Vanxay Phongsavanh, Member of the Party Central Committee's Political Bureau and Secretary of the Party Central Committee's Secretariat, received a visiting delegation from Vietnam on October 12 at the Central Party Inspection Commission. The group was led by Nguyen Van Lieu, head of the Government Inspectorate Cadres School of Vietnam. The delegation is in Laos from October 11 to 17 for a visit and a series of work engagements.

Vanxay Phongsavanh, who also chairs the Central Party Inspection Commission and the State Inspection Authority, and heads the Central Anti-Corruption Authority, welcomed the visit and praised the delegation for coming to share technical lessons on state inspection and anti-corruption work with Lao inspection officials. He said the trip is especially significant for putting into practice the memorandum of cooperation signed in 2022, and noted that the two sides will sign a new memorandum in 2027.

He also said the exchange contributes to strengthening the special friendship and comprehensive cooperation between the two parties, two states, and two peoples, and keeps the mutual support between the two inspection bodies growing. He thanked the Cadres School and the Vietnamese Government Inspectorate for their ongoing support, including expertise, training of 20 inspection officers each year, and other assistance to the Lao State Inspection Authority.

Nguyen Van Lieu thanked Vanxay for the warm welcome and outlined the purpose of the trip. The delegation will hold technical exchanges with the State Inspection Authority and the Luang Prabang provincial inspection office. The discussions will cover:

• How Vietnam carries out state inspections and suppresses and fights corruption effectively and with high quality
• Building a strong, high-quality inspection workforce
• Digital transformation in inspection and anti-corruption work
• Preventing and addressing crime, corruption, negative behavior, and waste within party, state, and social institutions
• Drafting laws that provide a foundation for inspection activities in each period
• Ranking inspection officials and applying allowance policies