Border markers repaired during bilateral patrol

Firmly manage and protect national sovereignty and border security

According to Colonel Dang Ngoc Hieu, Party Secretary and Political Commissar of Hue City Border Guard, in the 2020 - 2025 term, the City Border Guard Party Committee has been proactive, creative, and determined in leadership and direction, proposing many appropriate policies and solutions, organizing the successful completion of the goals and tasks set out by the congress on all three aspects: Political tasks; building a comprehensively strong unit "Exemplary and typical"; building a clean and strong Party organization.

Managing and firmly protecting national sovereignty and border security is one of the important political tasks that has been carried out and completed excellently. The Command (now the Command Board) of the City Border Guard has deployed synchronous measures; coordinated with forces to grasp the situation on the two border lines. The units have organized more than 3,100 patrols and controls with the participation of nearly 16,000 officers and soldiers, promptly detecting and handling violations on the border and sea areas.

The city's Border Guard has presided over and coordinated with functional forces to effectively combat all types of crimes in border areas, especially drug crimes, human trafficking, trading and transporting weapons and explosives, illegal border crossings, illegal entry and exit, smuggling, trade fraud and counterfeit goods, illegal exploitation and transport of forest products and resources.

Typically, with the determination, efforts, overcoming many difficulties, hardships, and dangers of the officers and soldiers and the border guard units, many achievements have been made in preventing and combating drug crimes. That is, coordinating with functional forces to arrest and handle 64 cases/147 subjects with evidence of nearly 16,000 synthetic drug pills; nearly 19,000 grams of methamphetamine; nearly 1.7 kg of ketamine, 3.5 kg of synthetic drugs...

“The management work at border gates and seaports serving the tasks of economic and social development and international cooperation has been well performed in the past term. The Party Committee and the Border Guard Command have focused on leading and directing units to proactively coordinate with functional forces to promote administrative procedure reform and digital transformation, and do a good job of inspecting and controlling people, vehicles, and goods crossing the border at road border gates, port border gates, and border openings,” shared Lieutenant Colonel Le Hong Tuyen, Deputy Political Commissar of the Border Guard.

Building border areas and strong national border defense

Colonel Hoang Minh Hung, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Commander of the Border Guard, said: The Border Guard actively participates in building and consolidating the grassroots political system; promotes the role of cadres to strengthen border communes and party members participating in activities at border village and hamlet party cells.

Programs and models to help people, contributing to economic and social development, hunger eradication and poverty reduction have been effectively implemented, improving the lives of people in border areas. Typical programs include "Spring Border Guard warms the hearts of villagers", "Spring Border Islands, Tet warms the affection of the army and people" on the occasion of Lunar New Year every year; "Full Moon Festival on the Border", "Accompanying Women in the Border"... At the programs, the Border Guard force organized and coordinated to present thousands of gifts to households and students in difficult circumstances, supported the construction of dozens of houses, presented hundreds of livelihood models (cows, pigs, chickens, ducks, seedlings), examined, treated, provided and distributed free medicine to nearly 3,000 people, and awarded hundreds of scholarships. The total value is more than 6 billion VND.

“The above-mentioned meaningful and humane activities, along with the solidarity of eating, living, working, speaking the same language with ethnic minorities, accompanying and supporting the border people in all aspects, the Border Guard force is increasingly trusted and supported by the people, creating a united strength, building a developed border area, and a strong national border defense” - Colonel Hoang Minh Hung affirmed.

Accompanying the people on the border, the Border Guard force also wholeheartedly helps their friends. The Party Committee and the City Border Guard Command have led the implementation of border diplomacy well, closely combining national defense diplomacy, border diplomacy with people's diplomacy; maintaining good coordination with the authorities and border protection forces of the two provinces of Salavan and Sekong (Laos) in border management, protection, and socio-economic development. Over the past 5 years, the Border Guard of Hue City has coordinated to donate necessities, medical equipment, build houses, livelihood models, etc., to people in neighboring villages, worth more than 5 billion VND, further strengthening the special solidarity and friendship between Vietnam and Laos, building a peaceful, friendly, stable, cooperative and developing border.

The city's Border Guard was awarded: 1 Emulation Flag of the Border Guard Command, 15 Emulation Flags of the People's Committee of Hue City and many certificates of merit from the Border Guard Command and the People's Committee of Hue City.
Article and photos: Quynh Anh

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