Vietnam to build a powerful country soon: Times Kuwait

Vietnam is firmly stepping into 2021 with a new mindset and soon realise the aspiration to build a powerful country, highlighted Times Kuwait, an English daily published in Kuwait.
Vietnam to build a powerful country soon: Times Kuwait ảnh 1Vietnam is firmly stepping into 2021 with a new mindset and soon realise the aspiration to build a powerful country, highlighted Times Kuwait. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam is firmly stepping into 2021 with a newmindset and soon realise the aspiration to build a powerful country, highlighted Times Kuwait,an English daily published in Kuwait.

In its artile “Vietnam: New board of leaders promises new positions” onFebruary 1, the newspaper described Vietnam’s just-concluded 13th National PartyCongress a success, with the result that Nguyen Phu Trong was reelected as theParty General Secretary in the 13th tenure, and the new board ofleaders is expected to lead the country to reap further achievements.

2021 is the first year that the new leaders will implement theResolution adopted at the 13th Party Congress, the 2021-2025socio-economic development plan, and the 2021-2030 socio-economic developmentstrategy.

Promoting the country’s achievements after 35 years of Doi Moi (Reform), withconsensus and determination of both political system and the whole people,Vietnam will soon realise its target of becoming a prosperous nation soon, thearticle wrote.

This milestone marks the turning point for Vietnam in the next five years withgreat hope among its people that under the new leadership, Vietnam is determined to continue its positive role in building and shapingmultilateral institutions as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Councilin the year of the 2020-2021 term.

Vietnam has been recognised by the international community as a “beacon” inpandemic prevention and control and socio-economic development, ensuring socialsecurity. Last year, despite being shattered by the pandemic and severedroughts and floods, the Communist Party of Vietnam led the country to attainremarkable achievements in all sectors. This creates a solid foundation for theSoutheast Asian country to enter 2021, and concretise the goal to build apowerful nation.

The article also highlighted Vietnam’s export with turnover reaching nearly281.5 billion USD in 2020 with average export growth of about 11.7 percent peryear from 2016 to 2020. The size of its economy has increased 1.4-fold sincethe beginning of the 2016-2020 period. Vietnam has become the fourth-largesteconomy in ASEAN, and a manufacturing hub in the Asia-Pacific region./.
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