General Secretary Le Kha Phieu
General Secretary of the Party from December 1997 to April 2001

SUMMARY OF WORK COURSES
- 1947-1949: Dạy bình dân học vụ ở xã. Tháng 6/1949, đồng chí được kết nạp vào Đảng Cộng sản Việt Nam, phụ trách công tác tuyên truyền, làm Chánh Văn phòng Chi bộ xã
- 5/1950 - 8/1954: Nhập ngũ, làm chiến sĩ, rồi đảm nhiệm các chức vụ Tiểu đội trưởng, Trung đội trưởng, Chính trị viên Phó Đại đội, Chính trị viên Đại đội, Trung đoàn 66, Đại đoàn 304
- 9/1954 - 3/1955: Học bổ túc quân chính trung cấp khoá I
- 3/1955 - 3/1958: Lần lượt đảm nhiệm các chức vụ Trưởng Tiểu ban Tổ chức Trung đoàn, Chính trị viên Tiểu đoàn; Phó Chủ nhiệm rồi Chủ nhiệm chính trị Trung đoàn 66, Sư đoàn 304
- 4/1958: Học viên Trường Chính trị trung cao
- 6/1961 - 1966: Lần lượt giữ các chức vụ Phó Ban Cán bộ rồi Trưởng Ban Tổ chức, Phòng Chính trị Sư đoàn 304; sau đó làm Phó Chính ủy rồi Chính ủy Trung đoàn 9, Sư đoàn 304, Quân khu Hữu Ngạn, Đảng ủy viên Sư đoàn
- 7/1967: Vào chiến trường Trị Thiên chiến đấu, làm Chính ủy Trung đoàn 9
- 1/1968: Kiêm Trung đoàn trưởng Trung đoàn 9
- 1970: Trưởng Phòng Tổ chức Quân khu Trị Thiên
- 10/1971 - 2/1974: Phó Chủ nhiệm chính trị Quân khu Trị Thiên
- March 1974: Political Commissar of Tri Thien Military Region (later Army Corps 2), Party Committee member of the Army Corps
- February 1978: Political Commissar, then Deputy Political Commissar and Political Commissar of Military Region 9
- August 1980: Deputy Commander of Politics and Chief of Politics of Military Region 9, elected to the Standing Committee and then Deputy Secretary of the Military Region Party Committee
- March 1983: Political Commissar of Military Region 9
- April 1984: Political Commissar of Command 719, he was promoted to the rank of Major General
- 1986: Deputy Commander in charge of politics and Chief of Politics of Command 719, member and then Deputy Secretary of the Personnel Committee of Command 719
- June 1988: Promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General
- August 1988: Deputy Chief of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army (in charge of organization, personnel, and security)
- June 1991: At the 7th Congress, he was elected to the Party Central Committee, assigned as Director of the General Political Department of the Vietnam People's Army, and member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Party Committee (now the Central Military Commission).
- June 1992: At the 3rd Central Executive Committee Conference, term VII, he was elected to the Secretariat, then assigned to the Standing Secretariat. He was promoted to the rank of Senior Lieutenant General (June 1992).
- January 1994: At the mid-term national conference of the 7th Central Executive Committee, he was elected to the Politburo.
- June 1996: At the 8th Party Congress, he continued to be elected as a member of the Party Central Committee and was elected by the Central Committee to the Politburo, was appointed to the Politburo Standing Committee, and was assigned to be a Standing Member of the Politburo and Head of the Central Internal Political Protection Committee.
- December 26, 1997: At the 4th Central Conference of the 8th Party Central Committee, he was elected General Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Central Military Party Committee (now the Central Military Commission).
- December 1997 - April 2001: General Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Party, 8th term
- 10/2006: Retired from work according to the regime
- August 7, 2020: Comrade passed away.