General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong studied at the Faculty of Literature, Hanoi University (8th course). He graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1967 and was assigned to work as an editor of the Study Magazine (now the Communist Magazine). In August 1991, he took on the position of Editor-in-Chief of the Magazine. Do not use public vehicles for personal purposes . Teacher Nguyen Hung Vi, a former student of the 18th course (1973-1977) of the Faculty of Literature, is my classmate and classmate in college. Recently, he told me about the days when he was a lecturer in the Folklore Department but was also assigned to work as a student affairs assistant of the department. Therefore, he had the opportunity to meet and work with journalist Nguyen Phu Trong, who was then Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Communist Magazine. He said: - I once took the old man (journalist Nguyen Phu Trong) to my faculty for 2 years, 1990 and 1991. At that time, I didn't have a motorbike so I still cycled to work every day. The Faculty of Literature at that time taught students a subject on journalism called Journalism. This subject was previously taught by the late veteran journalist Quang Dam, former member of the Editorial Board of Nhan Dan newspaper. After Mr. Quang Dam went to Ho Chi Minh City to visit relatives and friends, no one else could be found to teach. One day, Associate Professor Bui Duy Tan, our brother, told me: Mr. Phu Trong, Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Communist Magazine, once wrote a book called "Journalism Writing Profession". Now Vi went to meet him and asked him to come back to teach. Is it possible? I went to meet him and Mr. Phu Trong said: If I could come back to serve our faculty, there would be nothing better, I'm ready! He also invited me, 'You should take the initiative to come early, eat with us so you can get to school on time for class, and don't have to worry about cooking'. Because he knew my wife was busy working, not coming home at noon, and the 3-year-old child was sent to daycare, so it was also a "cold rice" lunch scene... The writer of this article asked: So is our department paying Mr. Phu Trong for his teaching hours quite well? Mr. Hung Vi recalled: - I don't know now whether he took the money or not. Probably not. Because the teaching hours are only calculated at the end of the school year, sometimes even calculated for the previous year. At that time, it was common for the school to be 2 months late in paying. Later, we invited Mr. Nguyen Xuan Kinh to teach the Folklore subject, but there was no money. It wasn't until 1995 that the extra hours and invited hours were counted.

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong is a former student of the Faculty of Literature, Hanoi University of Science (second from left, taken in February 1965, at Me Tri dormitory, Hanoi)

From then on, every week, twice a week, I went out to the street to take him by bicycle to Thuong Dinh so he could go to class. The class was on the 4th floor of the Lien Hop building, looking straight at the Thang Long Tobacco Factory. The afternoon class time at that time was 12:30, so at 11:00 I had to go to Nguyen Thuong Hien street, sometimes having lunch with his wife, Ms. Man, and then taking him there. The first time he saw that I hadn't had time to eat, he said, "Let's just have lunch with them and then we can go to school on time." I also tactfully asked him about the long-term means of transportation, and he said right away: The fact that he went to class like this was because he had personally agreed with the faculty, it was a personal matter. And since it was a personal matter, he shouldn't use a public car (at that time, the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Magazine already had a private car, because he was equal to the Deputy Head of the Central Party Committee - NV). I took Mr. Phu Trong by bicycle throughout the entire Journalism Specialization with 70 periods each year and it lasted like that for 2 consecutive years. Two sessions a week, three periods each, until 1991, Mr. Trong still taught. At that time, the schedule of 5 periods each session was divided into 3/2. The second period was usually for basic subjects and teachers of the department. The third period was usually for guests so that they could finish faster and also save half of the travel day of outside lecturers. Later, when he was in the position of Chairman of the National Assembly, Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong still maintained that style. When attending a class reunion in college, he never took a car. He asked the security guards to take him instead of randomly catching a car on the street. "Once, through assistant Nguyen Huy Dong, I informed him that Mr. Nguyen Tien Hai, former Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Communist Magazine, a close friend of Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong, was sick. Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong was working in the South and immediately visited Mr. Hai in the hospital by motorbike taxi driven by security guards. Before that, every Tet he visited Mr. Hai by motorbike taxi" - journalist Vu Lan, a classmate of ours, said. The interesting and meaningful stories that my fellow students told about journalist Nguyen Phu Trong were simple and touching, showing the clear public-private and principled views of a journalist who later became the General Secretary of the Party.

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