12th National HCYU Congress successful: union officials

The press meeting to inform the outcomes of the 12th National HCYU Congress on December 16 (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) Central Committee held a press meeting on December 16 to announce the outcomes of the union’s 12th National Congress that had wrapped up earlier the same day.

The press meeting was chaired by First Secretary of the HCYU Central Committee Bui Quang Huy, Secretary of the HCYU Central Committee Nguyen Tuong Lam, head of the central committee’s organisation commission Bui Minh Tuan, and head of the central committee’s information and education commission Nguyen Thai An.

The 12th National Congress for the 2022 - 2027 tenure took place in Hanoi from December 14 to 16, with the participation of 981 delegates representing over 6.2 million HCYU members and nearly 22 million young Vietnamese people at home and abroad.

At the congress, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong delivered an important speech in which he affirmed the Vietnamese youth’s major role in national construction and safeguarding during revolutionary periods and the last tenure.

Noting both achievements and shortcomings, he outlined the focal tasks of the HCYU and youth movements in the current context, expressing his hope that HCYU units will properly perform the duties in the new tenure, according to HCYU officials.

First Secretary of the HCYU Central Committee Bui Quang Huy at the press meeting (Photo: VNA)

The congress reviewed the implementation of the 11th National HCYU Congress’s resolution; identified targets, tasks, and measures for the HCYU’s activities and youth movements in the new tenure from 2022 to 2027; elected the 12th-tenure Central Committee; and supplemented and amended the HCYU’s statutes.

The event elected a 144-member HCYU Central Committee in the 12th tenure . At its first session, the Central Committee elected a 33-member Standing Board and a six-member Secretariat.

Bui Quang Huy, alternate member of the Party Central Committee and First Secretary of the 11th-tenure HCYU Central Committee, was re-elected First Secretary in the 12th tenure.

At the congress’ closing session, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam and First Secretary Huy signed a joint resolution on regulations on the coordination between the Government and the HCYU Central Committee for the 2022 - 2027 period.

On December 17, all the 67 subordinate HCYU committees will hold a day of joint action to show their determination to carry out the congress’s resolution, heard the press meeting./.

VNA