Nguyen Phu Trong

Nguyễn Phú Trọng (born April 14, 1944, in Hanoi, Vietnam) is the General secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, elected at the party’s 11th National Congress on 19 January 2011, and the chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam. He was confirmed by the National Assembly on June 26, 2006, with 85% having voted in favor. He is currently ranked as the No. 1 leader in the Communist Party of Vietnam.", dangcongsan.vn.

Biography

Trọng was born on April 14, 1944, in Đông Hội Commune, Đông Anh District, Hanoi. He studied philology at Vietnam National University, Hanoi from 1963 to 1967. Trọng officially joined the Communist Party in December 1968.He worked for the Tạp chí Cộng Sản (“Communist Review”), the theoretical and political agency of the Communist Party of Vietnam (formerly, “Labor Party”), in the periods of 1967-1973, 1976–1980, and 1983-1996. From 1991 to 1996, he served as the editor-in-chief of the Tạp chí Cộng Sản. Trọng went to the USSR in 1981 to study at the USSR Academy of Social Sciences and got the Kandidat Nauk (“Candidate of Sciences”) degree in history in 1983. In 1998, Trọng entered in the party section devoted to political work, and he is one of the most prominent Vietnamese political theoricians heading in the period 2001-2006 the CPVCC's Theoretical Council in charge of the Party's theoretical work.

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