Date of birth:
September 11, 1940
Day to Party:
July 5, 1963
Native place:
Cuong Loi commune, Na Ri district, Bac Kan province
Position:
- Party General Secretary from April 2001 to January 2011
- Member of the Politburo in the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th tenures
- Secretary of the Party Central Committee in the 8th, 9th and 10th
- Member of the Party Central Committee in the 6th (alternate), 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th tenures
- Chairman of the National Assembly in the 9th and 10th tenures
- National Assembly deputy in the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th tenures
Working history
-1958: Joining the revolution
-1958-1961: Studying at the Hanoi Agro-Forestry College
-1962-1963: Forestry worker, forestry exploration technician of Bac Kan province's Forestry Service
-July 5, 1963: Joining the Workers' Party of Vietnam
-1963-1965: Deputy head of the Bach Thong wood exploitation group
-1965-1966: Studying the Russian language at the Hanoi Foreign Languages University
-1966-1971: Student of the Leningrad Forestry Institute of the Soviet Union
-1972-1973: Deputy head of the Inspection Board of Bac Thai province's Forestry Service
-1973-1974: Director of the Phu Luong State Farm in Bac Thai province
-1974-1976: Studying at the High-Level Nguyen Ai Quoc Party School
-1976-1980: Member of the provincial Party Committee, Deputy Director of the Forestry Service and Director of the Forestry Construction Company, later Director of the Forestry Service of Bac Thai province
-1980-1983: Member of the provincial Party Committee and Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Bac Thai province
-1984 - October 1986: Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the People's Committee of Bac Thai province
-November 1986 - February 1989: Secretary of the Party Committee of Bac Thai province
-December 1986: Elected as an alternative member of the Party Central Committee at the sixth National Party Congress
-March 1989: Elected to the sixth Party Central Committee at its sixth plenary session
-August 1989: Head of the Commission of Nationalities under the Party Central Committee
-November 1989: Additionally elected as a deputy to the National Assembly, 8th tenure, and elected Vice Chairman of the National Assembly's Council of Nationalities
-June 1991: Elected to the Party Central Committee at the seventh National Party Congress and elected to the Political Bureau by the Party Central Committee
-September 1992: Elected as Chairman of the National Assembly, 9th tenure
-June 1996: Elected to the Party Central Committee at the eighth National Party Congress and elected to the Political Bureau by the Party Central Committee
-September 1997: Chairman of the National Assembly, 10th tenure
-January 1998: Assigned to be permanent member of the Political Bureau
-April 2001: Elected to the Party Central Committee at the ninth National Party Congress, elected to the Political Bureau and as General Secretary by the Party Central Committee
-April 2006: Re-elected to the Party Central Committee and the Political Bureau at the tenth National Party Congress, and elected as the General Secretary of the Party Central Committee
-May 2007: Elected to the National Assembly, 12th tenure