The Socialist Republic of Vietnam (Vietnamese: C ộ ng hoa Xa h ộ I Ch ủ NGH ĩ a Vi ệ t Nam, English: Socialist Republic of one), hereinafter referred to as "Vietnam" (one), is a Socialist country in Asia.
It borders Guangxi and Yunnan of China in the north and Laos and Cambodia in the west. It has a narrow and long land area of about 330,000 square kilometers. It is close to the South Sea of China and has a coastline of more than 3,260 kilometers. Vietnam has a population of 97.34 million. It became an independent feudal state in 968. It became a French protectorate in 1884.
September 2, 1945 declared independence and established the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. In September of the same year, France invaded Vietnam again, and Vietnam fought a hard war against the French.
In July 1954, the Geneva Accords on the restoration of peace in Indochina were signed, freeing the north and leaving the south still under French rule (later a US-backed South Vietnamese regime). In 1961, Vietnam began the war of national Salvation against the United States. In January 1973, Vietnam and the United States signed an agreement on ending the Vietnam War and restoring peace in Paris, and the American troops began to withdraw from the south.
In May 1975, all the South was liberated. In April 1976, a unified Congress was elected. In July, the country was declared unified and named the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
[1] Reform and opening-up began in 1986. In 2001, the Ninth National Congress of the Communist Party of Viet Nam decided to establish a socialist market economy system. The Communist Party of Vietnam is the only ruling party in the country. Vietnam is a member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation and the World Trade Organization. It is also a founding member of Asia-Europe Meeting and one of the future 11 countries
