Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The 13th Party Central Committee concludedits 8th plenum on October 8 morning, with all of its agenda completed afterseven working days.
Speaking at the closing ceremony, Party General SecretaryNguyen Phu Trong said that amidst difficulties and challenges of the world anddomestic situation, it is necessary to prioritise promoting and improvinggrowth quality, creating jobs and increasing income for workers on the basis ofmaintaining macroeconomic stability, ensuring major balances of the economy,and ensuring social welfare.
He requested to keep a close watch on the international anddomestic situation to promptly make appropriate and effective decisions,strive to achieve the highest level of major goals and targets for 2023 and theentire 13th term.
To successfully achieve the set goals, the Party chief stressed the needto urgently and seriously build and implement guidelines and policies concertedlyand effectively; continue to promote the tradition of great national unity inthe new period of development; supplement and improve laws and policies inaccordance with the new situation to better promote the strength of all classesof people, and inspire the will and aspirations for development of the entirenation; and maintain the building and rectification of the Party and the politicalsystem.
It is also important to continue improving the validity andefficiency of the State's activities in building and implementing national solidaritypolicies; promoting socialist democracy, taking the people as the centre, thesubject, the main resource and driving force, and the goal of national unity;and at the same time innovating the operations of the Vietnam Fatherland Front,socio-political organisations, and mass associations to make them trulyrepresent the legitimate rights and interests of the people, and better servenational development, said the Party General Secretary.
He also emphasised the necessity to maintain and strengthenthe Party's absolute and direct leadership in all aspects, as well as theState's centralised and unified management and administration for the cause of national building and safeguarding; while ensuring national interests at the highestlevel based on the basic principles of the United Nations Charter,international law, equality, cooperation, and mutual benefit; and firmly pursuingthe goal of national independence and socialism; and maintaining a peaceful,stable environment and favourable conditions for the building and developmentof the country.
Attention should also be paid to increasing appropriateinvestment in building all-people national defence, people's security and people's armedforces so as to meet the requirements of protecting the Fatherland early andfrom afar, and not being passive or surprised in all situations; intensifyinginternational integration and improving the effectiveness of internationalcooperation, the Party chief stressed./.
The 10-year implementation of the resolutions on the national safeguarding strategy and some social policy affairs was high on the agenda of the 13th Party Central Committee on October 4, the third working day of its eighth session.
The eighth plenum of the 13th Party Central Committee entered the fourth working day on October 5, focusing on reviewing the 10-year implementation of a resolution on a number of issues regarding social policies in the 2012-2020 period.
The 13th Party Central Committee on October 6 discussed the implementation of two resolutions and elected new members to its Secretariat and Inspection Commission at its ongoing 8th plenum.
The National Assembly (NA) Standing Committee is scheduled to convene its 48th session on August 11-13, with August 14-15 set as a backup date, according to the NA Office.
Vietnam’s Ambassador to Brazil and Bolivia Bui Van Nghi has led an embassy delegation to attend official events marking the 200th anniversary of Bolivia’s Independence Day.
Party General Secretary To Lam met with members of the Vietnam Innovation Network in Korea (VINK) and Vietnamese experts living and working in the Republic of Korea (RoK) in Seoul on August 10 as part of his state visit to the RoK.
In an interview with Korean media on the occasion of Party General Secretary To Lam’s state visit to the RoK, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Bui Thanh Son affirmed that the visit demonstrates Vietnam’s strong resolve to further deepen the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership with the RoK, with the aim of fostering greater political trust, closer strategic coordination, more substantive and comprehensive cooperation, and stronger bonds of friendship between the two countries' people.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, who is also a Politburo member and Secretary of the Government Party Committee, attended the 4th Party Congress of the EVN Party Organisation for the 2025–2030 tenure on August 10, directing EVN to ensure power supply to meet the country’s development demands with double-digit growth set for the coming years.
Party General Secretary To Lam and his spouse Ngo Phuong Ly, along with a high-ranking delegation of Vietnam arrived in Seongnam Air Base in Seoul on August 10 afternoon (local time), beginning a state visit to the Republic of Korea from August 10-13.
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee To Lam and his spouse Ngo Phuong Ly departed from Hanoi on August 10 morning for a four-day state visit to the Republic of Korea (RoK), which is made at an invitation of RoK President Lee Jae Myung.
As part of the ASEAN Day celebrations, the Vietnamese embassy will also host the ASEAN Family Day 2025 in Ottawa to foster solidarity and community spirit among ASEAN members in Canada.
State President Luong Cuong’s trip once again reaffirmed the Party and State’s foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, diversification and multilateralisation of relations. It also reflected the strong trend of enhanced cooperation among countries of the Global South in shaping a new, more multipolar, fair and equitable world order.
The outcomes of Party General Secretary To Lam's visit will serve as a driving force and source of inspiration for the two countries to inherit, promote, and elevate their Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, contributing to the national construction and development cause in each country, and to peace, cooperation, and development in the region and the world.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on August 9 inspected the construction site of the new Phong Chau bridge, and surveyed a planned route for the Lao Cai – Hanoi – Hai Phong railway section running through the northern province of Phu Tho.
Across print, broadcast, and online platforms, Angolan media portrayed State President Luong Cuong's visit as a warm and historic occasion, strengthening bilateral ties and boosting Vietnam’s presence in Africa through the AU.
The 500kV Lao Cai – Vinh Yen power transmission line has a total investment of over 7.41 trillion VND (282.5 million USD), and a total length of 229.5 km, passing through 31 communes in the two provinces, and comprising 468 transmission tower foundations.
The visits reflected the elevated position of Vietnam’s foreign policy in the new era—aimed at not only advancing ties with key regional partners like Egypt and Angola but also delivering a strategic message about Vietnam’s commitment to deepening relations with African nations as a whole.
At their talks and meetings, President Cuong and Angola’s top leaders affirmed that the close brotherhood and traditional friendship are a valuable shared asset and a solid foundation for the two nations to advance into a new phase of development.
The ruling People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) attaches great importance to the friendship, solidarity, and comradeship with the Communist Party of Vietnam, and voiced her Party’s wish to further deepen and expand relations between the two sides for the benefit of the Vietnamese and Angolan people.
Vietnam pledges to do its utmost to build an ASEAN of solidarity, consensus, and unity in diversity, and to foster a fast and sustainable development path for ASEAN, grounded in science, technology, and innovation, said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.
Party General Secretary To Lam called on the criminal police force to accelerate the application of science, technology, artificial intelligence, and digital transformation in criminal investigation tasks such as crime prevention, detection, tracking and verification, ensuring that no area remains out of their reach.
Many Koreans living, studying, and working in Hanoi see the upcoming state visit to the Republic of Korea (RoK) by Party General Secretary To Lam as an opportunity to generate strong synergy in economic cooperation, people-to-people exchanges, and cultural understanding.
The achievements of the five decades of Vietnam–Angola cooperation provide a strong and enduring foundation, as well as momentum for the two sides to consolidate, expand, and bring their partnership into a new phase of development.
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong (Photo: VNA) 
