VOV.VN - The 13th national congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam opened in Hanoi on January to chart a new development course for Vietnam in the coming five years and beyond.
As many as 1,587 delegates representing more than 5.1 million Party members nationwide take part in the opening ceremony (Photo: VNA).
They salute as the national anthem is played at the National Convention Centre in the capital city (Photo: VNA).
The Presidium presiding over the congress is comprised of 17 members, including 16 members of the Political Bureau plus Tran Thanh Man, President of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee (Photo: VNA).
Among participants are former Party and State leaders as well as revolutionary veterans(Photo: VNA).
Tran Quoc Vuong, permanent member of the Party’s Secretariat, delivers a speech, announcing the reasons and introducing delegates and guests of the Congress. (Photo: VNA)
In his opening speech, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc says officials and people pin their hopes on decisions to be endorsed by the congress to help Vietnam weather the storm and foster rapid and sustainable development.
Heroic Vietnamese mothers have been invited to attend the congress. (Photo: VNA)
Presenting the political report, Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong outlines that the past five years have seen the entire Party, the army, and citizens unite in order to overcome numerous difficulties and record plenty of important milestones.
He says the overall goal of the Vietnamese revolution in the coming years is to improve the Party’s leadership capacity, develop a truly clean and strong political system, comprehensively and synchronously promote the Renewal process, and accelerate both industrialisation and modernization (Photo: VNA).
The report has received strong support from participating delegates (Photo: VNA).
Vietnam has been singled out internationally as a bright spot in realising the dual goal of epidemic prevention and economic recovery, not to mention efforts to overcome the consequences of natural disasters.
The nine-day congress is expected to elect new members to the Party Central Committee, Political Bureau and Secretariat to lead the Vietnamese revolution in the new stage of development.