Thirty years after joining the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), having held the rotating chairmanship three times, in 1998, 2010 and 2020, Viet Nam has been recognised as a model of successful reform and integration.

Party General Secretary To Lam on July 27 worked with the Party Committee of Dien Bien, during which he requested the northern mountainous province not to remain merely a witness to history, but strive to become a shining example of determination, reform, innovation, and development.

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.