Party Congress attracts foreign media interest
In Beijing, Xinhua News Agency, Beijing Radio
and many Chinese newspapers have carried reports over the past few days
on the 11th National Party Congress of Vietnam, highlighting the
country’s achievements in 25 years of implementing the national renewal
process.
The newspapers interviewed many Vietnamese people, who
said they watched news on the Party Congress and believed the renewal
process brought great achievements to the country. The people wished
that the Congress would elect new leaders with morality and talent to
play a key role in the country’s development.
In Havana, the
Granma daily of the Communist Party of Cuba on Jan. 13 carried news and
photos of the Congress’s opening ceremony, citing a speech by the
event’s chair Nguyen Minh Triet, Party Politburo member and State
President.
The speech affirmed that despite the challenges and
impacts of the global financial crisis, the Vietnamese Party and people
were determined to exert efforts to develop Vietnam into an
industrialised country by 2020. State President Triet also stated that
Marxism - Leninism have been the firm foundation of the renewal process
in Vietnam over the past 25 years.
Meanwhile, “the Age” daily
of Australia on Jan. 13 said that the Communist Party of Vietnam
committed to carefully consider the model for national economic growth
to build Vietnam into an industrialised country by 2020, while
accelerating democracy in the Party.
An article by Roberto Tofani
on the World Politics Review of Australia wrote since implementing the
renewal process in 1986, Vietnam had posted rapid economic growth.
In 2010, Vietnam obtained an economic growth rate of 6.7 percent
despite impacts of the global financial crisis. The country also
succeeded in poverty reduction and has exerted efforts to fulfill the
UN’s millennium development goals (MDGs).
Answering Vietnam News
Agency’s correspondent in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Poldi Sosa Schmidt,
President of the Argentina-Vietnam Culture Institute, said members of
the institute and many Argentinean people who have sentiments with
Vietnam, watched the news on the 11 th National Party Congress, an
important event to decide the development of Vietnam in the coming
years.
She said that 25 years of the renewal process proved the
capacity of the Communist Party of Vietnam in timely, suitably and
bravely summing up historical experiences and implementing changes but
keeping initial basic principles.
She expressed her belief that
the 11th National Party Congress of Vietnam would work out suitable
development orientations for Vietnam in the next decade, especially in
maintaining national characteristics and guiding young generations to
preserve the revolutionary tradition.
The Pravda daily
newspaper of the Communist Party of Russia ran an article in its Jan. 14
issue, affirming that the 11 th National Congress of the CPV is a
milestone on Vietnam’s path to socialism.
Sergey Aphonin,
a former reporter of Russian news agency TASS, expressed his hope that
the 11th National Party Congress would open a new page for Vietnamese
revolution, summarise the theory and reality of building a socialist
regime and put forward specific tasks for Vietnam’s socio-economic
development in the coming years.
Under the dynamic,
clear-sighted and experienced leadership of the CPV, Vietnam is sure
to become a democratic and prosperous country, he said./.