Week to celebrate Vietnam Book and Reading Culture Day 2026 opens.

On April 21, in Hanoi, the Social Sciences Publishing House and Journal, the Institute of Social Science Information, and the Youth Union of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences opened the Week to respond to Vietnam Book Day 2026.

Attending were members of the Party Central Committee: Pham Tat Thang, Deputy Permanent Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission; Professor, Dr. Le Van Loi, Secretary of the Party Committee, President of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences.

Unlike traditional exhibition activities, the 2026 Week was designed in a unified thread, creating a chain of value: “Knowledge-Information-Policy”. The core goal of the program is to gradually turn social sciences and humanities knowledge into a direct resource serving the leadership, direction, and policy formulation of the Party and State.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, President of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences Le Van Loi emphasized that the Week to respond to Vietnam Book and Reading Culture Day 2026 is held from April 21 to 24 at the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, with a spirit of innovation, practicality, and close connection to the political tasks of the Academy, especially after its model transition to a unit under the Party Central Committee’s Executive Committee from April 1, 2026.

Le Van Loi stated that the opening ceremony was organized with three key contents, closely interconnected to form a unified thread from knowledge to policy and practice.

First is the exhibition space for books and materials on culture in the spirit of Resolution 80-NQ/TW. This activity aims to introduce valuable source materials, selected according to a clear orientation. This helps readers systematically access issues of Vietnamese culture, from traditional to modern. This is the initial step in the process of receiving and forming knowledge.

Second is the launch ceremony of the publication “Special Scientific Information for Leaders”. This is a selective information product, built on the basis of processing official social science data sources abroad. The publication aims to directly serve leadership, direction, and strategic and policy formulation. This affirms the role of the Institute of Social Science Information in providing scientific arguments for major decisions of the Party and State.

Third is organizing a scientific seminar on the theme: “Opportunities and Challenges in the Process of Implementing Resolution 80-NQ/TW on Developing Vietnamese Culture to 2030, with a Vision to 2045”. This is a forum for exchange among management agencies, scientists, and businesses to clearly identify issues arising in implementation practice. From there, feasible solutions are proposed to help put the Resolution into practice.

“These three contents are linked together in a unified direction. From accessing knowledge, to processing information, and finally to policy dialogue. This is also the operational direction that the Academy’s library system should aim for in the new period,” the President of the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences emphasized.

Introducing the publication “Special Scientific Information for Leaders”, Associate Professor, Dr. Vu Hung Cuong, Director of the Institute of Social Science Information, said that to date, the Institute has completed the first three issues from January to March 2026, each issue containing six translated articles along three thematic lines.

The first thematic line is international relations: Australia’s strategy towards Southeast Asia, in relations with China; balancing US-China institutions in the Indo-Pacific region; Japan’s policy towards Taiwan; global energy supply; energy weapons.

The second thematic line concerns socio-economic issues: green capitalism; new productive forces; new growth strategy; global social capital; global populism.

The third thematic line is research on a chosen major power: the