The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) officially kicked off in Hanoi on January 26. (Photo: VNA) A total 1,587 delegates representing more than 5 million Party
members nationwide are attending the 13th National Congress of the
Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), which officially kicked off in Hanoi on
January 26.
Of the
delegates, 191 are members of the 12th‑tenure Party Central
Committee, 1,381 were elected at Party congresses of provinces, centrally-run cities
and centrally-run Party organisations, and 15 are from overseas Party
organisations, who were assigned by the Politburo.
There are 1,365 male
delegates, or 86.01 percent, and 222 females, or 13.99 percent. The number of
ethnic minority delegates stands at 175, or 11.03 percent.
Three delegates
are heroes of the people’s armed forces, 13 are eminent teachers, and 15 have
been honoured as people’s doctors and eminent doctors.
Former Party
General Secretary Nong Duc Manh, along with former Politburo members and former
Presidents Tran Duc Luong, Nguyen Minh Triet, and Truong Tan Sang, were invited
to the congress.
Other guests
include former Politburo member and former Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and
former Politburo members and former National Assembly Chairpersons Nguyen Van
An and Nguyen Sinh Hung.
Also among
guests are former Politburo members, former Secretaries of the Party Central
Committee, former Presidents of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee,
former Vice State Presidents, former Vice National Assembly Chairpersons, former
Deputy Prime Ministers, former members of the Party Central Committee from the
third to seventh tenures, and members of the 12th-tenure Party
Central Committee’s Inspection Commission.
The congress also
sees the participation of representatives of Heroic Vietnamese Mothers,
scholars, writers and artists, and outstanding religious dignitaries, as well
as representatives of young Vietnamese.
Foreign ambassadors,
chargé d'affaires, and chief representatives of the diplomatic corps and
international organisations in Vietnam are also present.
Politburo member
and National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, on behalf of the
Presidium, presided over the opening session.
Politburo member
and Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, on behalf of the Presidium, delivered the
opening speech.
Party General
Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong presented a report from the 12th-tenure
Party Central Committee on documents submitted to the 13th National
Party Congress.
Nguyen Thanh
Hai, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the provincial Party
Committee, head of Thai Nguyen province’s delegation of deputies to the 14th National Assembly, and member of the Secretarial delegation of the congress, read
a list of 215 political parties and international organisations and friends who
had sent messages of congratulations to the congress as of January 22.
Ngan, on behalf
of the Presidium and the entire congress, thanked the well-wishers for their
friendship, cooperation, and valuable support to the Vietnamese Party and
people.
The CPV will
continue with its consistent foreign policy of enhancing friendship and
collaboration with other countries, political parties, and international
organisations and friends, contributing to peace, national independence,
democracy, and social progress in the world, she affirmed.
Tran Quoc Vuong,
Politburo member and permanent member of the Party Central Committee’s
Secretariat, presented a report reviewing the leadership of the 12th-tenure
Party Central Committee.
In the afternoon
of January 26, delegates discussed documents of the congress in groups./.