At all time, intellectual and talented people always make up a core force of society and they play an important role for success and failure of a nation. In the country, talented people are seen as the life-sustaining element of the nation. In the past, the ancestors already realized the importance of talented people in achieving prosperity for the whole people. Inheriting and developing the viewpoint, the Party and the State have always showed great concern about developing and using talented people since the beginning of the revolutionary process. The paper analyzes the role of human factor in the modem productive forces
Ho Chi Minh's thought and the Party's viewpoint on intellectuals/talents
and, some issues involved with development and use of talented people in the country at present.