(LLCT) - The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam will be an important political event, as it is time to look back on 35 years of renewal; 30 years of implementing the Platform for national construction during the transitional period to socialism (Platform 1991), with 10 years implementing the amended Platform 2011 and 10 years realizing the socio-economic development strategy in the 2011-2020 period; towards the 100th founding anniversary of the Party in 2030 and the 100th anniversary of the country in 2045. The article focuses on the awareness of setting national development goals towards 2030 with a vision towards 2045.

(LLCT) - While searching for a way to save the country, Ho Chi Minh chose the Communist International (Third International). He voluntarily participated in the Third International and used a sharp mind and political sensitivity because, above all, he had found the goal that he had pursued on the path of this communist organization. After that, Ho Chi Minh became a communist, and he was educated and trained by the Communist International. He made important contributions to the international communist and worker movements and became an eminent international communist soldier. As a genuine Marxist, Ho Chi Minh creatively applied Marxism and Leninism to Vietnamese practical condition, leading the Vietnamese revolution to successive victories.

(LLCT) - The Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics is the national center for training leaders, middle managers and senior officials for the political system; the national center for the study of Marxist-Leninist theory and Ho Chi Minh Thought; studying the Party’s guidelines, policies and laws of the State; doing research on political theory science. In order to perform the functions and tasks assigned by the Party and the State in the new period, together with the comprehensive renovation of the performance, the Academy needs to improve the quality of international cooperation, especially international cooperation in scientific research, so as to improve the research and training quality, making a positive and effective contribution to the country renovation.

(LLCT) - After 20 years of implementing the Resolution No. 03-NQ/TW dated 18 June 1997 of the 3rd Plenum of the Party Central Committee (8th tenure) on “Personnel strategy in the period of boosting national industrialization and modernization”, there have been a lot of weaknesses and defects in the pool of personnel and personnel work of the Party, yet they have been overcome slowly. It is even more serious in some aspects, undermining the prestige of the Party and the trust of the people in the regime. Therefore, there should be a new, modern mechanism and policies, quantitative measures, and a close controlling mechanism of the Party, the State, and the people.

(LLCT) - Karl Marx is the great thinker of mankind whose scientific discoveries changed the world, particularly the materialistic conception of history and surplus value theory. For Marx, science is a historical motivation and a revolutionary force which contributed to the overthrow of capitalist society and freed the modern proletariat. In Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh was the first to acquire, make creative application, and develop Marxism to a higher level suitable to the Vietnamese specific historical conditions. Thence, the Vietnam revolution has been led to successive victories.

(LLCT) - Over the last few years, the concept of “Demographic Dividend” has gained strong momentum among African nations and African politicians and decision makers as an important means for boosting and accelerating economic and social development. Africa’s youth represents its significant asset for sustainable growth if properly harnessed. The time to harness the demographic dividend and start investing in human resource, particularly youth is now.

(LLCT) - The socialist-oriented market economy in Vietnam is a completely new model. It is unprecedented and has developed for 30 years. Therefore, the development of this model is a process of constant perfection, innovation and creation in terms of perception, theoretical thinking and practice. Documents of the Party’s 12^th Congress inherited, clarified and expanded on a number of important arguments including those mentioned for the first time.