Promoting the role of youth in the era of national growth

The 9th Congress of the Vietnam Youth Union, term 2024 - 2029There are 980 official delegates who are cadres, members, and outstanding youth in various fields at home and abroad.

The Congress's slogan is "Vietnamese youth are patriotic - aspirational - united - pioneering - creative - confidently entering the new era".

The Congress is a major political event for the youth, a festival of broad solidarity among patriotic Vietnamese youth, marking a new step of development for the Association and the youth movement.

In recent times, the movement "I love my Fatherland" has been widely deployed, has attracted and spread strongly, and is truly a flag of encouragement, urging and calling upon a large number of youths, creating an environment for youth to practice, experience, and promote the spirit of vanguard, volunteerism and creativity of youth.

Many new models and good practices have been implemented, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The work of uniting ethnic minority youth, religious youth, workers in industrial parks, export processing zones, and youth in boarding houses has made great efforts and achieved certain results.

Many new, typical and advanced factors among the youth have been discovered and honored, contributing to creating a beautiful image of Vietnamese youth in the new era.

All of the above achievements are thanks to the deep concern, support and facilitation in all aspects of the Party, State and people for the youth. Along with that are the efforts, endeavors, sense of responsibility and constant creativity of the Association at all levels, cadres, members and youth nationwide.

The new point of this Congress is to add the content "Vietnamese Youth preserve and promote national cultural identity" to the movement "I love my Fatherland".

According to comrade Nguyen Tuong Lam, in the context of the country's new opportunities and fortunes, Vietnamese youth, with the role of "being the one who provides revolutionary support to the previous revolutionary generation, and at the same time being the one in charge of guiding teenagers and children - the future generation of youth", is a force "with great honor but also great responsibility", must continue to be the pioneering force, leading the charge in the era of breakthrough and accelerated development under the wise leadership of the Party.

Speaking at the solemn session of the 9th National Congress of the Vietnam Youth Union, General Secretary To Lam highly appreciated the results of the Union's work and the youth movement during the past term.

The General Secretary also frankly pointed out 5 issues for the delegates to discuss. Firstly, there is no specific resolution on youth work to plan youth work to meet the requirements of tasks in the renovation period.

Second, the crime and social evils among teenagers and young people are very worrying. There is a group of young people who lack ideals and ambitions, are pragmatic, selfish, far from the good cultural traditions of the nation, do not strictly obey the law, fall into individualism, have limited integration ability, are weak both physically and mentally, and waste their youth.

Third, the rate of youth solidarity of the Association has not reached the desired level. The General Secretary raised the issue: Currently, according to statistics, only 9.3 million young people participate in the Association. Meanwhile, the country has 105 million people. Only 2/3 of the youth force is involved, and 1/3 of the youth force is still outside the Association.

Fourth, ideological education for youth is still outdated and has not kept up with new trends.

Fifth, the structure and organizational model of the Youth Union and the Vietnam Youth Union still have many issues that need to be improved.

The General Secretary emphasized the requirements for youth in the era of national development. Many breakthrough tasks in building the country in the new era (innovation, digital transformation, strategic technology, etc.) with the strength of youth.

The General Secretary affirmed that the Party and State deeply believe in and expect to promote the role and responsibility of the Vietnam Youth Union in the new term; with the aspiration to contribute and the great ambition to proactively build and protect the Fatherland, firmly believing that "The path of youth can only be the revolutionary path and no other path", Vietnamese youth will constantly strive to be self-reliant, confident, self-reliant, self-reliant, proud of the nation, and make strong efforts for a Vietnam with rich people, strong country, democratic, fair, civilized society, soon standing shoulder to shoulder with the world powers as President Ho Chi Minh wished and the aspiration of the entire nation.