Party Chief’s Book on Corruption Fight Released

A ceremony was held in Hanoi on February 2 to release the book entitled “Resolutely, persistently fighting corruption and negative phenomena to contribute to building more transparent and stronger Party and State” by General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Nguyen Phu Trong.
February 03, 2023 | 09:38
(Photo: Su That (Truth) National Political Publishing House)
The book is entitled “Resolutely, persistently fighting corruption and negative phenomena to contribute to building more transparent and stronger Party and State”. Photo: Su That (Truth) National Political Publishing House

The release of the book is part of activities to celebrate the 93rd founding anniversary of the CPV (February 3) and the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Central Steering Committee for Prevention and Control of Corruption and Negative Phenomena (February 1), VietnamPlus reported.

Jointly published by the CPV Central Committee’s Commission for Internal Affairs and the Su That (Truth) National Political Publishing House, the book presents directions of comrade Nguyen Phu Trong as the Party leader and head of the steering committee in a systematic manner, and demonstrates the Party’s consistent ideology on the prevention and control of corruption and negative phenomena, Party building and rectification, and the improvement of morality and lifestyle of officials and Party members.

With nearly 100 photos, the 600-page book comprises three parts presented in a modern press style.

The first part focuses on issues drawn from the fight against corruption and negative phenomena in Vietnam, featuring the Party chief’s article reviewing the combat since the establishment of the steering committee in 2013, along with his closing remarks made at national conferences on the fight in 2014, 2018, 2020 and 2022, and 36 meetings of the steering committee.

Party Chief’s Book on Corruption Fight Released
At the ceremony to release the book. Photo: VNA

The second introduces 22 articles on Party building and rectification by the Party chief, including four reviewing the work since the first years of Doi Moi (Reform), and eight on the improvement of morality and lifestyle of officials and Party members, including some written in the 1970s.

The last is a collection of opinions and assessments of people from different walks of life, National Assembly deputies, and foreign politicians and scholars on Vietnam’s anti-corruption efforts under the Party leadership.

Besides the printed version, readers can read the book on the websites https://stbook.vn/ ; https://thuviencoso.vn/

According to Vice Chairman of the CPV Central Committee’s Commission for Internal Affairs Nguyen Thai Hoc, the compilation team has focused on thoroughly collecting relevant documents and images from many sources and through many different periods.

Relevant agencies, especially the Office of the General Secretary, National Assembly’s library, Hanoi Party Committee’s Office, Vietnam News Agency, Communist Review, and Hanoi University of Social Sciences and Humanities, have coordinated and provided a lot of valuable documents and images about activities of the steering committee in the last decade, and photos on activities of comrade Nguyen Phu Trong since he was a student; and articles by the General Secretary when he worked as an editor of the Communist Review half a century ago, Hoc said.

Action plan issued to accelerate national anti-corruption strategy building

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on January 12 chaired the 23rd session of the Central Steering Committee on Prevention and Control of Corruption and Negative Phenomena to review its operation in 2022 and decide its working agenda for this year.
Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong chairs the 23rd session of the Central Steering Committee on Prevention and Control of Corruption and Negative Phenomena in January 2023. Photo: VNA

Deputy Prime Minister Le Minh Khai, head of the steering committee on building the national anti-corruption strategy by 2030, has signed a decision on the issuance of the committee’s action plan, according to Viet Nam News.

The strategy is intended to perfect institutions and policies on socio-economic development and anti-corruption, popularise relevant guidelines, policies and laws, avert corruption in both State and non-State sectors, recover corrupt assets, promote the society’s responsibility in the combat, and materialise the United Nations Convention against Corruption.

The Deputy PM will direct the committee’s operations, chair its meetings, and propose the Government issue the strategy.

Inspector General Doan Hong Phong will help the Deputy PM with the implementation of the committee’s tasks, and prepare the dossier for the strategy.

Tasks have also been assigned to deputy heads of the committee as well as the head of the 37-member inter-sectoral working group which is in charge of supporting the committee in building the action plan and a draft resolution on the issuance of the strategy, among others.

The steering committee is scheduled to look into the draft strategy and its dossier during its meeting on March 15, and complete the dossier before March 31, 2023./.

It was reported that last year, 539 party members were disciplined for corruptive behaviours and intentional violations of laws. Five officials were removed from the 13th Party Central Committee, two Deputy Prime Ministers and three deputy ministerial-level officials were removed from their positions.

Also, 557 cases were transferred to the investigation authorities for investigation, and 493 corruption cases with 1,123 defendants were prosecuted.

Legal agencies seized and froze assets worth over VND364 trillion (USD15.5 billion USD) in corruption cases, and sentence enforcement agencies recovered VND27.4 trillion in those cases.

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