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Article: Vietnam Communist Party Changes Rules
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- March 5, 2002
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Dateline: HANOI, Vietnam
Vietnam's ruling Communist Party has decided to formally allow its
members to be capitalists, a sharp break from its previous official
stance that barred members from engaging in private business activities,
a senior party official said Tuesday.
"They can have their own private businesses as long they are good
businesspeople, know how to become rich legally, and also draw other
people along to become rich," said Nguyen Duc Trieu, a member of the
Central Party Committee who is also chairman of the Vietnam Farmers
Association.
The decision was reached during a 13-day meeting of the Vietnam Communist
Party's Fifth Plenum that ended ...