At the conference, Major General Doan Xuan Bo, Party Secretary and Editor-in-Chief of the People's Army Newspaper, reported on the results of the digital transformation task of the People's Army Newspaper.

Accordingly, implementing the direction of the Central Military Commission, the Ministry of National Defense , the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army; and guidance from agencies, the People's Army Newspaper has proactively and actively researched, promoted the application of science and technology, and digitalized the press, achieving many results. Notably, the People's Army Newspaper is one of the pioneering press agencies in implementing administrative reform and digitalization, applying technology in publishing printed newspapers.

Lieutenant General Do Xuan Tung chaired the conference.

In 2011, the People's Army Newspaper officially launched and introduced electronic editorial software into the paper newspaper production process, helping to speed up the progress of making newspapers and increase the timeliness of information. Currently, 100% of news and articles are produced on electronic editorial software; each year, more than 140,000 news and articles are processed and edited on the electronic editorial office, contributing to saving billions of dong in the budget for stationery.

In addition, the People's Army Newspaper has effectively applied information technology, developing electronic newspaper publications: Vietnamese, English, Chinese, Lao, Khmer. In particular, the Vietnamese People's Army Electronic Newspaper includes the People's Army Newspaper Weekend, the Events and Witnesses Monthly Magazine, the Video /Audio page and many other sections. The number of weekly readers of the People's Army Electronic Newspaper reaches nearly 2 million views.

In particular, in recent years, the People's Army Newspaper has proactively organized a part-time force to produce content published on social networking channels: Facebook, Youtube, Tiktok, Zalo; many works shared on social networking sites have a very high social impact. The People's Army Newspaper also organizes the production of many live news bulletins such as live broadcasts of major events, seminars, award ceremonies... of the editorial office; live reporting on major events that the Army participates in such as Army Games; Vietnam International Defense Exhibition; New Year's Eve celebrations in all regions of the country, meeting current affairs requirements... attracting hundreds of millions of views/year and the quality of propaganda is deep and wide, highly appreciated by readers.

The work of digitizing press documents and applying science and technology in performing tasks has also achieved many positive results... serving readers to search and look up information conveniently.

Major General Doan Xuan Bo spoke at the conference.
Conference delegates.

In the period of 2026-2030, the People's Army Newspaper will continue to promote information and propaganda work on administrative reform and digital transformation of the country and the Ministry of National Defense in print newspapers, electronic newspapers and digital platforms. Build and complete modern digital infrastructure, centralized, professional, secure and safe information technology infrastructure. Build a converged newsroom on a digital platform, digitize all working processes from the stages of collecting, storing, sharing, producing, distributing content... on all types and platforms of modern journalism. Focus on and promote training and fostering of information technology skills applied in press production for cadres and reporters...

Concluding the conference, Lieutenant General Do Xuan Tung acknowledged and commended the results and achievements in implementing the digital transformation task in 2025 of the People's Army Newspaper. The Deputy Head of the General Department of Politics requested that the People's Army Newspaper seriously absorb the opinions of the relevant agencies at the conference; review, research, and determine the focus, key points, goals, and roadmap to continue improving the quality of digital transformation in implementing the political tasks of the People's Army Newspaper.

Lieutenant General Do Xuan Tung and delegates visited science and technology applications and digital transformation of the People's Army Newspaper.

Emphasizing that building a modern People's Army Newspaper, applying and implementing editing and operational activities in the digital environment will be a breakthrough in the digital transformation process of press agencies as well as the Army and contribute to improving the quality and effectiveness of Party and political work (CTĐ, CTCT), Lieutenant General Do Xuan Tung requested that the People's Army Newspaper continue to research, closely follow and update the Party's leadership and direction documents, the State's laws, and the Ministry of National Defense's regulations as the foundation and legal basis for completing the construction of the Digital Transformation Project for the CTĐ, CTCT sector in the period of 2026-2030, especially applying it in the process of working, editing, and producing news and articles; ensuring comprehensiveness, strictness, and compliance with the policy of digital transformation of the whole sector, in line with reality.

Proposals on databases, platforms, software, artificial intelligence (AI) and related technology components of the People's Army Newspaper's project need to be comprehensively designed, ensuring connectivity, flexibility, expansion, readiness to share and integrate with other systems. At the same time, the People's Army Newspaper needs to do a good job of advising and coordinating with agencies and functional units of the Ministry of National Defense and the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army to develop regulations on coordination with agencies in implementing information security assurance and performing well the propaganda task, contributing to orienting the thinking of soldiers and people, bringing the guidelines and policies of the Party, State and Army into life.

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