Full portrait of General Le Hong Anh

The National Political Publishing House Truth has just released the book Thinking of You by author Pham Chi Thanh, former member of the Politburo and former Standing Member of the Party Central Committee Secretariat.

A simple, straightforward, responsible person

Author Pham Chi Thanh has many years of experience as a secretary and assistant to General Le Hong Anh, so he is a subordinate who has many opportunities to be close to the General in both work and daily life. With a realistic and simple writing style, through stories about the revolutionary life as well as the work and dedication of General Le Hong Anh, author Pham Chi Thanh has shown readers an exemplary and typical portrait of a senior leader of our Party.

Author Pham Chi Thanh and General Le Hong Anh (taken in 2024). PHOTO: DOCUMENTS OF PHAM CHI THANH

General Le Hong Anh (nicknamed Ut Anh) is from Kien Giang province, born into a family with a tradition of patriotism, participating in revolutionary activities since the age of 10, and is a cadre who has grown up from the grassroots. He has held important positions in the Party such as Secretary of the Kien Giang Provincial Party Committee, member of the Politburo, and Chairman of the Central Inspection Committee. He served as Minister of Public Security for 10 years and as Permanent Secretary of the Central Party Secretariat for 5 years. Although he held important positions in the Party, through Pham Chi Thanh's writings, he appears to be a simple, straightforward, responsible person who loves his family, comrades, and people. During his work as well as after his retirement, he often made contributions to building his homeland and country. In any position in work as well as in life, Le Hong Anh is always respected and loved by everyone.

General Le Hong Anh, former member of the Politburo , former Standing member of the Party Central Committee Secretariat. PHOTO: PHAM CHI THANH

Different perspectives on a talented and virtuous personality

Each story by Pham Chi Thanh in Thinking of You is a different but unified perspective on the personality, character and character of General Le Hong Anh with the outstanding qualities of a Party official. He is a calm but decisive person. At work, he is always calm and composed but solves work very quickly and effectively. In his position as a senior leader of the Party, he always focuses on researching and applying the Party and State's platforms, guidelines, resolutions, regulations and rules into practice and from there, he continues to contribute to the development and increasingly perfecting of the Party's policy and strategic documents. That is the most consistent and greatest contribution of General Le Hong Anh in his working positions.

In daily life, Pham Chi Thanh's book said that General Le Hong Anh, despite his high position and power, was a modest person. He rarely talked about himself and did not want others to praise him. He was the type of person who lived simply and sparingly. Therefore, Le Hong Anh was also an approachable person, although most people did not have many opportunities to interact with him.

As a son of the southwestern countryside, Le Hong Anh lives a gentle, sincere life and still has a sense of humor and wit in his interactions with his comrades, teammates and fellow countrymen. Wherever he is, there is a ringing of sincere and refreshing laughter. That is a precious character of General Le Hong Anh that Pham Chi Thanh's books have shown quite successfully in Thinking of You .

Book Thinking of You by Pham Chi Thanh, National Political Publishing House Truth, 2025. PHOTO: HA TUNG SON

The intimate life story of a senior leader

As a person who has held the position of secretary, assistant to Politburo member, Permanent Secretary of the Secretariat Le Hong Anh for 5 years, author Pham Chi Thanh writes about him as a close colleague. Each page in Thinking about Him is a story about work and life to show the personality and virtue of a loyal, dedicated, exemplary communist soldier in his work. These are stories that both recreate the working journey with many good marks of a leader with heart and vision, and also portray a portrait of a close, simple everyday person. From the simple notes in Thinking about Him , Pham Chi Thanh wants to express gratitude to a famous person who has many contributions to the country and the revolution.

Thinking about You is therefore also a book that brings inspiration and valuable lessons about revolutionary ethics and human morality, about the sense of responsibility and loyalty to the Party's revolutionary ideals. That is the significant contribution of Pham Chi Thanh through the work Thinking about You.

Author Pham Chi Thanh was a student of the second course of the Faculty of Literature, Quy Nhon University of Education (now Quy Nhon University). After graduating from university, he was assigned to work at the Office of the Central Party Committee. When General Le Hong Anh assumed the position of Politburo member, Standing member of the Central Party Secretariat, Pham Chi Thanh was appointed as the general's secretary and then assistant. He considered it a great honor and also a heavy responsibility. On the day General Le Hong Anh retired, Pham Chi Thanh began writing the book Thinking of You as an expression of gratitude to his beloved boss.

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