VietNamNet Bridge - Today, the newly-elected 12th Party Central Committee held the first meeting to elect the Politburo, the Secretary General, the Central Inspection Committee and the committee's head.

Deputies congratulate Mr. Trong.

At the meeting, Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong was re-elected as the Secretary General of the 12th term.

Mr. Trong was born in 1944 in Dong Hoi Commune, Dong Anh District, Hanoi. He was elected the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam on January 19, 2011.

Biography of Party Chief Nguyen Phu Trong

- Born on April 14, 1944.

- Native land: Dong Hoi Commune, Dong Anh District, Hanoi.

- Admitted to the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) on December 19, 1967. Became full member of the CPV on December 19, 1968.

- Education: Literature-Linguistics graduate; Professor, PhD (Politics).

- High-level political theory

- Current positions: Politburo member of the CPV Central Committee, Secretary of the Party Committee of Hanoi, Chairman of the Party Central Committee's Theoretical Council.

Summary of professional career

1963 - 1967: Studied at the Literature-Linguistics Faculty of the University of Hanoi.

December 1967 - August 1973: Editor of the Communist Review.

September 1973 - April 1976: Post-graduate at the Political Economy Faculty of the high-level Nguyen Ai Quoc Party School (now the Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy).

May 1976 - August 1981: Editor of the Communist Review, Deputy Secretary of the Party cell.

September 1981 - July 1983: Associate PhD student in historical science (Party building major) at the Academy of Social Sciences of the Soviet Union.

August 1983 - August 1987: Deputy Head of the Party Building Department, the Communist Review.

September 1987 - February 1989: Head of the Party Building Department, the Communist Review.

July 1985 - December 1991: Deputy Secretary and then Secretary of the Party Committee of the Communist Review.

March 1989 - April 1990: Member of the Editorial Board of the Communist Review.

May 1990 - July 1991: Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Communist Review.

August 1991 - August 1996: Editor-in-Chief of the Communist Review.

Between January 1994 and now: Member of the CPVCC (7th, 8th, 9th and 10th tenures).

August 1996 - February 1998: Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Hanoi and Head of the Hanoi municipal Party Committee's Delegation in charge of University.

Between December 1997 and now: Member of the Political Bureau of the CPVCC (8th, 9th and 10th tenures).

February 1998 - January 2000: In charge of the Party Central Committee's Ideological-Cultural and Scientific-Educational Affairs.

March 1998 - November 2001: Vice Chairman of the CPVCC's Theoretical Council.

August 1999 - April 2001: Permanent member of the Party Politburo.

From January 2000: Secretary of the Party Committee of Hanoi (12th, 13th and 14th tenures).

November 2001 - January 2011: Chairman of the CPVCC's Theoretical Council, in charge of the Party's theoretical work.

From May 2002: Deputy to the National Assembly.

He was elected as the Party Secretary General on January 19, 2011.

He was re-elected as the Party Secretary General on January 27, 2016.

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