Moscow, Jan. 24 -- A Russian scholar has described the successful 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) as a landmark event ushering the country into a new era of national rise.

Speaking to a Vietnam News Agency correspondent in Moscow shortly after the Congress concluded, Prof. George Toloraya, Director of the Centre for Russian Strategy in Asia at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said the Congress marks a qualitative leap in Vietnam's development trajectory.

He noted that the 14th Party Congress represents a pivotal shift from Vietnam's role as a "factory of the world" toward its ambition to become a high-tech powerhouse, with development quality reaching a higher level.

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