Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong re-elected General Secretary of the 12th Party Central Committee

(Baonghean.vn)- The first conference of the 12th Party Central Committee elected comrade Nguyen Phu Trong as General Secretary of the 12th Party Central Committee.

On January 27, 2016, at the Party Central Committee Headquarters, the 12th Party Central Committee held its first meeting to elect the Politburo, General Secretary, Secretariat, Central Inspection Committee, and Chairman of the Central Inspection Committee.

Delegates of the 1st Conference of the 12th Party Central Committee congratulated comrade Nguyen Phu Trong. Photo: VNA

The conference elected comrade Nguyen Phu Trong as General Secretary of the 12th Party Central Committee.

Nghe An Newspaper would like to introduce a brief biography of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

Date of birth: April 14, 1944
Hometown: Dong Hoi Commune, Dong Anh District, Hanoi City.
Religion: No
Position:
- Member of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, terms VII, VIII, IX, X, XI
- Member of the Politburo of the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th terms; member of the Politburo Standing Committee (August 1999 - April 2001)
- Secretary of the National Assembly Party Delegation, Member of the National Defense and Security Council
- National Assembly Delegate of terms XI, XII, XIII.
- General Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Party, 11th term
Date of joining the party: December 19, 1967
Official date: December 19, 1968
Political theory: Advanced
Education: Professor, PhD in Political Science (majoring in Party building); Literature.
Summary of work process:
1957 - 1963: Student of Nguyen Gia Thieu Secondary and High School, Gia Lam, Hanoi.
1963 - 1967: Student of Literature Department, Hanoi University of Science
December 1967 - July 1968: Staff of the Documentation Department of the Study Magazine (now the Communist Magazine)
- 7/1968 - 8/1977: Editor of the Party Building Department, Communist Magazine. Internship in Thanh Oai district, Ha Tay province (1971), Secretary of the Youth Union of the Communist Magazine (1969-1973).
- August 1973 - April 1976: Postgraduate student at the Faculty of Economics and Politics, Nguyen Ai Quoc High-level Party School (now Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Public Administration), Party Cell member.
- May 1976 - August 1980: Editor of Party Building Committee, Communist Magazine, Deputy Secretary of Party Cell.
- September 1980 - August 1981: Studied Russian at Nguyen Ai Quoc High-Level Party School.
- September 1981 - July 1983: Intern and thesis defense of Associate Professor (now Doctor) at the Department of Party Building, Academy of Social Sciences of the Soviet Union.
- August 1983 - February 1989: Deputy Head of Party Building Department (October 1983), Head of Party Building Department of Communist Magazine (September 1987); Deputy Secretary of Party Committee (July 1985 - December 1988), Secretary of Party Committee of Communist Magazine (December 1988 - December 1991).
- March 1989 - April 1990: Member of the Editorial Board of Communist Magazine.
- May 1990 - July 1991: Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Communist Magazine.
- August 1991 - August 1996: Editor-in-Chief of Communist Magazine.
- January 1994 to present: Member of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, terms VII, VIII, IX, X, XI.
- August 1996 - February 1998: Deputy Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, concurrently Head of the University Personnel Committee and directly in charge of the Hanoi Party Committee's Propaganda Department.
- December 1997 to present: Member of the Politburo of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, terms VIII, IX, X, XI.
- February 1998 - January 2000: In charge of the Party's ideological, cultural and scientific work.
- August 1999 - April 2001: Standing member of the Politburo.
- March 1998 - August 2006: Vice Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council, in charge of the Party's theoretical work (November 2001 - August 2006).
- January 2000 - June 2006: Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, terms XII, XIII, XIV.
- February 2002 to present: National Assembly Delegate, terms XI, XII, XIII.
- June 2006 to present: Secretary of the National Assembly Party Delegation, Member of the National Defense and Security Council.
- June 2006 – July 2011: Chairman of the National Assembly.
- January 19, 2011: At the 11th National Congress of the Party, he was elected by the Party Central Committee as General Secretary of the 11th Party Central Committee.

Nguyen Son - Huu Nghia