Information on the thesis "Implementing the Religious Policy of the Party and State in Ho Chi Minh City 1990 - 2005" by graduate student Hoang Ngoc Phuong, majoring in Political Science.1. Student's Full Name: Hoang Ngoc Phuong 2. Gender: Female 3. Date of Birth: August 7, 1985 4. Place of Birth: Ho Chi Minh City 5. Decision No. 1355/2008/QD-XHNV-KH&SDH dated October 24, 2008, of the Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, recognizing the student. 6. Changes during the training process: None 7. Thesis Title: Implementing the Religious Policy of the Party and State in Ho Chi Minh City 1990-2005 8. Major: Political Science; Code: 60 31 20 9. Scientific Advisor: Dr. Luu Tran Luan, Position: Member of the Scientific Council – Director – Head of the Classics and Theory Department – National Political Publishing House. 10. Summary of the thesis's results: Based on a summary of 15 years of implementing the reformed religious policy (1990-2005), with its achievements, limitations, and lessons learned, it can be seen that the fundamental idea running throughout the views, policies, and guidelines on religion of our Party and State is: _ Respecting and guaranteeing the right to freedom of belief, the right to follow or not follow a religion of citizens, and the right to normal religious activities according to the law; _ Uniting people and religious leaders within the great national unity bloc, promoting patriotism, fulfilling civic duties, and living a "good life and beautiful faith" for religious followers. To achieve this, the content of the Party and State's policies and guidelines on religion must be consistent with reality, and must further promote the role of religious organizations, the role of religious leaders and officials, especially religious intellectuals, so that the campaigning and dissemination of religious policies are more effective. Furthermore, it is necessary to strengthen the effectiveness and efficiency of government management, promote the role of People's Councils at all levels as true representatives of the people, and effectively perform their functions of supervision, listening to the opinions, thoughts, and aspirations of the people. It is crucial to promptly detect and correct actions that violate the Party's guidelines and policies and the State's laws. The state management apparatus from the city level to the grassroots level must be streamlined, administrative reforms must continue, and efforts must focus on resolving complaints and grievances related to religion, creating favorable conditions for religious activities in the city, while remaining vigilant against the exploitation of religion by hostile forces. 11. Practical Application: Based on the general assessments, this thesis boldly proposes several directions and solutions to make the implementation of the Party and State's religious policy, specifically in Ho Chi Minh City, more effective. 12. Further research directions: Given the extremely complex religious situation in Ho Chi Minh City, continued research into the religious policies of the Party and State is essential for practical application. Based on the general religious policy, research could be conducted on the activities of individual religions in Ho Chi Minh City today, or research could focus on identifying commonalities and distinctive features of religions in Ho Chi Minh City. The implementation of religious policies in this area would serve as a valuable lesson for other localities nationwide to apply flexibly. 13. Published works related to the thesis: _ Author Tran Chi My successfully defended his PhD thesis in Philosophy at the Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy with the topic "Building a spiritual and cultural life in Ho Chi Minh City in the current period" (2000). _ Than Ngoc Anh successfully defended her Master's thesis "The Influence of Buddhism on the Spiritual Life of the People of Ho Chi Minh City Today" (2004). _ Particularly noteworthy is the Summary Report of the research project "Some Urgent Issues in Religious Life in Ho Chi Minh City (in the Context of Implementing the Party and State's Policies on Religion in Recent Years)" co-edited by Prof. Dr. Do Quang Hung (2005).
INFORMATION ON MASTER'S THESIS
1. Full name: Hoang Ngoc Phuong 2. Sex: Female 3. Date of birth: August 7, 1985 4. Place of birth: HoChiMinh City. 5. Admission decision number: 1355/2008/QD-XHNV-KH&SĐH Dated October 24, 2008 6. Changes in academic process: (List the forms of change and corresponding times) 7. Official thesis title: Implement the religious policy of the Party and State in Ho Chi Minh City 1990 - 2005 8. Major: Political Science 9. Code: 60 31 20 10. Supervisors: PhD. Luu Tran Luan – Work at: National Political Publishing House 11. Summary of the findings of the thesis: On the basis of 15 years of implementing the innovation religious policy (1990-2005) with the achievements, the limitations and the lessons, we can see the basic ideas throughout the views, the guidelines, the religious policies of the Party and State are: _ Respect and ensure the freedom of belief, religious or non-religious citizens, the right normal religious activities according to law _ Unite the people, the religious citizens dignitaries in the great national unity, promote patriotism, perform the duties of citizens, to live the "good life, good direction" of the religious public. Therefore, the content of the guidelines, the religious policy of the Party and State must be consistent with the practice and to further promote the role of religious organizations, the role of dignitaries and officials, especially to the religious intellectual for the movement, propagation of religious policies more effective. Besides, need to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the government management, promote the role of the People's Councils at all levels to be truly the representative of the people, implement well the monitoring function, and listen to the opinions, the thoughts and the aspirations of the people. Timely detect and correct the action against the policy, the Party's policies and laws of the State. The apparatus of state management from the city to the base level, further administrative reform, focus on the complaints and appeals related to religion, to create all favorable conditions for religious activities in the city, and sober against the abuse of religion by hostile forces 12. Practical applicability: Through the joint assessment, the thesis strongly suggests some directions and measures for the implementation of religious policies of the Party and State, especially in Ho Chi Minh more effective 13. Further research directions: With the religious situation on the ongoing being complex in the area of Ho Chi Minh City, Continuing to study the religious policies of the Party and State to apply in practice is vey essential. On the basis of common policies on religion, we can study the religious activities of each separate sector in Ho Chi Minh city at present, or we can research towards to find the common grounds, the striking characteristics of religions in Ho Chi Minh and the implementation of religious policy in this area will be the lessons for other localities in the country to apply flexibly. 14. Thesis-related publications: - Author Tran Chi Mi has successfully defended his PhD thesis in Philosophy Political Institute of Ho Chi Minh National themed "Building spiritual cultural life in Ho Chi Minh City in the current period" (2000). - Author Than Ngoc Anh has successfully defended his Master thesis "Influence of Buddhism to the spiritual life of the people of Ho Chi Minh City today" (2004). - Especially the summary report of the subject, "Some urgent problems in religious activities in Ho Chi Minh City (in the context of implementation of the policy of the Party and State of religion in latest years)" by Professor Do Quang Hung as co-editor (2005).
