Summary biography of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong

Comrade Nguyen Phu Trong, born on April 14, 1944; hometown: Dong Hoi commune, Dong Anh district, Hanoi. Permanent residence: No. 5 Thien Quang street, Nguyen Du ward, Hai Ba Trung district, Hanoi. Joined the work on December 5, 1967; joined the Party on December 19, 1967.

WORK HISTORY

December 1967: He worked as a staff member of the Documentation Department of the Study Magazine (now the Communist Magazine); on December 19, 1967, he was admitted to the Communist Party of Vietnam.
August 1968 - August 1973: He was an editor of the Communist Magazine; went on field trips to Thanh Oai district, Ha Tay province (now Hanoi); worked as Secretary of the Communist Magazine Agency's Youth Union.
September 1973 - April 1976: He was a postgraduate student in the Faculty of Economics and Politics at the Nguyen Ai Quoc High-Level Party School (now the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics).
May 1976 - August 1980: He worked as an editor of the Party Building Committee, Communist Magazine, and Deputy Secretary of the Party Cell.
September 1980 - August 1981: He studied Russian at the Nguyen Ai Quoc High-Level Party School.
September 1981 - July 1983: He was an intern and defended his thesis for Associate Professor (now Doctor) in Historical Sciences (majoring in Party Building) at the Academy of Social Sciences of the Soviet Union, under the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
August 1983 - August 1987: He worked as Deputy Head of Party Building Department, Communist Magazine.
September 1987 - February 1989: He was Head of the Party Building Committee; Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee (from July 1985 - December 1988), Secretary of the Party Committee of the Communist Magazine (December 1988 - December 1991).
March 1989 - April 1990: He was a member of the Editorial Board of Communist Magazine.
May 1990 - July 1991: He was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Communist Magazine.
August 1991 - August 1996: He was Editor-in-Chief of Communist Magazine.
At the mid-term National Delegates Conference of the 7th Party Congress (January 1994), he was elected to the Party Central Committee. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam in the 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th terms.
August 1996 - February 1998: He was Deputy Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee, concurrently Head of the University Personnel Committee and directly in charge of the Hanoi Party Committee's Propaganda Department.
At the 4th Conference of the Party Central Committee, 8th tenure (December 1997), he was elected to the Politburo. He was a member of the Politburo of the 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, and 13th tenures.
February 1998 - January 2000: Comrade in charge of the Party's Ideology - Culture and Science and Education work.
March 1998 - November 2006: He was Vice Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council; Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council, in charge of the Party's theoretical work (November 2001 - August 2006).
August 1999 - April 2001: Comrade participated in the Standing Committee of the Politburo, Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
January 2000 - June 2006: He was Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee for the 12th, 13th and 14th terms.
May 2002 - present: He is a National Assembly Delegate of the 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th and 15th terms.
June 2006 - July 2011: He was Chairman of the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 11th and 12th terms, Secretary of the National Assembly Party Delegation, Member of the National Defense and Security Council.
January 2011 - present: He is General Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, terms XI, XII, XIII, Secretary of the Central Military Commission.
February 2013 - present: He is the Head of the Central Steering Committee on preventing and combating corruption and negativity.
August 2016 - present: He participated in the Standing Committee of the Central Public Security Party Committee for the 2015 - 2020 and 2020 - 2025 terms.
October 2018 - April 2021: He served as General Secretary and President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for the 2016-2021 term; Chairman of the National Defense and Security Council.
April 2021 - present: He is General Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Secretary of the Central Military Commission, Member of the Standing Committee of the Central Public Security Party Committee, Head of the Central Steering Committee on anti-corruption and anti-negativity.
Due to his great and outstanding contributions to the revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation, he was awarded the Gold Star Order by the Party and the State, the 55-year Party membership badge, and many other noble orders and medals of Vietnam and the world: "National Gold Medal" of the President of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, "Friendship Medal" of the Party and State of the People's Republic of China, "Lenin Prize" the most noble award of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation; "José Marti Medal" of the Party and State of the Republic of Cuba, and many other noble titles.