Resolution No. 45-NQ/TW, dated 24 November 2023 of the Party Central Committee (13th tenure) On continuing to build and promote the role of the intellectual to meet the requirements of rapid and sustainable national development and sustainability in the new period has determined that: "Building an all strong intellectual contingent is investing in the construction and fostering of "national energy" and sustainable development." Grasping that spirit, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union has been promoting its role in developing the young intellectuals with many practical and effective contents and solutions.

When alive, President Ho Chi Minh taught us that: "The key forces of the revolution are the workers and the farmers... But the revolution also needs the participation of the intellectual". Fully aware of that, our Party, State and President Ho Chi Minh have summoned, gathered, and always paid attention to building and promoting the contingent of intellectuals to contribute to the cause of national liberation and unification, building and protecting the Fatherland, especially in the current renovation process. After 15 years of implementing Resolution No. 27-NQ/TW, dated 25 August 2008 of the Party Central Committee (10th tenure) the intellectual in our country have seen developments in both quality and quantity, further affirming their role in the process of innovation, industrialisation and modernisation of the country.

As a socio-political organisation of the Vietnamese youth, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union has thoroughly grasped and strictly implemented the Party's resolutions and directives on building the intellectuals; clearly defining its roles and responsibilities in building the intellectuals in general, and young intellectuals in particular, all strong in terms of expertise, ethics, and dedication spirit. Accordingly, the building of young intellectuals has been implemented by youth unions at all levels with diverse forms, rich and comprehensive contents, suitable with functions and tasks. First and foremost, they actively foster ideals, educate ethics and lifestyle, cultivate the pride, honour and responsibility of young intellectuals towards the Fatherland and the nation through revolutionary movements, programmes and campaigns to learn about Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh's thought, history, culture, policies and guidelines of the Party, and laws of the State.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Thang, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy launches the Fifth Vietnam Global Young Intellectual Forum (Photo: dangcongsan.vn)

As for all levels of youth unions of the armed forces in general, and the Vietnam People's Army in particular, under the leadership and direction of party committees and commanders at all levels, solutions for building the young intellectual have been deployed extensively with high effectiveness. From practice, there have appeared many examples, especially young ones who know how to solve difficult and new tasks in a different and highly effective way. Many collectives and individuals always pioneer in the research of military science and technology, in the invention, design, and manufacture of military weapons and equipment, thereby effectively serving the requirements and tasks of protecting the Fatherland. The Creative Youth Award has been launched in the Military since 2000, attracting thousands participants with thousands of initiatives and projects. In particular, more than 90% of awarded projects have been applied in practice with high efficiency, contributing to enhancing task performance, benefiting agencies and units in the Army hundreds of billions of dong each year. These movements have further beatified the noble qualities of "Uncle Ho's soldiers" in the new era, building a revolutionary, regular, elite, and gradually modernised People's Army.

Currently, the cause of national construction and defence are posing new and more challenging requirements for the work of building and developing human resources in general and the intellectuals, especially young intellectuals, in particular. The Fourth Industrial Revolution continues to develop robustly, fundamentally changing the social labour forces. Our country is promoting deeper and wider international integration, industrialisation and modernisation associated with the development of a knowledge-based economy,... This poses new requirements for people working in the science field that science must be built to become a direct productive force in all fields. Therefore, thoroughly grasping and implementing Resolution No. 45-NQ/TW, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union needs to continue to promote its role and responsibility in building the young intellectuals with the following measures:

Firstly, deploying diverse forms of propaganda about the Party and State's guidelines and policies on the development of Vietnam's young intellectuals, raising the awareness of the position, role and importance of the intellectuals and the young intellectuals. Promote the application of digital transformation, innovate content and methods, improve the effectiveness of propaganda and mobilisation work to enhance the consensus of the intellectuals for the Party's guidelines and policies, and State law. Focus on promoting the honour, morality, dedication, and responsibility of young intellectuals towards the Fatherland and the nation.

Second, continue to research and perfect the system of mechanisms and policies to innovate and improve the quality and effectiveness of training, fostering, using, remunerating and honouring the intellectuals and the talents, creating a favourable environment for young Vietnamese intellectuals to develop and contribute. In particular, there should be mechanisms and policies to mobilise intellectuals, especially the industry-leading ones, to directly train the next generations to make strong and comprehensive changes in the training of highly qualified human resources, and the development of talents in higher education institutions and scientific research institutions.

Third, discovering and honouring outstanding young intellectuals in a careful manner. Actively and effectively deploy the Creative Youth movement; create favourable conditions and environments for early training, discovery and honour of young intellectuals. At the same time, effectively leverage mass media, the press - publishing system, and social networks to propagate outstanding young intellectuals; the products and works of the young intellectuals; share models of honouring, supporting, connecting, and promoting young intellectuals at home and abroad.

Fourth, improving the quality of awards, contests, and competitions to promptly discover domestic and overseas Vietnamese talents, and create positive motivation for the young intellectuals to take part in training, improving themselves, and have the opportunity to be recognised and praised for their efforts.

Fifth, enhancing the support of young intellectuals to get access to opportunities of work, research, develop ideas, products, and start-up to legitimately enrich themselves, the community and the country. Support the implementation of startup ideas and projects of young intellectuals in practice, making practical contributions to the country's development. In addition, there should be solutions to support young intellectuals to access capital to start their business. Actively innovate the content and methods of operation of intellectual organisations, etc., contributing to the successful implementation of the Party's resolution, building a contingent of young intellectuals with dreams, ambitions, and aspirations to develop themselves, make contribution to the country, and follow the entire intellectuals of the country on the path of integration, development, and make the country increasingly rich, prosperous, civilised, and happy.

Master HO HONG NGUYEN, Permanent Member of the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, Standing Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Student Association