The President has effectively performed the assigned tasks and powers.

Citing the summary report recently sent to the National Assembly, VNA said that during the 2016-2021 term, in his capacity as President, Chairman of the National Defense and Security Council, Commander-in-Chief of the People's Armed Forces, Head of the Central Steering Committee for Judicial Reform and a deputy of the 14th National Assembly, the President effectively performed his duties and powers as prescribed by the Constitution and the tasks assigned by the Politburo and the Secretariat, actively contributing with the entire Party, people and army to successfully implement the Resolution of the 12th National Party Congress, the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws and the Resolutions of the 14th National Assembly.

Strictly implement the personnel introduction process

The report shows that the President has strictly implemented the process of introducing personnel to propose to the National Assembly to dismiss from office and elect to hold the positions of Prime Minister, Vice President, Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court, Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme People's Procuracy; and to propose to the National Assembly to dismiss from office and approve the Vice President and members of the National Defense and Security Council.

Pursuant to the resolutions of the National Assembly, the President signed decisions to appoint 5 Deputy Prime Ministers, 21 Ministers and other members of the Government for the 2016-2021 term; closely coordinating with the National Assembly, the Government signed decisions to appoint a number of Ministers and Heads of ministerial-level agencies when there were changes in personnel such as: Minister of Transport, Minister of Information and Communications, Government Inspector General, Minister of Health, Minister of Science and Technology, Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam.

Along with the appointment of 21 Ministers and other members of the Government for the 2016-2021 term, during the term, the President signed a decision to dismiss 24 members of the Government and suspend the work of 1 member of the Government (Mr. Truong Minh Tuan).

Create a synchronous legal basis

The President signed the Order to promulgate 72 laws and 2 ordinances passed by the National Assembly and the Standing Committee of the 14th National Assembly; directed the Office of the President to coordinate with relevant agencies to organize a press conference to promulgate the President's Order in a timely manner and in accordance with regulations. Many legal documents passed by the 14th National Assembly have created an important, synchronous, and solid legal basis, contributing positively to the process of socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security, and international integration of the country.

In the work of international treaties, the President decided to negotiate and sign international treaties on behalf of the State with a high sense of responsibility, carefully and cautiously considering the signing of international treaties under his authority.

Regarding international credit treaties with international credit organizations (international treaties on ODA), strictly implement the policy of only borrowing for development investment, not using for regular expenditure; only borrowing capital for truly urgent, necessary projects with high socio-economic efficiency, aiming at the goal of reducing public debt and foreign debt of the country.

General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong attended and gave a speech at the Government Conference with localities.

Listen to voters and people

As deputies of the 14th National Assembly, the President and Vice President participated in National Assembly sessions, activities of the delegations in the election places, and met with voters before and after each National Assembly session.

The President attended meetings with voters and thematic meetings with voters in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City; promptly answered many profound and accurate opinions; listened to and grasped voters' thoughts and aspirations; and gave instructions to competent agencies to consider and resolve voters' opinions, reflections and recommendations to the Party, State, National Assembly, Government and relevant agencies.

The President always maintains close contact with the Government. During his term, the General Secretary and President attended and gave directions at the Government's in-person and online conferences with localities four times.

Under the authorization of the President, the Vice President regularly attends regular meetings of the Government; discusses and gives opinions to the Government in implementing tasks, strategies, and socio-economic development plans and issues of concern to the people and voters.

Directing the implementation of emulation and reward work well

The President and Vice President regularly pay attention to and direct patriotic emulation movements and the implementation of reward policies nationwide.

The President decided to award 370,896 Orders and Medals; 27,249 State honorary titles, including conferring and posthumously conferring 20,472 Vietnamese Heroic Mothers, 314 titles of Hero of the People's Armed Forces, and 84 titles of Hero of Labor in the renovation period.

The number of titles of Hero of the People's Armed Forces and Hero of Labor in the renovation period decreased significantly compared to the previous term (in the 2011-2016 term, the President conferred 1,086 titles of Hero of the People's Armed Forces and 101 titles of Hero of Labor in the renovation period).

The President sent letters of commendation to a number of outstanding collectives and individuals; sent birthday greeting cards to 45,763 people aged 100 and over nationwide; decided to allow 1,598 people to acquire or regain Vietnamese nationality; and 24,370 Vietnamese citizens to renounce Vietnamese nationality.

Promote judicial reform, administrative reform

As Head of the Central Steering Committee for Judicial Reform, the President focused on leading and directing the summary of the Party's leadership methods on judicial reform, and gave opinions on documents and projects related to judicial reform.

The President directed judicial agencies to step up judicial and administrative reforms; improve the quality of investigation, prosecution, trial and execution of judgments, especially in major economic and corruption cases; prevent wrongful convictions, avoid letting criminals escape, and thoroughly recover lost and corrupt state assets; improve the quality of trials, innovate mediation and dialogue in the process of resolving civil and administrative cases.

During his term, the President paid special attention to leading and directing the work of Party building and building a clean and strong political system, while being resolute, persistent and determined in the fight against corruption, waste and negativity.

The work of preventing and combating corruption, negativity and waste continues to be implemented resolutely, synchronously, comprehensively, systematically and effectively, increasingly going into depth, handling violations according to the motto: No forbidden areas, no exceptions, creating a great deterrent and warning. Corruption and negativity are gradually being controlled. Many complicated corruption and economic cases have been discovered, investigated, prosecuted, prosecuted and strictly tried, which have been welcomed and highly appreciated by the people, and have been agreed and supported by public opinion.

The amnesty and early release of prisoners are considered carefully, objectively, democratically, and in accordance with regulations. The results of the recent amnesty campaigns have been approved by the people of the country, welcomed by world public opinion, and highly appreciated for their humanity, lenient policies, openness and transparency in the policy as well as in the implementation process. The President decided to grant amnesty and early release to 4,384 prisoners, of whom 4,180 are serving their sentences in prisons and detention camps.

The consideration of petitions for clemency of death sentences is a matter related to human life and the strictness of the law, therefore, the consideration of petitions for clemency of death sentences is carried out with utmost caution. For complicated cases of public concern, in addition to considering and weighing the opinions of the Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court and the Chief Prosecutor of the Supreme People's Procuracy, the President also requests the Office of the President to send a working group to the locality where the case occurred or the place where the offender is registered as a permanent resident, to coordinate and grasp more public opinion and the opinions of local Party committees, authorities and organizations to report to the President for careful consideration before making a decision.

Focus on defense - security and foreign affairs tasks

In performing the duties and powers related to the field of national defense and security, the President signed a decision to promote the rank of general for 400 officers of the Vietnam People's Army; promote the rank of general for 174 officers of the People's Public Security; strip the title of People's Public Security for 4 general officers, demote the rank of 2 general officers; decide to send 45 Army officers to participate in the United Nations peacekeeping force in the South Sudan Mission and the Central African Republic; send 2 rounds of Level 2 Field Hospital (126 officers and professional soldiers) to perform tasks in the South Sudan Mission.

The President conferred the title of Ambassador on 55 officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, appointed 112 Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Vietnam to countries around the world; received credentials from 115 foreign Ambassadors on the occasion of their arrival to assume their duties in Vietnam, and received 61 foreign Ambassadors and Heads of International Organizations who came to pay courtesy calls and say farewell.

In addition to official State foreign affairs activities, the President and Vice President always pay attention to people-to-people foreign affairs activities; meet and interact with overseas Vietnamese during business trips abroad or through annual traditional New Year celebrations held in Vietnam.

The 2016-2021 term saw a change in the President's personnel. President Tran Dai Quang passed away, and Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh assumed the position of Acting President from September 23, 2018 to October 23, 2018. On October 23, 2018, at the 6th session, the 14th National Assembly elected General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong as President.