldier
will not be lacked one person” and it was the first province of the North to achieve 5 tons of
rice per ha. With such achievement, at the beginning of 1967, Thai Binh was honorable to
welcome Uncle to visit for the fifth time. Uncle Ho recommended: It is necessary to build
“Thai Binh to become model province in all aspects”.
With the spirit “going as having order, ready position”, with responsibility “all is for
the South by birth, 151,993 people of Thai Binh joined the army, Thai Binh was the province
having the highest rate of recruiting soldiers to join the army in the North in comparison to the
population rate. The province received for breeding and solving the policy for 23,738
wounded soldiers and sick soldiers of different grades, in which there were over 2,000
wounded soldiers and sick soldiers who were cadres and soldiers in the South; provided to the
battlefield ten thousands of tons of food, beautified the tradition of “rice is redundant, soldiers
exceed the level”.
Emulating with heroic front line, Thai Binh people and armed forces shot to drop 44
planes, shot to fire 4 American warships. Many Thai Binh people struggled bravely, achieved
a feat excellently, and carved in the history resplendent marks which cannot be faded.
Typically, they are pilot hero Pham Tuan, intelligence major-general Vu Ngoc Nha, Tank
Commander Bui Quang Than and so forth.
After the Great Victory in spring 1975, the whole country moved to a new stage of
constructing the socialism and protecting firmly the socialist Vietnam fatherland. In the light
of the resolution of the Party Congress over the terms, Thai Binh Party Committee applied
and concretized in conformity with the local situation feature. The result after 10 years of
implementing the socio-economic development Strategy (2001 - 2020), 20 years of
implementing the political program on constructing the country in the transitional period to
socialism (1991 - 2011) and 25 years of renovation (1986 - 2011) was that Thai Binh
achieved great victories. Being aware deeply that the starting feature of the economy was low,
agricultural production was main, the Party Committee was close-knit, united, self-motivated,
led the people to promote the internal force, implement the guidelines, policies, typically, it
was the program “power, road, school, station, information, clean water”, it changed clearly
the surface of rural area.
Implementing 5 focuses of economic development proposed from the 16th Congress,
aimed at strengthening industrialization, modernization, the Party Committee led to focus on
investing, constructing industrial zones, clusters, developing trade and trade village,
converting strongly the structure of planting tree, domestic animal in agriculture, forming
commodity production areas and developing sea economy. The economy of the province
escaped from the state of stagnation, maintained the good growth rate. The agricultural
production was victorious comprehensively, step by step converted strongly to commodity
production. Although suffering from great effect of weather, pestilent insect, rice productivity
was always kept at the level of over 130 quintals/ha, rice productivity was over 1 million
tons/year. Industrial production and construction developed with relatively high speed,
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contributed to increasing the budget and solving many jobs for laborers. The province planed
the industrial development to 2020; planed in detail 7 industrial zones with area of 1,216 ha,
31 industrial clusters with area of 775.5 ha; strengthened investment promotion, prepared
actively, deployed actively many big projects to create the premise for the next year. Trade
and trade village are further expanded and developed; the whole province has 219 trade
villages being recognized of reaching the standard, increasing 46 trade villages in comparison
to 2005, settling stable employment and increasing the income for 175,000 laborers. The
socio-economic infrastructure is strengthened. The career of education - training, health,
culture, information, physical exercise and sports has much progress, always keeps stably the
achievement of a province with strong movement in the whole country. Political security,
social order and safety are preserved. The surface of urban and rural areas is increasingly
renovated; material and spiritual life of the people is step by step improved. The movements,
mobilizations, especially the mobilization “Studying and doing under the ethic example of Ho
Chi Minh”, “All people are close-knit to build cultural life in residential area” and the
movement “Repay somebody for his favour”, “For the poor”, etc… were sympathized,
responded and actively implemented by the people. The work of constructing the Party,
government, Fatherland Font and organizations moved actively; leadership capacity and
struggling strength of the Party organizations were improved.
Implementing the Resolution of the seventh Congress of the 10th Central Steering
Committee on agriculture, farmer and rural area, the Provincial Party Committee, the
Provincial People’s Committee directed, completed the planning on new rural construction in
8 pilot communes; on such basis, learning from experience and directing the implementation
in the whole province. The 18th provincial Party Congress (October 2010) proposed the
objective, direction that to 2020, Thai Binh will become new rural area with agriculture and
industry under the modern direction. During the implementation deployment, the movement
of new rural construction has been creating new face for Thai Binh rural area. 267/267
communes completed the detailed planning on transport, irrigation in interior field; 218
communes completed the detailed planning on communal center area; 148 communed
completed the implementation of gathering land, changing agricultural land plot. The
province completed the land use Planning to 2020, 5-year land use plan in 2011 - 2015 and
submitted to the Government for approval. Strengthening the management, checking,
inspection and settlement of some complex issues relating to land and environment at some
localities.
Especially, in the first two years of implementing the Resolution of the 11th National
Party Congress of the Party, in addition to the advantages, Thai Binh also met many
difficulties and challenges due to the impact of global financial crisis and economic recession;
domestic inflation and economic declination; weather, epidemic diseases which happened
complexly. In such circumstance, the Party Committee and people in the province exerted
themselves, strived for achieving important and relatively comprehensive results. In 2012,
gross domestic product (GDP) was estimated to attain 13,558 billion Vietnam dongs (fixed
price in 1994), increasing 7.82% compared to that in 2011; the fields of agriculture, forestry
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and fisheries were further preserved. The Resolution 11/NQ-CP of the Government on main
solutions focusing on restraining inflation, stabilizing the micro-economy, ensuring the social
security was promoted the efficiency as the first step, the index of consumption price in the
province in the year was relatively stable; capital construction investment increased 54%
compared to 2011, it was the 2nd successive year of growing high investment capital. The
employment and life of people were relatively stable; security - politics were held fast; social
order and safety were ensured; traffic accident reduced all 3 indexes; the work of constructing
the Party, constructing the political system attainted positive result. The works of caring the
people health, education - training, culture - sports were further cared; social security and
welfare were attached much importance. The work of administrative reform was further
strengthened; administrative rules and disciplines were strengthened. The works of solving
claim, denouncement and struggling, preventing corruption, practicing the saving, and
preventing wastefulness were interested and so forth.
In front of the big opportunity and challenge in the coming years, the duty for the
Party Committee and Thai Binh people is to promote the strength of national unity, exploit
every resource, renovate comprehensively, strengthen and improve the quality of
industrialization, modernization, transfer strongly the economic structure; strengthen the
accumulation from the inside of the economy, constructing the socio-economic infrastructure,
constructing new rural area; striving for high economic growth, constructing Thai Binh to
develop quickly and stably. Stepping up the development of education - training, science technology and cultural - social fields, caring about the employment settlement, urgent social
issues, ensuring social security, improving the life of people. Combining closely between
socio-economic development and national defense and security consolidation; preserving the
political stability and social safety order. Further improving the leadership capacity and
struggle strength of the Party organizations, effect, efficiency of management, administration
of the government, operation quality of the Fatherland Font and the people’s organizations,
attaching the implementation with depth of the Directive 03- CT/TW dated 14/5/2011 of the
Politburo on Studying and doing under the ethic example of Ho Chi Minh, considering it as
one of the important solutions contributing to driving back the regression on political thought,
ethics, lifestyle in a part of cadres, Party members and people; overcoming the limitations,
weaknesses, creating the strong, deep and wide change in the entire society on the awareness
of self-improving, practicing and doing under the ethic example of Ho Chi Minh.
Recognizing the big and especially excellent achievement in the resistance wars, in the
construction and protection of the socialist Fatherland, the Party Committee, people, armed
forces of Thai Binh were honorable to be granted the titled of Hero of the People’s armed
force, the First-class Independence Medal, and 6 military medals by the Party and the State.
96 communities and 78 individuals were granted the title of Hero of the People’s armed force
and Labor Hero; over 2,000 mothers were granted the title “Vietnamese Heroic Mother”,
hundreds of community and individuals were granted the Independence Medal, Medal of feat
of arms and Labor Medal. That is the great, valuable contribution on intelligence, human
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physical strength, property strength of the levels of people under the leadership of the Party
Committee and governments at levels.
The 123rd anniversary of establishment of the province in the context that the Party
Committee and people in the province are further strengthening the mobilization of Studying
and doing under the ethic example of Ho Chi Minh; implementing the Central Resolution 4
(the 4th term) “Some urgent issues on constructing the Party at present”, is the occasion for us
to review the ways we passed through, especially 83 years of having the leadership of the
Party in order to further promote the heroic tradition in the renovation, stepping up
industrialization, modernization; implementing successfully the objective of building Thai
Binh to become new rural province in 2020./.
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