1. Ph.D. Student: Vu Thi Thuy                                        2. Sex: Female

3. Date of birth: 23 July1979                                          4. Place of birth: Thai Binh

5. Admission: Decision No. 2999/2013/QD- XHNV-SQD dated 30 December 2013 by Rector of University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

6. Changes in academic process: Decision No.201/QD-SĐH dated 10/02/2014 and decision No.1587/QĐ-XHNV dated 17/05/2016 of Retor, The University of Social Sciences and Humanites, Vietnam National University, Hanoi on adjusting the name of doctoral thesis.

7. Dissertation title: Ho Chi Minh’s Thoughts on Solidarity, Equality, and Mutual Assistance among Peoples and Significance in Handling Contemporary Ethnic Issues in Thai Nguyen Province.

8. Major in: The Ideology of Ho Chi Minh  

9. Code: 62 31 02 04

10. Supervisor: 1. Assoc. Prof. Lam Ba Nam

2. Assoc. Prof. Lai Quoc Khanh

11. Summary of the new findings of the thesis

The research has shed new light on Ho Chi Minh’s thoughts on solidarity, equality and mutual assistance among peoples of Ho Chi Minh's ideology:

- By analyzing official Vietnamese and international scholastic documents, the researcher has made clear about a system of concepts and arguments in Ho Chi Minh's thoughts on solidarity, equality mutual assistance among peoples and their theoretical and practical values.

- By evaluating the practice in handling ethnic issues in Thai Nguyen province from 1997 to present, the researcher notified the limitations and their causes. Thereby, the researcher proposed practical and feasible approaches and measures to effectively solve the contemporary ethnic issues arisen in Thai Nguyen province in the light of Ho Chi Minh's thoughts on solidarity, equality and mutual assistance among peoples.

12. Practical applicability:

- The dissertation can be used as a source of reference for the researching and teaching of Ho Chi Minh Studies as well as the topic of ethnic issues in social and humanity sciences.

- From the perspectives of Ho Chi Minh Studies, the research findings formed initial theoretical and practical bases on which Thai Nguyen Party Committee could effectively solve the contemporary ethnic issues arisen in Thai Nguyen Province in the light of Ho Chi Minh's thoughts on solidarity, equality and mutual assistance among peoples.

13. Further research directions:

- To thoroughly study each content of Ho Chi Minh's thoughts on solidarity, equality and mutual assistance between nations in order to see the great stature and value of that thought.

- To continue to study the situation of solving ethnic problems in general and in Thai Nguyen Province. So that, to clarify the urgent issues in solving the ethnic problem in Thai Nguyen Province.

- To focus on finding the solutions of Ho Chi Minh Thought in order to solve the ethnic problem in Thai Nguyen province.

14. Thesis - related publications:

 (1). Vu Thi Thuy (2015), Dialectic in Ho Chi Minh’s Thoughts on Minorities Equality, Journal of Science and Technology - Thai Nguyen University (15), pp. 103-109).

(2). Vu Thi Thuy (2015) (co-authors), The Research and Application of Ho Chi Minh's Thoughts in the Current Period, ‘The Application of Ho Chi Minh's Thoughts on Ethnic Equality in the Current Implementation of Minorities Policies in Thai Nguyen province’, pp. 288-304, UEP, Hanoi.

(3). Vu Thi Thuy (2015) (co-authors), Relationship between economic development and natural environment protection in Northern mountainous provinces in Vietnam, Thai Nguyen University Publishing House, Thai Nguyen.

(4). Vu Thi Thuy (2016), Enhancing the Implementation of Minorities Policies in Thai Nguyen province, Journal of Theoretical Education (242), pp. 149-151.

(5). Vu Thi Thuy (2016), Accomplishment of the Poverty Alleviation Goals in Handling Ethnic Issues in Thai Nguyen Province from 1997 to Present in the Lights of Ho Chi Minh’s Thoughts, Journal of Science and Technology - Thai Nguyen University (12/2), pp. 73-76.

(6). Vu Thi Thuy (2016) Dialectic in Ho Chi Minh’s Thoughts on Solidarity, Equality, and Mutual Assistance among Peoples in Vietnam, Journal of Theoretical Education (250), pp. 9-11.

(7). Vu Thi Thuy (2017), Solidarity - the Foundation of Ethnic Policies in Ho Chi Minh’s Thoughts, Journal of Science and Technology - Thai Nguyen University (03)/1), pp. 211-214.

(8). Vu Thi Thuy (2017), Sustainable Sedentariness in Handling Contemporary Ethnic Issues of Thai Nguyen Province in the Light of Ho Chi Minh’s Thoughts, Journal of Science and Technology - Thai Nguyen University (03/2), pp. 3-6.