Solemnly organised the Fifth National Financial Emulation Congress

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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended and directed the meeting.

Honoring and replicating typical collectives and individuals

On behalf of the Party and State leaders attending and directing the congress at the central bridge point were Nguyen XuanPhuc - Member of the Politburo, Prime Minister of Vietnam, Chairman of the Council for Emulation and Commendation Center.

The congress was also honoured to welcome members of the Party Central Committee; members of the Central Emulation and Commendation Council; leaders of departments, ministries and central branches; representatives of the People's Committees of the provinces and cities; leaders of Departments of Finance of provinces and cities; the former comrades were leaders of the Ministry of Finance.

The congress was honoured to receive congratulatory flower baskets fromNguyen PhuTrong - General Secretary, President of Vietnam; Nguyen XuanPhuc - Member of the Politburo, Prime Minister of Vietnam; Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, member of the Politburo, Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam; Tran Thanh Man - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.

DinhTien Dung - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Party's Personnel Committee, Minister of Finance, Chairman of the Finance Sector Emulation Council and the Ministry of Finance's leaders collectives presided over the vongress.

Attending the congress at the bridge points weremore than 700 delegates and typical advanced individuals representing more than 7,000 cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers in the entire finance sector.

The congress was honoured to welcome many guests who are the representatives of the Central Emulation and Reward Council; ministries, departments, branches at the central level and leaders of localities.

Thoroughly grasp the teachings of President Ho Chi Minh: "Emulation means patriotism, patriotism must emulate" and implement the Party and State's guidelines and directives on emulation and commendation,the guidance and direction of the Central Emulation and Reward Council, the Ministry of Government held the 5th Patriotic Emulation Congress of the Finance sector, period 2021 - 2025, with the theme "Solidarity, Creativity, discipline, promote emulation movement, strive to comprehensively complete the political task of building an effective national financial system and sustainable development.”

This congress was organised to evaluate and summarisethe results achieved in the emulation and commendation work of the Finance sector in the past fiveyears; at the same time, draw lessons learned, set directions, goals, tasks and solutions to effectively implement the emulation and commendation work for the next five-year period.

The congress is also an opportunity to honour and multiply the typical advanced collectives and individuals with outstanding achievements in the patriotic emulation movement of the finance sector; exchange lessons learned, good and creative ways to apply, continue to make the emulation movement of the industry more and more developing, really motivating, contributing to the successfully implementing the political tasks of the finance sector.

"Beautiful flowers" in the emulation movement

The political report of the congress affirmed that in the past fiveyears, patriotic emulation movements in the financial sector have had many positive changes with rich content and forms of emulation with practical and specific goals, keeping abreast of political tasks, becoming a great driving force to contribute to the successful implementation of the general political tasks of the finance sector. Many advanced examples, new models, good and creative ways through emulation movements have been replicated.

More than 700 delegates and typical advanced individuals attended the congress at the bridge sites.

The Ministry of Finance has directed and organised the launch of foveregular emulation movements in the industry and many thematic emulation movements, sprints.

Responding to the speech of the ministry, agencies and units in the finance sector have launched more than 500 emulation movements; especially, for the system of tax, Customs, Treasury andReserve emulation movements have been deployed to the grassroots level.

Patriotic emulation movements in the financial sector have been launched with contents and criteria suitable to the situation and specific requirements of each agency and unit. Commendation work has been innovated; the quality of commendation has been improved day by day; enhancing commendation for outstanding achievements, paying attention to rewarding direct employees andrewarding small collectives.

In the emulation movements, there have been many advanced examples in all fields with great pervasive power, creating motivation for cadres, civil servants and public employees in the industry to emulate their labour and efforts, striving to fulfill all tasks, making an important contribution to the successful implementation of the 5-year financial - budget tasks in 2016-2020 assigned by the Party, National Assembly and the Government.

In particular, in the past fiveyears, besides the opportunities and advantages, our country has also had many great difficulties and challenges, especially during theCovid-19 pandemic, which has greatly affected all economic aspects - country society.

In that context, with the role of opening the lifeblood of the economy, the entire finance sector has brought into play the tradition of solidarity, efforts, and emulation, striving to overcome all difficulties and challenges, and successfully political tasks assigned by the Party, State and people, making contributions to national defence, construction and development.

The finance sector has performed well its role of advising, directing and administering State budget-finance to ensure efficiency; State budget deficit and public debt are strictly controlled within safe limits; coordinate with ministries and branches in managing and strictly controlling market prices, ensuring price stability, contributing to controlling inflation and stabilisingthe macro-economy; step up the reform of administrative procedures, improve business conditions; strongly apply information technology in management and administration to create favourable conditions for people and businesses.

The Ministry of Finance has also been at the forefront in renovating, rearranging and streamlining the apparatus in the spirit of the Party's resolutions, thereby contributing to improving the quality and efficiency of the financial sector's operations, meeting and promptly serve the national economic, cultural and social development tasks.

The achievements of the finance industry in the past fiveyears are "beautiful flowers" in the patriotic emulation movements of the finance sector, contributing to writing new pages of history, highlighting the traditions of the finance industry.