Hanoi (VNA) – General Secretary of the CommunistParty of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC) Nguyen Phu Trong was elected asPresident for the 2016-2021 tenure at a plenum of the 14th National Assembly’ssixth session in Hanoi on October 23.

The following is a brief biography of Party GeneralSecretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong:

- Current positions: General Secretary of the CPVCC,President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Secretary of the CentralMilitary Commission.

- Date of birth: April 14, 1944

- Ethnicity: Kinh

- Native village: Dong Hoi Commune, Dong Anh district, Hanoi

- Current residency: No. 5 Thien Quang Street, Nguyen Duward, Hai Ba Trung district, Hanoi

- Family background: Poor peasant

- Occupation when recruited: Student

- Date of Party admission: December 19, 1967

- Date of official admission to the Party: December 19, 1968

- Education:

General education: 10-year education system graduation

Qualification: Graduated from the Linguistics Faculty ofHanoi General University (4-year course)

Academic title, degree: Professor, PhD in politics (majoringin Party building)

Political theory: High-level

Foreign language: Russian

- Awards: First-class Resistance War Medal, Medal forCultural Cause, and medals for the cause of the press and the younggenerations, among others.

- Discipline: No

- Member of the Party Central Committee: 7th, 8th, 9th,10th, 11th and 12th tenures

- Member of the Political Bureau of the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11thand 12th CPVCC; Permanent member of the Politburo for the 8th tenure

- National Assembly deputy, 11th, 12th, 13th and 14thtenures

Summary of career :

- 1957-1963: Student at the Nguyen Gia Thieu junior andsenior high schools in Gia Lam district, Hanoi

- 1963-1967: Student at the Linguistics Faculty of HanoiGeneral University.
- December 1967- July 1968: Officer at the Documentary Deskof the Study Review (now the Communist Review)

- July 1968 - August 1973: Editor of the Party BuildingDepartment of the Communist Review. He experienced a period of internship inThanh Oai district, Ha Tay province (now Hanoi ) in 1971 and was Secretary ofthe Youth Union of the Communist Review from 1969 to 1973

- August 1973 – April 1976: Underwent a political-economicpost-graduate course at the High-level Nguyen Ai Quoc Party School (now the HoChi Minh National Academy of Politics and Public Administration), member of theexecutive board of the Party cell

- May 1976 - August 1980: Editor of the Party BuildingDepartment of the Communist Review, Deputy Secretary of the Party cell

- September 1980 - August 1981: Learnt Russian at theHigh-level Nguyen Ai Quoc Party School

- September 1981 - July 1983: On-the-job trainee anddefended Associate PhD thesis (now PhD thesis) in Party building at the Academyof Social Sciences of the Soviet Union

- August 1983 - February 1989: Deputy head of the PartyBuilding Department, the Communist Review (October 1983); head of the PartyBuilding Department, the Communist Review (September 1987); Deputy Secretary ofthe Party Committee of the Communist Review (July 1985-December 1988) and thenSecretary (December 1988-December 1991)

- March 1989 – April 1990: Member of the Editorial Board ofthe Communist Review

- May 1990 – July 1991: Deputy Editor-in-Chief of theCommunist Review

- August 1991 – August 1996: Editor-in-Chief of theCommunist Review

- January 1994 - now: Member of the CPVCC (7th, 8th, 9th,10th, 11th and 12th tenures)

- August 1996 - February 1998: Deputy Secretary of the HanoiParty Committee, head of the Hanoi Party Committee's department in charge oftertiary education personnel, and head of the Hanoi Party Committee’sPopularisation and Education Board

- December 1997 - now: Member of the Political Bureau of theCPVCC (8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th tenures)

- February 1998 - January 2000: In charge of the PartyCentral Committee's ideological-cultural and scientific-educational affairs

- August 1999-April 2001: Permanent member of the PartyPolitical Bureau

- March 1998 - August 2006: Vice Chairman of the CPVCC'sTheoretical Council (March 1998-November 2001); Chairman of the CPVCC'sTheoretical Council, in charge of the Party's theoretical work (November2001-August 2006)

- January 2000 - June 2006: Secretary of the Hanoi PartyCommittee (12th, 13th and 14th tenures)

- May 2002 - now: Deputy of the NA, 11th, 12th, 13th and14th tenures

- June 2006 – July 2011: Chairman of the NA, 11th and 12thtenures, Secretary of the National Assembly's Party Organisation, and member ofthe Council for National Defence and Security

- January 2011 – now: General Secretary of the CPVCC, 11thand 12th tenures, Secretary of the Central Military Commission

- February 2013 – now: Head of the Central SteeringCommittee on Corruption Prevention and Control

- August 2016 – now: Taking part in the Executive Board ofthe Central Police Central Commission, 2015-2020 tenure

- October 2018: Elected President of the Socialist Republicof Vietnam for the 2016-2021 tenure at the 14th National Assembly’s sixthsession.-VNA