Đỗ Mười

Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam

Nguyễn Duy Cống 2 February 1917 Thanh Trì District, Hanoi, French Indochina

1 October 2018(2018-10-01) (101) Hanoi, Vietnam

28 June 1991 – 26 December 1997

Vietnamese politician In this Vietnamese name, the surname is Đỗ. In accordance with Vietnamese custom, this person should be referred to by the given name, Mười. Đỗ Mười (Vietnamese:  ; 2 February 1917 – 1 October 2018) was a Vietnamese communist politician. He rose in the party hierarchy in the late 1940s, became Chairman of the Council of Ministers in 1988 and was elected General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) at the 7th Congress in 1991. He continued his predecessor's policy of ruling through a collective leadership and Nguyễn Văn Linh's policy of economic reform. He was elected for two terms as General Secretary, but left office in 1997 at the 3rd plenum of the 8th Central Committee during his second term. Đỗ Mười was an advisor to the Central Committee from 1997 until 2001, when the institution of Advisory Council of the Central Committee was abolished. He was a delegate to the 9th, 10th and 11th Congresses. While he officially retired from politics in 1997, Đỗ Mười continued to influence decision-making. He died on 1 October 2018 at Central Military Hospital 108.