Understand Uncle Ho's legacy to follow his enlightened pathway

Web.HCYU.27/8/2019. “Your prospects are high, your time for dedication is still very long, your duties and responsibilities are still very burdensome, so you have to train yourself, to have both virtue and talent in which virtue must be the root" General Secretary- President Nguyen Phu Trong reminded the nationwide outstanding young party members.

At the meeting with outstanding young party members, General Secretary- President Nguyen Phu Trong welcomed the initiative on the movement “Follow Uncle Ho’s footsteps, implement Uncle Ho’s will” as it was launched from the beginning of the year with many meaningful activities. General Secretary desired, in the coming time, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) will further promote its glorious tradition and better fulfill its duties.

At the meeting with almost 400 young party members, General Secretary- President Nguyen Phu Trong reminded  Youth Union officers and young party members to follow Uncle Ho’s footsteps. He asked the young officials to research and contemplate, in order to understand Uncle Ho’s words.

Mr. Nguyen Phu Trong, General Secretary- President speaking at the meeting with young Party members

According to General Secretary- President Nguyen Phu Trong, Youth Union members must be in the front line and always ready to cope with difficulties. Party members must be the living symbols of virtues and proactive spirit in both learning and working. The President said:” Young Party members are the valuable sources for the Party. As a result, young Party members must be proactive, energetic as well as being virtue. The potential is high, as well as the challenges. And talking is always easier than carrying out.”

The General Secretary noted that there were Politburo and Central Committee members went to jail recently. So the Party members must always be vigilant and remind themselves about Uncle Ho’s words, to restrain them from doing immoral things for the country.

Mr. Le Quoc Phong, Alternate Member of the CPV Central Committee, First Secretary of the HCYU, Chairman of the Viet Nam Youth Federation speaking at the meeting

To do this, Party members must have both virtue and talent. Virtue goes hand in hand with talent, but virtue must be at the root. Only people with virtue can do the right things. But people without talent can't do things right. Talented people without virtue might be harmful for the revolution. In The Tale of Kiều, great poet Nguyen Du concluded: “Virtue is always worth more than talent”.

“To you young party members: your prospects are high, your  time for dedication is still very long, your  duties and responsibilities are still very burdensome, so you have to train yourself,  to have both virtue and talent in which virtue must be the root. Virtue means being loyal to the Party and Fatherland, and always putting People and Nation’s interest in priority "

The General Secretary also mentioned the Party’s Anti-Corruption campaign. He said that the main purpose of the campaign is to figure out and punish contaminated Party members for the sake of both the Party and the People.

At this meeting, the General Secretary- President also expected and assigned tasks to the younger generation who attended the meeting to have representatives in the Party Central Committee. "But coming to the Central Executive Committee is not for privileges but for sacrificing for the country as Uncle Ho taught us," said the General Secretary and President.

Almost 400 young Party members attended the meeting

On behalf of the young Party members and the Youth Union members, Mr. Le Quoc Phong, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the HCYU promised to General Secretary- President Nguyen Phu Trong to continue training talent and virtue and, in order to maintain the pioneering spirit to accomplish the duties.

"With all affection and determination, the young generation today promises to the General Secretary- President that we will be determined to inherit the revolutionary legacy of the Founding Fathers and the orientations that the General Secretary set out today ”, Mr. Le Quoc Phong expressed.

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