(PTOJ) - To carry out the Agreement between the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party; to launch the joint program on theoretical studies and reality summarization between the two parties, the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party held the 8^thTheoretical Conference online on December 16, 2021, under the theme “New theoretical and practical issues in the Documents of the 13^thParty Congress of Vietnam and the Documents of the 11^thParty Congress of Laos”. The Political Theory Journal is honored to introduce the keynote speech delivered by Prof. Dr. NGUYEN XUAN THANG, Member of the Politburo, President of Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council, and Head of the Delegation of the Communist Party of Vietnam.