General Secretary Nguyen Van Linh

SUMMARY OF WORK EXPERIENCE

- 1929: Joined the student union led by the Vietnam Revolutionary Youth Association

- May 1, 1930: Arrested by the French, sentenced to life imprisonment and exiled to Con Dao. Released in 1936

- 1936: Admitted to the Indochinese Communist Party, active in Hai Phong and Hanoi

- 1939: Joined the Executive Committee of the Saigon City Party Committee, then was sent by the Party to Central Vietnam to re-establish the Central Vietnam Regional Party Committee.

- 1941: Arrested in Vinh, sentenced to 5 years in prison and exiled to Con Dao for the second time

- 1945: Working in the West, Saigon-Cho Lon as Secretary of the City Party Committee, Secretary of the Saigon-Gia Dinh Special Zone Party Committee

- 1947: Member of the Southern Regional Party Committee, by 1949 he was a Standing Member of the Southern Regional Party Committee

- 1957-1960: Acting Secretary of the Southern Regional Party Committee

- 1960: At the 3rd Party Congress, he was elected to the Central Executive Committee, as Secretary of the Central Bureau, Deputy Secretary of the Central Bureau for the South.

- 1976: Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee

- December 1976: At the 4th Party Congress, he was elected to the Central Executive Committee, member of the Politburo, Central Secretariat, held the position of Head of the Central Committee for Socialist Reform, Head of the Central Front's Mass Mobilization Committee, Chairman of the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor (now the Vietnam General Confederation of Labor) (May 1978 - August 1980).

- December 1981: Secretary of Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee

- March 1982: At the 5th Party Congress, he was elected to the Central Executive Committee.

- June 1985: Elected by the Central Executive Committee to the Politburo, serving as Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee

- June 1986: Elected to the Central Party Secretariat and assigned as Standing Secretary of the Secretariat

- December 1986: At the 6th Party Congress, he was elected to the Central Executive Committee, Politburo, and held the position of General Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Party; concurrently held the position of Secretary of the Central Military Party Committee (1987).

- June 1987: Member of the 8th National Assembly

- June 1991: At the 7th Party Congress, he was honored as Advisor to the Central Executive Committee.

- June 1996: At the 8th Party Congress, he was honored as Advisor to the Central Executive Committee.

- December 1997: Retired as Advisor to the Central Executive Committee

- April 27, 1998: Comrade passed away.