Party resolution creates positive change in rural areas


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In 2010, the industrial and service sectors made up 60 percent of the rural economic structure, and the number of communes connected to the national electric grid reached 97.8 percent, while the number of poor households was dropped to 11.3 percent.

This was announced by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development at the July 11 teleconference presided over by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

The teleconference, which involved both central and provincial officials, focused on reviewing the implementation of the resolution on agriculture, farmers and rural areas adopted at the seventh session of the 10th Party Central Committee.

Addressing the teleconference, PM Dung stressed that the ‘seventh Central resolution’ deals with the country’s strategic issues and outlines the core, regular political tasks for the entire political system.

He asked ministries and localities to seriously review both achievements and failures in the implementation of the resolution over the past three years, and urged them to work out measures to achieve specific targets for the following years.


Viet Nam recognises South Sudan independence


The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced yesterday that the nation recognised South Sudan as an independent and sovereign country. It also said that Viet Nam was willing to establish a complete relationship with South Sudan to strengthen friendship and co-operation.

President Nguyen Minh Triet sent a congratulatory message to South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit on the occasion of the country's independence yesterday.


Vietnamese, Russian newspapers boost cooperation


Leaders of press agencies of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Communist Party of Russian Federation have discussed the role of communist papers in protecting the soundness of Marxism-Leninism in the current situation as well as their cooperation in the future.
Truong Giang Long, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Communist Review - the theoretical and political organ of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee – and Boris Komotskiy, Editor-in-Chief of the Pravda (The Truth) newspaper of the Communist Party of Russian Federation touched upon these issues during their recent meeting in Moscow.
Long stressed that Vietnamese people always keep in mind the image of a communist newspaper of Lenin, whose history is closely connected with the great Russian October Revolution and socialism in the Soviet Union.
Komotskiy informed his guests of the political situation in Russia in recent years, noting that readers have paid special attention to different aspects of activities of Communist parties in the world, particularly in countries that are pursuing the path of socialism.
During their stay in Russia from July 5-7, the Vietnamese delegates had meetings with leaders of some other Russian newspaper and KPRF representatives in Ulyanovsk city.


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