Working process of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong
At the first session of the 13th Party Central Committee, comrade Nguyen Phu Trong was elected General Secretary.

* Date of birth: April 14, 1944
* Date of joining the Party: December 19, 1967
* Hometown: Dong Hoi commune, Dong Anh district, Hanoi city
* Ethnicity: Kinh
Position:
- General Secretary: Term XI, XII, XIII
- Member of the Politburo: Term VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII
- Standing member of the Politburo (August 1999 - April 2001)
- Member of the Party Central Committee: 7th term (from January 1994), 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th
- President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (from October 2018)
- Chairman of the National Assembly: Term XI, XII
- Secretary of the Central Military Commission
- Head of the Central Steering Committee on anti-corruption
- National Assembly Delegate: Term XI, XII, XIII, XIV
Political theory level: Advanced
Professional qualifications: Professor, Doctor of Political Science (major in Party Building), Bachelor of Literature
SUMMARY OF WORK COURSES
- 1957-1963: Studied at Nguyen Gia Thieu Secondary and High School, Gia Lam, Hanoi
- 1963-1967: Student of Literature Department, Hanoi University of Science
- December 1967 - July 1968: Working at the Documentation Department of Study Magazine (now Communist Magazine)
- 7/1968 - 8/1973: Worked at the Party Building Department of Communist Magazine. Internship in Thanh Oai district, Ha Tay province (1971). Secretary of the Communist Magazine's Youth Union (1969-1973)
- August 1973 - April 1976: Postgraduate student in the Faculty of Economics and Politics at the Nguyen Ai Quoc High-Level Party School (now the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics), 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 (now Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics)
- September 1981 - July 1983: Intern and defended the Associate Doctoral Thesis (now PhD) of the Department of Party Building, Academy of Social Sciences of the Soviet Union
- August 1983 - February 1989: Deputy Head of Party Building Committee (October 1983), Head of Party Building Committee, Communist Magazine (September 1987); Deputy Secretary of Party Committee (July 1985 - December 1988) then Secretary of Party Committee of Communist Magazine Agency (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: At the mid-term National Conference of the 7th Party Congress, he was elected to the Party Central Committee.
- June 1996: At the 8th National Congress of the Party, he was re-elected to the Party Central Committee.
- 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: At the 4th Conference of the 8th Party Central Committee, he was elected to the 8th Politburo.
- February 1998 - January 2000: In charge of the Party's ideological, cultural and scientific work
- August 1999 - April 2001: Member of the Politburo Standing Committee
- March 1998 - August 2006: Vice Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council (March 1998 - November 2001); Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council, in charge of the Party's theoretical work (November 2001 - August 2006)
- January 2000: Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, 12th term
- December 2000: At the 13th Hanoi Party Congress, he was elected as Secretary of the 13th City Party Committee.
- April 2001: At the 9th National Congress of the Party, he was re-elected to the Party Central Committee and was re-elected to the Politburo by the Central Committee.
- May 2002 - present: Elected as National Assembly Delegate of terms XI, XII, XIII, XIV
- December 2005: At the 14th Hanoi Party Congress, he was re-elected as Secretary of the 14th City Party Committee (until June 2006)
- April 2006: At the 10th National Congress of the Party, he was re-elected to the Party Central Committee and was re-elected to the Politburo by the Central Committee.
- June 2006 - July 2011: Chairman of the 11th and 12th National Assembly, Secretary of the National Assembly Party Delegation, Member of the National Defense and Security Council
- January 2011: At the 11th National Congress of the Party, he was re-elected as a member of the Party Central Committee, member of the Politburo and elected as General Secretary of the Party Central Committee; Secretary of the Central Military Commission.
- February 2013 - present: Head of the Central Steering Committee on anti-corruption
- January 2016: At the 12th National Congress of the Party, he was re-elected as a member of the Party Central Committee, member of the Politburo and continued to be elected as General Secretary of the Party Central Committee; Secretary of the Central Military Commission.
- August 2016: Participated in the Standing Committee of the Central Public Security Party Committee for the 2015-2020 term
- October 23, 2018 - present: At the 6th session of the 14th National Assembly, he was elected to hold the position of President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for the 2016-2021 term.
- January 30, 2021: At the 13th National Congress of the Party, he continued to be elected as a member of the 13th Party Central Committee, term 2021-2026.
- January 31, 2021: At the first meeting of the 13th Party Central Committee, he was elected General Secretary of the 13th Party Congress, term 2021-2026./.


