The 10th National Congress of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP, lo, ກອງປະຊຸມໃຫຍ່ ຄັ້ງທີ X ຂອງພັກ) was held in

Vientiane Vientiane ( , ; lo, ວຽງຈັນ, ''Viangchan'', ) is the capital and largest city of Laos. Vientiane is divided administratively into 9 cities with a total area of only approx. 3,920 square kilometres and is located on the banks of ...

from 18–22 January 2016. The congress occurs once every five years. A total of 685 delegates represented the party's 252,879 card-carrying members.

10th CC plenary session

The 1st Plenary Session of the 10th Central Committee elected the 10th Politburo and the 10th Secretariat. 11 people were elected to the Politburo, and nine to the Secretariat. It elected Bounnhang Vorachith LPRP General Secretary,

Phankham Viphavan Phankham Viphavanh ( lo, ພັນຄຳ ວິພາວັນ; born 14 April 1951) is a Laotian politician, a member of the Politburo and the Executive Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party. He became the Prime Minister of Laos, who ...

as Executive Secretary of the Secretariat and

Bounthong Chitmany Bounthong Chitmany (; born 3 July 1949) is a Laotian politician and member of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP). He is a former Governor of Oudomxay Province. He is currently Chairman of the Inspection Commission of the Lao People's Re ...

as Chairman of the Inspection Committee. Former General Secretary Choummaly Sayasone stepped down alongside former Politburo members

Thongsing Thammavong Thongsing Thammavong ( Lao: ທອງສິງ ທຳມະວົງ; born 12 April 1944) is a Laotian politician who was the Prime Minister of Laos from 2010 to 2016. He is a member of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) and has been a ...

Asang Laoly Asang Laoly (; born 2 February 1941) is a retired Lao politician, Major General, and member of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP). While he was the Deputy Prime Minister of Laos from 2002 to 2016, he also held a number of leadership posi ...

and

Somsavat Lengsavad Somsavat Lengsavad (; born 15 June 1945) is a former Deputy Prime Minister of Laos. An ethnic Chinese, Chinese name: 凌绪光 (Lin Xuguang), who hails from Luang Prabang with ancestry from Hainan, he was a protégé of Kaysone Phomvihane. In 196 ...

. Bounnhang closed the proceedings by remarking that the elected members were qualified since most of them had been active participants in the war of national liberation.

Topics of Discussion

Among topics discussed were ending fiscal misappropriation and attracting foreign investment. Presented at the Congress were # the 8th National Socio-Economic Development Plan, which strives to remove Laos from the list of the world's most underdeveloped countries by 2020, # the socio-economic development strategy for 2016-2025, # the 2030 vision report, and # the Party statutes. It also hopes to further bolster Laos by developing it into an upper-middle income state by 2030.

References

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