Vietnam’s General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong passed away, aged 80

According to information from the Central Council for the Professional Council for Health Protection of Central Officials, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, after a period of illness. Despite the devoted treatment from the Party, the State, a collective of professors and doctors, and the wholehearted care of his family, due to old age and serious illness, passed away at 1:38 p.m. on July 19, 2024, at the 108 Central Military Hospital. He was 80 years old.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front will issue a special announcement on organizing a State funeral for Chief Nguyen Phu Trong.

Brief biography of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong

- Full name: Nguyen Phu Trong

- Date of birth: April 14, 1944

- Ethnicity: Kinh

- Hometown: Dong Hoi commune, Dong Anh district, Hanoi city

- Date of joining the Party: December 19, 1967; Official date: December 19, 1968

- Professional expertise: Bachelor of Literature

- Academic title: Professor, Doctor of Political Science

- Senior political theorist

- Foreign languages: Russian D, English B

- Member of the Party Central Committee: 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th terms

- Member of the Politburo: terms VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII

- General Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Party: terms XI, XII, XIII

- National Assembly Delegate: terms XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV.