Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong
Over almost a century (90 years since the birth of our
Party), for our country, each National Congress has been considered an
important event of historic significance marking a new development of the
nation. This upcoming 13th National Congress of our Party will take place in
the context of very rapid, complicated and unpredictable developments in the
region and the world; the country is enjoying many advantages and
opportunities, meanwhile feeing various hardships and challenges with numerous
newly emerging issues; public cadre, Party members and the people have great
expectations on the judicious, strong, clear-sighted decisions and policies of
the Party. With the motto “Unity – Democracy – Discipline – Creativeness –
Development”, the Congress will review not only the implementation of the
Resolution of the 12th National Congress but also the 35-year implementation of
the Doi Moi, 30-year implementation of the 1991 Political Platform, 10-year
implementation of the amended Political Platform (amended in 2011), the
National Socio-economic Development Strategy 2011-2020; setting out directions,
tasks for the term 2021-2026, determining the goals, orientations towards 2030
(the centenary anniversary of the founding of the Party) with a vision for
national development to 2045 (the centenary anniversary of the Democratic
Republic of Vietnam, now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam). Thus, this is
definitely another important milestone in the development of our Party, people
and nation, with the significance of defining the future, continuously pushing
forward the renewal, global integration, and development of the country in a
comprehensive and concerted manner.
The draft documents to be submitted to this Congress have
been in a process of meticulous, professional and thoughtful preparation. In
this process, the principles of skillful combination between theories and
practice, persistence and renovations, inheritance and development have been
profoundly grasped, on the basis of promoting democracy to its fullest, ideas
contributed by scientists, public cadre, Party members and people attended to;
dedicated and responsible proposals selected, screened, and consulted; the
wisdom and innovative capacity of the entire Party, people and armed forces
crystallised. The political report is the central document of the Congress,
together with the The Report on the implementation of the 10-year
Socio-economic Development Strategy 2011-2020, building the 10-year
Socio-economic Development Strategy 2021-2030; The Evaluation Report on the
implementation of the tasks on 5-year Socio-economic Development 2016-2020 and
the orientations, tasks of the 5-year Socio-economic Development 2021-2025; the
Report on summing up the implementation of Party building and Party Statutes
enforcement. The documents to be submitted to the Congress has reflected the
major views, guidelines, orientations, demonstrated the strategic visions and
thinking of the Party, the aspirations for development of the nation, and the
political determination of the entire Party, people and armed forces in the
cause of building and firmly defending our beloved socialist Viet Nam that is
prosperous, strong, democratic, equitable and advanced. The recent
grassroot-level and upper-grassroot level Party congresses have discussed in a
meticulous manner all the Party Congress draft documents. I have learned that
the ideas contributed are abundant, diverse, multi-dimensional and viewed from
various angles and approaches. The Sub-committees for Documents have compiled
and adopted those ideas in order to supplement and complete the discussion. I
am not presenting each content of the reports but to touch upon overall issues
which are generalised and synthesised, and to suggest some major, important
issues to continue to be opined by the Congress.
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I- Looking back at the tenure of the 12th Congress,
we are happy to see that the entire Party, people and armed forces have brought
into full play the spirit of solidarity, demonstrated their mettle, wisdom, and
efforts for innovations, overcome numerous difficulties and challenges,
successfully accomplished central goals and tasks, obtained many crucial
achievements; the nation continues to develop in a rapid and relatively
comprehensive way, with positive changes and many outstanding marks:
- Against the backdrop of the regression of the global
economy and trade, followed by a serious crisis due to the Covid-19 pandemic’s
impacts, our economy still retains its rather high growth rate on average
(about 6% annually), being one of the most rapidly growing economies in the
region and the world. The quality of growth has been improved; the stability of
macroeconomics rather firmly maintained; major balances of the economy
basically ensured; disciplines and rules on finance and state budget spending
strengthened. Social investment and the capacity of business and production
have been strongly enhanced. The inner strength, size and competitiveness of
our economy continue to be increased one step higher. The society has been
basically stable, people's lives increasingly improved (the rate of poor
household reduced from 58% in 1993 to 9.88% in 2016 and below 3% in 2020);
Social welfare, health, education-training, science-technology, environment
and resources protection, cultural development, the building of the qualities
of the Vietnamese people, and so on, have seen positive changes, with some
rather outstanding improvements.
- The building and rectification of the Party and the
political system have been paid special attention to, and carried out
comprehensively in all aspects of politics, thinking, ethics, organisation and
personnel, with outstanding marks. The fight against, and prevention of,
corruption, negative phenomena, wastefulness have witnessed drastic changes,
and conducted in a determined, methodical, and in-depth way, with breakthroughs
and concrete, obvious and positive results. Corruption, negative phenomena,
degradation, “self-evolution” and “self-transformation” within the Party and
the political system have been gradually curbed. Many economic, and corruption
cases, especially big and serious ones have been uncovered, investigated, and
tried scrupulously one after another, without any restriction or exception,
creating great deterrence and awakening to those with wrongdoings, enjoying
high appreciation, sympathy, and support from public officials, Party members,
and the people.
- Against the backdrop of complicated international and
regional developments and sabotage activities intensified by hostile forces,
our national defense and security have continued to be strengthened. Political
security and social order and safety have been maintained. Foreign activities
and international integration have been intensified, constantly expanded and
deepened, contributing to the consolidation of an environment of peace and
stability for development; the independence, sovereignty, sovereign rights,
unity, territorial integrity, strategic interests of our country resolutely and
persistently have been maintained; Vietnam's prestige and status in the
international arena have been continuously elevated.
- Especially, in 2020, thanks to the sharp and judicious
leadership of the Party and State; the forceful and timely guidance and
governance of the Government; the concerted and proactive participation of the
whole political system; the strong consensus, response, and support of the
people across the country and Vietnamese overseas, we have contained, basically
controlled and prevented the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic in the community,
minimised the damages and loss caused by the pandemic, ensured social security
and welfare for the people, gradually recover production and business, exert
great efforts to complete at the highest level socio-economic development tasks
for 2020 and the 2020 and the 2016 - 2020 period. Vietnam has become a bright
spot in successfully containing and preventing the Covid-19 pandemic, which has
been recognised and highly valued by the international community, contributing
to raising the people’s trust in the Party, State and the socialist regime.
The achievements over the last 5 years are thanks to
objective and subjective reasons, the most important of which is the judicious
leadership and guidance of the Party Central Committee, the Politburo, the
Secretariat, and Party committee at various levels in implementing the 12th
Congress Resolution, in timely and fruitfully tackling newly emerging problems
in practice; the energetic and forceful management and governance of the
Government and various-level authorities; the efforts to innovate the substance
and modes of operation of the National Assembly's work; the solidarity, unity
and concerted coordination in the whole political system; the bringing into
play of the tradition of patriotism, and the strength constituted by the great
all-nation unity; the endeavours made by the pool of the public cadre and Party
members; the working spirit of proactiveness, creativeness and responsibility
of the people; the credit, agreement and support of the international
community.
These achievements are the product of the crystallisation
of creativity, the result of a process of persistent and continuous efforts
through many tenures of the entire Party, people and armed forces. They also
contribute to the great achievements of historic significance of our country. I
have repeatedly said, with all our modesty, we can still assert that: Never has
our country had the fortune, potential, and international position and prestige
as it does today. Once a small, poor and backward country of very low development
level which was almost absent in the world map, Vietnam has risen up as a
developing, middle-income country with nearly 100 million people, having
relations with almost all the countries in the world, being member of most of
international organisations, and a trust-worthy and responsible member and
partner in, the international community. With that, we are more confident,
excited and proud to continue to affirm that our path has been right and in
accordance with the objective laws, Vietnam's realities and development trend
of the time; that our Party's policies have been judicious and creative; that
the Party's leadership has been clear¬-sighted and served as the top factor of
determining each and every victory of the Vietnam's revolution; the Party's political
platform has remained the ideological and theoretical flag, leading our nation
to firmly strengthen our renewal cause; and has been the Party's foundation to
continue to perfect our policy on Homeland building and safeguarding in the new
period.
The 5 years of implementing the 12th Party Congress
Resolution constitute a fresh, lively and rich reality for us to continue
to confirm, enrich and deepen the lessons and experiences drawn from the
previous tenures:
First, Party building and rectification (the
building of organisation and personnel) must be implemented in a comprehensive,
concerted, and regular manner in term of ideology, political work, ethics, and
organisation and personnel. Remaining steadfast and firm in the Party's
ideological foundation must be in parallel with building the Party apparatus
and the whole political system which are truly streamlined, and effective, and
efficient. President Ho Chi Minh's teaching that “cadres is the root of all
work”, “Every success or failure is attributed to good or bad cadre” must be
thoroughly grasped. Therefore, organisation and personnel work must be a
breakthrough, the “key” of “key task” as it relates to the survival of the
Party and the fate of the regime; and the rapid and sustainable development of
the country. Great attention must be paid to the work of building and cleaning
the pool of cadre, especially strategic-level cadres whose quality, capacity,
and credibility are sufficiently up to their tasks; exemplary role of the
public cadre and Party members must be promoted; the higher the positions they
hold, the more exemplary they must be.
Second, in leading, instructing and organising the
implementation work, there should be high resolve, great efforts, real
dynamism, creativeness, and importance attached to making breakthroughs in
development; importance should also be attached to quality and effectiveness of
this work while upholding the responsibility of the heads of entities. The
weakness, tardiness in leading, instructing, and organising the implementation
of orientations and policies must be successfully overcome. Discipline and
orders must be strictly maintained in organising the execution of laws,
policies and public duties; and at the same time, it is a must to protect the
Party's cadres, members who have high combativeness, exemplify in implementing
the Party's principles and disciplines and the State laws, dare to reform and
innovate, to think, speak out, take action, bear accountability, face
difficulties, and challenges, and act drastically.
Third, in undertaking tasks, great attention must be
paid to harmoniousness and comprehensiveness in order to not only fulfill
urgent and immediate targets, resolve once and for all the weaknesses,
bottlenecks, and shortcomings; but also build harmonious development
institutions to achieve the country's long-term, fundamental and sustainable
goals along the line of ensuring the harmony between economic renewal and
political, cultural and social renewal; between economic growth and cultural
and human development, the exercise of social progress and equity; effectively
resolve social issues, protect natural resources and the environment; between
socio-economic development and national defense and security guarantee; between
independence, autonomy and the strengthening of external relations and
international integration; truly attach importance to, and bringing into full
play the role of education and training, science and technology in the new
situation.
Fourth, in securing national defense and security,
and external relations, it is necessary to proactively research, grasp, and
correctly forecast the situation, proactively devise contingency plans to avoid
being passive and caught by surprise; properly and effectively handle relations
with major powers, strategic partners, traditional friends and neighbouring
countries; pay attention to heightening the country's prestige and image, while
staying alert to the increasingly sophisticated and malign plots and tricks of
hostile and reactionary forces and political opportunists who aggressively
sabotage our Party, State and People, especially in the field of politics and
ideology.
Fifth, in every Party and State work, it is
necessary to always remember that “the people constitute the roots”, truly
trust, respect, and promote the ownership role of the people; persistently
follow the principle of “people know, discuss, do, inspect, supervise, and
benefit”. People are the centre and the subject of the renewalcourse; all
guidelines and policies must truly come from the aspirations, legitimate rights
and interests of the people. It is imperative for the Party to take full and
thorough care of people's lives and interests; build flesh-and-blood
relationships with the people; rely on the people for Party building, take work
performance, and people's satisfaction and credit as an important criterion to
evaluate the quality of the organisational apparatus, public cadre, and Party
members. In order to consolidate people's trust in the Party, it is a must to
resolutely and proactively clean the Party's pool of cadres, address the
phenomenon of deterioration and degeneration of quality and lifestyle among a
number of public cadre and Party members, consolidate and build truly clean and
strong party organisations, making the Party the true leader, and genuinely
faithful servant of the people.
Those valuable lessons constitute an important foundation
for our Party to continuously apply them in leading and directing work, helping
us to gain greater mettle and confidence in facing many new and greater
hardships and challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and the global economic
downturn when starting the XIII tenure.
II- About directions and tasks of the XIII Congress term
and the coming period: It is forecast that in the coming years, the
international and regional context continues to witness many complicated,
rapid, and unpredictable changes. Under the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic,
the world has fallen into a serious multi-faceted crisis, in healthcare,
economy, society and governance. Strategic competition, economic competition,
and trade wars continue to unfold fiercely. The Fourth Industrial Revolution
has strongly developed, creating breakthroughs in many fields, and
opportunities for, and challenges to, all countries. Countries are exerting
efforts to adjust their strategies and modes of development in adapting to the
new situation. The Asia-Pacific region has an increasingly important strategic
position. In Southeast Asia, the security environment and sovereignty disputes
in the East Sea continue to be complicated. Climate change, natural disasters,
epidemics and other non-traditional security issues increasingly create strong
and multi-faceted impacts, seriously threaten the stable and sustainable
development of the world, the region and our country.
Meanwhile, despite very proud achievements, our
country is still facing many difficulties and challenges. Economic growth
is not commensurate to the potential, after registering high growth rates
consecutively in the first 4 years of the tenure, the year 2020 is witnessing a
sharp decline, likely only at 3%, the quality of growth remains low while
facing many negative impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Autonomy and resilience
of the economy is not high. The State economic sector, especially state-owned
enterprises are still operating inefficiently, facing numerous difficulties and
bottlenecks. The domestic private sector and the foreign-invested sector are
enjoying rapid but not truely sustainable development. There remain many
shortcomings in the leadership and state management of socio-economic fields,
ensuring political security, social order and safety, and the protection of the
environment and resources, causing animosity in the public. The fight to
protect national sovereignty and territorial integrity remains complicated. The
historical values, cultural traditions of the Vietnamese nation and people have
not been fully promoted. The capacity in institutional building remains
limited; the quality of laws and policies remains low. The leading capacity and
modes, combativeness of many Party organisations and Party members are not
commensurate to their assigned tasks. The mechanism for power control in the
Party and State is not yet adequate and synchronous; the efficiency and
effectiveness of this work are not yet high. Those difficulties, shortcomings,
and mistakes require to be successfully overcome by our entire Party,
people and political system through higher determination, greater efforts, and
more drastic actions. In continuously promoting the renewal cause, it is
imperative for our Party to remain truly steadfast in, and hold firmly, its
revolutionary and scientific nature, while keeping close bonds with the people,
and being trusted and loved by the people so as to overcome all difficulties
and challenges, and lead the nation in successfully realising the goal of
building and defending our Socialist Vietnam.
A thoroughly guiding thought of the entire Party, people
and armed forces is to remain steadfast and creatively apply and develop
Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's thoughts; persistent with the goal of
national independence and socialism, and the Party's renewal guideline to build
and protect the socialist Vietnam. This is a matter of vital significance
to our regime, a solid foundation of our Party which allows no deviation and
wavering. It is necessary to master and well handle the relationship
between persistency on one side and innovation and creative application on the
other. “Being persistent” in a mechanical way will easily lead to dogmatism,
rigidity and conservatism; on the contrary, “being innovative” without
persistency and principles may also fall into revisionism, deviation, and
“change of colour”. Therefore, it is imperative to clearly understand,
correctly apply the dialectic method of Marxism-Leninism: persistency must
be closely associated with creativity, and creativity must be on the basis of
persistency in accordance with reality, and the requirements of renewal,
international integration and national development.
The overall development strategy of our country in the
coming period is to develop the country rapidly and sustainably, ensure close
interlink and synchronous implementation of various tasks, of which
socio-economic development is central; Party building the key; cultural
development the foundation of the society; and national defense and security a
vital and constant task.
The driving force and resources for national development
in the new period are the strongly promoted patriotism, national willpower of
self-reliance, aggregated strength of the whole political system, and
Vietnamese culture and people; and combination of national strength with the
strength of the time. It is a precious national tradition which has been
used creatively by our Party throughout the 90 years of leading the people in
the fight for national independence and reunification, and building socialism.
This is extremely important when the country is at a historic juncture, at
which great material and spiritual resources are required for breakthroughs and
development. Our successful containment and control of the recent Covid-19
pandemic is a solid example demonstrating the superiority of our regime, the
tradition of solidarity, patriotism, compassion and the iron will of our nation
and people; however, complacency, subjectivity, and negligence shall never be
allowed; the more difficulties and challenges we face, the more strongly these
qualities and traditions must be promoted and multiplied.
What determine the success of the cause of building,
developing, defending the Fatherland are the intensification of Party building
and rectification; enhancement of the Party's leadership, ruling capacity and
combativeness; the building of a clean, strong, streamlined State and the
political system with operational effectiveness and efficiency; the
building of a pool of public cadre and Party members, particularly those of strategic
caliber, who are equipped with sufficient qualities, capabilities, and credits
which are commensurate to their assigned tasks, at the same time keeping the
organic ties with the people. With a genuinely revolutionary, clean, strong
party with sufficient mettle, wisdom, experience, and leading credibility like
ours, and with the whole-hearted trust and support of the people, we will have
a great strength to overcome all difficulties and challenges, be unimpeded by
any force preventing our nation from moving forward, and make new miracles in
the cause of building and developing a more prosperous and beautiful country as
ever wished by Uncle Ho.
Bringing into full play the willpower and strength of the
great all-nation unity, at the upcoming Congress we need to embrace a farther
vision to mid-21st century for our country, in which our country to
become a socialist-oriented developed country, concrete goals and tasks for
each stage to be determined; the characteristics of inheritance and development,
continuity and completion in the progress of building socialism in our
country to be clearly demonstrated; reflecting a combination of
dedication, wisdom, trust, “the Party's ideas and people's aspiration” and the
desires, aspirations and willpower to reach a bright future for the country and
the entire nation.
The political report submitted to the upcoming Congress
sets out the overall objectives, which are: to enhance the Party's
leadership, ruling capacity and combativeness; build a clean and strong Party and
political system in all aspects; to consolidate people's trust in the Party,
State and the socialist system; to promote innovations, the willpower and
aspirations for developments and the great all-nation unity strength, combined
with the strength of the time; to push forward in a comprehensive and concerted
manner the Doi Moi undertaking, national industrialisation and
modernisation, rapid and sustainable development of the nation; to firmly
defend the Homeland, maintain peace and stability; to strive for our
country to become a socialist-oriented developed nation by
mid-21st century.
Based on the principles of ensuring scientificness,
feasibility and practicality; continuity and making appropriate supplementation
in each stage of national development; with due reference to international
experience and globally-recognised development standards, we
determine concrete goals towards important milestones of our nation:
-By 2025: to become a developing nation with
modernity-oriented industry and surpass the low-middle-income level.
-By 2030, which marks the 100th anniversary of
the founding of the Party: to become a developing nation with modern industry
and upper-middle-income level.
-By 2045, which marks the 100th anniversary of
the birth of our nation: to become a developed nation with high-income level.
The overall and specific objectives set out by the
Congress serve as crucial basis to determine the orientations of, tasks and
solutions for, national building, development and defense; these objectives
must be synchronous and feasible, meet long-term requirements while
prioritising central tasks and strategic breakthroughs in their implementation;
consensus must be created in both awareness and actions of the entire Party,
people and armed forces in the period from now to mid-21st century,
specifically:
First, to continue to vigorously reform the way of
thinking, to synchronously build and complete institutions for sustainable
development in terms of economics, politics, culture, society, environment
protection, and so on; to tap upon all potentials and resources, to create new
driving force for rapid and sustainable national development. Foremost, to
concentrate on comprehensively and synchronously completing the
socialist-oriented market economy institution based on a unified
perception that this is our nation's overall economic model during the period
of transition to socialism. To focus on building and completing mechanisms and
policies to effectively and harmoniously tackle the relationships among the State,
market and society. Particularly, to make substantive institutional
breakthroughs to resolve issues emerging in reality, which are practical and
concrete, such as: mobilising, managing, efficiently usage of the
resources for development, redressing corruption, wastefulness and negative
practices in the management and use of land, natural resources and public
assets; accumulating and concentrating lands for the development of high-tech
agriculture; ensuring concerted development and creating links among economic
entities and forms of business and manufacturing organisations; reforming and
improving the efficiency of the public sector and state-owned enterprises;
encouraging and creating favorable conditions for the private sector to develop
and become an important driving force of the economy; untangling the
inconsistency, contradictions and overlapping in the building and enforcement
of laws, strategies, scheming, and planning that are obstructing the
development and operation of a full, modern and internationally-integrated
market economy.
Second, to vigorously reform the growth model,
restructure the economy, accelerate industrialisation and modernisation, give
rise to the quality of 13 economic growth, labour productivity and economic
competitiveness based on the perception that this is a basic, essential and
decisive task for fulfilling the goal of rapid and sustainable national
development. To create a fundamental shift of the economy toward a growth model
based on the efficient use of resources, scientific and technological advances
and innovations, as well as the promotion of the potentials and advantages of
all industries and sectors, localities and the entire country. To strive
for breakthroughs in building a modern and synchronised infrastructure, creating
the groundwork for the development of novel industries and domains,
especially digital economy, digital society and digital government. To
build a strong and solid national industry; develop large- scale commodity
production and apply high-tech in agriculture sector; develop the service
sector based on digital economy and the application of latest scientific and
technological advances. To consistently follow the guideline of making science
and technology a national priority and the most important driving force to
develop a modem productive force, renovate the growth model, increase
productivity, quality, efficiency and competitiveness of the economy. To make
breakthroughs in developing human resources, especially high-quality ones,
through fundamental, comprehensive and synchronous reforms in education and
training; with importance attached to the concerted building of mechanisms and
policies, synchronous reforms of objectives, contents, curricula, modes and
methodologies of education and training toward modernisation and international
integration, the building of a healthy educational environment, the resolute
resolving of the pursuing statistical achievements at all cost, and the strict
punishment of negative phenomena in education and training.
Third, to manage properly and sufficiently the
sustainable development of the society, tackle harmoniously relations of
interests in the society. To address efficiently the relations between the
exercise of democracy on one hand and the guarantee of legal enforcement and
social discipline on the other. To ensure social progress and fairness; attach
importance to the sustainability of population and development policies and
social policies, especially social welfare and security, human security,
towards sustainable jobs and the development of a comprehensive social welfare
system, towards covering the whole population through reforming the social
insurance system into a multi-tier and sustainable one based on the principle
of calculating retirement allowance on premium payment. To build and bring into
full play the Vietnamese cultural values and human strength; complete and
realise a system of national values, cultural values and human standards in
association with promoting the willpower, the desire for development, and the
strength of the Vietnamese people in the new era; strive for breakthroughs and
strong measures to effectively prevent the deterioration in ethics and
lifestyles and to repel negative phenomena and evils in society.
Fourth, to carry out foreign activities in a
concerted, creative and efficient manner; build a modem diplomacy for the
interest of the nation-state, with the people and enterprises at the center of
its service; pro-actively and actively conduct intensive and extensive
international integration. Resolutely and persistently safeguard the
independence, sovereignty, sovereign rights, unity, and territorial integrity
of the Homeland; protect the Party, State, people and the socialist regime. To
build revolutionary, elite, and gradually modem armed forces. To proactively
prevent risks of war and conflict early and from afar; detect and resolve
timely unfavourable factors, especially those may yield sudden changes; and
every plot and activities of hostile forces.
Fifth, to bolster the building and rectification of
the Party, State, and entire political system for them to be clean, strong,
streamlined, with operational effectiveness and efficiency. To enhance the
protection of the Party’s ideological foundation, resolutely and regularly
fight, criticise, and refute wrongful and hostile views; fight against,
prevent, and roll back deterioration in political ideology, ethics, and
lifestyles, and the manifestations of internal “self-evolution” and
“self-transformation”. Resolutely and persistently combat and prevent
corruption, wastefulness, negative phenomena with higher determination,
stronger and more drastic and efficient actions without any restricted area or
exception. To continue to build pool of cadre at all levels, especially
strategic ones who are sufficiently capable, qualified, and credible, and
commensurate to their mandates. To uphold the spirit of self-forging, ethics
improving, and exemplar setting of public officials and Party members; the
higher the position they hold, the more exemplary they must be. To combine the
guarantee of discipline, order, and the rule of law as well as strict Party
building with educating and nurturing fine qualities and revolutionary ethics
to effectively prevent and combat against the diseases of individualism. To
effectively enforce regulations on power control in personnel work, fight
against the lobbying for positions and power. To exercise Party’s,
administrative, and legal disciplines on officials with in a strict and
concerted manner. To strongly renew the work of inspection, oversight, and the
exercise of Party discipline and enhance their effectiveness and efficiency in
the direction of close and concerted coordination between agencies of control,
inspection, audit, investigation, prosecution, trial, state management, as well
as the Fatherland Front, and socio-political organisations.
The 35 years of renewal, 30 years of implementing the
Platform (amended and developed in 2011), the Strategy for socio-economic
development for the 2011-2020 period, and the 5 years of implementing the 12th
Congress Resolution have affirmed the need for more profound understanding of,
continuous amendment and development of the following relations, and increase
the quality and efficiency in tackling them: the major relations on ideological
and theoretical work, as well as decisions and policies to remove hurdles and
bottlenecks for rapid and sustainable national development, with special
attention to better management of the relations between: renewal, stability,
and development; economic renewal and political renewal; complying with market
laws and ensuring the socialist orientation; development of productive force
and building and gradual completion of the socialist production relations; the
State on one hand and the market and society on the other; economic growth on
the one hand and cultural development, guarantee of social progress and equity,
and environmental protection on the other; building socialism and defending the
socialist Homeland; independence, autonomy and international integration;
Party’s leadership, State's governance and the people's ownership; democracy
exercise and law enforcement and social order guarantee. These are the major
relations reflecting dialectical laws, the core theoretical issues related to
the renewal policy in our country which are required to be fully understood,
truly imbued with, profoundly grasped for, and thoroughly and effectively
managed, by the entire Party, people, and armed forces.
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The 13th Congress of our Party is approaching. The
remaining workload is daunting while time is running out, the Party committees
at all level and members of the Central Committee must uphold higher their
sense of responsibility to the Party and people, strive to successfully fulfill
the goals set by the resolution of the 12th National Congress and those set by
Party congresses at lower level for the 2015-2020 tenure. At this important
juncture, we shall deeply engrave on our minds the teachings of our beloved
Uncle Ho, “Party Congress bears great relation to the future of the
revolution of our Party and people. The Congress shall further unify our united
Party, consolidate consensus in thoughts and actions that have been agreed
upon”. The entire Party, people and armed forces shall unify in hearts and
minds, join forces to carry out thoroughly the preparatory work for, and
successfully conduct, the 13th National Congress of the Party, leading the
country to a new phase of development with the goal of “prosperous people,
powerful, democratic, just and civilised country”, successfully fulfilling the
heartfelt wish of great President Ho Chi Minh and the desire of the entire
nation.