Comrade Tran Thanh Man, Politburo member and National Assembly Chairman, delivered a speech at the workshop. Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA

General Secretary and President To Lam sent a congratulatory flower basket to the Workshop. National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man attended and delivered a speech at the Workshop. Politburo member, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council Nguyen Xuan Thang; Secretary of the Party Committee of the Central Agencies Nguyen Van The; General Secretary of the National Assembly, Head of the National Assembly Office Bui Van Cuong; Director and Editor-in-Chief of the National Political Publishing House Truth Vu Trong Lan; Deputy Head of the President's Office Pham Thanh Ha chaired the Workshop. The Workshop is an activity to commemorate and pay tribute to the immense merits and great contributions of President Ho Chi Minh to the revolutionary cause of the Party and the Vietnamese people; to arouse the will and determination of the entire Party, people and army, including cadres and party members of the Central agencies, to successfully realize his noble wishes. President Ho Chi Minh's Testament always accompanies the nation. Speaking at the workshop, National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man stated: Over the past 55 years, President Ho Chi Minh's thoughts and Testament have always accompanied the nation, illuminating and guiding our entire Party, people and army to always be steadfast and loyal to his revolutionary cause and ideals, successfully continuing the great revolutionary cause to which he devoted his whole life and sacrificed. In the process of building and defending the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland, especially over nearly 40 years of carrying out the national renovation process, thanks to promoting the strength of the entire nation, with the joint efforts and unceasing efforts of generations of cadres, party members and people of all walks of life, our country has achieved great and historic achievements. "We can proudly report to Uncle Ho that under the leadership of the Party, our people have built our country "increasingly more dignified and beautiful" as he wished," the National Assembly Chairman emphasized. Implementing President Ho Chi Minh's testament, our Party pays special attention to the task of Party building and rectification, always determining this as a regular and key task. The National Assembly Chairman affirmed that building the Party in terms of ethics is associated with building a culture of integrity, considering the culture of integrity as the foundation for building the awareness and ethics of cadres and party members, and at the same time, "building a culture of integrity to "not want" corruption and negativity. To completely and radically eliminate corruption and negativity, building a culture of integrity with the spirit that the late General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong often said "honor is the most sacred and noble thing" is a fundamental and long-term solution. The National Assembly Chairman assessed that in recent times, Party building work in central agencies has had many positive changes. These are strategic advisory agencies, with a team of cadres with qualifications in political theory and expertise; directly performing the task of advising and organizing the implementation of the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws in most important areas. The National Assembly Chairman suggested that in the coming time, central agencies should regularly follow the leadership and direction of the Party. of the Party Central Committee, the Politburo, and the Secretariat to comprehensively, synchronously, and deeply implement the work of Party building, firmly uphold the principle of democratic centralism, promote the leadership role and political core of the Party organization, first of all, focus on doing well the political and ideological work, fight against erroneous and hostile arguments, and firmly protect the Party's ideological foundation. At the same time, continue to strongly promote the role, leadership capacity and fighting strength of Party organizations and the quality of cadres and Party members, focus on leading cadres and Party members to well perform the political tasks of agencies and units; promote the sense of responsibility and pioneering and exemplary role of cadres and Party members, especially the leaders. The National Assembly Chairman requested the Central agencies to strictly implement the Central resolutions on Party building and rectification, especially Conclusion No. 21 of the Central Committee on promoting the building and rectification of the Party and the political system; Resolutely prevent, repel, and strictly handle cadres and party members who have degraded political ideology, ethics, and lifestyle, and manifested "self-evolution" and "self-transformation"; Conclusion No. 01 of the Politburo on studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, ethics, and lifestyle and the 2024 Special Topic of the Party Committee of the Central Agencies "Enhancing the pioneering and exemplary role of cadres and party members, excellently completing the political tasks of the Central Agencies". The Central Agencies continue to strongly innovate the leadership methods of Party committees and Party organizations; select key, key issues, and breakthroughs to issue specialized resolutions and lead and direct their effective implementation; strengthen the work of periodic and unscheduled inspection and supervision by Party committees, Party organizations, and inspection committees at all levels; regularly urge the implementation of the Party's resolutions and conclusions; Timely promote advantages, overcome shortcomings, prevent violations and resolutely handle violations, and properly resolve complex issues right from the grassroots. Throughout the history of the Vietnamese revolution, every victory and every step forward has been associated with the great contributions of President Ho Chi Minh. "Our entire Party, people and army vow to continue the great cause of President Ho Chi Minh; resolutely and persistently fight to firmly protect the independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the Fatherland; build Vietnam into a country of "rich people, strong country, democracy, equality and civilization"; vow to "preserve unity and consensus within the Party as if preserving the pupil of one's eye", continue to build and rectify the Party to become increasingly clean and strong; continue to study and follow his ideology, morality and style", the National Assembly Chairman affirmed. Spreading the extremely valuable historical document Previously, in his opening speech at the Workshop, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council Nguyen Xuan Thang affirmed that President Ho Chi Minh's Testament is an extremely valuable historical document at the Party's platform level - a national treasure, the crystallization of sentiments and enthusiasm throughout his life of noble revolutionary activities, loyal to the Fatherland, to the Party, and devoted to the people; converging outstanding intelligence, deeply expressing the ideology, morality, exemplary style, and immense benevolence of a great revolutionary leader, a great intellect, great humanity, and great courage.

Comrade Tran Thanh Man, Politburo member and National Assembly Chairman, delivered a speech at the workshop. Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA

Summarizing the consistent content of President Ho Chi Minh's Testament, Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thang stated that in the Testament, President Ho Chi Minh first mentioned our Party - the leader and organizer of all victories of the Vietnamese revolution. In order for the Party to maintain and enhance its role and position as a leading and ruling party, "moral and civilized", worthy of the trust and love of the people and the entire nation, he emphasized that the first thing that needs to be done is to build and rectify the Party to be truly clean and strong. Deeply imbued with the philosophy of respecting and being close to the people in the national tradition, with boundless love and respect for the people, for each individual, President Ho Chi Minh's advice in the Testament exudes important orientations on the Party's mission to the people. According to the Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, the entire Testament is the noble sentiment and deep lifelong devotion to the country and people of President Ho Chi Minh - a man who from his youth until his departure from this world lived "a glorious life, full of hardships and sacrifices, extremely noble and rich, extremely pure and beautiful". An exemplary model of an outstanding communist soldier who fought and sacrificed his whole life for the independence and unification of the Fatherland, the freedom and happiness of the Vietnamese people and the progress of humanity. Mr. Nguyen Xuan Thang affirmed that over the past 55 years, President Ho Chi Minh's Testament has always been a guiding light, illuminating the entire Party, people and army to firmly advance on the revolutionary journey. Studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style, together with the entire political system, cadres and party members of central agencies have promoted patriotism, joined hands and overcome many difficulties and challenges, and made many contributions to the cause of innovation, integration and development of the country. Central departments, ministries, branches and mass organizations have actively participated in research, contributed to building and organizing the implementation, concretizing the Party's correct innovation guidelines in all areas of social life; promoted the work of Party building and rectification, building a clean and strong organizational apparatus of central agencies; promoted the sense of responsibility, constantly cultivated and trained revolutionary ethics, political mettle and professional qualifications, built a contingent of cadres with sufficient qualities, capacity and prestige, equal to the task; actively fight against corruption, negativity, degradation in political ideology, ethics, lifestyle, and manifestations of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation". At the workshop, delegates focused on analyzing and researching President Ho Chi Minh's Testament from diverse and multi-dimensional perspectives and aspects to deepen the historical value and contemporary significance of the Testament; highlight the achievements and lessons learned through 55 years of implementing President Ho Chi Minh's Testament in central agencies; clarify the directional significance of his Testament for the Vietnamese revolution in the current context; At the same time, many solutions were proposed to continue effectively implementing President Ho Chi Minh's Testament in Central agencies... Sincerely thanking the opinions and contributions of delegates and scientists, in his closing speech at the Workshop, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Bloc Nguyen Van The said that he would accept all opinions and comments, and on that basis edit them into documents to serve the research, study, application and creative development of Ho Chi Minh's legacy; contribute to the successful implementation of the sacred Testament and the revolutionary cause that he found, paved and led; successfully build a "peaceful, unified, independent, democratic and prosperous" Vietnam, and make a worthy contribution to the world revolutionary cause as his last wish. On this occasion, to meet the research and learning needs of a large number of readers, along with paper books, the National Political Publishing House Truth publishes the book in e-book form, posted on stbook.vn and sachquocgia.vn.