During a recent training course on updating knowledge and skills for cadres slated to become members of the 14th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, General Secretary To Lam discussed the new era, the era of national progress, and stated that an era is a historical period marked by important characteristics or events that have a significant impact on the development of society, culture, politics , and nature.
Eras are commonly used to divide time in history according to major events or fundamental changes in political life, science , technology, or the environment. Examples include: the Industrial Age, the Information Age, the Digital Age, and the Space Age. Previously, there were terms like the Stone Age, the Paleolithic Age, and the Medieval Age…
The era of striving implies creating strong, decisive, resolute, positive movement, effort, inner strength, and confidence to overcome challenges, surpass oneself, fulfill aspirations, reach goals, and achieve great accomplishments.
According to General Secretary To Lam, the new era, the era of the Vietnamese nation's rise, is an era of development and prosperity under the leadership and rule of the Communist Party, successfully building a socialist Vietnam that is wealthy, strong, democratic, just, and civilized, standing shoulder to shoulder with the world's leading powers. All citizens will enjoy a comfortable and happy life, receive support for development and wealth creation, and contribute increasingly to world peace, stability, development, human happiness, and global civilization.
The ultimate goal of this era of progress is a prosperous people, a strong nation, a socialist society, standing shoulder to shoulder with the world's leading powers.
General Secretary To Lam
“The top priority in the new era is to successfully achieve the strategic goals by 2030, for Vietnam to become a developing country with modern industry and high middle income; and by 2045 to become a developed socialist country with high income; to strongly awaken the national spirit, the spirit of self-reliance, self-confidence, self-strength, national pride, and the aspiration for national development; and to closely combine national strength with the strength of the times. The beginning of this new era is the 14th National Congress of the Party. From here, all Vietnamese people, hundreds of millions of them as one, under the leadership of the Party, will work together, wholeheartedly, seize the most opportunities and advantages, overcome risks and challenges, and lead the country to comprehensive, strong, breakthrough, and take-off development.” – General Secretary To Lam emphasized.
According to General Secretary To Lam, the great achievements made after 40 years of reform under the leadership of the Party have helped the country accumulate strength and momentum for breakthrough development in the next phase.
From a poor, backward, low-developed country, surrounded and embargoed, Vietnam has become a developing country with a middle income, deeply integrated into world politics, the global economy, and human civilization. It assumes many important international responsibilities and plays an active role in many important multilateral organizations and forums. Independence, sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity are maintained; national and ethnic interests are ensured.
Now is the time when the Party's will blends with the people's aspirations to build a prosperous and happy country, to successfully build socialism as soon as possible, and to stand shoulder to shoulder with the world's leading powers.
General Secretary To Lam
According to the latest statistics, the size of the economy in 2023 increased 96 times compared to 1986. Vietnam is among the top 40 largest economies in the world and among the top 20 in terms of trade and attracting foreign investment; it has diplomatic relations with 193 countries that are members of the United Nations; and it has built strategic partnerships, cooperation agreements, and comprehensive strategic partnerships with all the major powers in the world and the region.
Along with that, people's lives have improved significantly, the poverty rate has decreased sharply; and the Millennium Development Goals have been achieved ahead of schedule. Political, economic, cultural, social, scientific and technological, defense, and security potential has continuously improved; and the country has actively contributed to maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world.
“The world is in a period of epochal change. The period from now until 2030 is the most crucial time to establish a new world order. This is also a period of important strategic opportunity, the final push of the Vietnamese revolution to achieve the 100-year strategic goals under the leadership of the Party, creating a solid foundation to achieve the 100-year goals of the nation's founding.” – General Secretary To Lam said.
According to General Secretary To Lam, the epochal transformation brings new opportunities and advantages, but also many challenges, with challenges being more prominent and new opportunities potentially emerging in the midst of sudden changes in the global landscape. The Fourth Industrial Revolution, especially artificial intelligence and digital technology, offers opportunities that developing and underdeveloped countries can seize to get ahead and achieve remarkable development.
7 STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS
General Secretary To Lam highlighted seven strategic directions to lead the country into a new era, an era of national progress.
1. Improving the Party's leadership methods.
According to General Secretary To Lam, during more than 94 years of leading the revolution, our Party has continuously sought, developed, supplemented, and perfected its leadership methods, enhancing its leadership capacity and governing capacity.
However, alongside the achievements, the reform of the Party's leadership methods still faces many shortcomings and limitations. The urgent need for a strong reform of leadership methods, enhancement of leadership capacity and governing capacity, and ensuring the Party remains the great helmsman leading our nation forward is pressing.
From there, General Secretary To Lam outlined several strategic solutions, namely: Strictly implementing the Party's leadership and governance methods, absolutely preventing any excuses, substitutions, or laxity in the Party's leadership. Focusing on streamlining the Party's apparatus and organization, ensuring that Party agencies truly serve as the intellectual core, the "general staff," and the vanguard leading state agencies. Strongly reforming the issuance, dissemination, and implementation of Party resolutions; building grassroots Party organizations and ensuring that Party members are truly the "cells" of the Party…
2. Strengthening Party discipline in building and perfecting the socialist rule of law state of the people, by the people, and for the people.
General Secretary To Lam emphasized that the legal framework in a socialist rule of law state needs to be continuously improved to institutionalize the Party's guidelines and policies, promote democracy, prioritize the people, and recognize, respect, guarantee, and protect human rights and civil rights.
According to General Secretary To Lam, a strong reform of legislative work is needed, including: Transforming the mindset in lawmaking to ensure both effective state management and the encouragement of creativity, unleashing the full potential of production, and mobilizing all resources for development. A rigid management mindset is necessary, decisively abandoning the "if you can't manage it, ban it" mentality. Legal provisions must be stable and have long-term value. Reforming the process of lawmaking and implementation. Closely adhering to reality and basing legal regulations on the specific context of Vietnam. Promoting decentralization and delegation of power…
3. Streamline the organizational structure for effective and efficient operation.
General Secretary To Lam emphasized that this task is extremely urgent in line with the strategic policy, which is: To continue focusing on building and streamlining the organizational apparatus of the Party, the National Assembly, the Government, the Fatherland Front, and political and social organizations to ensure effective and efficient operation; to streamline the organizational structure of Party agencies, making them truly the intellectual core, the "general staff," and the vanguard leading state agencies. To cut unnecessary intermediate layers and reorganize towards a multi-sectoral and multi-field approach. To improve the inspection and supervision mechanism, ensuring unity in state management and promoting initiative, creativity, and enhancing the self-reliance and self-strength of localities.
4. Digital transformation
General Secretary To Lam emphasized that digital transformation is not simply about applying digital technology to socio-economic activities, but also about establishing a new, advanced, and modern mode of production – the "digital mode of production".
Therefore, it is necessary to focus on building a legal framework for digital development, creating a foundation for Vietnam to seize opportunities from the Fourth Industrial Revolution. A breakthrough mechanism is needed to attract talent from both within and outside the country. The application of information technology should be promoted, and a digital platform should be built to connect and share data between agencies and organizations. Digital transformation should be accelerated while ensuring security and safety.
5. Combating waste
General Secretary To Lam stated that, in reality, wastefulness is quite widespread today, occurring in many different forms, and has been causing many serious consequences.
Therefore, General Secretary To Lam directed that the fight against waste should be intensified to the same extent as the fight against corruption and negative practices. Regulations on management mechanisms and economic-technical norms that are no longer suitable for the country's development realities should be reviewed and supplemented. Regulations on handling wasteful behavior should be improved. Long-standing issues related to nationally important projects, key projects, and projects with low efficiency that cause significant losses and waste should be definitively resolved. A culture of preventing and combating waste should be built.
6. Officials
The General Secretary stated that this is a "very crucial" issue, one that "decides everything," that "cadres are the foundation of all work," and that they are the decisive factor in the success or failure of the revolution. Building a team of capable cadres to lead the country into a new era, an era of national progress, is urgently needed.
General Secretary To Lam emphasized the need for strong reforms in the recruitment, training, promotion, appointment, rotation, transfer, and evaluation of cadres, focusing on substance and finding the right people based on measurable results. He stressed the importance of strengthening self-training and self-improvement, especially in response to the demands of digital transformation. He also called for the development of mechanisms to encourage and protect cadres with innovative thinking, who dare to think, dare to act, dare to make breakthroughs, and dare to take responsibility for the common good. Furthermore, he called for the screening and removal from office of those lacking the necessary qualities, capabilities, and credibility.
7. Economy
According to General Secretary To Lam's assessment, Vietnam's economy as a whole has experienced continuous growth since the implementation of the National Construction Program during the transitional period to socialism in 1991, consistently ranking among the countries with high growth rates in the region and the world. However, the risk of economic backwardness remains, and the risk of Vietnam falling into the middle-income trap persists.
Therefore, General Secretary To Lam directed that a stronger breakthrough is needed in institutional development, removing bottlenecks and barriers, putting people and businesses at the center, mobilizing and unlocking all internal and external resources, resources from the people, and developing science and technology synchronously and smoothly. Focus on developing new productive forces associated with perfecting production relations. Promote strategic technologies, digital transformation, green transformation, and use science and technology and innovation as the main driving force for development.
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