Lang Son Newspaper celebrates 60 years of publishing its first issue

Attending the Celebration were comrade Nguyen Duc Loi – Member of the Party Youth Union, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Journalists Association; Leader of the Press Department, Ministry of Information and Communications.

On the side of Lang Son province, there were comrades: Hoang Van Nghiem – Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Duong Xuan Huyen – Member of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People’s Committee; Representatives of agencies, departments, and unions of the province; Central press agencies residing in the area along with leaders and reporters leading 18 Party newspapers in the region; former leaders, officers, and employees of Lang Son Newspaper through the ages.

Provincial Party Committee, People’s Council, People’s Committee, Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Lang Son province presented flowers to congratulate the collective Lang Son Newspaper

60 years ago, on May 1, 1964, from its predecessor, Lang Son News, the first issue of Lang Son Newspaper was launched to the Party Committee and people in the province. The newspaper consists of 4 pages of 27×39 cm size, published every 5 days. This is the first important milestone in the 60-year journey of construction and development of Lang Son Newspaper.

Overcoming difficulties and shortages, the staff and reporters of Lang Son Newspaper with enthusiasm, intelligence, and creativity have actively gone to the grassroots, closely following life, revolutionary movements, and emulation. patriotism to propagate, reflect, and promptly mobilize our army and people to work, produce, fight, and create heroic historical victories.

Through historical periods, Lang Son Newspaper gradually matured, blending with the rhythm of the country’s press. From the initial 5 officers and reporters, up to now, Lang Son Newspaper has over 50 officers, reporters, officials, and workers. From 2000 up to now, Lang Son Newspaper has made many innovations, improving the quality of content and form; Increase the number of circulation and the number of newspaper publications per week.

Currently, Lang Son Newspaper publishes 5 times/week with a circulation of about 1.9 million copies/year. From August 2018 until now, Lang Son Electronic Newspaper has made great progress with three versions: Vietnamese, English and Chinese and expanded public access channels on social networking platforms such as Zalo, Facebook. Thereby meeting the increasing demand for diverse, rich, responsive, and convenient information of the public as well as promoting the image, potential, and strengths of Lang Son province via the Internet.

Leaders of local Party newspaper agencies attended the celebration

Implementing the Project “Building and developing a modern Lang Son Newspaper until 2025” approved by the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Lang Son Newspaper is gradually organizing its editorial office according to a convergence model; promoting activities newspaper publishing operations and processes based on the application of modern information technology; focusing on building a team of officials, reporters, editors, and technicians with strong political will and professional expertise. tasks, meeting the requirements of political tasks in the new period.

Along with professional activities, Lang Son Newspaper also actively participates in charitable social activities, coordinating with Party newspapers in the provinces to organize for young people to participate in resource-returning activities, repay gratitude, and support households. poor, give gifts to policy families; mobilize, donate, act as a bridge, and support a number of communes in the province to build new rural areas…

With outstanding achievements in 60 years of construction and development, Lang Son Newspaper is honored to be awarded many noble awards from the Party and State such as: Second and Third Class Labor Medals; received many worthy awards from the Provincial People’s Committee, ministries, branches, agencies and units.

Speaking to congratulate Lang Son Newspaper at the Anniversary Ceremony, Mr. Hoang Van Nghiem – Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation oriented a number of key tasks in the coming time, in which he proposed collective leadership. Directors, officers, reporters, and workers of Lang Son Newspaper continue to promote the implementation of the Project to build and develop a modern Lang Son Newspaper until 2025 according to the roadmap; Research and develop digital transformation strategies and plans of Lang Son Newspaper with a long-term vision to proactively keep up with the movement trends of the press and media in the world and the whole country.

Also in the program, Lang Son Newspaper held the opening ceremony of the new electronic interface of Lang Son Newspaper. This is a step forward, marking the development of Lang Son Newspaper in keeping with the trend of modern journalism.

On this occasion, Chairman of Lang Son Provincial People’s Committee awarded certificates of merit to 1 group and 6 individuals; The Editor-in-Chief of Lang Son Newspaper awarded Certificates of Merit to 2 groups and 8 individuals who had outstanding achievements in the emulation movement to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Lang Son Newspaper’s first issue.

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