CPC salutes Laos on congress of ruling party

BEIJING－Under the strong leadership of Central Committee of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, or LPRP, the party's 11th congress will certainly provide new and important guidance and a driving force for the development of Laos' socialist cause, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, or CPC, said in a congratulatory message to the LPRP on the opening of its congress on Wednesday.

Since the 10th congress, the LPRP Central Committee headed by General Secretary Bounnhang Vorachith has attached importance to the party building, continuously consolidated and strengthened the party's leadership, and made a series of important achievements in promoting its cause of socialist construction and innovation by uniting and leading the whole party and the people, the message said.

Faced with the sudden COVID-19 pandemic, the LPRP Central Committee has played a leading role, coordinated COVID-19 prevention and control as well as economic and social development, and maintained political stability, economic growth and the improvement of people's livelihood, from which the CPC draws genuine pleasure, said the message.