With the consent of the Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences will preside and coordinate with the Vietnam National University, Hanoi to organize The Fourth International Conference on Vietnamese Studies (ICVNS2012) with the theme “Vietnam on the Road to Integration and Sustainable Development” at the Vietnam National Convention Centre, Hanoi, Vietnam from 26 till 28 November, 2012.

Under the aegis of the Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, the Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences and Vietnam National University, Hanoi are co-organizing The Fourth International Conference on Vietnamese Studies with the theme Vietnam on the Road to Integration and Sustainable Development. The Conference will be held at Vietnam National Convention Centre, Hanoi, Vietnam from 26 till 28 November, 2012.

After twenty five years of reform, development and integration, Vietnam has gained enormous achievements with historical significance. Since 2011, Vietnam’s entered a new stage of a middle income developing country in the new context of the region and the world with rapid, complex and unpredictable changes. Great opportunities blended with great challenges are in many aspects affecting Vietnam, a country is pushing up the overall process of reform and putting utmost effort in developing fast and sustainably, proactively and actively integrating in depth with the world to create the strong foundation so that by 2020 she will basically become a modern-oriented industrialized nation for the highest objective of comprehensive development for the Vietnamese people.