'Cooperative stars' are important nuclei in collective economic development

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung speaks at the Ceremony to honor typical cooperatives and present the "Cooperative Star 2025" award - Photo: VGP/Minh Ngoc

The event was organized by the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance (VCA) to celebrate the 79th anniversary of the day Uncle Ho wrote a letter calling on Vietnamese landlords and farmers to join agricultural cooperatives (April 11, 1946 - April 11, 2025) and the 14th anniversary of the Prime Minister's recognition of Vietnam Cooperative Day (April 11).

This is also an opportunity to recognize and honor "star" cooperatives that have achieved many results in production and business and have made many contributions to the development of the industry and locality.

Immediately after the successful August Revolution, responding to Uncle Ho's call, in 1948, in the Viet Bac War Zone, the first cooperative was established, marking the birth and development of the collective economic sector and cooperatives in Vietnam.

Up to now, after 79 years of development, policies and laws on collective economy (KTTT) and cooperatives have been built and perfected to suit each stage of development.

Our country's collective economic sector, with the core being cooperatives, has had positive changes from changing awareness, thinking to practical actions, increasingly developing in scale, quantity, diversifying industries and products, better meeting the needs of the domestic and export markets.

By the end of 2024, the country had formed more than 33,000 cooperatives with more than 5.8 million members and 152 cooperative unions. The collective economic sector continues to affirm its role in developing member households' economies, ensuring social security, political stability at the grassroots level and directly contributing to the country's economic growth.

The Deputy Prime Minister requested that collective economic organizations and cooperatives be proactive, self-reliant and self-reliant in production and business activities, and participate in effective and sustainable linkages along product value chains - Photo: VGP/Minh Ngoc

On the occasion of the Award Ceremony, on behalf of the Party and State leaders, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung commended and highly appreciated the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance for successfully organizing a series of events "Action Month for Cooperatives" and "Honoring Ceremony for Outstanding Cooperatives" for the second time in response to the United Nations International Year of Cooperatives with the theme "Cooperatives build a better world".

The Deputy Prime Minister said that Resolution No. 20-NQ/TW dated June 16, 2022 of the 13th Party Central Committee clearly defined the goals, tasks, and solutions to continue innovating, developing, and improving the efficiency of the market economy in the new period.

In the context of the current complex and unpredictable developments of the world and regional economy, with many new opportunities and challenges, in order to successfully implement the development goals of the collective economy and cooperatives in the coming time, the Deputy Prime Minister requested ministries, branches, localities and socio-political organizations to continue to thoroughly grasp and closely follow the Party's guiding viewpoints, developing and improving the effectiveness of the collective economy is the task of the entire political system.

At the same time, ministries, branches and local authorities at all levels need to grasp the reality, advise on perfecting mechanisms and policies, allocate synchronous resources, promote the collective economic sector and cooperatives to develop to their full potential in the new era; stand side by side and accompany each other to remove difficulties and obstacles for production and business activities of cooperatives; pay attention to training and developing human resources for the collective economic sector, cooperatives and the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance system, to meet the requirements and tasks of collective economic development in the coming time.

Regarding the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance system, the Deputy Prime Minister emphasized the need to improve capacity and operational efficiency, promote the core representative role, support cooperatives, cooperative unions, and bridge between the Party and the State with the collective economy sector; actively promote the position and role of the collective economy and cooperatives in the country's socio-economic development; attract more cooperatives to become members of the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance system; research, promote, and criticize policies; propose to perfect mechanisms and policies for the development of collective economy and cooperatives.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung presents the "Cooperative Star 2025" award - Photo: VGP/Minh Ngoc

In addition, the Deputy Prime Minister requested that collective economic organizations and cooperatives be proactive, self-reliant and self-reliant in production and business activities, participate in effective and sustainable linkages along the product value chain; improve the capacity to adapt to competition and market fluctuations; improve capacity in management, operation, training and improve the quality of human resources of members and participating labor force.

"It is necessary to innovate and be creative in thinking and doing, shifting from old production thinking to new economic thinking, in line with the trend of green economy, circular economy, and adaptation to climate change," the Deputy Prime Minister suggested.

In particular, the cooperatives that won the Cooperative Star Award in 2025, honored today, need to continue to be pioneers in cooperation, association, application of scientific and technological advances, development of products with high added value, high economic efficiency and be important nuclei in the movement to develop collective economy and cooperatives in Vietnam.

Affirming that the Government will continue to accompany the collective economic organizations and cooperatives to remove and resolve obstacles and difficulties, creating motivation for the collective economic and cooperative sector to "catch up, progress together and rise up" with other economic sectors, Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Chi Dung hopes that the cooperative community will have more bright stars in the starry sky, contributing more to the cause of national construction and development./.

Thu Sa

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