“The entire Party, army and people and the entire political system highly value the role of the youth in the Doi Moi (Renewal) and integration process,” said Mr Dung during a working session with the Union’s Secretariat in Hanoi on March 22.
“It is imperative to launch more practical movements to receive widespread social support and make further contributions to the nation,” said Mr Dung. “These movements should focus on encouraging young people to hold aloft revolutionary ideals and build a healthy lifestyle.”
He praised the union’s efforts to deal with personnel shortage – one of the major challenges facing the nation at present, considering it a primary goal of the union in the coming time. He asked the union to cooperate with the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs and the Ministry of Education and Training in developing vocational training programmes for young people in industrial parks and rural areas, as well as special training courses for talented students at universities and colleges, and in launching practical movements against social vices among young people.
To prepare for the 9th National Youth Union Congress in 2007, he asked the Union’s Secretariat to review youth activities in the past five years and work out measures to overcome shortcomings and replicate model examples.
Vo Van Thuong, first secretary of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, briefed Mr Dung on the results of youth movements last year and submitted major proposals to the Government. In 2006, he said young volunteer movements were carried out in more than 7,000 communes and wards across the country, attracting over three million young people. More than 100,000 outstanding young people were admitted to the Communist Party of Vietnam, making up 63 percent of the total number of new Party members recorded last year. Projects and programmes on information technology, the building of youth villages along the Ho Chi Minh Highway and on Bach Long Vi and Con Co islands brought about practical results.
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