General Secretary To Lam attends the solemn session of the 9th Congress of the Vietnam Youth Union

On the morning of December 18, the solemn session of the 9th National Congress of the Vietnam Youth Union, term 2024-2029, took place at the National Convention Center (Hanoi).

General Secretary To Lam attended and delivered a speech at the Congress.

The solemn session was attended by former General Secretary Nong Duc Manh; former National Assembly Chairmen: Nguyen Van An, Nguyen Sinh Hung. Also attending were Politburo members: Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Do Van Chien; Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen; Party Central Committee Secretaries, Party Central Committee members.

The Congress received congratulatory flower baskets from President Luong Cuong, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man and former Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

Unifying awareness of the role of youth in the new revolutionary stage

Speaking at the Congress, General Secretary To Lam affirmed that in all revolutionary stages, our Party has always paid special attention to and focused on youth work, issued many resolutions and directives to care for and educate youth, and prepared a solid foundation for youth to be ready to accept the mission of mastering the country.

On behalf of the Party and State leaders, General Secretary To Lam commended the achievements of the youth of the whole country and the Vietnam Youth Union in recent times.

Besides the results, frankly admitting that youth and youth work still have shortcomings and limitations, the General Secretary suggested that the Congress focus on exchanging and discussing, and soon finding solutions to overcome them.

The General Secretary emphasized the great achievements after nearly 80 years of founding the country and nearly 40 years of implementing the renovation process, with new opportunities and fortunes, the Party's will is blending with the people's hearts in the aspiration to bring the country into a new era, an era of development, an era of prosperity under the Party's leadership.

“Whether that cause is successful or not, whether the country can firmly enter a new era, an era of rising up or not, whether by 2045 it can stand shoulder to shoulder with the world powers as President Ho Chi Minh wished and the aspiration of the entire nation or not, depends largely on the contribution of the youth force - the future generation of the country, those who will follow their fathers and brothers to shoulder the task of building and defending the Fatherland. Gathering and orienting the young generation of Vietnam, creating great motivation, an important source of strength to contribute to bringing the country firmly into a new era is the glorious mission of the Vietnam Youth Union and youth organizations in the current revolutionary period,” the General Secretary pointed out.

The country is facing a historic opportunity to enter a new era, but there are still many difficulties and challenges. The General Secretary requested that there should be a unified understanding of the role of youth and the special importance of youth work in the new revolutionary stage of the Party and the nation.

The Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Central Committee for Mass Mobilization, the Central Committee for Propaganda and Education, in coordination with the Association, its collective member organizations and the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, promptly propose to the Politburo to issue a Resolution on youth work in the era of national development, clearly defining goals, targets, tasks and strategic solutions to mobilize the strength of the youth together with the entire Party, people and army to soon bring the country on par with the world powers.

The General Secretary noted the need to strongly innovate the work of associations and youth unions; build a strong contingent of association and youth union cadres; clearly define the responsibilities and tasks of the Association, its collective member organizations, and the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union in educating revolutionary ideals, preventing moral degradation, lifestyle, crime, and social evils among youth, students, and pupils.

Strongly innovate the association's methods of accompanying, supporting and approaching, ensuring closeness with young people; gather and widely unite Vietnamese youth at home and abroad, including in the online environment, to effectively implement the Party's guidelines and the State's laws and policies.

The Youth Union takes the lead in creating revolutionary youth movements to implement the Party's strategic policies on preventing and combating waste, digital transformation, combating environmental pollution, and streamlining the political system to be lean, strong, efficient, effective, and efficient.

At the same time, strongly innovate the work of political and ideological education for young people, ensuring close and wide access to diverse groups of young people; strongly shift from passive "giving and receiving" knowledge to proactively allowing young people to promote their creative role, placing young people at the center, creating playgrounds and forums for young people to be designers and participants in activities; promote learning and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style; closely combine the method of setting examples, skillfully combining old and young cadres.

Putting youth at the center of many of the country's major issues

The General Secretary requested the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Central Committee for Mass Mobilization, and the Central Committee for Propaganda and Education to coordinate with relevant agencies to determine specific tasks and responsibilities of the Association and the Youth Union in preventing and combating moral and lifestyle degradation, crime, and social evils among young people, pupils, and students; and to strengthen international exchanges and cooperation with young people of other countries in accordance with the guidelines and policies of the Party and State.

Relevant parties should promote coordination between the Youth Union and ministries, branches, socio-political organizations, and families in understanding and listening to aspirations; removing shortcomings in policies and mechanisms; providing vocational training and job creation; discovering, gathering, nurturing, encouraging, and creating conditions for talented youth to develop their abilities and contribute to the country.

At the same time, focus on building a strong, pioneering team of union and youth union cadres who are always impartial, concerned with the youth first, happy after the youth, going first in hardship, going last in enjoyment, capable of planning and organizing practical and effective revolutionary movements, being shining examples to inspire and gather the youth, and having the capacity to fulfill the requirements and tasks of youth work in the new revolutionary period.

Faced with the requirements and tasks for youth in the new revolutionary period, the General Secretary pointed out that youth need to clearly demonstrate their role in all activities of social life, need to be clearly aware of their responsibilities and tasks, must be the leading force in studying and training, constantly strive to master science and technology, be steadfast, determined, united, must do what is worth doing, prioritize action, talk less, do more, be proactive, decisive, grasp and seize opportunities, absolutely not be arrogant or complacent.

The General Secretary stated that the Party and State always place deep trust in the youth force, always put the youth at the center of many major issues of the country; consider the youth as the key factor in shaping and developing the future of the country; consider the growth of the youth as the success of the Party, the victory of the revolutionary cause, the longevity of the nation; always pay special attention and care to the youth and youth work.

Promoting the role and responsibility of the Vietnam Youth Union in the new term, with the desire to contribute and the great ambition to build and protect the Fatherland, firmly believing that "The path of the youth can only be the revolutionary path and no other path," the General Secretary believes that Vietnamese youth will constantly rise up, be self-reliant, confident, self-reliant, self-reliant, proud of the nation, and make strong efforts for a Vietnam with rich people, strong country, democratic, fair, civilized society, soon standing shoulder to shoulder with the world powers as President Ho Chi Minh wished and the aspiration of the entire nation.

The General Secretary requested Party committees at all levels, authorities, organizations, localities and the whole society to regularly pay attention to, direct, assist and create all favorable conditions for the Vietnam Youth Union to operate effectively; pay attention to and create an environment for members and Vietnamese youth to confidently participate in implementing important political tasks of the country, localities and units.

The General Secretary affirmed that the Party and State always clearly recognize their responsibility to the country, the nation and the young generation, and will do their utmost together with the entire Party, the entire people and the entire army to take care of the young generation so that they can develop more comprehensively, have better education and training, have healthier entertainment, have better jobs and incomes, and have an increasingly civilized, progressive and fair living environment, so that our young generation will forever live in independence, freedom, peace and happiness.

On this occasion, General Secretary To Lam presented flowers to congratulate the Central Committee of the Vietnam Youth Union, 9th tenure.

On behalf of 135 brothers and sisters elected by the Congress to join the Central Committee of the Vietnam Youth Union, term IX, Mr. Nguyen Tuong Lam, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Youth Union, term IX, expressed that he will devote all his efforts to building a strong, united, and creative collective so that the Vietnam Youth Union and Vietnamese youth can continue to have many new steps of development.

At the same time, we hope to continue to receive the attention and guidance of leaders, support and companionship from young people across the country to together realize the great dreams and aspirations of Vietnamese youth in the new era.