Winners of eighth National Press Awards on Party Building announced

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and Truong Thi Mai, permanent member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat, and head of the committee’s Organisation Commission awarded A prizes to the winning authors and groups of authors.

The winning works included six granted Prize A, 12 Prize B, 18 Prize C, 30 the consolation prize, and eight the specialised prize.

The Party Building magazine, the standing agency of this year’s awards, said the organising board had received 2,216 entries, up 184 against the previous one. Six A, 12 B, 18 C and 30 consolation prizes will be named at the awarding ceremony.

Most of the works reflect hot issues, outstanding events, and key tasks of the political system and the country, including current issues of the Party building and rectification work such as fighting the disease of Hypengyophobia (fear of responsibility), building a mechanism to protect officials who dare to think and dare to do, and combating wrong and distorted views to protect the Party's ideological foundation and the national sovereignty in cyberspace./.