Vietnam appoints younger, more educated provincial Party honchos
By Hoang Thuy, Viet Tuan December 30, 2020 | 02:24 pm GMT+7
The nation s provincial administrative apparatus has got several younger Party honchos with higher educational qualifications in 2020.
Vu Quoc Hung, former chairman of the Central Inspection Commission of the Communist Party of Vietnam, said the nominations for and election of provincial Party leaders for the 2020-2025 term has seen younger people take office.
In the nation’s 63 localities, 51 Party secretaries hold a master s degree or higher educational qualifications.
The youngest of them is Le Quoc Phong, 42, a Hanoian with a master s degree in biology. Phong was voted Party Committee Secretary of the Mekong Delta’s province of Dong Thap in October.