Since its establishment on February 3, 1930, the CPV has persistently struggled for the sake of all classes and the continual development of the nation.

Although 80 years is a short period of time in the thousand-year-old history of Vietnam, it is considered to be the most glorious one in which the Vietnamese people were freed from slavery and have become masters of their own country. From being a poor and underdeveloped nation, Vietnam has taken a giant step toward building a happy life for all.

The past 80 years is a special period in which the Vietnamese people, under the clear-sighted leadership of the CPV, have overcome so many difficulties and challenges and won glorious victories. The growth of the Party is closely associated with the development of the Vietnamese revolution. It led the August 1945 Revolution to victory and later the Vietnamese people to successfully defend a young people’s democratic government – the first of its kind in Southeast Asia.

There is no denying the Party’s leadership role in bringing two protracted and arduous wars of resistance against colonialist and imperialist aggressors to a successful end with Dien Bien Phu victory in 1954 and national reunification in 1975, opening up a new era of independence, freedom and socialist construction.

Since then, the Vietnamese people have continued to record many great achievements in the process of national construction and defence, as seen in building “a law-governed socialist state of the people, by the people and for the people,” as well as in developing a socialist-oriented market economy, an advanced culture imbued with national identity and basic human values and an “all-people-based” national defence and security.

The Party-initiated Doi Moi (Renewal) process has led to major changes in the country. Despite embargoes and the fall of socialism in East European countries and the former Soviet Union, Vietnam has not only stood on its own feet but has maintained its socio-political stability. It has also weathered the global crisis and continued to achieve stable growth and further improve the people’s living conditions. Vietnam’s growing prestige and influence in the international arena has been attributed to its constant efforts to strengthen relations with other countries in the region and the rest of the world.

Over the past few years, Vietnam has assumed a pro-active and responsible role in regional and international forums and organisations. Notably, it has joined the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and fulfilled its duties at the United Nations Security Council and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). As a result, Vietnam’s improved status has created favourable conditions for its national construction and defence.

The fruits of the Vietnamese revolution over the past 80 years are testimony to the invincible strengths of the nation, which has been crystallised by the clear-sighted leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam and the ardent patriotism, self-reliance and creativity of the Vietnamese people. All this confirms the Party leadership as a decisive factor in every success of the revolution.

The Party has successfully integrated Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh’s Thought, patriotism and the cherished traditions of the nation, while respecting basic human values and bringing into full play the nation’s strengths to secure victory after victory.