In Vietnam, the multi-sector economy was officially recognised in the documents of the 6th National Party Congress; the encouragement and facilitation of private economic development was affirmed at the 7th congress, and further emphasised at the 8th congress.

Exactly 110 years ago, on June 5, 1911, the young Nguyen Tat Thanh, using the name Van Ba, boarded the vessel Latouche-Tréville in Vietnam and headed overseas to seek a way to save the country.

A national-level seminar entitled “V.I. Lenin’s Legacy: Theoretical and Practical Values” was organised on April 22 to mark his 150th birthday.

A delegation of the Party Committee, People’s Council, People’s Committee and Fatherland Front Committee of Hanoi on April 22 paid a floral tribute to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin at his statue on Dien Bien Phu street to mark his 150th birthday.

A delegation of the Hanoi's leaders on November 7 laid a basket of flower at the statue of V.ILenin in Chi Lang Parkto to mark the 98th anniversary of the Russian October Revolution (November 7, 1917)