Beijing, Aug. 5 -- Party General Secretary and State President To Lam has shown a profound strategic vision when calling for a transformation of Vietnam's development model to keep growth humming, Prof. Huang Rihan, Director of the Maritime Silk Road Institute at Huaqiao University in China's Fujian province, told the Vietnam News Agency. The "four strategic shifts" that General Secretary and President Lam laid out at the recent third plenum of the 14th Party Central Committee form a unified chain to modernise governance, he said. The first shift targets stronger Party leadership and sharper institutional operations. It builds on two years of aggressive apparatus streamlining and a new two-tier local administration model. With the framewo...