General Secretary: The Party, State and people always place deep trust in the young generation.

The General Secretary emphasized: The Party, State and people always place deep trust in the young generation.

This morning (November 12), the 11th National Congress of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union was solemnly held in the capital Hanoi.

Attending the Congress were General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, former General Secretary Nong Duc Manh, President Tran Dai Quang, former President Tran Duc Luong, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, former National Assembly Chairmen Nguyen Van An and Nguyen Sinh Hung; leaders and former leaders of the Party and State, heroic Vietnamese mothers, labor heroes, and 1,000 outstanding delegates representing more than 6.4 million union members and nearly 24 million Vietnamese youths at home and abroad.

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong attends the 11th National Congress of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union.

Speaking at the Congress, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong stated that throughout the nation's history, our youth, generation after generation, have always upheld the spirit of patriotism, not afraid of hardship, not afraid of sacrifice, and ready to strive and devote themselves to the cause of building and defending the country.

Since the Party and Uncle Ho led and trained, Vietnamese youth have increasingly promoted their heroic traditions, making many worthy contributions to the great victories of the Vietnamese revolution. The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union has continuously grown and matured, fulfilling its tasks of uniting, gathering, educating, and mobilizing young people to participate in the common work of the country. The achievements and growth of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union and the young generation of Vietnam are enormous and worthy of pride.

However, according to the General Secretary, in addition to achievements and progress, the work of the Youth Union and the youth movement in the past term also had limitations and shortcomings. A number of young people had lost faith, their revolutionary ideals faded, lived pragmatically, and strayed from the nation's fine cultural traditions; a few young people were lured and incited by evil and hostile forces, and did things that went against, even sabotaged, the revolutionary cause of our Party and people. The situation of crime and social evils among young people was complicated.

Meanwhile, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is still slow and confused in researching and proposing solutions to overcome and resolve problems, and has not promptly given opinions and participated in resolving pressing, negative, and negative issues affecting young people.

The education work of the Youth Union is broad but not deep, some activities are still superficial, scattered and formal. Some movements only attract active members and progressive youth to participate, the results are not sustainable.

Leaders and former leaders of the Party and State attended the 11th National Congress of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union.

The General Secretary pointed out that in the coming years, the world and regional situation will have many complex and unpredictable developments. This context will create both favorable opportunities and difficulties and challenges for youth and union work.

The General Secretary emphasized: The Party, the State and the people always place deep trust in the young generation. With their youthful, enthusiastic, dynamic and creative characteristics, Vietnamese youth have been proving their role as the backbone of the country, the future owners of the country, the vanguard force in building and defending the Fatherland, one of the decisive factors for the success of the country's industrialization and modernization, international integration and building socialism.

However, due to inexperience and lack of life experience, young people are also often approached, lured, incited by evil and hostile forces to carry out the plot of "peaceful evolution" to sabotage the revolutionary cause of our country.

The General Secretary emphasized that one of the directions and tasks of the Youth Union's work in the coming time is to strengthen the education of revolutionary ideals, ethics, and cultural lifestyle for the young generation. This is both an urgent and regular task, and a fundamental, strategic, long-term task, requiring adequate attention and investment.

According to the General Secretary, investing in education, including education on revolutionary ideals, ethics, and cultural lifestyle for the young generation is investing in development, investing in the future of the country. This is the task of the entire Party, all levels, sectors, organizations, families and the whole society, in which the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union plays a very important role.

The Union needs to gather and educate young people, arouse and promote in each young person patriotism, revolutionary ideals, steadfast faith in the regime, and worthily continue the tradition of their ancestors.

The immortal saying of hero Ly Tu Trong: "The path of youth is only the revolutionary path, there can be no other path" has become the manifesto and the reason for living of Vietnamese youth in the Ho Chi Minh era. Today, the revolutionary ideal of youth is national independence associated with socialism, striving to build a Vietnam with rich people, strong country, democracy, equality, civilization, loyally and excellently continuing the glorious revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation.

Vietnamese youth must know how to love and respect people, live with ideals, culture, loyalty, honesty, responsibility, sharing, and humanity; have the courage to protect what is right and progressive, fight against what is bad, evil, backward, and hinders development; be diligent and creative in work and career; and be brave in fighting to protect the Fatherland.

Overview of the congress.

According to the General Secretary, to fulfill the above tasks well, the Youth Union must constantly innovate and improve the effectiveness of educational work.

“Appreciate education through action, through practical movements, choose educational methods suitable for young people. Promote and enhance the role of self-training, self-cultivation, and self-improvement of young people under the best guidance and support of youth organizations, associations, and teams. In particular, the Youth Union needs to orient and educate young people to have a keen political awareness, actively fight to prevent and refute false information and arguments, increase youth resistance to sabotage and distortion by hostile forces, especially on social networks; avoid the situation of "indifferent Party", "dry Youth", "disconnected from politics" - the General Secretary emphasized.

The General Secretary requested that it is necessary to continue to take care of consolidating and building a truly strong youth organization in terms of political ideology, organization and action. As young people, youth union cadres must have a spirit of eagerness to learn, progress, constantly cultivate themselves in political qualities, ethics, lifestyle and working capacity; truly be close friends of youth, not arrogant, complacent, distant from youth, distant from reality, not let themselves degrade in political ideology, ethics, lifestyle. On the other hand, youth union cadres must be pioneers, have a spirit of innovation, dare to think, dare to do, be dynamic and creative.

In addition, the General Secretary also requested the Youth Union to continue to innovate and improve the effectiveness of its movements and action programs, promote the pioneering, voluntary and creative role of young people, and affirm the role of the Youth Union in accompanying and protecting the legitimate and legal rights and interests of young people.

“With the spirit of "wherever needed, there are youth, wherever difficult, there are youth", the Youth Union's movement needs to focus on important fronts such as: Study, scientific research; labor, production and business; national defense; building new rural areas, civilized urban areas, environmental protection, responding to climate change, ensuring traffic safety and social security.

In implementing the movement, it is necessary to overcome formalism and dispersion; know how to choose specific tasks that are suitable to the requirements of the country's socio-economic development tasks; ensure practicality, effectiveness, spread, and closeness to reality.

Pay attention to and support the legitimate, justifiable, and practical needs and aspirations of young people. In particular, pay attention to developing young human resources, especially high-quality human resources; orient young people to study and self-study for life, strive and practice in all aspects, and strive to master advanced science and technology and modern management methods.

Delegates attended the opening ceremony.

The General Secretary affirmed that the 11th National Congress of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union is an important milestone in the activities and development of the youth movement and the Youth Union.

The General Secretary expressed his belief that with full enthusiasm, determination and strong will to rise up, and living in a peaceful, innovative and developing environment of the country, Vietnamese youth will certainly uphold the pioneering spirit, mettle, solidarity and creativity, contributing with the entire Party, army and people to maintain and promote the achievements of the revolution, build and protect the increasingly rich and powerful Vietnamese Fatherland./.

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