Major General Vu Hong Van appointed southern Vietnam manufacturing hub's Party chief
Major General Vu Hong Van, Deputy Chairman of the Central Inspection Committee, has been appointed Secretary of Dong Nai province's Party Committee under a decision of the Politburo, Vietnam's supreme decision-making body.
Dong Nai is a manufacturing center and an FDI hub in southern Vietnam, together with Ho Chi Minh City, Binh Duong province, and Long An province.
Van also used to be Deputy Political Commissar, Deputy Commander of the Mobile Police; director of Dak Lak province's Police; director of Dong Nai province's Police; director of the Department of Internal Political Security.
He was also appointed to join the Party Committee of Military Region 7 for the term 2020-2025.
General Vu Hong Van (left), newly-appointed Party chief of Dong Nai province, southern Vietnam, and Le Minh Hung, head of the Central Organizing Committee. Photo courtesy of Dong Nai newspaper.
Van replaced Nguyen Hong Linh who has been elected by the Party Central Committee as a Central Inspection Committee member.
At a ceremony to announce the appointment decision on Saturday, Le Minh Hung, head of the Central Organizing Committee, said that Vu Hong Van is a cadre with high professional qualifications; and a democratic, dertermined and scientific mindset and working methods which are highly evaluated by the Politburo and the Party Central Committee's Secretariat.
Van was born in 1976. His hometown is Hung Yen province.
Nguyen Thanh Nghi, newly-appointed standing Deputy Secretary of HCMC's Party Committee. Photo courtesy of Thanh Nien (Young People) newspaper.
On the same day, the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee announced the Politburo's decision to appoint Nguyen Thanh Nghi, Minister of Construction, to be standing deputy Party chief of HCMC for the term 2020-2025.
Nghi was born in 1976. His hometown is Ca Mau province. He has a doctorate in construction science and technology.
Nghi is the eldest son of former Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.
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