Party leader Nguyen Phu Trong and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (Photo: VOV)

"First, the General Secretary was an outstanding leader who worked for the goal of building a strong, prosperous country with happy, thriving people, earning great prestige not only domestically and regionally but also globally. Second, he was a profound practical activist and an excellent theorist of the Party, significantly contributing to building socialism and the path to socialism in Vietnam, considering the people as the center, the subject, the resource, and the driving force for development. Third, he was a great culturalist with cultural ideas embracing national identity. He emphasized that culture is the soul of the nation. If culture remains, the nation will remain, and if culture is lost, the nation will perish. Last, he was a person of great personality, who valued honor as the most sacred thing. He was compassionate, humane, and kind," said Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

Throughout his life, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong devoted himself to building a clean and strong Party, improving the leadership capacity and combat capacity of the Party organization and Party members, and creating an effective and efficient apparatus. He was instrumental in the anti-corruption movement within the Party and the State.

For the government, Prime Minister Chinh said: "The Party stressed the need to build a government that is clean and honest, and acts for the people. Next year's achievements must surpass those of the previous year, and the next quarter's achievements must be better than the previous quarter's. This advice is comprehensive, and clear for us to make our performance most effective."