The senior official said at the ceremony to start its new academic year on September 15 that the institution needs to continually revise its teaching programmes and methods, combine theory with practice, and closely coordinate economic affairs with issues of national defence, security and diplomacy.

Mr Trong expressed his wish that the academy will build on its history of more than 32 years of constructing Vietnam’s revolutionary military theory and provide the Party and State with consultancy on defence and security policies and help in foiling the sabotage plots of hostile forces.

To achieve these targets, he recommended the academy upgrade its technical facilities, attract more experts, consolidate political quality and follow the moral example of President Ho Chi Minh.