New York, Jan. 23 -- On the occasion of the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), Professor Nguyen Thi Lien Hang, Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University in the US, has shared in-depth assessments of the CPV's leadership role and the particular significance of such a major event for Vietnam's development trajectory. As a historian specialising in Vietnam, she told the Vietnam News Agency that the country is entering a pivotal historical phase under the effective and innovative leadership of the CPV. In her view, the merger of provincial-level administrative units to build a lean, efficient and effective political system, together with apparatus reform and ambitious development targ...