The Viet Nam People's Army must ensure steadfast political mettle, steadfast discipline, steadfast technology, steadfast military art, and steadfast troop welfare, stressed Party chief To Lam.

General Phan Van Giang, Politburo member, Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission and Minister of National Defence, chaired a meeting of the Standing Board of the Central Military Commission on November 24, in order to seek opinions on several important matters.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh had a working session on the defence industry with the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence on September 27.

The Politburo on August 25 worked with the Standing Board of the Central Military Commission to review draft documents and the personnel plan to be submitted to the 12th Congress of the Party Organisation of the Viet Nam People's Army (VPA) for the 2025–2030 tenure.

Party General Secretary To Lam has called for breakthroughs in military modernisation, innovation, and digital transformation as the Central Military Commission is preparing for the 12th Congress of the Party Organisation of the Viet Nam People's Army (VPA) for the 2025–2030 term.

On the morning of July 31, in Ha Noi, General Secretary To Lam, Secretary of the Central Military Commission, met with veterans, pre-uprising cadres, Heroic Vietnamese Mothers, military generals, and Heroes of the People's Armed Forces on the occasion of the 78th anniversary of War Invalids and Martyrs’s Day and the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day (September 2).

Upholding the resolution of the Central Military Commission on “Training and exercises in the new situation”, Military Region 5 has, from the beginning of its term, implemented practical activities that help concretise the Party’s viewpoint on building an “elite, compact, strong” army, thereby meeting the requirements of national defence in the current period.

The Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defence held an art programme in Ha Noi on July 3 evening, marking the 10-year review of the army’s implementation of the 12th-tenure Politburo’s Directive No. 05 on promoting the study and following of President Ho Chi Minh’s thought, morality, and lifestyle.

Party General Secretary To Lam, Secretary of the Central Military Commission, on June 19 chaired its 14th conference in the 2020-2025 tenure, which aimed to review its military and defence tasks in the first half of 2025, and roll out orientations for these missions and Party‑building tasks in the People’s Army for the second half of the year.