Attending the meeting were Major General Tran Vinh Ngoc, Political Commissar of Military Region 7; Comrade Luu Van Trung, Deputy Secretary of Lam Dong Provincial Party Committee; comrades in the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, leaders of departments, branches and nearly 200 delegates, religious dignitaries and village elders.

Major General Tran Vinh Ngoc, Political Commissar of Military Region 7, spoke at the meeting.

In recent years, along with the task of training and combat readiness, the provincial armed forces have always focused on ethnic and religious work, promoting the role of village elders, dignitaries, and prestigious people. Every year, the whole province has over 25% of young people who are religious followers joining the army, currently there are 225 cadres who are ethnic minorities working in the provincial armed forces.

Village elder K'Bieng, a Ma ethnic, spoke at the meeting.

More than 34,000 officers and soldiers have participated in helping people repair and renovate more than 2,650km of rural roads; build and repair 82 classrooms, eliminate illiteracy for more than 1,500 students; support more than 2,000 households to overcome the consequences of natural disasters. The provincial military has also mobilized to build 106 military-civilian gratitude houses, 80 great solidarity houses, eliminate 64/64 temporary and dilapidated houses; proposed to build 15 cultural and sports facilities in ethnic and religious areas with a total cost of more than 65 billion VND.

Giving gifts to delegates at the meeting.

Speaking at the meeting, the Political Commissar of Military Region 7 requested the Lam Dong Provincial Military Command to continue to thoroughly grasp the Party's viewpoints and policies on mass mobilization, ethnic and religious work; effectively carry out emulation movements, associated with building "Good mass mobilization units"; pay attention to training cadres, promoting the role of religious dignitaries, village elders, and prestigious people in consolidating the great national unity bloc.

I hope that religious dignitaries, village elders, village heads, hamlets, and prestigious people will continue to promote their roles, actively propagate and mobilize people to comply with the Party's guidelines and the State's policies and laws; actively participate in economic development, hunger eradication and poverty reduction, building new rural areas and civilized urban areas, contributing to building Lam Dong increasingly rich and beautiful.

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