Nguyen Phu Trong

In this Vietnamese name, the family name is Nguyen. According to Vietnamese custom, this person should properly be referred to by the given name Trong.

Nguyễn Phú Trọng
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong
General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Incumbent
Assumed office 19 January 2011
President	Nguyen Minh Triet
Prime Minister	Nguyen Tan Dung
Preceded by	Nong Duc Manh
Personal details
Born	April 14, 1944 (1944-04-14) (age 67) Hanoi, Vietnam
Political party	Communist Party of Vietnam
Website	Nguyen Phu Trong activities page

Nguyễn Phú Trọng (born April 14, 1944, in Hanoi, Vietnam) is the general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, elected at the party's 11th National Congress on 19 January 2011.^[1] This congress also selected Trong as the No. 8 member of the Politburo, the party's executive committee.^[1] Trong was chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam from 2006 to 2011.

Biography

Trọng was born on April 14, 1944 in Đông Hội Commune, Đông Anh District, Hanoi. His official biography gives his family background only as "poor peasant,"^[2] but he is the son of Nguyen Luong Bang, vice president of Vietnam from 1968 to 1979. He studied philology at Vietnam National University, Hanoi from 1963 to 1967. Trong officially joined the Communist Party in December 1968. He worked for the Tạp chí Cộng Sản (Communist Review), the theoretical and political agency of the Communist Party of Vietnam (formerly "Labor Party"), in the periods of 1967-1973, 1976–1980, and 1983-1996. From 1991 to 1996, he served as the editor-in-chief of the Tạp chí Cộng Sản. He went to the USSR in 1981 to study at the USSR Academy of Social Sciences and got the Kandidat nauk degree in history in 1983. Trong in 1998 entered in the party section devoted to political work, and he is one of the most prominent Vietnamese political theorician heading in the period 2001-2006 the CPVCC's Theoretical Council in charge of the Party's theoretical work.

Trọng has been member of the Party's Central Committee since January 1994, member of the Party's Political Bureau since December 1997, and deputy to the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam since May 2002. From January 2000 to June 2006, Trong served as the secretary of the Party's Executive Committee of Hanoi, the de facto head of the city authority.

On June 26, 2006, Trọng was elected as the Chairman of the National Assembly.^[3] in this period he was also elected secretary of the Party organization in the Assembly and member of the Council for Defence and Security. In the 11th Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (from January 10 to January 19, 2011) he was elected general secretary of the Central Committee.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "Nguyen Phu Trong elected Party Chief", Vietnam+, 19 Jan 2011.
2. ^ "Biography of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong", Vietnam+, 19/01/2011
3. ^ "Vietnam confirms new leadership", BBC, 27 Jun 2006.

External links

• Nguyen Phu Trong elected as NA Chairman
• Biography of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong

Party political offices
Preceded by Nông Đức Mạnh	General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam 2011 – present	Succeeded by Incumbent
Political offices
Preceded by Nguyễn Văn An	Chairman of National Assembly 2006 - present	Succeeded by Nguyễn Sinh Hùng

Persondata
Name	Nguyen Phu Trong
Alternative names
Short description	Vietnamese politician
Date of birth	April 14, 1944
Place of birth	Hanoi, Vietnam
Date of death
Place of death