General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong speaks at the ceremony to celebrate the 60th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh's meeting with intellectuals (May 18, 1963 - May 18, 2023) and the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations (March 26, 1983 - March 26, 2023), March 24, 2023. Photo: Tri Dung/VNA

According to Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Tuan Hung, speaking of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, in addition to his role as a supreme leader of the Party, a leader of steadfastness - intelligence - heart - talent - virtue, who devoted his whole life to the Party and the Vietnamese people, the General Secretary himself is also a scientist, a theorist - a great intellectual. Throughout his working years, especially during his time as Chairman of the National Assembly and then General Secretary of our Party, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has played a great role in "igniting the fire" and promoting the role of the intellectual team in the new context of the current Vietnamese revolution. At the same time, he is also a great example of encouragement for intellectuals to study, accumulate knowledge and experience to contribute to the country.

Resolution 45-NQ/TW dated November 24, 2023 at the 8th Conference of the 13th Party Central Committee on "continuing to build and promote the role of the intellectual team to meet the requirements of rapid and sustainable national development in the new period" emphasized the more important role of scientific agencies, especially the role of large scientific organizations and intellectual teams of Vietnam in the new development period of the country.

Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Tuan Hung, Party Secretary, Deputy Director in charge of the Southern Institute of Social Sciences, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, shares his thoughts about General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Tuan Hung said that in the current period, the requirement to adjust the country's development model associated with the economic growth model in depth based on modern science and technology, improving the efficiency and quality of growth, more than ever requires science, technology and innovation in general, and the intellectual team in particular to play a particularly large and important role, deciding the rapid and sustainable development of Vietnam to realize the goal of building a "prosperous, happy" country and a "high-income developed country" by 2045.

Sharing deep affection for General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, Associate Professor, Dr. Luu Van Quyet, Head of the History Department of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City National University, said that General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong is a leader with both heart and vision, with shining revolutionary ethics, a great personality, and a great intellectual.

Associate Professor, Dr. Luu Van Quyet, Head of the Department of History (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ho Chi Minh City National University) shares his thoughts about General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.

Associate Professor, Dr. Luu Van Quyet emphasized that as a scientist, an intellectual, with a clear vision, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has cared for, placed trust in and encouraged intellectuals and scientists, and the General Secretary himself is also an example, a person who spreads the flame of revolutionary enthusiasm to Vietnamese scientists and intellectuals. In his statements related to the intellectual community as well as in Party documents, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong always highly appreciated and recognized the contributions of Vietnamese intellectuals to the development of the country.

Not only a politician, a leader of the Party and State, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong is also a scientist, theorist and a great intellectual, leaving our Party and our people a huge legacy of revolutionary theory and leaving Vietnamese intellectuals a shining example of the spirit of lifelong learning, the spirit of serving science and the people. With a simple, noble and exemplary lifestyle, the General Secretary is not only a role model but also a person who transmits the flame of enthusiasm, spirit and revolutionary ethics to scientists and intellectuals of the country. Remembering General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong is remembering the teachings on the requirement to improve professional qualifications and capacity along with the personal efforts of each intellectual to practice and cultivate revolutionary ethics, the consciousness of serving the Fatherland and serving the people.

According to baotintuc.vn