Seminar to seek measures for building modernized military

The event was attended by Deputy Director of the General Department of Politics Lieutenant General Trinh Van Quyet, deputy chiefs of the General Staff Lieutenant General Huynh Chien Thang, Lieutenant General Nguyen Trong Binh and Lieutenant General Nguyen Van Nghia and representatives from agencies of the Ministry of National Defense, the General Staff and the General Department of Political Affairs.

Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Tan Cuong speaks at the event.

Addressing the opening of the seminar, Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Tan Cuong emphasized the strategic significance and imperativeness of the mission of building a strong military to effectively fulfill their functions as a combat, work and production military. This mission was specified in the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress.

General Cuong asked delegates to contribute measures to realize the target of building the Vietnam People’s Army into a modernized military in terms of strong organization, political and military competence, professional competence, military arts, and weapons and military equipment by 2030, so as to meet the requirements of missions in the new period.

Scene of the seminar

In realizing the Chief of the General Staff’s request, delegates at the seminar contributed constructive ideas on building the Vietnam People’s Army in the new period. They agreed that building the military in the new period means building the structural organization, personnel with military and political knowledge and professional competence, and weapons and military equipment for missions. Among them, building a politically-strong military is considered a basis to raise the overall quality, combat power and combat readiness, contributing to turning the Vietnam People’s Army into a loyal and reliable political and combat force of the Party, State and people.

Acknowledging and highly appreciating delegates’ constructive opinions, Senior Lieutenant General Nguyen Tan Cuong asked relevant agencies to seriously consider all comments to make amendments to the set of criteria before submitting it to higher levels for approval. He said that this set of criteria will serve as a basis for building the Vietnam People’s Army to meet the requirements of missions in the new period. 

Translated by Tran Hoai