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 congratulate 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, and 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 11th Party Congress
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
12/1967 - 7/1968: 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 Communist Magazine Youth Union (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.
- 5/1976 - 8/1980: Editor of Party Building Department, Communist Magazine, Deputy Secretary of Party Cell.
- 9/1980 - 8/1981: Studied Russian at Nguyen Ai Quoc High-Level Party School.
- 9/1981 - 7/1983: Intern and defended the thesis of Associate Professor (now Doctor) at the Department of Party Building, Academy of Social Sciences of the Soviet Union.
- 8/1983 - 2/1989: Deputy Head of Party Building Department (10/1983), Head of Party Building Department of Communist Magazine (9/1987); Deputy Secretary of Party Committee (7/1985 - 12/1988), Secretary of Party Committee of Communist Magazine (12/1988 - 12/1991).
- March 1989 - April 1990: Member of the Editorial Board of Communist Magazine.
- 5/1990 - 7/1991: 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.
- 2/1998 - 1/2000: 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).
- 1/2000 - 6/2006: Secretary of 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.
- 6/2006 – 7/2011: 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.

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