VietNamNet Bridge - Foreign media has highlighted the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), which opened in Hanoi on January 12.

Granma newspaper, an agency of the Communist Party of Cuba, on January 12 ran an article titled “Vietnam remembers Ho Chi Minh on the threshold of the Party Congress” with illustrated photos.

Almost 1,400 delegates were present at Ba Dinh Square on January 11 to lay flowers in tribute to the late President, the paper said.

The Congress will deliberate and adopt the country’s socio-economic development strategy and plan and elect a new leadership of the Party, it said, adding that the delegates, representing over 3.6 million Party members nationwide, will pass the draft documents on national development, which affirms the socialist orientation of Vietnam’s economy.

Also the same day, Cuban television and radios reported on this important event of the Party and people of Vietnam.

Meanwhile, Japan’s NHK reported the CPV’s 11th National Congress opened in Hanoi with a call to reach an economic growth rate of 7-7.5 percent a year in the next five years.

Radio the Voice of America said the ongoing Congress bears an important task to elect a new leadership to lead the country to overcome growing economic challenges, not only in the next five years, but also in the next two or three decades.

The US’s website www.businessweek.com wrote Vietnam’s Party would emphasised economic growth over the next decade and address mismanagement at state-owned firms at this week’s National Congress.

The website quoted Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh in his remarks at the congress’ opening session as saying that “We must pay attention to the quality and efficiency of growth and sustainable development” and “We must combine economic growth with social progress and equality.”

Yougesh Khatri, a senior economist at Nomura Holdings Inc. in Singapore said the growth target is perfectly reasonable, adding if Vietnam do enough to curb inflation expectations, the country can create a virtuous cycle.

Foreign reporters praise Vietnam’s achievements

Many foreign reporters covering the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) have shared their positive assessments on Vietnam’s developments over the past years.

Reporter Carneiro Gustavo from the Communist Party of Spain’s Avante newspaper said that his first impression when coming to Vietnam is the country’s gigantic socio-economic development achievements.

He stressed that under the leadership of the CPV, the Vietnamese people have overcome many difficulties and affirmed its role and voice in the international arena. “Therefore, we will try to give information about Vietnam, the CPV and its 11th congress as much as possible,” he added.

Granting an interview to the Quan doi Nhan dan (People’s Army) daily, Chief Representative of Cuban news agency Prensa Latina in Vietnam and Southeast Asia Charly Morales Valido said that Vietnam has been successful in economic reforms while still maintaining the objectives, principles and viewpoints of socialism.

He said the thing he admires most is the building of a socialist-oriented market economy in Vietnam and the country’s achievements over the past time are valuable experiences for the implementation of reforms in Cuba.

While applauding Vietnam’s achievements, especially in agriculture, A.Chiconcela from Mozambique’s Bulletin Information newspaper said that besides reporting the CPV’s 11th National Congress, he will together with his colleagues introduce more about the country and people of Vietnam, thus helping strengthen the understanding and cooperation between the two countries.

Reporter Kazuhisa Miyake from Japanese news agency Kyodo, who has covered four consecutive congresses of the CPV, stressed that the 11th congress is very important for the CPV as well as for Vietnam as it will discuss and decide development orientations for the nation in the next stage.

“Vietnam is renovating and we are sure that Vietnam will continue its renewal process,” he said.

Source: VNA/VOV