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General Department of Defense Industry
(Cong Nghiep Quoc Phong)

The General Department of Defense Industry (Tong cuc Cong Nghiep Quoc Phong) is responsible for directing and controlling all military production establishments and economic activities, and for ensuring mobilization readiness of the entire defense industrial infrastructure. The GDDI is also responsible for R&D and for weapons procurement. The General Department of Defense Industry is responsible for the manufacture of weapons and military equipment for the military and militia. The General Department of Defense Industry has the Manager and Deputy Directors, Political Commissars and Deputy Political Commissars, functional departments, weapons and weapon factories, vocational schools, and affiliated units.

The General Department of Defense Industry is an agency under the Ministry of National Defense of Vietnam established on 15 September 1945. It has the function of organizing and managing core IPs, including design research institutes , weapons technology, factories, alliances of factories producing and manufacturing weapons, military equipment and technical means, ensuring the Vietnam People's Army to fight and defend the country.

On September 15, 1945, President Ho Chi Minh instructed the establishment of the Military Division under the Ministry of National Defense - the highest executive agency of the Vietnam Military Branch at that time - with two duties: Gathering, procurement of weapons and organization of weapons manufacturing facilities and assigning the general responsibility of comrade Vu Anh, Chief of Military Division to Comrade Nguyen Ngoc Xuan. On March 25, 1946, President Ho Chi Minh signed a decree to reorganize the Ministry of Defense, including the Military Manufacturing Department (ie the Military Department to become the Military Department) by comrade Nguyen Ngoc Xuan. Deputy Director, meeting the growing requirements of the Military Industry.

In the context of extremely difficult, with internal enemies, external enemies, famine, ignorance raging, the national treasury is empty ... the military industry stands before reality almost zero without any muscle. basic production facilities such as electricity, chemicals, metallurgy, specialized materials ... Perhaps at that time we only had a few people with deep knowledge of the industry. The richest thing in the beginning was the patriotism, the will to "rather sacrifice everything, definitely not lose the country,"

Following Uncle Ho's instructions when Uncle Ho assigned comrade Pham Quang Le to be Director of the Military Department (December 5, 1946): "The production of weapons to fight the enemy and save the country is a great cause" , the whole military industry is enthusiastic about labor, self-study, self-training to develop, to do a great job for 75 years, with the spirit of self-study, creativity, and self-overcome all difficulties as a compliment. by General Vo Nguyen Giap: "The Vietnamese army is proactive in creativity, self-reliant, overcoming all difficulties, studying more, studying forever, successfully completing the tasks assigned by the Party, State and people. vice ".

During the past 75 years, the General Department of National Defense has always attached great importance to building and developing high-quality CNQP human resources. Currently, the leaders of factories and research institutes in the entire CNQP General Department have proposed many measures to promote the implementation of the strategy of training and developing human resources for CNQP, especially building a contingent of faculty staff. high-level military technology and learning in key, particular, spearhead and high-tech fields; skilled and skilled managers and technical workers.

The leading agency of the Vietnam Army, the Military Department in early 1947, also began to consolidate, forming subordinate departments to undertake each field of work.

• The Technical Research Department is led by Mr. Tran Dai Nghia Director cum Director, Mr. Hoang Dinh Phu is the Deputy Director, has the task of researching, designing and testing new weapons, and at the same time experimenting to develop to mobilize, improve the features and effects, and raise the quality of weapons put into production. The department is also responsible for researching alternative materials and directly managing the sample workshop.
• The Director of the military workshops is headed by Comrade Nguyen Duy Thai, has the task of directing the construction of factories in the direction indicated by the Ministry of National Defense-General Commander; at the same time directing production and technical improvement in workshops, designing and drawing models of a number of weapons, mainly basic weapons such as mines, grenades, guns and grenades, guns and mortars.
• The Trade Department is headed by Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Xuan, Deputy Director cum Director, Mr. Nguyen Quang is Deputy Director, is responsible for purchasing chemicals, explosives and other materials necessary for production. weapon ...
• The Clerical Office is in charge of Mr. Vu Van Don, responsible for administrative management, main personnel, accounting, finance and transportation of the Department.

On November 4, 1958, the Ministry of Defense signed Decree No. 262 / NDA merging the Military Department and the Military Department (under the General Department of Logistics) into the Military Department under the General Logistics Department. Comrade Nguyen Van Nam was the director.

On January 29, 1966, the Ministry of Defense issued Decision No. 128 / QD-QP to separate the Military Department into two departments: the Military and the Military. On September 10, 1974, implementing the Resolution No. 39 / QUTW of April 5, 1974 of the Central Military Commission, the Council of Ministers issued Decree No. 221 / CP to establish the General Technical Department under the Ministry of Defense. On November 7, 1985, the General Department of Economy was established under Decree No. 260 / HDBT of the Council of Ministers (now the Government).

On March 3, 1989, Vice Chairman of the Council of Ministers Vo Van Kiet signed Decree No. 22 / HDBT to establish the General Department of Defense Industry and Economy on the basis of consolidation and reorganization of the General Department of Economy. with the defense production enterprises management agency.

On December 24, 1998, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 249/1998 / QD-TTg to establish and change a number of organizations under the Ministry of Defense. Including the content: "The General Department of Defense Industry and Economy resigns from the task of helping the Minister of National Defense in terms of economy, encouraging industry and renaming it to the General Department of Defense Industry".

Implementing the Program to implement Resolution No. 27-NQ / TW, dated February 26, 2008, the Standing Committee of the National Assembly issued Ordinance CNQP No. 02/2008 / PL-UBTVQH12. The Ordinance on CNQP has shown the close attention of the Party and State in the direction and orientation to the strategic task of building and developing the country's CNQP potential; lay a very basic foundation for the formation and step-by-step synchronization of the system of legal documents, defining the state legal framework, adjusting all activities of a particular economic-technical branch of the country. The country has the task of directly participating in securing weapons and technical equipment for all-people defense. In this important step, the General Department of National Defense has not only actively contributed to the work of advising and building the Ordinance of the National Guard, but also presided over and coordinated with Party agencies.

Continuing to organize the implementation of the Politburo's Resolution 06-NQ / TW dated July 16, 2011, the General Department of Industry and Trade has achieved many important results to meet the requirements of building and protecting the country in new situation.

In order to do well the tasks assigned by the Party, State and Government, the leaders of the General Department of National Defense have identified very clearly, before the rapid changes of the world, regional situation as well as the Industrial Revolution. In terms of investment, the task of building and developing defense industry is increasingly heavy, requiring radical innovation and breakthrough solutions in research and production capacity of defense industry products. Investment projects for the development of defense industry, especially key projects, high technology have been drastically deployed, in the right direction and put into exploitation and use to promote efficiency; defense industry's capacity to research, design, manufacture and repair weapons and technical equipment has clearly changed and made a breakthrough; to step by step master the technologies of manufacturing, repairing, improving and digitizing a variety of new-generation, high-tech and modern weapons and technical equipment with Vietnamese brands.

It is from the spirit of proactive creation, self-reliance, overcoming all difficulties, studying, learning forever, daring to think, daring to do so that from the first day, cadres, engineers and workers of the military The world has made efforts to find ways to approach military scientific and technical knowledge, create models of special weapons production establishments in Vietnam, and produce a variety of weapons in its own way; repair of weapons, best service for the combat requirements of the army through periods. From the first days until now, in order to stand firm and develop and meet the increasing requirements of weapons production, military cadres and workers have not only been creative in engineering, technology, but also extremely flexible and scientific in production organization and management.