Native place: Hanh Thien village, Xuan Hong commune, Xuan Thuy district, Nam Dinh province.

Truong Chinh died on September 30,1988 in Hanoi.

- ln 1925,  while at school, he participated in the struggle to demand amnesty for Mr Phan Boi Chau.

- ln 1926, he led the student strike in Nam Dinh to hold a memorial service for Mr Phan Chu Trinh and was then expelled from school.

- ln 1927, he joined the Vietnam Association of Revolutionary Young Comrades.

- ln 1929, he took part in the campaign to establish the lndochinese Communist Party in Bac Ky (Tonkin).

- ln 1930, he was appointed to the Central Propaganda and Agitation Board of the lndochinese Communist Party.

- At the end of 1930, he was arrested by the French and sentenced to 12 years in jail then deported to Son La. In 1936, he was set free.

- From 1936 to 1939, he was member of the Party Committee of Bac Ky, representative of the lndochinese Communist Party in Bac Ky Democratic Front Committee.

- ln 1940, he was editor-in chief of Giai Phong newspaper, the organ of the Bac Ky Party Committee. At the 7^th conference of the Party Central Committee, he was elected to the Central Committee and appointed Acting General Secretary of the Party.

- In 1941, at the 8^th plenum of the Party Central Committee, he was elected the General Secretary of the lndochinese Communist Party Central Committee; head of the Propaganda and Training Commission, editor-in chief of “Co Giai Phong” (Liberation Banner), the organ of the Party Central Committee; and head of the Mass Agitation Commission.

- ln 1943, he was sentenced to death in absentia by the French.

- ln August 1945, at the national conference of the Party, he was appointed to take charge of the National Uprising Committee.

- -ln 1951, at the 2^nd National Party Congress, he was re-elected to the Central Committee and held the post of General Secretary till October 1956.

- ln 1953, he was head of the Party Central Committee's Board for Land Reform.

- ln 1958, he was appointed deputy-premier and director of the State Science Commission.

- At the third (September, 1960), fourth (December 1976) and fifth (March 1982), National Party Congress, he was re-elected to the Central Committee and Political Bureau.

- ln 1981, he was elected by the National Assembly the President of the State Council and President of the Defence Council of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

- On July 14. 1986, at a special meeting of the Party Central Committee, he was elected General Secretary of the Party to replace Le Duan, who had passed away.

- ln December 1986, at the 6^th Party congress, he was appointed adviser to the Party Central Committee.

- He was a deputy of the National Assembly from the II to Vll Legislature, and chairman of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly of from II to Vl Legislature.