This reality shows that, over 40 years of innovation in the capital Hanoi, it proves the correctness of the process of developing awareness and theoretical thinking about socialism and the path to socialism.

The capital's position is increasingly enhanced.

According to Deputy Secretary of the City Party Committee Nguyen Van Phong, after 40 years of implementing the socialist-oriented renovation process, the theoretical achievements on socialism and the path to socialism in the capital city of Hanoi are concentrated in the documents of the Hanoi Party Congress and the major work programs of the Hanoi Party Committee from the 10th to the 17th terms.

At the 10th Congress of the Hanoi Party Committee (1986) - the Congress that opened the renovation process in Hanoi. The Congress frankly pointed out the limitations in the theoretical understanding of socialism and the path to socialism. At the same time, it proposed a path to build socialism in Hanoi in the direction of both building a mechanism for innovation policies and choosing appropriate steps to organize and implement towards stabilizing the socio-economic situation of the capital in the direction of transforming the economic management mechanism, from centralized bureaucracy and subsidies to a socialist business accounting mechanism.

The 17th Hanoi Party Congress (2020) continued to identify 5 key tasks, 3 breakthroughs and assigned the Hanoi Party Committee to focus on building 10 major work programs of the 17th Party Committee to successfully implement the Congress Resolution in the period of 2020 - 2025 and the targets and goals to 2030 and vision to 2045. It can be seen that the practice of building socialism over 40 years of innovation in the capital Hanoi proves the correctness of the process of developing awareness and theoretical thinking about socialism and the path to socialism.

According to Deputy Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Nguyen Van Phong, 40 years of innovation compared to the history of the Hanoi Party Committee is not long, but it has marked a difficult and challenging period with many outstanding achievements. Specifically, the Party building work and the political system in the capital have always been highly valued and improved in quality by the City Party Committee. The political system from the city to the grassroots level has continuously grown in terms of organization, political capacity and leadership capacity.

The capital's economy has gradually shifted from a centrally planned, bureaucratic subsidized economy to a socialist-oriented market economy; industrialization and modernization have been carried out in conjunction with growth model innovation and economic restructuring. Thanks to that, Hanoi quickly emerged from the crisis of shortages, escaped from being a poor capital and its position has been increasingly enhanced. The capital's economy has grown continuously since 1986 and labor productivity has been increasing (reaching an average of over 7%/year).

Culture - society after nearly 40 years of innovation from theory and practice can be affirmed in the field of cultural development and human development, Hanoi has achieved great, quite comprehensive, profound and outstanding achievements in a number of aspects. Social security is ensured, especially in hunger eradication, poverty reduction, job creation, and care for social policy beneficiaries. By the end of 2023, the poverty rate in Hanoi will decrease to 0.03%; the near-poor rate will decrease to 0.7%.

In addition, the implementation of national defense and security tasks has many innovations and creativity, close to the practical situation. The trust of cadres, party members and the entire population in the leadership of the Party, the task of building and protecting the Fatherland, and protecting the Capital has been raised. Hanoi's foreign affairs have had positive changes. Up to now, Hanoi has signed cooperation agreements with 61 capitals and cities of other countries; has economic and trade relations with nearly 200 countries and territories...

Promoting new resources and development drivers

From the results that Hanoi has achieved over 40 years of renovation, Vice Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council Bui Nhat Quang assessed that in reality, the achievements that Hanoi has achieved after nearly 40 years of renovation are enormous and comprehensive. The capital has made great strides in the areas of socio-economic development, culture, security, national defense and foreign affairs. The achievements that Hanoi has achieved will be valuable experiences for localities to refer to and apply appropriately to reality. These are also valuable databases for the Central Committee to refer to and complete the summary report on 40 years of implementing the renovation policy.

In addition to the important and comprehensive results achieved, the Vice Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council said that Hanoi is also facing many difficulties and challenges, such as environmental pollution, traffic congestion, infrastructure overload... However, with the tradition of solidarity, unity, pioneering spirit, and exemplary behavior, the Capital Party Committee is gradually overcoming difficulties and challenges, making important contributions to the overall achievements of the whole country.

According to former Head of the Hanoi Party Committee's Propaganda Department Nguyen Chi My, among the key work programs of the Hanoi Party Committee in each term, especially in recent terms, there has always been a separate program on cultural development. This has demonstrated the Hanoi Party Committee's deep interest in this field.

In particular, during the 17th Congress term, the Hanoi Party Committee issued Program No. 06-CTr/TU on "Developing culture, improving the quality of human resources, building elegant and civilized Hanoians in the period of 2021-2025". Notably, the Party Committee also issued Resolution No. 09-NQ/TU dated February 22, 2022 on "Developing cultural industry in the capital for the period of 2021-2025, orientation to 2030, vision to 2045" showing the importance of culture for the sustainable development of the capital in the coming period.

According to former Head of the Hanoi Party Committee's Propaganda Department Nguyen Chi My, focusing on cultural development and considering culture as the driving force for the capital's development is one of the correct policies that Hanoi has been implementing. When the capital's cultural industry becomes a key economic sector, it will also strongly promote the development of other sectors and fields. Thereby, gradually bringing Hanoi into the group of cities with leading cultural industry development.

In his speech at the conference summarizing a number of theoretical and practical issues on the socialist-oriented renovation process in the past 40 years in the capital city, recently organized by the Hanoi Party Committee, Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee Dinh Tien Dung affirmed that over the past 40 years of renovation, the Party Committee, government and people of the capital city have promoted the revolutionary tradition of resilience, solidarity, dynamism and creativity in implementing the renovation policy, bringing about great and extremely important achievements. However, besides the achievements and positive aspects that are fundamental, there are also many limitations and shortcomings and are facing new difficulties and challenges.

The Secretary of the Hanoi Party Committee pointed out that, to continue to develop Hanoi strongly in the future, the Party Committee, government and people of the capital will focus on socio-economic development, mobilizing and promoting new resources and development drivers, especially human resources and cultural resources.

In addition, pay more attention to the task of developing culture and society in harmony and on par with economic development. Continue to consolidate and enhance the potential of national defense, security and foreign affairs. Maintain political stability, order and social safety. Improve the effectiveness of foreign affairs and international integration. Continue to promote and do better the work of building and rectifying the Party and the political system to be truly clean and strong...