This afternoon (January 15), the Central Propaganda Department coordinated with the Central Theoretical Council, the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, the Truth National Political Publishing House and a number of relevant agencies to organize a national scientific conference: "Theoretical and practical issues on building culture in the Party in the new period".
Attending and chairing the workshop were Politburo members: Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Department Nguyen Trong Nghia; Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council Nguyen Xuan Thang. Also attending and chairing the workshop were Ms. Dinh Thi Mai, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department; Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Trong Lam - Director, Editor-in-Chief of the National Political Publishing House Truth.
In his opening speech and introduction to the Workshop, Prof. Dr. Nguyen Xuan Thang stated that Party culture is the synthesis of traditional values, ideology, ethics, rules, leadership style, working methods, operating methods, and behaviors of the Party organization and Party members in all leadership activities, in the organization and activities of the Party.
Formed and nurtured in the 95-year history of the Party leading the Vietnamese revolution, through the eras of struggle for independence and national unification, the era of innovation, integration and development, culture in the Communist Party of Vietnam has always been an important part, crystallizing the best and most pioneering values of Vietnamese national culture.
It is a harmonious combination of the Party's revolutionary ideals, ethics and leadership style built on the foundation of Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh thought, the theory of Renovation, inheriting and promoting the fine cultural traditions of the Vietnamese people, selectively absorbing the cultural quintessence of humanity.
Culture within the Party is a particularly important component in the Party's political and ideological life; it is a factor to strengthen solidarity, unity, and promote the Party's endogenous strength.
Building culture within the Party plays an important and decisive role in the work of building and rectifying a clean and strong Party in all aspects; forming a democratic, scientific, transparent and effective leadership style, suitable for new development requirements in the condition that our Party is the only leading and ruling party; at the same time, helping cadres and Party members to practice and improve themselves, maintain revolutionary ethics; effectively prevent manifestations of political and ideological degradation, corruption, waste, negativity, "self-evolution", "self-transformation".
In addition, the culture within the Party is also a strong bond connecting the Party with the people, strengthening the people's trust in the Party. Not only limited within the Party, the culture within the Party, as the soul, the profound crystallization of Vietnamese political culture, also plays a role in orienting society, strongly spreading good values and ethical standards from within the Party to the entire political and social system, contributing to making culture truly become an important resource, endogenous strength and driving force for the rapid and sustainable development of the country.
The responsible and profound opinions and discussions of the delegates at the Workshop contributed to analyzing and explaining theoretical and practical issues; identifying tasks and solutions for building culture in the Party in the new period, meeting the development requirements of the country in the new era, the era of the Vietnamese nation's rise.
