The Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper held
a talk in Hanoi on April 17 on orientations for building socialism in Vietnam.

Photo: VOV

During the talk, theoretical researchers from the
Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee’s Theoretical Council and the
Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics and Public Administration stressed that
advancing to socialism is an aspiration of the Vietnamese people and a right
choice of the CPV and President Ho Chi Minh, which is suitable to the history’s
development trend.

The rich reality and achievements attained during 25 years of renewal and the
20-year implementation of the platform on national construction in the
transitional period to socialism prove that the CPV’s renewal policy is sound
and creative, and that advancing to socialism is suitable to objective rules and
Vietnam’s revolutionary reality.

Only socialism can ensure a real independence and freedom for the Vietnamese
nation, a prosperous development for the country and a well off and happy life
for the people, the participants stressed.

The theoricians analysed the importance of building socialism in Vietnam defined
in the documents of the 11th National Party Congress, with a focus on speeding
up national industrialisation and modernisation in combination with developing a
knowledge-based economy and protecting natural resources and the environment;
developing a socialist-oriented economy and building an advanced culture imbued
with national identity.

They discussed measures to improve people’s living standards and realise social
progress and equality; firmly ensure national defence and security, and social
order and safety; implement a foreign policy of independence, self-reliance,
peace, friendship, cooperation and development, active and proactive
international integration; and building a socialist democracy.

They also spoke of the need to popularise and disseminate among people the basic
contents of the 11th National Party Congress’ documents.

* HCM City welcomes French communist Party leader

The Vietnamese Party and people are always grateful
to the great support and assistance of the French Communist Party (FCP) and
progressive people in France to Vietnam during its struggle for national
independence and liberation.

Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Secretary Le
Thanh Hai emphasized this at a reception for FCP National Secretary Pierre
Laurent, who is on his first official visit to Vietnam at the invitation of the
Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).

Mr. Hai spoke highly of Mr. Laurent’s visit, saying that it will help strengthen
the traditional friendship between the two Parties.

HCM City has had effective cooperation programmes and projects with two French
localities, namely Lyon and Rhone-Alpes Region in the areas of culture,
preservation, education, health, science and technology, Hai said.

Pierre Laurent affirmed that the FCP always respects Vietnamese comrades and
memorises the struggle that the two parties had stood side by side.

The FCP leader expressed his belief that the
cooperation between the two Parties will further develop in the future.

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