General Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam To Lam. Photo: DANG KHOA
Reporter: Dear General Secretary, in 2024, our country overcame many difficulties and challenges, achieved outstanding achievements, creating momentum for a breakthrough in 2025 to "reach the finish line", successfully completing the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress. In your opinion, what is the basis for us to achieve such results and what lessons can we learn from this?
Comrade General Secretary To Lam:
The year 2024 ended with many successes and achievements in the task of implementing the resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, especially the socio-economic development targets. Up to this point, it can be affirmed that we have promptly seized opportunities, overcome all difficulties and challenges, and achieved outstanding results in all aspects of politics, economy, society, national defense, security and foreign affairs.
First of all , politically , we have made very important progress in realizing the goals set forth by the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, which are to enhance the Party's leadership, governance and fighting capacity; to build a clean and strong Party and political system in all aspects; to consolidate and enhance people's trust in the Party, the State and the socialist regime; and to arouse the aspiration to develop a prosperous and happy country.
General Secretary To Lam delivers the opening speech at the 13th Central Committee Conference of the Communist Party of Vietnam on November 25, 2024. Photo: DANG KHOA
In terms of socio-economics , despite many difficulties from objective factors, both internal and external, we still achieved very important results. The macro-economy continued to be stable, inflation was controlled, economic growth was higher than the set target, belonging to the group of countries with high growth rates in the region and the world, highly appreciated by many large and prestigious international organizations. Major balances were ensured; public debt, government debt, foreign debt and state budget deficit were well controlled, lower than the permitted limit. Social security was ensured; the labor market recovered positively. Social policy credit was promoted. Sustainable poverty reduction solutions and policies were effectively implemented, in which the poverty rate decreased by 1%, to 1.93%. The good news is that the socio-economic results of the following month were more positive than the previous month, the following quarter was higher than the previous quarter and compared to the same period of previous years in most areas. Cultural and social fields achieved clearer results in terms of awareness, action and results.
Regarding national defense, security and foreign affairs , we have promoted the building of a solid national defense posture, a people's security posture and a solid people's hearts posture. National defense and security potential has been consolidated and enhanced in many aspects. All arising situations and urgent and important issues have been handled promptly and effectively, firmly protecting sovereignty and territorial integrity; ensuring political security and social order and safety. Foreign affairs and international integration continue to be bright spots; effectively implementing major policies, contributing to creating an environment of peace, cooperation and development. The foreign affairs landscape has been constantly expanded; the country's position and prestige have been enhanced, making positive contributions to solving regional and global issues, which have been recognized and highly appreciated by the international community.
During the official visit to France by General Secretary and President To Lam, Vietnam and France agreed to upgrade their relationship to a comprehensive strategic partnership. In photo: General Secretary and President To Lam attends the solemn welcoming ceremony chaired by President Emmanuel Macron, October 7, 2024. Photo: VNA
During General Secretary To Lam's official visit to Malaysia on November 21, 2024, the two sides agreed to upgrade Vietnam-Malaysia relations to a comprehensive strategic partnership. In the photo: General Secretary To Lam and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim held a closed-door meeting. Photo: VNA
Regarding the basis for the above achievements, it can be affirmed that it is first of all thanks to the persistent efforts and great determination of the entire Party, the entire people, the entire army, and the entire political system throughout the past year. In particular, Party committees at all levels, especially the Central Executive Committee, the Politburo, and the Secretariat, have clearly demonstrated their leadership, orientation, and guidance roles in guiding the political system to deploy drastic and effective solutions in the face of difficulties and challenges, and to achieve the set goals. The Central Executive Committee has resolutely and determinedly focused on solving many issues, from summarizing and evaluating the results of implementing important Party resolutions, setting out major orientations, to directing the preparation for Party congresses at all levels towards the 14th National Congress of the Party. In difficult and challenging times, our Party has clearly demonstrated its mettle and solidarity, being a unified bloc in will and action, thereby leading and directing the entire political system to strive to continue achieving great and comprehensive achievements in all fields.
General Secretary To Lam attends the National Great Unity Day in Mui Hamlet, Dat Mui Commune, Ngoc Hien District, Ca Mau, November 17, 2024. Photo: VNA
Second, it is to maximize the strength of national solidarity and the entire political system to participate; clearly identify bottlenecks, bottlenecks, and institutional barriers that need to be cleared to liberate social resources and liberate labor. The work of preventing and combating corruption, waste, and negativity with specific and clear results, demonstrating the Party's high determination, has strengthened the trust, consensus, and support of cadres, party members, and people for the political system. The Party's correct policies and decisions, the solidarity, consensus, and high determination of the entire system, from top to bottom, have had a very positive impact, encouraging and motivating people and businesses to promote all resources to serve socio-economic development, maintain national defense and security. The Party Central Committee, Government and National Assembly's identification, clarification and initial resolution of development institutional issues, in order to clear bottlenecks and free up resources for society, although these are only initial steps, have had a clear stimulating impact on the investment and business environment, creating excitement and confidence among all classes of people and the business community.
General Secretary To Lam and delegates from constituency No. 1, the National Assembly delegation of Hanoi city, met with voters of Ba Dinh, Dong Da, and Hai Ba Trung districts to report on the results of the 8th session of the 15th National Assembly and listen to voters' opinions and recommendations, at the headquarters of the People's Council and People's Committee of Ba Dinh district, December 3, 2024. Photo: VNA
Third is to promote the fundamental results and achievements that we have built since the beginning of the term and before. In particular, we cannot fail to mention the great role of the late General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong. His example of dedication and great contributions are a strong source of inspiration, encouraging the entire Party, the entire people and the entire army to unite, strive to overcome all challenges and difficulties, and be determined to exceed the set goals.
Fourth is the combination of two very important factors - steadfastness in goals and flexible thinking, saying goes hand in hand with doing in actual implementation. We have closely followed the goals set out in the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, with great determination, to achieve them successfully. The more difficulties and challenges there are, the more we must demonstrate our mettle, the higher our determination, and the greater our efforts. In implementation, we have been very flexible, based on the actual situation, taking advantage of every opportunity and resource to achieve the set goals.
Welcoming ceremony for General Secretary To Lam to attend the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Vietnam People's Army. Photo: DANG KHOA
Reporter: The 14th National Party Congress is identified as the beginning of a new era - an era of national development, the entire nation, under the leadership of the Party, joining hands and hearts to bring the country to comprehensive, strong and breakthrough development. Comrade General Secretary, to firmly enter the new era, what is our key task in 2025?
Comrade General Secretary To Lam:
The 14th Congress marks the moment when the country enters a new era - the era of national development. However, this is a relatively short time, and from now on, work must be carried out in the spirit of the country's development and take-off. From now until the Congress, we have a lot of work to do, focusing on three main groups of tasks:
The first is the determination to successfully implement the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress. At the recent 10th Conference, the Central Executive Committee unanimously identified the successful implementation of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress as the highest goal of the entire Party, people and army in 2025. This task will be carried out with the highest determination, greatest efforts, drastic actions, focus, key points, with the most effective implementation solutions, concentrating all resources and measures, striving to achieve and exceed the set goals. With the results achieved from 2021 to present and the expected socio-economic development in 2025, we will strive to achieve and exceed most of the main targets for the 2021-2026 period set by the 13th National Party Congress. In reality, there are still difficulties and challenges, especially in implementing targets related to GDP growth rate and quality, and labor productivity increase.
The 10th meeting of the 13th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam opened at the Party Central Committee Headquarters in Hanoi on the morning of September 18, 2024. General Secretary and President To Lam chaired and delivered the opening speech. Photo: VNA
The entire political system, first of all the Government, heads of departments, ministries, branches and localities must be truly determined, determined to do, have drastic, decisive and accelerated solutions to successfully carry out the socio-economic development task in 2025; strive to achieve and exceed targets, especially the GDP growth target and continue to create strong changes in the following years. At the same time, it is also necessary to focus on solutions for rapid and sustainable development; prioritize ensuring high economic growth along with environmental protection, social security, and taking the best care of people's lives; firmly ensuring national defense and security, improving the effectiveness of foreign affairs, constantly enhancing Vietnam's position and contribution to peace, stability and development in the region and the world.
In 2025, we must urgently implement major policies that have been unanimously approved by the Party Central Committee and the Politburo, creating a foundation for the new stage, such as the policy of investing in the entire North-South high-speed railway project; regional railways; restarting the Ninh Thuan nuclear power project and continuing to study the nuclear power development program in Vietnam; implementing steps to establish an international financial center in Ho Chi Minh City, a regional financial center in Da Nang; promoting the implementation of the national digital transformation revolution, developing science, technology, innovation... These are strategic policies to develop infrastructure, attract investment capital, create momentum to promote the development of productive forces, meeting the requirements of national development in the new situation.
General Secretary and President To Lam speaks at the opening session of the 8th session of the 15th National Assembly on October 21, 2024. Photo: QUOCHOI.VN
The second is the group of tasks to prepare for the 14th National Party Congress, including two main contents: preparing documents to submit to the Congress and preparing personnel for the Congress. These are also two key tasks in the process of preparing and organizing Party congresses at all levels, towards the 14th National Congress of the Party, in accordance with the spirit of Directive No. 35-CT/TW dated June 14, 2024 of the Politburo. In particular, regarding documents, it is necessary to strongly innovate the construction method in a scientific, specific, clear direction, clear strategic policy, concise, easy to understand, easy to implement so that it can be deployed immediately throughout the entire Party, the entire people, and the entire army, right after the Congress. Regarding personnel work, this is an important task, the "key" of the "key", of decisive significance for the successful implementation of the Party's policies and guidelines to bring the country into a new era.
Third is to implement the Central Executive Committee's policy on summarizing the implementation of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW and arranging and perfecting the apparatus of the political system to be streamlined, effective and efficient. Up to now, the innovation and arrangement of the apparatus of the political system to be streamlined, strong, efficient, effective and efficient is an urgent requirement and cannot be delayed any longer. By the first quarter of 2025, the summary of the implementation of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW and the plan to arrange and perfect the apparatus of the political system must be completed. This is a particularly important task, highly anticipated, welcomed and strongly supported by cadres, party members and people.
Reporter: Of the three biggest bottlenecks today, namely development institutions, infrastructure and human resources, development institutions are the “bottleneck” of “bottlenecks”. This issue has been thoroughly understood in recent times. Mr. General Secretary, what must we do to quickly remove bottlenecks in development institutions, in order to unblock resources for development?
Comrade General Secretary To Lam:
As I have stated before the National Assembly and at a number of forums, among the three biggest bottlenecks today, the development institution is the biggest bottleneck. The limitations that have lasted for many years, if not urgently overcome, will continue to hinder development, causing waste and missing development opportunities for the country in the new era. Removing bottlenecks, bottlenecks and barriers is the responsibility of the entire political system and needs to be carried out synchronously and comprehensively, in which the breakthrough in development institutions should be considered the "breakthrough" of "breakthroughs". In the immediate future, we will focus on a number of key tasks:
General Secretary To Lam works with the Party Committee of the Ministry of Justice, November 7, 2024. Photo: VNA
Firstly, synchronously perfecting the development institution, including strongly innovating the legislative work, transforming the thinking of law-making towards both ensuring the requirements of state management and encouraging creativity, liberating all productive forces, unleashing all resources for development, non-rigid management thinking, resolutely abandoning the mindset of if you can't manage, then ban, and eliminating the mechanism of asking and giving. Perfecting the development institution is also to prevent wasting time and wasting development opportunities. It is necessary to proactively, actively, and urgently build a legal corridor for new issues and new trends, including creating a legal framework to successfully implement the digital transformation revolution, creating a breakthrough for the country's development in the following years.
Second, regularly evaluate the effectiveness and quality of policies after they are issued to promptly adjust inadequacies and conflicts, reduce loss and waste of resources, proactively detect and quickly remove bottlenecks caused by legal regulations. It is necessary to urgently focus on reviewing and resolving long-standing problems in important national projects, key projects, low-efficiency projects that cause great loss and waste; and weak commercial banks.
Third, promote decentralization and delegation of power, ensure smooth management of the Central Government, combined with enhancing the initiative and creativity of localities in management and development, with the motto "locality decides, locality acts, locality takes responsibility". At the same time, innovate the process of deciding on the state budget to ensure substance, coupled with monitoring the implementation of the budget.
General Secretary To Lam visits and works at Bach Long Vi island district (Hai Phong), November 14, 2024. Photo: VNA
General Secretary To Lam with people of Bach Long Vi island district. Photo: VNA
Fourth, thoroughly reform administrative procedures, reduce administrative costs, create the greatest convenience for people, focusing on simplifying administrative procedures, cutting unnecessary procedures that cause trouble for people and businesses, and hindering fair competition; strengthen the review, reduction, and simplification of processes, regulations, procedures, and business conditions, ensuring substance and efficiency, on the basis of taking people and businesses as the center; enhance the application of science and technology, promote digitalization, expand and improve the quality of online public services.
Fifth, link the work of preventing and combating corruption, waste and negativity with the building of development institutions, serving socio-economic development, contributing to accelerating, breaking through and completing the goals set out in the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress. Strengthen inspection, examination and auditing activities in areas with high risks and public opinion on corruption, waste and negativity; promptly resolve cases of public concern and public concern, but minimize impacts on the normal operations of agencies, businesses and people.
Reporter: Thank you very much, General Secretary!
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