General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong places his trust in the Party's most prestigious school.

This was emphasized by General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong when speaking at the ceremony celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics on the morning of September 14.

Also attending the ceremony were former General Secretary Nong Duc Manh; former President Tran Duc Luong; Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc; former National Assembly Chairmen Nguyen Van An and Nguyen Sinh Hung; many leaders and former leaders of the Party, State, National Assembly, Government, Politburo members, Party Central Committee Secretaries; representatives of central ministries, departments, branches and many localities.

Attending and sharing the joy with the cadres, lecturers, civil servants, public employees, students and workers of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics were also international delegates: Member of the Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, Director of the Academy of Politics and Public Administration of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Associate Professor, Dr. Thongsalit Mangnomek; ambassadors, chief representatives, chargé d'affaires, and counselors of countries that have cooperative relations with the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics.

Training cradle for key Party leaders and managers

Speaking at the ceremony, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics Nguyen Xuan Thang said: The Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics is an agency under the Party Central Committee; under the direct, comprehensive and regular leadership and direction of the Politburo and the Secretariat. To date, the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics includes the Academy Center and 5 affiliated academies (4 regional academies in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang and Can Tho and the Academy of Journalism and Communication).

The Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics has trained generations of key leaders and managers of the Party and the political system with theoretical qualifications, practical organizational capacity, and the necessary qualities and qualities to promptly and effectively meet the strategic goals and tasks of the revolutionary cause in all periods. Up to now, hundreds of thousands of mid-level and senior cadres have studied and trained at the Academy, becoming a valuable source of leaders and mass organizations to write glorious pages of history of the Vietnamese revolution.

The Academy has also made great contributions to the research, propaganda and education of Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought, affirming its position as a national center for political theory research and policy advice for the Party and the State. The Academy's team of scientists is the main force in teaching and propagating Marxism-Leninism; taking the lead in researching to clarify the content, affirming the value and significance of Ho Chi Minh Thought; providing convincing arguments in the process of building and perfecting the Party's ideological and theoretical foundation.

With its continuous and great contributions in training, fostering cadres and theoretical research, the Academy has been awarded the Gold Star Order, the Ho Chi Minh Order (twice), the title of Labor Hero and many other noble titles by the Party and the State. This is the recognition and praise of the Party, the State and the people for the great achievements and worthy contributions of the Academy to the revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation; it is the pride of generations of cadres who have studied and worked at the Party School named after Uncle Ho.

Strong innovation, building long-term development strategy

On behalf of the Party and State leaders, General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong warmly congratulated and commended the great contributions and dedication of generations of cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics through the periods.

Through 70 years of striving to build, grow, and comply with the leadership and direction of the Party, directly the Politburo and the Secretariat, the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics has affirmed its position and role as a national center for training and fostering leaders, managers, and political theory scientists of the Party and State; a national center for scientific research on Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's thought, political science, leadership and management science; a driving force and model for the system of political schools in the whole country, making an important contribution to ideological work, theory, political education, Party history, Party building and revolutionary ethics in the Party and society.

The Academy has affirmed its role as the cradle of training cadres for the great revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation; always steadfast in political mettle, steadfast in Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh thought, steadfast in the goal of national independence and socialism, steadfast in the Party's renewal policy.

The Academy continuously promotes the spirit of creativity and innovation in teaching and scientific research, the spirit of overcoming all difficulties, hardships and challenges for development. The Academy has been striving to uphold the exemplary image of teachers and students of the High-level Party School, wholeheartedly serving the Fatherland and the people.

In addition to the achievements, General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong noted that the Academy needs to frankly acknowledge its limitations and shortcomings and promptly find solutions to overcome them.

Although there have been many efforts to innovate the content of the program and teaching methods, it is still only the first step and is still slow compared to practical requirements. In the content and methods of training and fostering, there is not yet a smooth combination between learning to improve knowledge, leadership and management skills and training in revolutionary ethics.

Scientific research activities have not had many major works to contribute to the Party's theoretical research and practical summary. The effectiveness of international cooperation in teaching and scientific research is still limited.

The team of prestigious teachers, scientists, and leading experts is still small and not up to the task of the Central Party School. There are still gaps in generations of cadres.

The technical facilities are still lacking and not yet synchronized, especially in regional academies, not meeting modern training requirements, and the information technology infrastructure is not yet connected to the system of political schools nationwide.

The General Secretary and President emphasized: To meet the country's new development requirements, especially the requirement of building a team of cadres with sufficient qualities, capacity and prestige, equal to the tasks, the Academy needs to base on its functions and tasks, build a long-term development strategy, promote the achievements, overcome limitations and difficulties, determine the mission, vision, viewpoints, goals, core values ​​and development orientations of the Academy in the coming decades.

The General Secretary and President stated: The Academy is a Party school with the top priority mission of training and fostering leaders and managers for the Party and the entire political system who are truly diligent, thrifty, honest, impartial, equal to their tasks, absolutely loyal to the Party's ideals, to the revolutionary cause, wholeheartedly serving the Fatherland and the people.

At the same time, the Academy needs to focus on studying and mastering Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought, protecting, consolidating and developing the Party's ideological foundation, clarifying issues on socialism and the path to socialism in Vietnam; fighting, criticizing and rejecting wrong viewpoints and distorted arguments of hostile forces; contributing to protecting the Party, State, people and socialist regime.

On this occasion, the General Secretary and President assigned tasks to the school's staff, lecturers and students. First of all, the Academy needs to be determined to further innovate the work of training and fostering staff; resolutely overcome the situation of being afraid to study, lazy to study political theory, studying to cope, studying mainly to get degrees in the Party and society.

The Academy needs to clearly identify training subjects, avoid chasing quantity; diversify training programs, suitable for different groups of students; continue to focus on improving the quality of training programs, updating knowledge for leadership and management positions in a practical direction, both equipping vision, strategic thinking, working methods, and linking with handling situations arising in practice of localities, agencies, units and the country.

Over the years, the Academy has effectively coordinated with relevant agencies to organize training courses to update knowledge for Party Central Committee members; training courses for strategic-level reserve cadres, as well as knowledge update courses for leaders and managers of localities, agencies and units. These are extremely important tasks that need to be continued to be done well in the coming time.

Fulfill the role of the leading national center for training and fostering cadres for Party building work.

The General Secretary and President stated: "In the work of training and fostering cadres, comrades need to pay special attention to education, improving political mettle, ideological stance, revolutionary ethics and training standard working style for the team of students... to fulfill well the role as the leading national center for training and fostering cadres working in Party building, political theory lecturers for political schools, cadre schools and universities nationwide."

The General Secretary and President noted: The Academy needs to invest more effort and resources in scientific research, proactively transfer research results to serve teaching, propaganda, political education and policy consulting... The team of scientists of the Academy needs to focus on summarizing practices and generalizing, raising the theoretical level, contributing to the training and fostering of cadres, consolidating and firmly protecting the Party's ideological foundation, fighting against hostile viewpoints and wrong arguments.

Currently, the Central Committee is developing draft documents to be submitted to the 13th National Party Congress with the hope of absorbing the opinions and wisdom of the entire Party and people, especially scientists. The General Secretary and President hopes that with a large, talented, dedicated and responsible team of teachers and scientists, the Academy will actively and effectively contribute to the preparation of the content of these extremely important documents.

The General Secretary and President emphasized: "It is necessary to pay attention to building and comprehensively developing the Academy. First of all, it is still the work of cadres. It is necessary to focus on building a team of talented lecturers, scientists, and managers with strong political stance, pure moral qualities, basic and in-depth training in theory, pedagogical methods and practical understanding...

In particular, the Academy must be exemplary in taking care of Party building work, making the Academy Party Committee truly an exemplary, united, clean, strong one, with high leadership capacity and fighting spirit. The Academy must take the lead in fighting against degradation in political ideology, ethics, lifestyle, and manifestations of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation" within the Party..."

The Academy must strive to become a modern, distinctive and integrated school, focusing on expanding and improving the quality and effectiveness of international cooperation to selectively absorb the world's achievements and experiences in training and fostering high-level human resources and in scientific research, especially political science, leadership science and advanced management.

The General Secretary and President urged the students, who are honored to study at the Party's highest school, to be more deeply aware of their responsibilities and duties, to constantly strive to improve their qualifications and working capacity, to train their political mettle, and to cultivate revolutionary ideals.

Each student needs to study seriously, with passion and high responsibility; implement well the motto of linking theory with practice, learning while doing; enhance the process of self-study and self-research; actively practice thinking, methodology and approach to solve practical problems.

Each comrade needs to have a sense of discipline, comply with school rules, practice exemplary conduct and lifestyle, be modest, simple, and close to the people to be worthy of being a student of the Party School named after the great President Ho Chi Minh.

Representing students of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics through the periods, Standing Deputy Secretary of Binh Phuoc Provincial Party Committee Tran Tue Hien, student of the New Knowledge Training Class for Strategic Planning Cadres, Course XIII, first class in 2019, expressed his wish to continue to receive the attention and trust of leaders at all levels and teachers; hoping that teachers will always be a solid support, helping students to become more and more mature in all aspects, with courage and confidence to overcome all difficulties and challenges to strive to excellently complete assigned tasks, ready to succeed the career of many previous generations of fathers and brothers.