Institutional reform to enter a new era

Experts and scientists believe that the key issue for the country to enter a new era is institutional reform, streamlining the organization and apparatus of the entire political system; at the same time, it must be done from top to bottom, with determination to be successful.

CLARIFYING THEORY AND PRACTICE ABOUT THE NEW ERA

On the morning of November 15, the Scientific Council of Central Agencies and the Communist Magazine organized the National Scientific Conference on the New Era, the Era of Rising of the Vietnamese Nation - Theoretical and Practical Issues. In his opening speech, Member of the Party Central Committee, Permanent Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department Lai Xuan Mon stated that in recent important speeches and articles, General Secretary To Lam has mentioned the issue of the New Era, the Era of Rising of the Vietnamese Nation.

National scientific conference New era, the era of the Vietnamese nation's rise - Theoretical and practical issues

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According to Mr. Lai Xuan Mon, the ideology of General Secretary To Lam was unanimously affirmed by the 10th Conference of the 13th Central Committee. This is a new policy and orientation, with strategic significance for national development, which needs to be included in the documents of the 14th National Party Congress. However, this is also a major issue, both theoretically and practically new, which needs to be thoroughly researched and interpreted, creating high unity in perception and action. Therefore, the first workshop was held to discuss, clarify, and deepen the theoretical and practical issues of the "New Era - the era of the rise of the Vietnamese people". Many opinions at the workshop also affirmed that up to now, the goals and major contents of the era of unification, the era of innovation have basically been completed, allowing our country to enter the third era, the era of the rise of the Vietnamese people - the era of prosperity and happiness. The 14th National Party Congress is a time of "full convergence of favorable factors of time, place and people", creating opportunities for the country to develop comprehensively, break through and take off, rise up, and enter a new era. Looking deeper, Associate Professor, Dr. Le Minh Thong, former Assistant to the Chairman of the National Assembly, said that after 40 years of renovation, we have liberated huge resources. However, the development motivations and resources of the past 40 years, "to be honest, have reached a threshold". "We have reached a point where if we do not create new motivations and impulses, we will be stuck in the middle-income trap", Mr. Thong stated. Mr. Thong emphasized that the new era of the nation is an urgent requirement of reality, a comprehensive, all-people revolution under the leadership of the Party to create new motivations and new resources, so that the country can make a breakthrough, moving towards becoming a modern, high-income country by 2045 as set out in the Resolution of the 13th National Congress.

BREAKTHROUGH IN THINKING AND PERCEPTION

Prof. Dr. Phung Huu Phu, former Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, said that the overarching requirement in creating a new era is to carry out a "double breakthrough". On the one hand, it is necessary to break straight into modernity, into high-tech fields, especially digital technology; into modern national governance to create outstanding development in economy, culture, society, national defense, security, and foreign affairs. On the other hand, it is necessary to make a breakthrough in thoroughly resolving bottlenecks, weaknesses, limitations, and difficulties that are holding back and hindering the country's development. According to Mr. Phu, this double breakthrough process, as General Secretary To Lam identified, is to "take full advantage of opportunities and advantages, push back risks and challenges to bring the country to comprehensive, strong development, breakthrough and take off". Among the historical requirements in the new era, Prof. Dr. Phung Huu Phu emphasized that the most significant breakthrough requirement is "breakthrough in thinking and perception". According to him, it is the breakthrough entering the era of unification, innovation and development (from 1975 to 2025), our Party started with innovation in thinking and perception. It is the breakthrough in theoretical thinking that has opened the path to innovation in all fields, creating great achievements in the past 40 years of innovation. From there, Mr. Phu believes that there needs to be theoretical breakthroughs with a new approach to socialism and the path to socialism in Vietnam; about the roadmap and steps; about productive forces and production relations and socialist production relations in line with the digital revolution, the digital era; about infrastructure and superstructure in the new era... On that basis, breakthroughs in the development orientation of important fields of the country. Professor, Dr. Phung Huu Phu also emphasized that the new era places the top requirement on improving the leadership and governing capacity of the Party. To do this, there will be a lot of work to do and it must be done resolutely but firmly to have a streamlined, unified, reasonable, transparent, effective and efficient Party apparatus and political system. Along with that, there will be a team of honest, exemplary cadres and Party members who are devoted to the Party and the people. "This is truly a revolution in building and rectifying the Party and the political system in the era of national development," Mr. Phu affirmed.

Removing bottlenecks to make breakthroughs in science and technology and building a high-tech production base is considered by the Party and experts to be one of the key issues for the country to enter a new era.

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TOP-DOWN REVOLUTION

Associate Professor, Dr. Le Minh Thong assessed that the most important issue for the country to enter a new era is institutional reform to create a new institutional system that meets development needs. "We must renew our thinking and enhance our political determination to fundamentally remove the bottlenecks and bottlenecks in the institutional system that are currently hindering development. To do this, there must be efforts and determination from the entire state apparatus and political system," Mr. Thong added on the sidelines of the workshop. Mr. Thong analyzed that the "character" that creates the institution is the political system. Therefore, institutional breakthroughs must first of all be breakthroughs in the place where the institution is born, which is the political system. "Innovation of the political system is the breakthrough that creates development momentum," Mr. Thong stated, emphasizing that innovation of the political system organization and streamlining the apparatus must be considered a real revolution and must be very drastic in order to be successful. Regarding the way to innovate the organization of the political system, the former Assistant to the Chairman of the National Assembly said that the first thing is to innovate the organization of the Party; and the first thing is to overcome the duplication of the apparatus. He recommended that the Party must use the state apparatus as its important advisory tool to streamline the Party apparatus . In addition, it is necessary to study to unify the leadership positions between the Party and the state apparatus according to the principle that in an organization or locality there is only one leader. Regarding the state, Mr. Thong recommended to rethink to shift from "thinking of having power" to "thinking of serving". The state must innovate its thinking, and only do things that society cannot do, the economy cannot do, and businesses cannot do, but cannot take on too much, which will cause too much work and not do it properly. At the same time, the state must also streamline itself based on the universal principle of multi-sectoral and multi-field management. "Not only the Government apparatus but also the administrative apparatus at all levels, all must be based on the principle of multi-sectoral and multi-field to streamline the apparatus," Mr. Thong suggested. Similarly, in the National Assembly, in addition to reorganizing the apparatus according to the above principle, Mr. Thong said that it is necessary to innovate legislative thinking to only make laws within the scope prescribed by the Constitution, respecting the Government's right to make regulations. Localities need to be strongly decentralized and delegated according to the principle: locality decides, locality does, locality is responsible; at the same time, decentralization and delegation are based on specific conditions, not widespread or equal. "If localities are the same, decentralization will not be effective," he said. Mr. Le Minh Thong also emphasized that "this revolution to streamline the apparatus must be done from the top down". Because if agencies propose how to innovate on their own, it will be very difficult. He suggested having a national program and project with strict direction, so that all structures of the system must reform simultaneously. However, according to Associate Professor, Dr. Le Minh Thong, the core of streamlining the apparatus is to improve the quality of the staff and civil servants in the apparatus of the political system. "To do so, we must innovate the work of staff. This is the key because staff is the root of the problem. How can staff be selected in a transparent, competitive manner and truly meet the requirements of the nation's rise?", Mr. Thong emphasized and proposed two specific solutions: innovating elections and publicizing the work of staff. According to him, when transparent and based on the people to do it, the work of staff will overcome the long-standing situation of following the right procedures but not the right people. "Giving staff, party members, and people the right to participate in the selection of staff, we will have a team of staff equal to the task," Mr. Thong affirmed.

Era of breakthrough and acceleration development

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The new era, the era of the Vietnamese people's rise, is an era of breakthrough development, acceleration under the leadership and governance of the Party, successfully building a socialist Vietnam that is rich, strong, democratic, fair, civilized, prosperous, and happy; catching up with, advancing together, standing shoulder to shoulder with the world powers; increasingly contributing to the peace, stability, development of the world, the happiness of humanity and global civilization. In the new era, all Vietnamese people are comprehensively developed, have a prosperous, free, happy, and civilized life. The top priority in the new era is to strongly arouse national spirit, patriotism, self-reliance, self-confidence, self-reliance, national pride, and the aspiration to develop the country; closely combining national strength with the strength of the times to successfully implement strategic goals by 2030, Vietnam becomes a developing country with modern industry and high average income; By 2045, become a developed socialist country with high income. Dr. Lai Xuan Mon , Member of the Party Central Committee, Permanent Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department

Breakthrough in management and use of economic resources

In order for the country to rise up, overcome difficulties and challenges, achieve the set goals and confidently enter a new era, an advanced, civilized and modern era, there needs to be breakthrough solutions, liberating production capacity and unlocking resources, especially creating breakthroughs in the management and use of economic resources. Accordingly, it is necessary to perfect the management and use of resources in accordance with the development institutions of the socialist-oriented market economy, especially institutions to remove bottlenecks and unlock resources, especially land resources; institutions that pave the way for new production and business models; have specific and outstanding policy mechanisms for the management and use of resources such as digital resources, science and technology resources, cultural resources, history, tradition, national brand resources, enterprises and Vietnamese products. Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Hong Son , Deputy Head of the Central Economic Commission

Removing bottlenecks in science and technology development in the new era

In the new era, the development of science and technology is the most important. No country in the world has made a breakthrough without relying on science and technology. In our country, science and technology is identified as the top national policy, in theory it plays an extremely important role. However, in reality there are many obstacles that make science and technology develop very slowly compared to expectations. In particular, the biggest bottleneck of science and technology today is the financial mechanism. This is the "bottleneck of bottlenecks" in the development of science and technology. In recent years, the speed of science and technology development in Vietnam has begun to slow down. The potential for science and technology development also has many issues to consider when the infrastructure and facilities of state laboratories are outdated compared to private ones and even more outdated compared to laboratories in the world. Human resources for science and technology also face many challenges. The financial budget for science and technology is even more difficult. On average, each year, each scientist is invested with less than 100 million VND, not enough resources for research. Therefore, it is necessary to remove bottlenecks in financial mechanisms, investment methods as well as policies for cadres and scientists so that science and technology can develop, which is truly a national policy, bringing the country into a new era. Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Quan , former Minister of Science and Technology

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