Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chairs the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Socio-Economic Subcommittee of the 14th National Party Congress

On the afternoon of August 21, at the Government Office, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh - Head of the 14th National Party Congress's Socio-Economic Subcommittee chaired a meeting of the Subcommittee Standing Committee and the Editorial Board Standing Committee to review the work and results of the Subcommittee's activities and give comments on the draft Report on the assessment of 5 years of implementing the 10-year Socio-Economic Development Strategy 2021-2030, and the directions and tasks for socio-economic development in the 5-year period 2026-2030 before submitting it to the Politburo and the 10th Central Conference.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh speaks at the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Socio-Economic Subcommittee of the 14th National Party Congress. (Photo: TRAN HAI)

Also attending were comrade Nguyen Hoa Binh, Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court.

Speaking at the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that after the second session (March 26, 2024), the Subcommittee has been proactive, active, and made efforts to deploy and complete many tasks to ensure progress and quality, specifically: submitted to the 9th Central Conference for approval of the detailed outline of the Socio-Economic Report (May 2024); developed the Draft Socio-Economic Report based on the following important bases: research, comparison, and update the content of the Draft Political Report according to the principle that the Political Report is the central report, the Socio-Economic Report is a thematic report; the two Editorial Teams of the Document Subcommittee and the Socio-Economic Subcommittee regularly exchanged to ensure consistency and updates between the two reports; organized working delegations of the Subcommittee to survey and work with 4 regions: the northern midlands and mountainous areas, the Red River Delta, the North Central Coast and the Central Coast, and the Central Highlands;

View of the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Socio-Economic Subcommittee. (Photo: TRAN HAI)

The Subcommittee mobilized and assigned members of the Editorial Team to participate in research and contribute to the drafting of the Report; in-depth research topics of a number of ministries and branches on important and key fields, including the Ministries of Justice; Science and Technology; Information and Communications; Construction; Natural Resources and Environment; Industry and Trade; Foreign Affairs; Home Affairs; urgently studied very valuable reports, proposals and recommendations from local practices through working sessions in the Regions.

Minister of Planning and Investment Nguyen Chi Dung reports at the meeting. (Photo: TRAN HAI)

The Prime Minister emphasized that there is not much time left to develop and complete the draft to report to the Politburo to submit to the 10th Central Conference; while there is still much work that the Subcommittee needs to complete, such as surveying and working with the two regions of the Southeast and the Mekong Delta, organizing the third meeting of the Subcommittee, and organizing a conference to seek opinions from former leaders of the Party, State, and Fatherland Front.

The Prime Minister requested the Standing Committee of the Subcommittee to focus on reviewing the work to see what remains to be done, supplement it, focus on timely direction, on schedule, and in accordance with the process. The review of the content after receiving comments from the Central Committee is complete, comprehensive, and objective, especially the achievements we have achieved in the past 5 years in the context of many difficulties in the world: the unpredictable Covid-19 pandemic, the consequences of which are still lasting, strategic competition between major countries, wars, conflicts affecting supply chains, production chains, commodity chains, commodity prices, especially energy, fluctuates erratically... We need to analyze and forecast, thereby affirming what has been done in the context of a difficult world: The country's socio-economic development is successful, many targets will be achieved and exceeded. The targets that are completed will continue to be completed beyond expectations; those that are difficult to complete will be completed, and difficult targets will have solutions to be completed. We must have quick, early and determined adaptation solutions, especially economic stimulus.

Delegates attending the meeting. (Photo: TRAN HAI)

The Prime Minister believes that, up to now, the possibility of economic growth reaching 6.5-7% is feasible. From there, we emphasize the characteristics of this term, the efforts of the entire political system, the support and assistance of the people and businesses under the leadership of the Party, from which we can draw out what has been done, what has not been done, the causes, and draw lessons for the next period.

The Prime Minister requested that in the coming period, we must implement the 10-year Socio-Economic Development Plan; it is necessary to review and see what needs to be a breakthrough, add more guiding viewpoints, major orientations, action mottos, tasks, and breakthrough solutions to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Party's founding and the 100th anniversary of the country's founding, there must be breakthroughs and make an impression.

Currently, we are doing well in institutional and infrastructure breakthroughs (especially traffic infrastructure), and human resource breakthroughs, in which the goals of developing expressways by 2025 and 2030 are likely to be achieved; the 500kV Quang Trach-Pho Noi line is also a typical example of lightning-fast construction.

The Prime Minister raised the question of whether we are determined to build a high-speed north-south railway in the next term, especially some railway lines connecting to China. When the strategic transport infrastructure is completed, it will create new development space, industrial parks, urban areas, new services, and create new values.

In addition, we must also identify breakthroughs, which are the old growth drivers of investment, consumption, and export, and promote new growth drivers such as digital transformation, green transformation, circular economy, knowledge economy, sharing economy, and emerging industries such as cloud computing, chip manufacturing, and artificial intelligence (AI); we must set out mechanisms to mobilize resources to do these things; strengthen the great national unity bloc, and mobilize all resources to develop the country.

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