Party chief’s book on corruption fight to make debut
A book by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong regarding the fight against corruption and other negative phenomena will be released at a ceremony in Hanoi on February 2, according to the CPV Central Committee’s Commission for Internal Affairs.
The debut is timed for the 93rd anniversary of the CPV (February 3) and the 10th anniversary of the Central Steering Committee on Prevention and Control of Corruption and Negative Phenomena (February 1). (Photo: Su That (Truth) National Political Publishing House)
Hanoi (VNA) – A book by GeneralSecretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong regardingthe fight against corruption and other negative phenomena will be released at aceremony in Hanoi on February 2, according to the CPV Central Committee’sCommission for Internal Affairs.
The debut is timed for the 93rd anniversary of the CPV (February 3) and the 10th anniversary of the CentralSteering Committee on Prevention and Control of Corruption and NegativePhenomena (February 1), the commission said.
The book, entitled Resolutely, persistently fightingcorruption and negative phenomena to contribute to building more transparentand stronger Party and State, is jointly published by the commission and the SuThat (Truth) National Political Publishing House.
It presents directions of Trong as the Party leader andhead of the steering committee in a systematic manner, and demonstrates theParty’s consistent ideology on the prevention and control of corruption andnegative phenomena, Party building and rectification, and the improvement ofmorality and lifestyle of officials and Party members.
With nearly 100 photos, the 600-page book comprisesthree parts presented in a modern press style.
The first part focuses on issues drawnfrom the fight against corruption and negative phenomena in Vietnam, featuring theParty chief’s article reviewing the combat since the establishment of thesteering committee in 2013, along with his closing remarks made at nationalconferences on the fight in 2014, 2018, 2020 and 2022, and 36 meetings of thesteering committee.
The second introduces 22 articleson Party building and rectification by the Party chief, including fourreviewing the work since the first years of Doi Moi (Reform), and eight on theimprovement of morality and lifestyle of officials and Party members, including some written in the 1970s.
The last is a collection of opinions and assessmentsof people from different walks of life, National Assembly deputies, and foreignpoliticians and scholars on Vietnam’s anti-corruption efforts under the Partyleadership.
An electronic version of the book will be availableat the website stbook.vn.
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The debut is timed for the 93rd anniversary of the CPV (February 3) and the 10th anniversary of the Central Steering Committee on Prevention and Control of Corruption and Negative Phenomena (February 1). (Photo: Su That (Truth) National Political Publishing House) 
