These are the major tasks for these agencies in the future, said To Huy Rua, Head of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC)’s Commission for Information and Education at a symposium to review 80 years of the Party’s information and education work in Hanoi on July 21.

These agencies will also concentrate on maintaining and promoting the Party’s ideology and defending and developing Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh’s thoughts, said Mr Rua.

They are asked to help the entire Party and people grasp firmly and reach the major goals, viewpoints, orientations and tasks the country has set for the national construction and development from now through 2020, the Party official stressed.

In addition, they are also requested to defend an ideology highlighting a socialist national independence and bring into full play patriotism, the spirit of self-reliance, self-strengthening and creativity and create a movement to get the entire people involved in fulfilling revolutionary goals and duties.

That requires the information and education sector, especially those working in ideological, theoretical and scientific research to continue modernising their line of thoughts and making more assessments of reality and theoretical studies, Mr Rua said.

He also underlined the need for the sector to raise awareness and provide a clearer insight into concepts of socialism and the road towards socialism in Vietnam, the socialist-oriented market economy, the ruling party and the Party building work, the building of a socialist law-governed State, the organisation and the operations of the Fatherland Front and other mass organisations.

Apart from those, the theoretical studies and reality assessments should make clear the new issues arising during the renewal process, Rua noted.

Close to 50 presentations sent to the symposium confirmed that information dissemination and education work has over the past 80 years has contributed importantly to the achievements made by the Party and the nation.

However, they pointed out that valuable experiences in these fields should continue to be studied and analysed further. They emphasised the necessity for those working in the ideological front to go down to roots and participate directly in the socio-economic development process and addressing pressing issues in society.