Devoting a whole life to Vietnam and the Vietnamese people
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong was born on April 14, 1944, in Dong Hoi commune, Dong Anh district, Hanoi City. When he was only 23 years old, he was admitted to the Party. He held many important positions assigned by the Party, the State and the People, such as Member of the Party Central Committee (from the 7th to the 13th tenure), Member of the Politburo (from the 8th to the 13th tenure), General Secretary (from the 11th to the 13th tenure), President (from October 2018 to April 2021), Chairman of the National Assembly (11th and 12th tenures), Editor-in-Chief of the Communist Magazine, Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council. Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong made many great and important contributions to the revolution of the Vietnamese Party and people, especially in the cause of innovation, construction and defence of the Fatherland.
As General Secretary, Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong demonstrated his role as the core leader, collaborating with the Central Executive Committee, the Politburo, and the Secretariat, to build solidarity, unity of will and action within the Party, creating high unity in the political system, leading the entire Party, people and army to overcome difficulties and challenges, achieving many very important achievements in various fields, with outstanding marks, making the country's foundation, potential, position and international prestige increasingly higher and more sustainable. General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong made great contributions in terms of theory, with his painstaking research work "Some Theoretical and Practical Issues on Socialism and the Path to Socialism in Vietnam".
Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong emphasized that Vietnamese people have gone through a long, arduous, and sacrificial revolutionary struggle against colonial and imperialist domination and invasion to protect the country's national independence and sacred sovereignty, for the freedom and happiness of the people. National independence associated with socialism is the Party's fundamental and consistent way, the principle of the Vietnamese revolution's success, and the key point in Ho Chi Minh's ideological legacy. Socialism is an objective requirement, the only inevitable and correct path to achieve freedom, prosperity, and happiness for the Vietnamese people. In particular, as Head of the Central Steering Committee on anti-corruption and anti-negativity, with a very high political determination, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong directed resolutely, persistently, synchronously, comprehensively, systematically, in-depth, with breakthroughs, linking anti-corruption and anti-negativity with Party building and rectification and the political system. Many ideals, viewpoints, guiding principles, and principles of action in anti-corruption and anti-negativity initiated and directed by the General Secretary have been effective and confirmed in practice.
The General Secretary was a modest, exemplary and sincere person. General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong humbly said in his speech when receiving the 55-year Party membership badge: “Everything I have done is extremely small compared to the Party's educational and training efforts, the guidance and instruction of previous Party members, the collaboration and assistance of comrades and colleagues, encouragement and support from the people, directly from the agencies where I studied and worked."
For his outstanding contributions to the revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation, our Party and State awarded Mr Nguyen Phu Trong the Gold Star Medal - the most noble medal of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
General Secretary in Binh Thuan people’s hearts
At 8 pm on July 19th, VTV1 broadcast a documentary about the life and career of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. Officials, party members and the people of Binh Thuan could not hold their emotions and sorrows.
Ms Vu Thi Ngoc Lien - President of the Provincial Association of Former Youth Volunteers said: When hearing the news of the General Secretary's passing, my heart ached and she was deeply saddened. "General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong was a true, loyal communist, with qualifications, capacity, deep knowledge and respect. In his whole life, he built Vietnam to become an increasingly rich and civilized country. His passing is a great loss to the country, especially in the current national construction process", Ms.Lien said.
Ms. Lien also said that she was very impressed with the General Secretary's direction in preventing and combating corruption and negativity. "The General Secretary had directed very resolutely, without any favouritism following the Party's determination and the motto "to build our country more decent and beautiful. His direction was supported by officers, party members and people", Ms. Lien added.
Mr Ho Trung Phuoc - former Head of the Propaganda Department of Binh Thuan Provincial Party Committee, said In any position, any role, Mr Nguyen Phu Trong has excellently fulfilled his duties and his whole life as a General Secretary. It can be said that he sacrificed for the cause of the Party and the people. He had a strategic vision, identifying the Party-developing work as a key issue. The loss of the General Secretary is irreplaceable. This is a huge loss. Our country has lost an outstanding person in both theoretical knowledge and leadership roles.
Meanwhile, Mr. Nguyen Van Toi - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Vu Hoa Commune, Duc Linh District said: As a young person, I am deeply saddened by the sudden passing of the General Secretary. He lived an exemplary, sincere life, worthy of being followed by the younger generation and nurtured with "Pure Heart - Bright Mind - Great Ambition", "Honor is the most sacred and noble thing," said Mr Toi.
80 years old, 57 years of Party membership, 14 years as General Secretary, over 2 years as President, and 5 years as Chairman of the National Assembly, Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong, concerned and devoted to the revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation, together with the Party Central Committee and the Government, leading the entire Party, the entire people and army to achieve many great achievements of historical significance. Vietnamese people in general, and Binh Thuan people in particular, always respect and count on General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong - a true communist, a talented leader, who was always consistent between words and actions, prioritized people's interests and had an extremely kind heart.
