From June 24 to 26, a delegation of Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics (HCMA), led by the Executive Vice President Nguyen Duy Bac, paid a visit to Shanghai Party Institute of CPC (SPI)and learned about Shanghai practice of XIJinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era. The meeting was chaired by SPI Executive Vice President ZENG Jun, with SPI Vice President WANG Yongjiein attendance. Representatives from the International Cooperation Department of the Party School of the CPC Central Committee and other relevant departments of SPI also participated in the meeting.

ZENG Jun extended a warm welcome to the delegation. He briefed the delegation members on SPI’s functional positioning, scale, prospective trainees, postgraduate programs, and international collaborations, while also reviewing past engagements between SPI and relevant institutions of Vietnam. He noted that the two political parties and countries had maintained close exchanges and that Shanghai hadsigned a friendship city agreement with Ho Chi Minh City. He also emphasized SPI’s commitment to strengthening cooperation with HCMA and expressed the hope that this visit would serve as an opportunity to share experience in areas such as cadre training&Party school building, further expand the scope of cooperation, and jointly contribute to the training of senior cadres of the two political parties.

Nguyen Duy Bac expressed gratitude for the warm reception of SPI and introduced the overall situation ofHCMA following its institutional reforms. He spoke highly of SPI’s achievements as a national first-class and provincial-level Party school and commended its tremendous efforts incadre education & training in support of Shanghai’s development. Nguyen noted that Shanghai had made remarkable progress in building itself into an international financial center and served as a role model for Ho Chi Minh City which had also set the same goal. He expected thatboth sides would deepen exchange and collaboration in areas such as politicalparty building and research on the building of an international financial center.

LI Dunrui, director of the Department of Economic Managementas well as director ofthe Postgraduate Department at SPI, reviewed the history, achievements, and future development trends of Shanghai’s development as an international financial center. LILu, deputy director of the Department of Economics at SPI, shared practical insights into the city’s high-quality economic development, focusing on the new development philosophyand the vision that a city should be built for the people. The two sides engaged in in-depth discussion on topics, including how SPI’s cadre education & training curriculum meetsthe city’s needs for development, challenges and solutions encountered by the city when it just kick-started the program of building itself into an international financial center, as well as strategies for maintaining regional balance during the development process of metropolis, and balancing economic progress with cultural preservation.

During the stay in Shanghai, the delegation also visited the China Executive Leadership Academy in Pudong, Shanghai Futures Exchange and other key institutions.