Reality shows that many young talented people, who received regular training at universities and colleges fail to seek jobs or look for a job suitable to their education. Gifted intellectuals, master degree holders or overseas-trained people are sought by foreign-invested enterprises, joint-venture companies and private businesses. Only a few of them are recruited to work in State agencies.

Meanwhile, most cadres at the central level, particularly those at the grassroots level are sourced from the masses and participate in local activities. Those who have not yet passed secondary education, can apply for supplementary education schools or correspondence courses to gain certain certificates. Afterwards they will be appointed to hold some positions in localities and even to become key officials at higher level agencies in districts and provinces.

The different forms of training are not a big problem but the crux of the matter is that trainers have commercialised training activities to line their own pockets while trainees do not attach great importance to "learning" other than to obtain a diploma or certificate to buy title or power. Their certificates or diplomas are in reality "fake" and do not represent real knowledge. So where is their leadership capacity? There is a paradoxical result in that such people earn promotions thanks to their long terms of office or their schemes to solicit higher positions. Some even use every means to annul the efforts of talented people in a bid to monopolise and consolidate power.

It is high time we devised sound policies to encourage talented people to work not only for foreign-invested enterprises but also for State agencies and local administrative apparatuses. To do that, it is imperative to renew personnel training and recruitment and take into account the wage scales of State-governed systems so that State employees can live by their salaries and avoid negative phenomena from the existing "give-and-take" mechanism of State support.

On the other hand, despite our Party being the ruling Party, there is no room for anyone to join the Party to pursue his or her power ambitions since the Party organisation would then become a place for the gathering of opportunists and individualists and could no longer play its leadership role. The Party committee of the Project Management Unit 18 (PMU18) is a case in point and the upcoming 10^th National Party Congress will provide a chance for our Party to strictly rectify its approach to Party building.