VOV.VN - Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has called on Vietnam’s diplomatic sector to enhance the country’s international standing and actively shape its role in global affairs, highlighting the importance of soft power in reflecting Vietnam’s growing stature and capabilities.

For generations of Vietnamese, the country’s strength has been sourced from the people, with the ideology of “taking the people as the root” considered the lodestar for the nation throughout thousand-year history of national construction and defence.