The 8th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) was elected at the 8th CPV National Congress. It elected the 8th Politburo and the 8th Secretariat.

Plenums The Central Committee (CC) is not a permanent institution. Instead, it convenes plenary sessions between party congresses. When the CC is not in session, decision-making powers are delegated to its internal bodies; that is, the Politburo and the Secretariat. None of these organs are permanent bodies either; typically, they convene several times a month.

+ Plenary Sessions of the 8th Central Committee Plenum Date Length 1st Plenary Session 29 June 1996 1 day 2nd Plenary Session 16–24 December 1996 9 days 3rd Plenary Session 9–18 June 1997 8 days 4th Plenary Session 22–29 December 1997 8 days 5th Plenary Session 6–16 July 1998 11 days 6th Plenary Session, 1st convocation 13–17 October 1998 5 days 6th Plenary Session, 2nd convocation 25 January – 2 February 1999 9 days 7th Plenary Session 9–16 August 1999 8 days 8th Plenary Session 4–11 November 1999 8 days 9th Plenary Session 10–19 April 2000 10 days 10th Plenary Session 26 June – 4 July 2000 8 days 11th Plenary Session, 1st convocation 6–16 January 2001 11 days 11th Plenary Session, 2nd convocation 13–24 March 2001 12 days 12th Plenary Session 7–10 April 2001 4 days

Composition +Members of the 8th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam Name 7th CC 9th CC Ethnicity Gender 1937 1959 Nam Định province Electrical engineering Kinh Male 1937 Hà Nam province Kinh Male 1920 1938 Thừa Thiên Huế province None Kinh Male 1949 1968 Kiên Giang province Political science Kinh Male 1939 Nghệ An province Finance Kinh Male Kinh Male 1944 Hải Dương province Kinh Male 1945 Bắc Ninh province Kinh Male 1927 1945 Hà Tĩnh province Philosophy Kinh Male 1929 Nghệ An province Russian studies Kinh Male 1945 1965 Đà Nẵng City Economic Management Kinh Male 1946 Bến Tre province Medicine Kinh Female 1940 Nam Định province Kinh Male 1936 Thái Bình province Physics Kinh Male 1942 Tây Ninh Province Economics & political science Kinh Male 1949 Bến Tre province Kinh Male 1933 Phú Thọ province Engineering economics Kinh Male 1943 Thừa Thiên Huế province Kinh Male 1938 Cần Thơ province None Kinh Male 1937 1962 Quảng Nam province Kinh Male 1948 Ninh Thuận province Kinh Male 1934 Nghệ An province Irrigation Kinh Male 1945 Phú Yên province None Kinh Male 1951 1981 Hà Nam province Economics Kinh Female 1945 Tuyên Quang province Agricultural engineering Tày Male 1950 1978 Đà Nẵng City Steel rolling engineer Kinh Male 1945 1965 Bến Tre province Military science Kinh Male 1949 1967 Cà Mau province Law Kinh Male 1940 Quảng Nam province Mechanical engineering & economics Kinh Male 1946 Quảng Ngãi province Kinh Male 1942 Bắc Giang province Kinh Male 1944 Thanh Hoá province Kinh Male 1936 1965 Hải Dương province Mining engineering & economic management Kinh Male 1934 1960 Long An province Chemistry Kinh Male 1939 Thừa Thiên Huế province Economics Kinh Male 1940 Hà Nam province Machine building engineering Kinh Male 1935 Hà Nội City Literature & psychology Kinh Male 1941 1965 Nghệ An province Kinh Male 1942 Hải Hưng province Agricultural engineering Kinh Male 1943 Hải Dương province Literature Kinh Male 1944 Hải Phòng City Economics Kinh Female 1944 Phú Thọ province Kinh Female 1948 Thái Bình province Kinh Male 1947 Nam Định province Military science Kinh Male 1938 Hà Tây province Physics Kinh Male 1945 Tiền Giang province Economics & the arts Kinh Female 1946 Quảng Bình province Kinh Male 1939 1962 Hưng Yên province Labour economics Kinh Male 1938 Quảng Trị province Agricultural engineering Kinh Male 1945 Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province None Kinh Female 1938 Hà Nội City Agricultural science Kinh Male 1938 Minh Hải province Kinh Male 1943 Hòa Bình province Kinh Male 1955 Tiền Giang province Kinh Female 1946 Kinh Male 1945 Đồng Tháp province Kinh Male 1946 1977 Nghệ An province Economics Kinh Male 1940 Hà Nội City Kinh Male 1942 Hải Phòng City Literature Kinh Male 1936 Hà Tĩnh province Military science Kinh Male 1930 Bình Định province Transportation engineering Kinh Male 1941 Vĩnh Long Kinh Male 1950 Quảng Ngãi province Kinh Male 1933 1959 Hồ Chí Minh City Economics Kinh Male 1944 1978 Hà Nội City Political theory & metallurgy Kinh Male 1950 1969 Tuyên Quang province Political science Tày Female 1937 Hà Tây province Russian studies Kinh Male Kinh Male 1923 Quảng Trị province Military science Kinh Male 1941 1963 Thái Bình province Economics Kinh Male 1946 Hồ Chí Minh City Kinh Male 1950 Kinh Male 1922 1939 Vĩnh Long province None Kinh Male 1953 Quảng Nam province Law & political science Kinh Male 1946 Nam Định province Kinh Male 1946 Yên Bái province Kinh Male 1935 Quảng Nam province Agricultural engineering Kinh Male 1939 1960 Vĩnh Phúc province Military science Kinh Male 1953 Hậu Giang province Kinh Female 1940 1963 Nam Định province Kinh Male 1937 1961 Quảng Ngãi province Geological engineering Kinh Male 1935 Phú Thọ province Transportation engineering Kinh Male 1940 1963 Bắc Kạn Province Economics & carpentry Tày Male 1939 Nam Định province Agricultural engineering & economics Kinh Male 1945 Quảng Ngãi province Kinh Male 1944 Tây Ninh province None Kinh Female 1946 Nam Định province Kinh Male 1940 Hải Dương province Law & economics Kinh Female 1949 Bắc Ninh province Kinh Male 1948 Đà Nẵng City Kinh Male 1936 Phú Yên province Hydropower engineering Kinh Male 1939 1961 Thái Nguyên province Military science Kinh Male 1940 Cao Bằng province Mechanical engineering Tày Male 1940 Bắc Ninh province Journalism Kinh Male 1949 1973 Thanh Hóa province Philosophy & history Kinh Male 1941 Nam Định province Electronics Kinh Male 1938 Thanh Hoá province Agricultural engineering Kinh Male 1944 Nghệ An province Kinh Male 1940 Nam Định province Kinh Male 1944 Sa Đéc province Kinh Male 1935 Thanh Hoá province Arts Kinh Male 1945 Lào Cai province Economics Hmong Male 1944 Tiền Giang province Pedagogy Kinh Male 1931 1949 Thanh Hóa province None Kinh Male 1942 Long An province None Kinh Male 1954 1981 Sơn La province Law Thái Female Khmer Male 1945 1976 Hà Tĩnh province Engineering economics Kinh Male 1954 Gia Lai province Kinh Male 1937 Hà Nội City Kinh Male 1940 Lai Châu province Economic Management Thái Male 1937 Sóc Trăng province Mechanical Engineering Kinh Male 1949 Vĩnh Long province Kinh Male 1932 Nghệ An province Philosophy Kinh Male 1942 1963 Hải Dương province Military & political science Kinh Male 1949 Tây Ninh province Political science Kinh Male 1947 1967 Thanh Hóa province Philosophy Kinh Male 1917 1939 Hà Nội City None Kinh Male Kinh Male 1949 1969 Long An province Law Kinh Male 1946 1966 Hưng Yên province Arts Kinh Male 1946 Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu province None Kinh Female Kinh Male 1945 Hà Nội City Telecommunication Kinh Male 1935 Thái Bình province Agricultural science Kinh Male Kinh Male 1937 Kon Tum province Medicine Dẻ-Triêng Male 1941 Hà Tây province Pedagogy Kinh Male 1939 Cao Bằng province Agronomy Tày Male 1942 Phú Thọ province Banking Kinh Male 1944 Hà Tây province Military science Kinh Male 1940 Đà Nẵng City Pedagogy Kinh Female Kinh Male 1945 Long An province History & law Kinh Female 1942 An Giang province None Kinh Male 1951 Hải Phòng City Kinh Male 1945 Thừa Thiên Huế province Law Kinh Male 1910 Hồ Chí Minh City Law Kinh Male 1945 Hải Dương province Kinh Male Kinh Male 1943 Tiền Giang province Political science Kinh Female 1937 Hà Giang province Economics Tày Male 1949 Quảng Nam province Kinh Male 1945 Quảng Trị province Law Kinh Male 1944 Cao Bằng province Kinh Male 1937 Ninh Bình province Agricultural science Kinh Male 1935 Bắc Ninh province Military science Kinh Male 1942 Thái Bình province Law Kinh Male 1940 Hải Dương province Kinh Male 1942 1965 Bình Dương province Mathematics & political science Kinh Male 1942 Thái Bình province Economics Kinh Male Kinh Male 1936 Quảng Nam province Fisheries science Kinh Male 1944 1968 Hà Nội City Political science & philology Kinh Male 1942 Bến Tre province Literature & economic management Kinh Male Kinh Male 1946 Hà Nội City Kinh Male Kinh Male 1936 Thanh Hoá province Metallurgical Engineering Kinh Male Kinh Male 1936 Hà Tĩnh province Economics Kinh Male 1942 Nghệ An province Machine building engineering Kinh Male 1949 Khánh Hòa province Kinh Male 1932 Nghệ Tĩnh province Mathematics & physics Kinh Male 1944 Phú Khánh province None Kinh Female 1947 1967 Nghệ An province Mathematics & physics Kinh Male 1945 Nam Định province Kinh Male Kinh Male Kinh Male 1942 Hưng Yên province Law Kinh Male

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