Politburo member, Standing Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Tong Thi Phong as authorized by the State President to grants First-Class Labour Medal to Vietnam Electricity.
The meeting was attended by Mrs. Tong Thi Phong - Member of the Politburo, Standing Vice Chairman of the National Assembly; Mr. Trinh Dinh Dung - Deputy Prime Minister; Mr. Vo Van Dung - Standing Vice Chairman of Central Committee of Internal Affairs; Mr. Ha Ngoc Chien - Chairman of the Nationalities Council of the National Assembly; Mr. Nguyen Thuy Anh - Chairman of the National Assembly's Committee for Social Affairs; Mr. Nguyen Thanh Hai - Head of the People's Committee of the National Assembly; Mr. Tran Tuan Anh - Minister of Industry and Trade; Mr. Nguyen Hoang Anh - Chairman of State Capital Management Committee at the enterprises; Mr. Y Thanh Ha Nie Kdam - Secretary of the Party Committee of Central Business Block, etc.
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Successfully fulfilling the tasks entrusted by the Party, the State and the people
Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung praised and congratulated the achievements made by generations of leaders, employees, electricity workers during the past 65 years.
“65 years of fighting, building, developing and maturing, generations of leaders, employees and employees of the Electricity of Vietnam have united, worked together, with a high sense of responsibility, overcome many difficulties, hardships and sacrifices to successfully fulfil the tasks assigned by the Party, the State and the people. EVN has ensured sufficient power supply for the country, thereby making an important contribution to the cause of struggling for independence and industrialization and modernization of the country,” Deputy Prime Minister emphasized.
In addition, the electricity industry has made efforts to prioritize the supply of power to people in rural, mountainous and island areas. Since then, it has made a contribution to making fundamental changes in economic and social aspects in rural, mountainous, and remote areas, making great contributions to the Party and State's hunger eradication and poverty alleviation process; preserving political security, protecting the sovereignty of the Fatherland
Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung praises the achievements made by the Electricity sector in 65 years of construction and growth
“Up to now, 100% of communes and 99.25% of rural households have been supplied power, much higher than other countries in the region. Efficiency of electricity system operation is improved, in the top group of ASEAN and in proximity to developed countries”
Besides, EVN has actively implemented restructuring, gradually transforming operations in line with the market mechanism, including the formation of an official competitive electricity generation market since 2012 and operation of a competitive wholesale electricity market since 2019, eliminating subsidies, creating more competitiveness, transparency in power production and trading activities
In the stage of accelerating industrialization and modernization, in order to make Vietnam soon become a modern industrialized country, meeting the power requirement for socio-economic development and people's daily life is an especially important task. Therefore, the requirements imposed on the electricity sector are: Ensuring energy security, meeting sufficient power for socio-economic development and consumption of the people; stopping the situation of power shortages under any circumstances. To fulfill this requirement, the responsibility to be placed on the Electricity sector, in which EVN plays a leading role, is extremely heavy.
Mr. Duong Quang Thanh - Chairman of EVN's Board of Members affirmed that the Group would always make efforts to strive and unite to continue making EVN more and more grow, always a highly responsible enterprise to community and society
Performing well the mission "Electricity pacing one step ahead"
Mr. Tran Dinh Nhan - General Director of EVN said that in the past 65 years, the Electricity of Vietnam has grown tremendously, successfully completing the Party's Resolutions as "ensuring electricity pacing one step ahead".
EVN General Director Tran Dinh Nhan speaking at the event
EVN has ensured power supply for socio-economic development and people's daily life, contributing to maintaining the country's economic growth at a high level for many consecutive years. In particular, the average growth rate of commercial power in the period 2000-2019 is 12.5%. Particularly in 2019, the commercial power output is estimated at 210 billion kWh, the average electricity use reaches 2,180kWh/person/year, an increase of 7.6 times compared to 2010’s.
In addition, power supply infrastructure has been invested to strongly develop all stages of power generation, transmission and distribution. From only 31.5MW of capacity (in 1954), up to now, the total installed capacity of the National electricity system is about 54,850MW, ranking 2nd in Southeast Asia and 23rd in the world.
The miraculous progress made by the Vietnam Revolutionary Electricity has also been shown through the construction and operation of many key regional and international power projects such as Hoa Binh Hydroelectric Plant, Pha Lai Thermal Power Plant, Son La Hydroelectric Plant; North-South 500kV ultra-high voltage line - the "backbone" of Vietnam electricity system has been added circuit 2, circuit 3; Power grids in the key economic zones of the North and the South shall be connected with loop circuits to ensure safe and reliable power supply.
Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung (right) presents a souvenir to Vietnam Electricity
EVN has well implemented the Rural Electrification Program. In particular, the Group has invested and supplied power to 11/12 island districts, including the islands with strategic positions at sea such as: Phu Quoc, Co To, Ly Son, Kien Hai, Lai Son, Tien Hai, etc., has been invested in supplying power from the national grid by submarine cable system.
The Group has made many innovations in business and customer services, constantly improving the quality of services. To date, 100% of EVN's electricity services have reached level-4 online electricity services - the highest level in providing online public services as specified by the Government; EVN has provided electronic contracts; connecting with the national public service portal, increasing publicity, transparency and creating favourable conditions for customers, and so on.
Vietnam's access-to-electricity index has been also made a great progress, significantly contributing to improving the business environment and improving the national competitiveness. According to the evaluation by the World Bank, Vietnam's Access-to- Electricity Index in 2019 continues to rank 4th in the ASEAN region, while maintaining its position of 27th out of 190 countries/economies (up 129 places over the last 6 years).
Vice Standing Chairman of the National Assembly Tong Thi Phong and Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung having souvenir photo taken with EVN leaders
Thanks to the successful implementation of many synchronous solutions to improve economic and technical indicators, improve production and business efficiency, the rate of power loss of EVN has decreased from 8.87% (2013) to 6.5% (in 2019) and is approaching the level of power loss of developed countries.
Especially, according to EVN General Director Tran Dinh Nhan, electrical employees and staff have promoted the spirit of initiative, creativity, dare to think, dare to do, take the lead in research and application, and have mastered many scientific and technological advances in production and business activities. Many large and complex power production and grid projects have been designed and organized by a team of domestic officials and engineers, such as Son La and Lai Chau hydropower plants; 500kV ultrahigh voltage lines and substations.
Automation and digital technologies have been widely applied in the construction and operation of electrical systems and electricity markets. EVN has carried out remote control, unmanned operation for 600/810 transformer stations of 220 - 110kV, and so on.
"Currently, EVN has been promoting research and development in advanced technologies of Industrial Revolution No. 4, implementing digital transformation in various fields, in order to soon turn EVN into a digital enterprise," EVN General Director Tran Dinh Nhan emphasized.
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Some reward forms achieved by EVN :
- Gold Star Medal in 2004, for great contributions to the revolutionary cause of the Party and the Nation.
- Ho Chi Minh Medal in 1996 for a lot of efforts in building and developing the Electricity of Vietnam, contributing to the Revolutionary cause of the Party and of the Nation.
- Ho Chi Minh Medal (2nd time) in 2014 for great achievements and outstanding achievements contributing to the revolutionary cause of the Party and the Nation.
- First-Class Labour Medal 2015 for outstanding achievements in the national emulation movement of “the Whole country to build the New Rural Development Programme.
- First-class Labour Medal (2nd) in 2019 for outstanding achievements in the movement of New Rural Development Programme for period 2010-2019.
- First-class Labour Medal (3rd time) in 2019, and so on
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