Attending the congress were comrades: Former General Secretary Nong Duc Manh; Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh; former Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung; National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man; former National Assembly Chairman Nguyen Sinh Hung; Comrade Tran Cam Tu, Politburo member, Standing member of the Secretariat; former Standing members of the Secretariat; Comrade Do Van Chien, Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front.

General Secretary To Lam, Secretary of the Central Military Commission; Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh; National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man and delegates attending the congress. Photo: VIET TRUNG

Attending the congress were Politburo members: Le Minh Hung, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Organization Committee; Nguyen Trong Nghia, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Committee; General Phan Van Giang, Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission, Minister of National Defense ; Nguyen Xuan Thang, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council. Also attending were: General Pham Van Tra, former Politburo member, former Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Party Committee (now the Central Military Commission), former Minister of National Defense; General Ngo Xuan Lich, former Politburo member, former Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission, former Minister of National Defense.

General Secretary To Lam, Secretary of the Central Military Commission and delegates visited the booth displaying Party and political activities at the congress.

Attending the congress were Politburo members, former Politburo members; General Trinh Van Quyet, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Standing Member of the Central Military Commission, Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army; Party Central Committee Secretaries, former Party Central Committee Secretaries; leaders, former leaders of the Party and State.

General Secretary To Lam and delegates visited the exhibition booth serving the 12th Party Congress of the Army, term 2025-2030.

Also attending the congress were: General Nguyen Tan Cuong, member of the Party Central Committee, member of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission, Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, Deputy Minister of National Defense; comrades of the Party Central Committee, members of the Standing Committee of the Central Military Commission, former members of the Party Central Committee; leaders, former leaders of the Central Military Commission, the Ministry of National Defense, the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army; leaders of central departments, ministries, branches, mass organizations, Hanoi City and 448 outstanding delegates representing the intelligence, political mettle, will, belief and aspirations of more than 270,000 party members in the entire Party Committee of the Army attending the congress.

Congress Presidium. Photo: VIET TRUNG

Delegates attending the congress performed the flag salute ceremony.

The 12th Party Congress of the Army is a particularly important milestone in the task of building and developing the Army in the new era - the era of the Vietnamese nation's rise. With the motto "Solidarity - Democracy - Discipline - Steadfastness - Breakthrough - Development", the Congress demonstrates the determination to build a clean and strong Party organization; to build a revolutionary, disciplined, elite, modern People's Army, ready to receive and excellently complete all tasks, firmly protect the socialist Fatherland of Vietnam, contribute to maintaining a peaceful and stable environment, and build a rich, prosperous, civilized and happy country.

At the congress, after the opening speech by General Phan Van Giang, Politburo member, Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission, Minister of National Defense, delegates listened to the representative of the Presidium present the Political Report and the Review Report of the Central Military Commission for the 2020-2025 term.

Attending the congress, General Secretary To Lam, Secretary of the Central Military Commission, gave a speech directing and orienting many important contents.

A very important milestone!

The 12th Party Congress of the Army is a particularly important milestone in the task of building and developing the Army in the new era - the era of the Vietnamese nation's rise. With the theme: "Promoting the heroic tradition of the Army, building a clean, strong, comprehensive, exemplary, and exemplary Party organization, a revolutionary, disciplined, elite, and modern Army; enhancing national defense strength, firmly protecting the socialist Fatherland of Vietnam, contributing to building a peaceful, prosperous, prosperous, civilized, and happy country" and the motto "Solidarity - Democracy - Discipline - Steadfastness - Breakthrough - Development", the congress demonstrates the determination to build a clean, strong, comprehensive, exemplary, and exemplary Party organization of the Army, a revolutionary, disciplined, elite, and modern People's Army, firmly protecting the socialist Fatherland of Vietnam, contributing to maintaining a peaceful and stable environment, building a rich, prosperous, civilized, and happy country.


General Secretary To Lam, Secretary of the Central Military Commission, delivered a speech directing the congress.

Speaking at the opening of the congress, General Phan Van Giang, Politburo member, Deputy Secretary of the Central Military Commission, Minister of National Defense, stated: Over the past five years, the Central Military Commission, the Ministry of National Defense, and Party committees, Party organizations, and commanders at all levels have strived to overcome all difficulties and challenges, with many policies and solutions to lead, direct, and resolutely implement all aspects of work, successfully completing the goals and tasks set out in the Resolution of the 11th Party Congress of the Army, including many tasks that were completed excellently, some tasks that were completed early, leaving a historical mark.

The Central Military Commission and Party committees and organizations in the entire army have always strictly followed the Party's organizational and operational principles, especially the principle of democratic centralism; leadership capacity and fighting strength have been increasingly improved; contributing to maintaining the Party's absolute and direct leadership in all aspects over the Army. The Party Committee of the Army has led the entire army to constantly improve the overall quality, level and combat readiness; basically completed the adjustment of the force organization in the direction of "lean, compact, strong"; well performed the functions of the combat army, the working army, and the production labor army.


General Phan Van Giang delivered the opening speech at the congress.

The army is truly the core force in building the all-people national defense, the all-people national defense posture associated with the solid people's security posture, especially in strategic and important areas, firmly protecting the independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the Fatherland, contributing to maintaining political stability and a peaceful environment for national construction and development. The officers and soldiers of the entire army are always united, steadfast, steadfast in ideology, are the political force, the fighting force absolutely loyal and trustworthy of the Party, the State and the people; excellently completing military and national defense tasks, firmly protecting the territorial integrity of the Fatherland in the new situation.

General Phan Van Giang emphasized that the 12th Party Congress of the Army takes place at a very important time. The Congress has a very important task of summarizing the 5-year implementation of the Resolution of the 11th Party Congress of the Army (2020 - 2025), determining the directions, goals, tasks, policies and solutions for leading the implementation of military and defense tasks and building the Army Party Committee in the next 5 years (2025 - 2030); discussing and contributing opinions to the draft documents of the Central Committee to be submitted to the 14th Party Congress; electing the delegation of the Army Party Committee to attend the 14th National Party Congress. During the preparation process, the congress received close guidance from the Politburo, the Secretariat, especially the General Secretary and the Secretary of the Central Military Commission, comments from central departments, ministries and branches, and quality contributions from party organizations and a large number of cadres and party members throughout the army to the documents, contributing significantly to the success of the congress.

The decisions of the Congress are the basis for continuing to improve the leadership capacity and fighting strength of the Party Committee of the Army; promoting the overall strength, building a revolutionary, disciplined, elite and modern People's Army; strengthening national defense strength, building and firmly protecting the socialist Fatherland of Vietnam. The results of the 12th Congress of the Party Committee of the Army contributed significantly to the success of the 14th National Congress of the Party.

Many missions well completed and excellently completed

The political report at the congress presented by General Trinh Van Quyet, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Standing Member of the Central Military Commission, Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army on behalf of the Presidium affirmed that in the 2020-2025 term, with high determination, the Central Military Commission, Party committees and Party organizations at all levels in the Army have led and directed the overcoming of difficulties, comprehensively completing the groups of tasks set out in the Resolution of the 11th Party Congress of the Army, many tasks were completed well and excellently.

Notably, the Central Military Commission has well led the implementation of its advisory function to the Party and State on military and national defense; flexibly and effectively handled situations, avoiding passivity and surprise. Well promoted the core role of the Army in building a strong national defense. Coordinated direction, consolidation, and construction of solid defense in military regions and defense areas. Effectively implemented the Party's policy on closely combining defense and security with economy, culture, society, and foreign affairs. The Militia and Self-Defense Force has been built strong and widespread; the reserve force has been built strong and of high quality. Education, political orientation, and ideological leadership have achieved many important results; the level and combat readiness have been raised, increasingly better meeting the requirements and tasks in the new situation.


General Secretary To Lam presented flowers from the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam to congratulate the congress.

Along with that, the Central Military Commission has led the entire army to effectively carry out breakthroughs in organization, staffing, training and education; build discipline, comply with discipline, law and administrative reform; basically complete the adjustment of the Army's staffing organization to "lean, compact, strong", and well implement the arrangement of local military organizations. In addition, logistics and technical work for missions has been well ensured; production has been promoted; soldiers' lives have been maintained; the construction and development of an autonomous, self-reliant, self-reliant, dual-use, modern defense industry has made breakthroughs and reached the finish line early. Military science and cryptography work has been promoted; policies on breakthrough development, application of science and technology, innovation, and digital transformation have been resolutely implemented. Finance, planning and investment, and defense economics have achieved many important results; international integration and defense diplomacy have continued to be promoted. Legal, inspection, and judicial work have been strengthened; Investigate, prosecute, try, execute judgments and resolve complaints and denunciations in accordance with regulations, without wrongful convictions or omissions of criminals.

In addition to the above results, the Central Military Commission has focused on leading the political building of the Army Party Committee, ensuring the maintenance of the Party's absolute and direct leadership in all aspects over the Army. The vast majority of cadres and Party members have strong political will, are loyal to the Fatherland, the Party, the State and the people; and are ready to receive and successfully complete all assigned tasks. The work of building the Army Party Committee in terms of ideology has many innovations; the work of summarizing practices, researching theories, educating and training, and orienting ideology has been implemented synchronously and effectively, contributing to strengthening the Party's leadership over the Army and the national defense cause.


General Trinh Van Quyet, on behalf of the Presidium, presented a political report at the congress.

The Central Military Commission has attached importance to building the Party Committee of the Army in terms of ethics; promoting the study and following of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, ethics and style. The Party Committee of the Army has been built strong in terms of organization; the Party organization has been consolidated in line with the adjustment of the Army organization to be "lean, compact, and strong". Strictly implementing the principles of Party organization and activities; the leadership capacity and fighting strength of the Party organization and Party members have been improved. Special attention has been paid to the work of cadres, achieving many positive results; leading and directing the development and implementation of the Project "Policy to attract and promote talents for the Vietnam People's Army until 2030, with a vision to 2050". The cadre team of the entire army has been gradually streamlined and compact, meeting the requirements of tasks in the new situation.

At the same time, the work of inspection, supervision and enforcement of party discipline has been strengthened and achieved positive results; complaints and denunciations have been promptly resolved; and violations of cadres, party members and party organizations have been strictly handled. Actively innovating the methods, leadership styles and working styles of the Central Military Commission and party committees at all levels; applying information technology and digital transformation in handling work of party committees and party organizations has been effectively implemented...

Determining the direction and "Three breakthroughs" in the 2025-2030 term


General Nguyen Tan Cuong speaks at the congress.

From the achievements and lessons learned over the past 5 years, the 2025-2030 term, the Political Report has determined the direction, goals, military and defense tasks and Party building of the Army for the 2025-2030 term with specific target groups and breakthroughs. In particular, the general direction of the term is determined as: Thoroughly grasping the Party's guidelines and viewpoints on military, defense, and protecting the Fatherland in the new situation; maintaining and strengthening the absolute and direct leadership of the Party in all aspects, the centralized and unified management and administration of the State over the Army and the defense cause.

Promoting the heroic tradition, the comprehensive strength, building a clean, strong, exemplary, and representative Party organization of the Army, a revolutionary, regular, elite, and modern Army; building a strong reserve force, a strong and widespread militia and self-defense force. Always be vigilant, ready to fight and fight victoriously in all situations; well perform the functions of "fighting army, working army, production labor army", promoting the core role in building a strong national defense, firmly protecting the socialist Fatherland of Vietnam, contributing to maintaining a peaceful and stable environment to build and develop a rich, prosperous, civilized, and happy country.


Senior Lieutenant General Huynh Chien Thang, member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Vietnam People's Army, delivered a speech at the congress.

Three breakthroughs include: First, synchronously perfecting the military and defense institutions; effectively mobilizing resources to build a revolutionary, disciplined, elite, and modern Army. Second, focusing on developing high-quality human resources; promoting the attraction and use of talents, building a team of cadres to meet the requirements of building a modern Army; improving the quality of regular construction and discipline management; promoting the cultural values ​​of Uncle Ho's soldiers in the new period. Third, promoting the development of science, technology, innovation and digital transformation; developing an autonomous, self-reliant, self-reliant, dual-purpose, and modern defense industry.


Senior Lieutenant General Truong Thien To, Deputy Director of the General Department of Politics of the Vietnam People's Army, delivered a speech at the congress.

The Army Party Committee is one of the exemplary Party Committees in the whole Party!

In his speech directing the congress, General Secretary To Lam, Secretary of the Central Military Commission, assessed that recently, the Central Military Commission has led and directed the organization of party congresses at all levels in the Army Party Committee very successfully, with good quality in both documents and personnel; strictly following the procedures, processes and principles of holding the congress; promoting democracy and solidarity, ensuring that the congress is truly a broad political activity in the Party cells and Party Committees, with a wide influence on cadres, Party members and the masses. That is an important premise for successfully organizing the 12th Army Party Congress.

General Secretary To Lam affirmed that the draft documents submitted to the congress, focusing on the Political Report, were carefully prepared, concise, profound but also very specific, containing many major, important, strategic decisions for the cause of building the Army, strengthening national defense, and protecting the Fatherland in the new era of national development. The opinions and discussions published in the proceedings were carefully prepared, demonstrating the high political responsibility of the delegates.

General Secretary To Lam emphasized that under the leadership and direction of the Party Central Committee, the Politburo, the Secretariat, directly the Central Military Commission and Party committees at all levels, the entire army has strived to successfully implement the Resolution of the 11th Party Congress of the Army with many impressive actions and figures. Of which, six outstanding contents can be summarized. That is, the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of National Defense have performed well the function of strategic military and defense advisory; led and directed the entire army to promote its core role in building the all-people national defense and protecting the Fatherland.

The leadership has focused on building a politically strong Army, creating a foundation for improving the overall quality and combat strength of the entire Army. Along with that, the entire Army leadership has basically completed the adjustment of the organization of a lean, compact, and strong force, creating a solid foundation for building a revolutionary, disciplined, elite, and modern People's Army.

At the same time, the entire army has been led to perform well the functions of a combat army, a working army, and a production labor army. In addition, the defense industry has had a breakthrough development, international integration and defense diplomacy have left many new marks. Finally, the Party Committee of the Army has been built to be clean and strong, exemplary in politics, ideology, ethics, organization and cadres, and is one of the exemplary Party Committees in the entire Party.

Two “steadfast”, two “promote” and two “prevent”

General Secretary To Lam affirmed that the achievements in the leadership and direction of the Party Committee of the Army in the past term were enormous, contributing significantly to the achievements and results of implementing the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress. On behalf of the Party and State leaders, he warmly congratulated the achievements and results that the Party Committee of the Army and the entire army had achieved in the past 5 years.



Party and State leaders and delegates attending the congress.

To successfully implement the directions and goals identified in the Political Report of the congress, General Secretary To Lam requested the Central Military Commission to lead leaders at all levels to study and implement well "2 steadfastnesses", "2 promotion" and "2 preventions". In which, the two steadfastnesses are: Being steadfast in the Party's military and defense guidelines and being steadfast in building a politically strong Army, contributing to maintaining and strengthening the Party's absolute and direct leadership in all aspects of the Army.

The two "promoting" measures mentioned by the General Secretary are: Promoting the building of a revolutionary, disciplined, elite, and modern People's Army and promoting international integration and defense diplomacy.

Two specific "preventions" are identified: Preventing the risks of war and conflict and preventing all manifestations of degradation in political ideology, ethics, lifestyle, "self-evolution", "self-transformation" within the Party Committee of the Army and the entire army.

General Secretary To Lam said that the Party, State and people always trust and have great expectations for the Vietnam People's Army. To successfully implement the above 6 main contents, the Party Committee of the Army and the entire army need to "converge in solidarity, converge in will, converge in talent, converge in strength". Immediately after the congress, it is necessary to quickly implement the contents that the congress has resolved, immediately put the congress resolution into practice, and not leave any delay or gap between the resolution at the congress and its implementation in practice.


Congress scene.

General Secretary To Lam expressed that, promoting the heroic and glorious tradition of more than 80 years of building, fighting, winning and growing, along with the great achievements that the Party Committee of the Army and the entire army have achieved in recent years; under the absolute and direct leadership in all aspects of the Party, the centralized and unified management and administration of the State, he believes that the Vietnam People's Army will continuously grow stronger, have high overall quality and combat strength, act as the core together with the entire people to firmly protect the socialist Fatherland of Vietnam, maintain and consolidate a peaceful and stable environment to build and develop a strong, prosperous, civilized and happy country, and steadily advance towards socialism.

Along with the above contents, at the opening session on the morning of September 30, the congress listened to a number of opinions and contributions to the Political Report of the Central Military Commission for the 2020-2025 term.

On the afternoon of September 30, the congress continued to discuss and carry out some other important tasks as planned. On October 1, the congress continued its second official working day.

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