The Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper held a talk in Hanoi on April 17 on orientations for building socialism in Vietnam. 

During the talk, theoretical researchers from the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee’s Theoretical Council and the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Public Administration stressed that advancing to socialism is an aspiration of the Vietnamese people and a right choice of the CPV and President Ho Chi Minh, which is suitable to the history’s development trend. 

The rich reality and achievements attained during 25 years of renewal and the 20-year implementation of the platform on national construction in the transitional period to socialism prove that the CPV’s renewal policy is sound and creative, and that advancing to socialism is suitable to objective rules and Vietnam’s revolutionary reality. 

Only socialism can ensure a real independence and freedom for the Vietnamese nation, a prosperous development for the country and a well off and happy life for the people, the participants stressed. 

The theoricians analysed the importance of building socialism in Vietnam defined in the documents of the 11th National Party Congress, with a focus on speeding up national industrialisation and modernisation in combination with developing a knowledge-based economy and protecting natural resources and the environment; developing a socialist-oriented economy and building an advanced culture imbued with national identity. 

They discussed measures to improve people’s living standards and realise social progress and equality; firmly ensure national defence and security, and social order and safety; implement a foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, peace, friendship, cooperation and development, active and proactive international integration; and building a socialist democracy. 

They also spoke of the need to popularise and disseminate among people the basic contents of the 11th National Party Congress’ documents.

* HCM City welcomes French communist Party leader

The Vietnamese Party and people are always grateful to the great support and assistance of the French Communist Party (FCP) and progressive people in France to Vietnam during its struggle for national independence and liberation. 

Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Secretary Le Thanh Hai emphasized this at a reception for FCP National Secretary Pierre Laurent, who is on his first official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV). 

Mr. Hai spoke highly of Mr. Laurent’s visit, saying that it will help strengthen the traditional friendship between the two Parties. 

HCM City has had effective cooperation programmes and projects with two French localities, namely Lyon and Rhone-Alpes Region in the areas of culture, preservation, education, health, science and technology, Hai said. 

Pierre Laurent affirmed that the FCP always respects Vietnamese comrades and memorises the struggle that the two parties had stood side by side. 

The FCP leader expressed his belief that the cooperation between the two Parties will further develop in the future.

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