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Politburo holds meeting with former Party officials On February 27, the Politburo and the Party Central Committee (PCC)’s Secretariat hosted a gathering in Hanoi with former members of the 12th Politburo, PCC’s Secretariat and PCC. Chairing the event, Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong said the Politburo and the PCC’s Secretariat highly value the great contributions of the former officials to the Party, people and country in the time when they held important positions in central and local agencies. The Party chief wished that the former Party officials will continue to make contributions to the Party, people and nation, and lend their experience in addressing important issues of the country. Participants expressed their belief that the 13th Politburo, PCC’s Secretariat and PCC will lead the country to a higher level of development in the near future, pledging to continue contributing to the Party’s cause and strengthening solidarity in the Party. National Assembly Standing Committee convenes 53rd meeting The 53rd meeting of the National Assembly Standing Committee (Photo: NDO) The National Assembly Standing Committee convened its 53rd meeting on February 22 under the chair of NA Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan. At the meeting, the Standing Committee discussed several issues, including giving feedback on the report reviewing the Government’s work during the 2016-2021 period and the preparations for the National Assembly’s 11th plenary session. Another important matter on the agenda is the composition of candidates for the upcoming National Assembly election, scheduled to take place in May. Vietnam moves up three places in Global Soft Power Index Vietnam is the sole member of ASEAN to jump 2.5 points to rank 47th in the overall index of the Brand Finance Global Soft Power Index Report for 2021. The reports indicates that the country can be viewed as a bright spot in the bloc thanks to a range of remarkable …

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The fourth industrial revolution, digital transformation and the digital economy are mentioned many times in documents of the 13th Party Congress. VietNamNet would like to introduce the speech delivered by Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung at the congress. Minister of Information and Communications Nguyen Manh Hung. Photo: Pham Hai The desire to develop a prosperous and happy country and the desire for a mighty Vietnam have been aroused. The flag has been raised to gather all of Vietnamese people. The way to the target has been shown, which is science and technology, innovation, the 4th industrial revolution, digital transformation, and digital economy. The decisive factor for success is Party building and reorganization tasks so that people always believe in the Party's leadership. Digital technology, digital transformation, digital economy, and digital age are a process occurring over decades. It is a global trend, an irreversible process. The physical world is being digitized. Real life is being brought into cyberspace. The process of creation, production and business is taking place more and more in cyberspace. With the emergence of the 4.0 industrial revolution, with the push of the world Covid-19 pandemic, the world is at the breakthrough point in the digital transformation process. This is an opportunity for Vietnam to realize its aspirations for building a mighty and prosperous country. Digital economy includes economic activities that use digital information and digital knowledge as the main production factor. It uses the Internet and information networks as space for operation; and uses ICT, i.e. electronics, telecommunications and information technology, to increase labor productivity and to optimize the economy. Simply, the economy is related to digital technology. In a narrow sense, the digital economy is only related to the ICT sector. In a broad sense, these are areas that are close to digital …

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During his virtual talks with Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh on March 5, Arreaza congratulated Vietnam on the success of the 13th National Party Congress, while praising the Southeast Asian country’s efforts in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic as well as in maintaining economic growth momentum. Minh briefed on Vietnam’s situation and the outstanding outcome of the 13th National Party Congress as well as the country’s COVID-19 response measures and solutions to promote socio-economic development and ensure social security. He affirmed that Vietnam supports efforts by the constitutional government of Venezuela to promote political dialogue on the basis of respecting Venezuela’s Constitution and aspirations of Venezuelan people, thus gradually solving difficulties and boosting socio-economic development in the current context. The two officials focused their discussion on measures to further enhance the friendship and cooperation between the two countries. The two sides agreed to maintain mechanisms to promote cooperation between the two nations, especially the Vietnam-Venezuela Intergovernmental Committee for Cooperation and the Political Consultation between the two Ministries of Foreign Affairs. They also consented to increase exchanges between ministries, sectors and businesses, and foster trade and investment ties in areas of mutual interest such as agriculture, oil and gas, health, commerce, culture, and sports and tourism. The two sides pledged to promote people-to-people exchange and operation of friendship associations. Vietnam and Venezuela also agreed to enhance the exchange of views on international and regional issues of shared concern, and work closely at multilateral forums of which both nations are members. Source: VNA …

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