Expressing his firm belief that the era of the Vietnamese nation’s rise will begin with the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, Nguyen Hong Phuc, a doctoral researcher at Zhejiang University and Deputy Secretary of the Viet Nam Overseas Students’ Party Cell in Shanghai, China, hopes that the Congress’s decisions will soon be translated into reality, creating favourable conditions for Vietnamese intellectuals abroad to continue contributing to the country’s development.