Seminar "Youth of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities Steadfastly Marching Under the Banner of the Party"

The seminar was attended by the following delegates: Mr. Dang Luong Phu (Member of the Standing Committee of the Youth Union of the University of Natural Sciences), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Kim (Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Vice Rector of the University), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Vu Quang Hien (Expert in Party history research), Dr. Nguyen Quang Lieu (Head of the Political and Student Affairs Department), Mr. Tran Bach Hieu (Secretary of the Youth Union), Ms. Nguyen Thi Mai Lan (Deputy Secretary of the Youth Union, President of the Student Association), along with representatives from the Party committees of the Faculties/Departments and more than 300 outstanding Youth Union members from throughout the university.

Speaking at the opening of the program, Associate Professor Dr. Nguyen Van Kim affirmed that the university always prioritizes the training and orientation of Party members. Over the past five years, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities has consistently been a leading institution within the Vietnam National University, Hanoi, in the training and orientation of Party members. Each year, over 300 Youth Union members are selected for Party membership orientation courses, and over 40 new members are admitted to the Party.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nguyen Van Kim speaking at the seminar (Photo: Duy Anh)

At the seminar, Associate Professor Dr. Vu Quang Hien presented an overview of the Party's history of development and growth, as well as its leadership of the nation through numerous victories since the spring of 1930. Following this, Dr. Nguyen Quang Lieu shared with the young members the necessary qualities for joining the Party: correctly and purely defining one's motivation for joining; continuously cultivating political acumen and revolutionary moral character; playing a pioneering role and improving the ability to fulfill all tasks for the Party, the State, and the people; and being committed to the collective and responsible to the community in the spirit of "wherever youth are needed, youth will be there; whatever is difficult, youth will overcome it." Associate Professor Dr. Vu Quang Hien also affirmed that "Young communists are always the pioneering force" because they are a force of young intellectuals, constantly absorbing new knowledge, dynamic in an integrated society, and always possessing the will to move mountains and fill oceans.

Associate Professor Dr. Vu Quang Hien discusses the Party (Photo: Duy Anh)

The discussion was followed by numerous questions and concerns from the Youth Union members regarding the process of training, striving, and joining the Party, the attitude and responsibility of Youth Union members in the face of many complex developments in the world and the subversive plots against our Party by hostile forces. Many situations and real-life examples were discussed directly. The opinions expressed all showed faith in the Party, affirming that our Party is the Party "of the people, by the people, and for the people," and that all the Party's struggles are for the benefit of the people; at the same time, the opinions also emphasized the role of Youth Union members in the struggle against hostile forces and in fighting for the ideals of the Party.

Photo (by Duy Anh)

The seminar concluded in a solemn yet friendly atmosphere. Although the time was short, the opinions exchanged once again affirmed the understanding, love, and pride of Vietnamese youth in general, and the members of the Youth Union of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU Hanoi in particular, towards the Communist Party of Vietnam.