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| Party and State leaders and former leaders attended the commemoration ceremony. |
General Secretary and President To Lam attended and delivered a speech at the commemoration ceremony.
Also attending have been: Comrade Pham Minh Chinh, former member of the Politburo and former Prime Minister; Politburo members: Trinh Van Quyet, Secretary of the Central Committee and Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department; Nguyen Thanh Nghi, Secretary of the Central Committee and Head of the Central Policy and Strategy Department; Tran Duc Thang, Secretary of the Hanoi City Party Committee; and Central Committee members: Le Tien Chau, Deputy Prime Minister; and Nguyen Thi Thanh, Vice Chairwoman of the National Assembly.
The ceremony was additionally attended by native leaders, companions, companies, ambassadors and representatives of diplomatic businesses, worldwide organizations, universities, worldwide accomplice analysis institutes, and representatives of universities, schools, and academies nationwide.
On the half of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU), the ceremony was attended by the VNU Board of Directors, leaders of purposeful departments, member models, affiliated models, former leaders of VNU from numerous intervals, generations of academics, scientists, employees, college students, trainees, and alumni of VNU.
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| General Secretary and President To Lam, on behalf of the Party and State leaders, offered the First-Class Labor Order to Vietnam National University, Hanoi. |
At the 120th anniversary celebration, General Secretary and President To Lam, on behalf of the Party and State management, awarded the First-Class Labor Order to Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU), recognizing its excellent contributions to the coaching of high-quality human assets, nurturing abilities, scientific analysis, data switch, innovation, and repair to the nation. Prior to this, on the event of its a centesimal anniversary in 2006, VNU was awarded the Golden Star Order – a prestigious award from the Party and State, affirming its place, wonderful custom, and exceptionally essential contributions to larger schooling, science and know-how, and the trigger of nationwide development and protection.
Originating from the University of Indochina, established on May 16, 1906, the first trendy college establishment in Vietnam and one of the earliest fashions of trendy universities in Southeast Asia, Vietnam National University, Hanoi right now is a steady, selective inheritance and growth at a brand new degree of the tutorial values, liberal spirit, and elite coaching traditions of the University of Indochina, Vietnam National University, Hanoi University, and its predecessor establishments.
From its early days, the University of Indochina was characterised as a multidisciplinary college, laying the basis for many trendy tutorial fields akin to drugs, pharmacy, legislation, fundamental sciences, high quality arts, literature, commerce, agriculture, forestry, and veterinary drugs. Despite its origins in a colonial context, this college mannequin transcended its preliminary limitations, changing into a middle for disseminating trendy data, fostering scientific considering, sensible studying, and an open-minded spirit for many generations of Vietnamese intellectuals.
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| Director of Vietnam National University, Hanoi, Bui The Duy, delivered a commemorative speech. |
For 120 years, this faculty has produced or been related to many excellent intellectuals, scientists, cultural figures, and leaders of the nation. From the time of the University of Indochina, notable figures embrace Nguyen Thai Hoc, Pho Duc Chinh, Nguyen An Ninh, Truong Chinh, Vo Nguyen Giap, Ton That Tung, Duong Quang Ham, Hoang Ngoc Phach, Nguyen Gia Tri, To Ngoc Van, Luu Huu Phuoc, Nguyen Dinh Thi, Xuan Dieu, and Huy Can. During the interval of the Vietnam National University and Hanoi University, the custom of cultivating excellence continued to be nurtured by the names of many nice educators and scientists akin to Nguyen Van Huyen, Nguy Nhu Kon Tum, Le Van Thiem, Hoang Tuy, Tran Van Giau, Dao Duy Anh, Tran Duc Thao, Dinh Gia Khanh, Phan Huy Le, Ha Van Tan, Tran Quoc Vuong, Nguyen Tai Can, Ha Minh Duc, together with many different generations of exemplary intellectuals.
This custom of elite coaching just isn’t solely mirrored in the nice names in historical past, however can be continued by excellent achievements in expertise coaching, scientific analysis, and worldwide integration right now. Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) is at the moment a number one multidisciplinary analysis college in Vietnam, with over 80,000 college students enrolled in common applications; a system of practically 500 coaching applications; and a employees of over 5,000 staff, together with greater than 3,000 scientists and 631 professors and affiliate professors. By 2025, VNU will launch 16 new coaching applications, specializing in core applied sciences of the Fourth Industrial Revolution akin to semiconductor know-how, built-in circuit design, robotics, and aerospace know-how.
Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) is dedicated to growing fundamental science as its core tutorial basis, whereas concurrently selling strategic know-how fields, interdisciplinary science, utilized science, and innovation. To date, VNU has 210 laboratories and 50 robust analysis teams; it has revealed practically 10,000 worldwide articles in the ISI/Scopus index, with roughly 65% in the Q1 and Q2 classes. VNU scientists have obtained quite a few awards, together with the Ho Chi Minh Prize, the State Prize, the Ta Quang Buu Prize, and different prestigious worldwide awards.
In expertise growth, the specialised excessive colleges of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) proceed to affirm their function as a particular “nursery” for the nation’s abilities. These specialised excessive colleges have contributed over 80 worldwide Olympic gold medals to Vietnam. From this setting, many generations of college students have grown as much as change into respected scientists, consultants, managers, and leaders each domestically and internationally.
The place of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) continues to be affirmed in worldwide rankings. According to the QS World University Rankings 2026, VNU is in the group of 761-770 greatest universities in the world, rating 158th in Asia, additional enhancing its place in comparison with the earlier yr. Indicators of tutorial repute, employer repute, employment outcomes, and sustainable growth display the high quality of coaching, analysis, and the growing affect of VNU in the area and globally.
In explicit, the growth of the Vietnam National University Urban Area in Hoa Lac is step by step realizing the mannequin of a “smart, green, and innovative university city,” forming an built-in ecosystem of coaching – analysis – know-how switch – entrepreneurship – enterprise cooperation in line with the requirements of a complicated analysis college.
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In his commemorative speech, Associate Professor Bui The Duy, alternate member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and Director of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU), emphasised that the 120th anniversary celebration is a chance for VNU to replicate on a flow of data spanning centuries, a journey of self-affirmation of Vietnamese mind in the context of world civilization. According to the Director, if 120 years corresponds to 2 cycles of the sixty-year cycle of the Chinese zodiac, then right now’s milestone just isn’t solely a possibility to look again on the wonderful journey of the previous, but in addition to usher in a brand new period of growth for VNU with the aspiration to achieve larger ranges in the new age.
He affirmed that Vietnam is a nation with a long-standing custom of valuing schooling, all the time prioritizing studying and using expertise. In this historic context, the institution of the University of Indochina on May 16, 1906, was a big milestone, marking the starting of trendy larger schooling in Vietnam and Southeast Asia. From its inception, the University of Indochina was oriented in direction of an elite college mannequin, specializing in basic sciences, and shortly growing a mannequin that built-in coaching with scientific analysis. Simultaneously, it created a contemporary interdisciplinary tutorial ecosystem by its connections with specialised analysis establishments akin to the French School of Far Eastern Studies and the Pasteur Institute.
The Director of Vietnam National University, Hanoi emphasised that, transcending the limitations of a colonial instructional establishment, Indochina University turned a coaching floor for many generations of excellent intellectuals, making vital contributions to the growth of trendy Vietnamese schooling, science, and tradition. After the August Revolution of 1945, this tutorial custom continued to be inherited and developed with the formation of Vietnam National University on the foundation of Indochina University. After peace was restored, Hanoi University continued to take care of its multidisciplinary mannequin, specializing in its strengths in fundamental sciences, step by step changing into a number one heart for coaching and scientific analysis in the nation, whereas additionally forming a convention of discovering and nurturing expertise with the institution of the “A0 block” in 1965.
Looking again on its growth, Associate Professor Bui The Duy believes that Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) has affirmed the correctness and effectiveness of its multidisciplinary, high-quality college mannequin oriented in direction of analysis. The ripple impact of this mannequin is more and more evident in the Vietnamese larger schooling system, creating an interdisciplinary, versatile tutorial area succesful of fixing giant, complicated issues in the sensible growth of the nation.
In the discipline of schooling, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) continues the custom of coaching gifted people in fundamental sciences, persistently growing high-quality expertise applications, prioritizing funding in science and know-how assets, and sustaining its function as the cradle of expertise coaching for the nation. VNU additionally pioneers innovation in larger schooling with interdisciplinary and dual-discipline coaching fashions, transitioning from a semester-based system to a credit-based system, selling digital transformation, efficiently piloting competency evaluation exams, and main in accreditation and high quality assurance of schooling.
In scientific analysis, technological growth, and innovation, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) has constantly maintained its main place nationwide. The quantity of worldwide publications in prestigious journals has elevated from beneath 300 articles per yr earlier than 2010 to roughly 2,000 in current years; many works have been awarded the Ho Chi Minh Prize and the State Prize, and the quantity of patents and mental property property continues to develop. VNU’s analysis is intently linked to sensible necessities, has excessive software worth, and contributes to coverage recommendation for the Party, State, ministries, sectors, and localities in many essential fields.
The Director of Vietnam National University, Hanoi additionally emphasised the achievements in worldwide cooperation and tutorial diplomacy. With a large community of cooperation with a whole lot of universities and analysis institutes round the world, Vietnam National University, Hanoi has change into a bridge connecting, exchanging, and fascinating in world tutorial and coverage dialogue. It has had the honor of welcoming many heads of state, famend scientists, financial consultants, and leaders of giant firms to go to and work with it.
In response to the nation’s new growth necessities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) is set to proceed pioneering the efficient implementation of the Party and State’s strategic insurance policies, particularly Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW on breakthroughs in the growth of science, know-how, innovation, and nationwide digital transformation; Resolution No. 71-NQ/TW on breakthroughs in schooling and coaching growth; and Resolution No. 80-NQ/TW on the growth of Vietnamese tradition. VNU goals to change into an elite college, striving to be amongst the prime 100 universities in Asia by 2030 and amongst the prime 300 universities in the world by 2035.
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| Delegates visited the exhibition showcasing the 120-year historical past and traditions of Hanoi National University. |
To notice that aim, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) focuses on selling its core function in coaching high-quality human assets, growing fundamental science, mastering strategic applied sciences, fostering innovation, and constructing a complicated tutorial setting on par with worldwide requirements. At the similar time, VNU is strongly reforming its college governance mannequin in direction of modernization, shifting from administrative administration to results-based and efficient governance; growing as a platform for creation and sharing, in which member models each promote initiative and creativity whereas working in line with a constant mission, technique, plan, and requirements.
A key strategic route emphasised by the Director of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) is to deal with growing the VNU Urban Area in Hoa Lac into a contemporary college and know-how metropolis, step by step forming a brand new growth pole to steer innovation in the capital. The VNU Urban Area in Hoa Lac is envisioned as an open innovation area, a inexperienced, trendy college metropolis with built-in technical and digital infrastructure and superior companies; a spot the place companies, know-how firms, and different entities can take part in analysis, testing, and know-how demonstration, strengthening the “three-party” mannequin linking universities with companies, analysis with software, and coaching with technological observe.
Based on this expertise, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) proposes that the Central Government, the Government, and the metropolis of Hanoi pay particular consideration and prioritize the allocation of assets and the software of particular funding mechanisms to speed up the development of the VNU city space in Hoa Lac, in line with the relocation schedule of over 80,000 college students. VNU additionally proposes that the Central Government and the Government direct the growth and implementation of particular mechanisms to develop VNU into a number one elite college in Asia, a middle for expertise coaching, scientific analysis, technological growth, and strategic innovation for the nation.
The Director of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) affirmed that the 120-year custom just isn’t solely a supply of pleasure but in addition a driving drive for VNU to proceed its breakthroughs in the new growth part. All employees, lecturers, scientists, and college students of VNU will unite, innovate, and concretize the directives of the Party and General Secretary and President To Lam into sensible actions, decided to construct VNU into a logo of Vietnamese mind, making a worthy contribution to the nation’s growth in the new period.
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| General Secretary and President To Lam delivered a speech at the commemoration ceremony. |
Speaking at the anniversary ceremony, General Secretary and President To Lam emphasised that Vietnam National University, Hanoi has change into a logo of Vietnamese mind, a spot the place tutorial aspirations converge, abilities are nurtured, and essential contributions are made to the trigger of nationwide development and growth.
Acknowledging the nice efforts and vital achievements of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU), the General Secretary and President emphasised that in an period the place the nation’s future is more and more decided by data, science, know-how, innovation, and human high quality, VNU should all the time replicate on its nationwide duty and the nation’s aspiration for progress; it should try even tougher to change into a number one tutorial pillar, a significant inventive heart, a pioneering drive in Vietnamese larger schooling, and a distinguished and respected consultant of Vietnamese mind on the worldwide stage.
Agreeing with the targets set by Vietnam National University, Hanoi, the General Secretary and President prompt that a number of key disciplines must be ranked amongst the prime 100 globally. To notice these targets, the college should function in line with the mannequin of an revolutionary college with the capability to steer the nation; possess a contemporary instructional philosophy, superior governance, and a liberal tutorial setting; and urgently full the Hoa Lac University Urban Area in a inexperienced, sensible, and trendy route, organically related with the Hoa Lac High-Tech Park, forming a number one ecosystem for coaching, analysis, know-how, and innovation in the nation.
The college wants a selected roadmap, assigning targets and duties to every member, unit, and analysis group, and orienting administration in direction of outcomes. Investing in Vietnam National University, Hanoi have to be thought of a strategic funding in the nation’s future, with a particular monetary mechanism, ample assets, and superior insurance policies to construct a contemporary scientific infrastructure and appeal to and make the most of home and worldwide expertise.
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| General Secretary and President To Lam, together with a high-ranking delegation, visited an exhibition showcasing scientific and technological achievements. |
The General Secretary and President emphasised that Vietnam National University, Hanoi have to be a spot that dares to be at the forefront, dares to experiment, and pave the approach for new fashions in schooling, science, know-how, innovation, and digital transformation; it have to be a pioneer in implementing the Party’s strategic resolutions; and deal with fixing main nationwide issues, particularly strategic applied sciences, core applied sciences, supply applied sciences, and know-how merchandise bearing the Vietnamese model.
This offers a sensible foundation for the Party and State to proceed refining growth insurance policies in the new period. The college must change into a hub for nationwide intelligence (main scientists, prime know-how consultants, know-how entrepreneurs, excellent college students, and so forth.) to analysis, grasp, and develop foundational applied sciences akin to synthetic intelligence, semiconductors, biotechnology, new supplies, new vitality, massive knowledge, inexperienced and sustainable applied sciences.
Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) should change into a middle connecting data with growth, additional strengthening the college’s ties with the State, companies, localities, and society; proactively growing analysis applications, coverage consulting, and innovation initiatives based mostly on main nationwide orders; and enhancing cooperation with ministries, sectors, Hanoi, localities, know-how corporations, analysis institutes, and worldwide skilled networks.
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| General Secretary and President To Lam indicators the commemorative visitor e-book. |
With its long-standing custom and main place in the nation, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) should additionally change into a number one establishment of Vietnamese tutorial diplomacy. Every employees member, lecturer, and pupil must be deeply conscious that they’re contributing to representing Vietnamese mind, tradition, and dignity in all tutorial, diplomatic, and worldwide change actions.
To efficiently accomplish these duties, the General Secretary and President requested that Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) set up efficient and complete political and ideological schooling for all employees and college students on the proud traditions, roles, tasks, and mission of intellectuals in the new period of nationwide growth. The college should proactively coordinate with related businesses to analysis and suggest to the Politburo and the Government breakthrough growth mechanisms and insurance policies for VNU in explicit and Vietnamese larger schooling in basic.
In explicit, emphasis can be positioned on eradicating bottlenecks in establishments, governance, finance, human assets, college autonomy, tutorial freedom, and funding in fundamental science and strategic know-how to assist Vietnam National University, Hanoi develop to its full potential, whereas concurrently creating a powerful impetus for innovation in Vietnam’s larger schooling system.
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| Drawing inspiration from the “Popular Education Movement” launched by President Ho Chi Minh with the aspiration to lift the mental degree of the folks and construct the nation, Professor Vu Minh Giang connects it to the spirit of “Digital Popular Education” in the twenty first century. |
Speaking on behalf of the generations of school and employees of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU), Professor Vu Minh Giang, Chairman of the VNU Science and Training Council and former Vice Director of VNU, expressed his deep emotion at the presence and particular consideration of General Secretary and President To Lam and the leaders of the Party and State in direction of VNU and the trigger of larger schooling in the nation. Recalling the occasion of November 15, 1945, in the context of a newly impartial nation going through numerous difficulties, President Ho Chi Minh nonetheless took the time to attend the first opening ceremony of Vietnam National University, Professor Vu Minh Giang thought of it a message of profound symbolic significance concerning the revolutionary state’s view on valuing intellectuals and skills.
Drawing inspiration from the “Popular Education Movement” launched by President Ho Chi Minh with the aspiration to lift the mental degree of the folks and construct the nation, he linked it to the spirit of “Digital Popular Education” in the twenty first century, contemplating it an incredible concept that reminds the whole inhabitants, particularly intellectuals, academics, and scientists, to grasp digital data and know-how to propel the nation to the ranks of main nations. Professor Vu Minh Giang affirmed that the institution and growth of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) is the outcome of a significant coverage and a strategic imaginative and prescient of the Party and the State; in the new part, VNU not solely develops with the scale and place of a big college, but in addition should shoulder the nationwide mission of coaching abilities, growing data, and contributing to bringing the nation into an period of progress and constructing a affluent and highly effective nation.
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| Professor Nguyen Ngoc Minh, a lecturer at the University of Natural Sciences, emphasised that the workforce of scientists at Vietnam National University, Hanoi, deeply understands the must contribute to fixing main nationwide issues, selling the nation’s competitiveness, defending the nation’s cultural and humanistic values, and getting ready the mental basis for future generations. |
From the perspective of the school and scientists, Professor Nguyen Ngoc Minh, a lecturer at the University of Science, Vietnam National University, Hanoi, and a recipient of the Ta Quang Buu Award in 2016, expressed his pleasure and emotion at representing over 3,000 school and scientists of Vietnam National University, Hanoi, at this particular historic milestone. According to Professor Nguyen Ngoc Minh, the 120th anniversary of the Indochina University – Vietnam National University, Hanoi, is a wonderful journey intertwined with the historical past of trendy Vietnamese growth; it isn’t solely the historical past of the next schooling establishment, but in addition the historical past of a nationwide mental heart – a spot the place tutorial excellence converges, abilities are nurtured, enlightened concepts are unfold, and aspirations to serve the nation are fostered.
He emphasised that the workforce of scientists at Vietnam National University, Hanoi, deeply understands that the duty of intellectuals right now just isn’t solely to publish analysis papers or impart data in the classroom, but in addition to contribute to fixing main nationwide issues, selling the nation’s competitiveness, defending the nation’s cultural and humanistic values, and getting ready the mental basis for future generations.
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| Student Duong Yen Nhu from the University of Foreign Languages shared that the 120-year custom of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) is a non secular basis for generations of college students to proceed nurturing their aspirations for studying, creativity, integration, and contribution. |
Speaking on behalf of the college students of Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU), pupil Duong Yen Nhu from the Department of Chinese Language and Culture, University of Foreign Languages, VNU, expressed her honor and emotion at collaborating in this particular milestone in the college’s historical past. According to Duong Yen Nhu, VNU’s 120-year custom serves as a non secular basis for generations of college students to proceed nurturing their aspirations for studying, creativity, integration, and contribution; whereas additionally emphasizing that data have to be linked to duty, expertise should go hand in hand with contribution, and the most lovely youth is the youth who reside for issues better than themselves.
Building upon its 120-year custom, Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) enters a brand new part of growth with the spirit of a pioneering college alongside the nation: steadfastly upholding tutorial values, selling its main function in expertise coaching and scientific analysis, strongly innovating its governance mannequin, increasing worldwide cooperation, deeply connecting with companies and localities, and aiming to change into a number one heart for coaching, analysis, and innovation in Asia.
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| General Secretary and President To Lam poses for a commemorative picture with present and former leaders, worldwide companions, and college students from Vietnam National University, Hanoi. |
The actions commemorating the 120th anniversary of the Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) are a possibility to specific gratitude to the generations of academics, scientists, employees, college students, and alumni who’ve contributed to the wonderful custom of the college; and at the similar time, affirm VNU’s aspiration for growth in the new period. Building on the basis of its 120th anniversary, VNU continues to try in direction of changing into a analysis and innovation college of regional and worldwide stature, instantly contributing to the growth of a affluent, robust, civilized, and joyful nation.
As half of the collection of actions commemorating the 120th anniversary of the Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU), on the afternoon of the similar day, VNU organized a scientific convention “From Indochina University to Vietnam National University, Hanoi: A 120-Year Tradition of Elite Education” at the Nguy Nhu Kon Tum Hall, 19 Le Thanh Tong Street; in the night, the exhibition “120 Years of Vietnam National University, Hanoi: A Tradition of Elite and Liberal Education” was inaugurated, making a cultural, tutorial, and creative area to unfold the depth of custom, the spirit of liberal schooling, and the aspiration for growth of VNU in the new period.
Here are some photographs from the celebration:
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