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President Tran Duc Luong was born in
Pho Khanh village in Duc Pho District
of Quang Ngai Province on the central coast on May 5, 1937.
He was an 18-year-old student when he
regrouped to north Viet Nam after the
country was divided into northern and southern parts under provisions
of the
Geneva Agreement on Viet Nam signed in 1954.
He worked as a geology technician for
five years until he ecame leader of
Geological Group 4 attached to the League of Geological Groups
Number 20 for
another five years until April 1964 when he was appointed deputy
leader of
the League. Two years later he was admitted to study geology at
the Mining
and Geology College.
Luong became the deputy director of the
Geological Map Department in
February 1970.
Seven years and five months later he
became deputy director and then
director of the League of Geological Map Groups. In September
1979 he was
appointed general director of the General Department of Geology.
Three years later Luong went to the former Soviet Union and studied
economic
management at the former USSR Academy of Economics.
In the same year of 1981 Luong was elected
to the National Assembly at its
seventh legislature and became deputy chairman and then chairman
of the
National Assembly Science and Technology Commission.
He was re-appointed as General Director
of the Mining and Geology General
Department in March 1982.
Nearly five years later in February 1987,
he was elected vice chairman of
the Council of Ministers and Viet Nam's permanent representative
to the
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance for Socialist Countries.
He was re-elected as Deputy Prime Minister in 1992 and President
of Viet Nam
yesterday.
Luong joined the Communist Party of Viet
Nam in December 19, 1959. His first
position in the party organisation was as secretary of both the
Party cell
and the chapter of Viet Nam's Lobour Youth Union (now the Ho Chi
Minh
Communist Youth Union) for Geological Group 4.
In April 1964 Luong was Party cell secretary
for the League of Geology
Groups Number 20 and member of the exxecutive Party Committee
for Viet Nam
geological sector.
He became member of the Party Committee
and secretary of the Viet Nam's
Labour Youth Union for the Mining and Geological College between
1966 and
1969.
He became an executive member of the
Party Committee for the Geological Map
Department in February 1970 and its Party Committee secretary
nine years
later. In 1976, he completed a training course for sennior Party
officials
at Nguyen Ai Quoc Institute.
He was elected as alternate member to
the CPV Central Committee in March
1982 and became a full member to the Party Central Committee at
the next
National Party congress in June 1991.
Luong became member of the Party Central
Committee and was elected to its
Political Bureau at the eight National Party Congress in June
1996.
