VNE  – July 24, 2024 | 01:48 pm GMT+7 

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has left many major legacies with a consistent stance: Making people a focus to serve for his entire life and career.

Trong joined the ranks of the Communist Party of Vietnam when he was a 23-year-old who just graduated from the Literature major of Hanoi General University. For 60 years ever since, he had contributed himself entirely to the causes of the Party and the people, with a lasting ambition to build a socialist state ruled by law, of the people, by the people and for the people.

That ideal followed him until even his final days. At the age of 80, Trong had been simultaneously handling the workload of the Party and receiving health treatment at the 108 Military Central Hospital, where he passed away at 1:38 p.m. on July 19.

“Trong’s consistent ideal was the people, to serve people to the best of one’s ability, to make people the focus in efforts for change,” President To Lam wrote in an article on Trong’s life.

Over his 57 years of dedication, Trong spent over 13 of them being the Party General Secretary, nearly three years being the state president, and two terms of being the National Assembly chairman. Trong left his marks on all aspects: politics, diplomacy and culture, and has become a model of a humble lifestyle for future generations of Party members and the people.