The number of official Central Committee members this time is expected to increase by 5 people compared to the 11th Congress, representing more than 4.5 million Party members nationwide.

The basic contents of the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, which will open in the next two days, were just announced by the Congress Organizing Committee at a press conference on the morning of January 18.

In addition to electing 180 official Central Committee members, the congress is expected to elect 20 alternate members.

Mr. Dinh The Huynh - Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Department said that the main theme of the 12th Congress is "Strengthening the building of a clean and strong Party; promoting the strength of the entire nation and socialist democracy; comprehensively and synchronously promoting the innovation process; firmly protecting the Fatherland, maintaining a peaceful and stable environment; striving to soon turn Vietnam into a basically modern industrialized country".

Mr. Dinh The Huynh said one of the important tasks of this congress is to look back on the 30-year journey of innovation and determine the direction for the next five years. Photo: Reuters.

Considered as a Congress that continues the spirit of innovation over the past 30 years, the event taking place from January 20 to 28 will review the achievements and shortcomings of the period from 1986 to present, review the implementation of the Resolution of the 11th Party Congress (term 2011-2015); decide on the direction, goals and tasks for the 5-year period 2016-2020. This Congress will also elect the new Central Executive Committee. This body will elect the Politburo, the Secretariat, the Central Party Inspection Committee and the General Secretary.

According to the Organizing Committee, the 12th Party Congress will have 1,510 delegates, representing more than 4.5 million party members. Of these, 197 are ex-officio delegates (over 13%); 1,300 delegates elected at the congress of the Central Party Committee (over 86%); 13 are appointed delegates (0.86%); and 99.9% of delegates with university degrees or higher. In addition to the official delegates, the Party Central Committee also invited former leaders of the Party and State, intellectuals, diplomatic corps, international organizations and other groups to attend the Congress.

With the above objectives and participants, this Congress is expected to discuss and approve many important documents, such as the Political Report of the 11th Central Executive Committee; Report on socio-economic results 2011-2015, orientations for the 2016-2020 period; Report reviewing the leadership and direction of the 11th Central Executive Committee...

Regarding these documents, the organizing committee said that the draft has recorded 26 million comments from all walks of life, through agencies and the press. "These contributions have all been accepted by the Party. Opposing opinions have also been seriously considered," said a representative of the drafting committee.

Mr. Nguyen The Ky - Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department said that there were over 750 domestic and foreign journalists registered to report on the Congress. Among them, there were over 100 reporters from foreign press agencies with great influence... participating in reporting on the event.

Previously, on the afternoon of January 13, the 14th meeting of the 11th Party Central Committee closed and approved the draft report on personnel work of the 12th Party Central Committee to be submitted to the Congress; unanimously voted by secret ballot to nominate personnel for the positions of General Secretary, President, Prime Minister, and National Assembly Chairman for the 2016-2021 term for the 12th Party Central Committee to consider and introduce to the 14th National Assembly for decision in accordance with the law.

According to VNE