Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on April 7 chaired a meeting of the Party Central Committee’s Politburo and Secretariat on a project reviewing the implementation of a resolution on building the contingent of intellectuals in the period of accelerating industrialisation and modernisation.

The Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee held a conference on March 10 to review the 10-year implementation of the resolution on safeguarding the Fatherland in the new context, issued at the 8th session of the 11th-tenure Party Central Committee.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on March 9 chaired a conference on the implementation of the Government’s action programme materialising a directive by the Party Central Committee 's Secretariat on economic diplomacy and its key tasks this year.

The Politburo and the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee on December 5 opened a national conference on the resolutions adopted at the sixth plenum of the 13th Party Central Committee .