TTLA: The Communist Party of Vietnam led the press from 1986 to 2006.

1. Full name of PhD student: Vu Ngoc Luong

2. Gender: Male

3. Date of birth: November 9, 1977

4. Place of birth: Lao Cai

5. Decision on recognition of PhD students No. 4152/QD - SDH, dated July 15, 2008 of the Director of Hanoi National University.

6. Changes in the training process:
- Decision No. 596/QD-SDH, dated July 11, 2012 of the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities on adding a doctoral thesis supervisor;
- Decision No. 736 QD/SDH, dated April 24, 2014 of the President of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities on adjusting the research time scope of the topic.

7. Thesis topic: The Communist Party of Vietnam leads the press work from 1986 to 2006.

8. Major: History of the Communist Party of Vietnam

9. Code: 62 22 56 01

10. Scientific instructor:
- Associate Professor, Dr. Trinh Muu
- Associate Professor, Dr. Ngo Dang Tri

11. Summary of new results of the thesis:

- From a multidimensional approach to the picture of the press and press activities in the years before the renovation, the Thesis clarifies the appearance of the Vietnamese press and the press work of the Party in the period before the renovation (1986), points out the requirements for the Party's leadership when entering the renovation process, thereby contributing to clarifying the theoretical and practical basis for the necessity to innovate the Party's leadership over press work when the country entered the renovation process.
- Clarifying the importance of press work and the Party's leadership over press work from the viewpoints, policies, and basic measures expressed in the orientation of political ideology and content, through the direction, organization, and implementation of building a team of cadres, building a press system, building a legal system on press...; on that basis, objectively and truthfully reconstructing the historical process of the Party's leadership of press work from 1986 to 2006.
- From many different sources of documents, the Thesis has contributed to systematizing the Party's viewpoints and policies on press work through two stages with specific political tasks, on three basic contents demonstrating the Party's comprehensive and direct leadership over press work from 1986 to 2006.
- From the historical practice of the Party's leadership of press work, the thesis objectively identified the achievements and limitations and shortcomings in the Party's leadership of press work, thereby explaining the causes of the advantages, shortcomings, limitations and summarizing experiences in the Party's leadership of press work from 1986 to 2006.
- The thesis provides scientifically based arguments affirming that the Party's leadership is an important factor that determines not only the press's fulfillment of its responsibilities with its established principles and purposes, but also ensures the effectiveness of the press for society, for the internal development of the press, especially in the current context of globalization, multilateralization, and diversification of international relations.

12. Practical application:

- The content of the Thesis contributes to enriching and enlivening the picture of the Party's History in the first two decades of the renovation process, not only leading the development of economy, politics, culture, national security and defense... but also demonstrating the Party's leadership in a multi-dimensional, challenging aspect, directly related to many fields and equally important in the achievements of the renovation process in Vietnam.
- Objective assessments and comments on successes, limitations and shortcomings, and experiences drawn from the Party's leadership of press work will contribute an important historical basis for the process of planning policies and directing the implementation of the Party's press work in the coming time.
- The results of the Thesis are a useful source of reference for agencies, units, individuals, research and teaching projects on the history of journalism and the Party's press work in particular and the Party's ideological and theoretical work in general.

13. Further research directions:

- Deeply study the innovation of the Party's leadership method for the press through practical surveys in each specific type of press (visual press, written press, spoken press, electronic press) in the innovation process with important historical milestones of each type, in order to have adequate scientific arguments contributing to a more complete and profound understanding of the Party's leadership of the press in the new historical context.
- Continue to study and summarize both the theory and practice of the Party's leadership over press work during the 10th term (from 2006 to 2011), to grasp the continuous development of the press system, and at the same time objectively recognize the achievements and shortcomings that press work needs to summarize.

14. Published works related to the thesis:

- Vu Ngoc Luong (2008), "The Party leads the press in the period of international economic integration", Journal of Political Theory (3), pp.9-12.
- Vu Ngoc Luong (2008), "Strengthening leadership and management of the press in the process of innovation and integration", Journal of Party History (5), pp.69-71.
- Hoang Thi Dieu - Vu Ngoc Luong (2009), "The Communist Party of Vietnam in the renovation process", Journal of Political Theory (2), pp.3-5.
- Vu Ngoc Luong (2012), "Journalism activities in our country - current situation and issues", Journal of Party History (12), pp.54-57.
- Vu Ngoc Luong (2013), “Leadership and management of journalism in the globalization trend - Issues raised”, Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference Journalism in the globalization process: Opportunities, challenges and prospects, Academy of Journalism and Communication, Hanoi, pp.82-87.

INFORMATION ON DOCTORAL THESIS

1. Full name: VU NGOC LUONG
2. Sex: Male
3. Date of birth: 09/11/1977
4. Place of birth: Lao Cai province
5. Admission decision number: 4152/QD-SĐH, dated July 15, 2008 by President of the Vietnam National University, Hanoi.
6. Changes in academic process:
- Decision number 596/QD-SDH, dated July 11, 2012 by the Rector of the Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities supplement of PhD candidate's supervisor.
- Decision number 736/QD-SDH, dated April 24, 2014 by the Rector of the Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities on adjustmentof the research framework of the thesis.
7. Official thesis title: Vietnam's Communist Party's leadership in journalism from 1986 to 2006.
8. Major: History of the Communist Party of Vietnam
9. Code: 62 22 56 01
10. Supervisors: - A.Prof, Dr. Trinh Muu
- A.Prof, Dr. Ngo Dang Tri
11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis:
- Based on the multidimensional approach to the context of journalism and journal activities before the era of renovation (1986), the Thesis clearly points out the appearance of Vietnamese journalism and journal activities of Vietnamese Communist Party in this time period. It also mentions the requirements to the leadership of the Communist Party during the renovation progress, and then contributes to clarifying the theoretical and practical basis of the necessity of the Communist Party's guidance to journal activities.
- The Thesis shows the importance of the Communist Party's guidance to journal activities through opinions, policies, measures to direct the political opinions, guidance and organizing the staff, building journal system and developing the concerning legal system. This is the basis for reconstructing the historical process of the guidance to journal activities from 1986 to 2006.
- According to many different document sources, the Thesis contributes to systematizing the opinions and policies of Communist Party to journal activities in two stages, with specific political missions, with three fundamental contents expressing the comprehensive and direct leadership of Communist Party to journal activities from 1986 to 2006.
- Based on the historical fact of the guidance of Communist Party to journal activities, the Thesis objectively judges the obtained achievements and the drawbacks during the guidance progress, and then reasons the strengths and weaknesses to draw the lesson about this issue from 1986 to 2006.
- The Thesis provides the science-based arguments affirming that the leadership of Communist Part is the key factor to ensure the mission completion of journalism with identified targets and the effectiveness of journalism to society and the inner development of journalism, particularly in the context of globalization and relationship diversification.
12. Practical applicability:
- The Thesis contributes to the richness and vividness of the historical context during the first two decades of renovation not only through the leadership in economy, politics, culture and national security but the leadership in multidimensional, challenging and important field like journalism.
- The objective conclusions of the achievements, drawbacks and experiences drawn from the leadership process of Communist Party to journal activities contributed to the important historical base for the policy making and implementing of journalism in the near future.
- The Thesis is necessary documents for research and learning about the history of the Party's work in journalism Academy of Journalism and Communication in particular, for the agencies and units working in journalism in general
13. Further research directions:
- In-depth studying the renovation in leadership of Communist Party to journalism through field surveys in specific form of press (television, newspapers, radio and online publications) during the renovation process with the important historical milestones, and then obtain the comprehensive science-based arguments to raise the awareness of the Communist Party's leadership to journalism.
- Continuing studying and synthesizing the theoretical and practical leadership of Communist Party to journal activities during the term of office X (from 2006 to 2011) to obtain the understanding of continuous development of media network and the objective view of the achievements and drawbacks to be summarized.
14. Thesis - related publications:
- Vu Ngoc Luong (2008), “Party's leadership in journalism during the period of international economic integration”, Journal of Political Theory (3), pp.9-12.
- Vu Ngoc Luong (2008), “Strengthening the leadership and management of the press in the process of innovation, integration”, Journal of Party History (5), pp.69-71.
- Hoang ThiDieu - Vu Ngoc Luong (2009), “The Communist Party of Vietnam in the renewal process”, Journal of Political Theory (2), pp. 3-5.
- Vu Ngoc Luong (2012), “Press operation in our country - the current situation and the raised issues”, Journal of Party History (12), pp. 54-57.
- Vu Ngoc Luong (2013), “Leadership and management of press in globalization trends- arising issues”, International Scientific Conference, Journalism in globalization: opportunities, challenges and perspectives, Academy of Journalism and Communication, Hanoi, pp. 82-87.