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.

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.