(LLCT) - Being fully aware of the role of the cadres at strategic level in building and developing the country in the renovation period, the Party has focused on building a set of regulations and solutions for the development of this contingent. However, given the new requirements of national development, many regulations and solutions are no longer suitable. Based on analysing the limitations, shortcomings in the phases of identifying standards, planning, selecting, cultivating, evaluating, examination, supervising the reserve cadres at strategic level, this article proposes some recommendations to improve the efficiency of this work.

(LLCT) - The Fourth Industrial Revolution (FIR) has made comprehensive, extensive, and fast impacts on all areas of the social life, including training and education. Many issues have been raised to the training and fostering of cadres such as renewal of the institution governance, renovation of training and fostering methods and enhancement of lecturers’ competence. In this reality, the article suggests some solutions to improve the quality of cadre training, including renewal of mechanisms and policies, renewal of administration; enhancing the quality of lectures; renewal of training work; promotion of scientific research and practical review.

(LLCT) - Green consumption trends are becoming more and more popular in the world. For Vietnam, catching up with this trend will create opportunities for sustainable development, expanding market share, as well as taking advantage of government support for businesses. However, green consumption also faces varied challenges including how to address the relationship between profitability and green growth, or how to gear State incentive policies to green production and consumption. Therefore, there should be solutions to promote green consumption, ensure sustainable development, and catch up with this global trend.

(LLCT) - The 1986 Spring Mau Than General Offensive and Uprising marked a turning point for our people’s anti-U.S. resistance war for national salvation, shaking the US’s will of aggression and forcing them to cease bombing the North and to negotiate to end the war of aggression in Vietnam. 50 years have passed, the 1968 Spring Mau Than General Offensive and Uprising has forever been engraved in the history of the nation, leaving us a number of valuable lessons.

(LLCT) - The article presents the characteristics and general structure of Vietnamese entrepreneurs, analyses their positive contributions to and limitations in social development and management of social development of Vietnam in the renewal process. The article also suggests some solutions to promote the role of entrepreneurs in social development and management of social development in Vietnam nowadays. 

(LLCT) - The world history shows that big countries and their interactions control and decide the development tendency of the world politics and shaping of the international order. For small countries, their relations with big countries and are always considered as important issues. Nowadays, the small country-big country relationship has become different in nature, condition and defined context. The article focuses on analysing: 1) criteria of identifying a big country in the current world; 2) the nature of the small country-big country relationship; 3) Vietnam’s experiences in behaving towards big countries.

(LLCT) - On the 12^th of April 2016, the United Nations Development Program in Vietnam (UNDP), the Centre for Official Fostering and Scientific Research (under the Fatherland Front of Vietnam), and the Centre for Community Support and Development Studies, launched Vietnam Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI) 2015 in Hanoi. In attendance of the ceremony were Prof. Dr. Ta Ngoc Tan, President of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, H.E. Ms. Beatrice Maser Mallor, Ambassador of Switzerland to Vietnam, and Ms. Pratibha Mehta, Resident Coordinator of the United Nations in Vietnam.

A nation's power includes not only its hard power (geographical - population, economic, military factors) but also its soft power (political institution, ideology and national strategies (state leaders), and the will of the people in implementing strategies, social values, international relations). Therefore, the study of a country’s soft power should be taken under overall consideration of its comprehensive power.