Nhân Dân is the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Vietnam

Communist Party of Vietnam

The Communist Party of Vietnam , formally established in 1930, is the governing party of the nation of Vietnam. It is today the only legal political party in that country. Describing itself as Marxist-Leninist, the CPV is the directing component of a broader group of organizations known as the...

. According to the newspaper, it is “the voice of the Party, State and people of Vietnam.”

The newspaper was first published on March 11, 1951. It has a daily circulation of 180,000 copies. Its weekend edition, Nhân Dân cuối tuần, has a circulation of 110,000 copies, and its monthly magazine has a circulation of 130,000 copies monthly.

Many important figures in the Vietnamese Communist Party worked at Nhân Dân. Trường Chinh

Truong Chinh

Trường Chinh Trường Chinh Trường Chinh (pseudonym meaning “Long March”, born Đặng Xuân Khu (b. February 9, 1907 in Xuân Trường District, Nam Định Province, d. September 30, 1988 in Hanoi) was a Vietnamese communist political leader and theoretician. From 1941 to 1957, he was Vietnam's second-ranked...

 and Tố Hữu

To Huu

Tố Hữu was Vietnam’s most famous revolutionary poet. He published five collections of poems, the first of which was the 1946 collection entitled Poem, which included many of his most popular and influential works that were written during the anti-French period from 1937 to 1946.Tố Hữu was born...

were chairmen of the newspaper. It has an online edition that appeared on June 21, 1998.

External links

• Nhân Dân Online: English edition