Beijing, Aug. 3 -- Strengthening a ruling party's leadership and governance skills is a real challenge for many countries, and the fact that General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee and State President To Lam has openly brought it up shows that the current leadership of the CPV has both a practical approach and vision to spot issues within the Party itself, according to a Chinese scholar. The assessment was made by Professor Dr Cheng Hanping, Executive Director of the Institute of Regional and Country Studies and Director of the Vietnam Research Centre at Zhejiang University of Technology, in an interview with the Vietnam News Agency's correspondent in China on the four strategic shifts outlined by Gener...