Must have new thinking, new breakthrough ways of doing things

On the morning of March 17, at the Government headquarters, General Secretary To Lam worked with the Socio-Economic Subcommittee of the 14th National Congress of the Party.

This is an important working session to complete the draft report assessing the 5-year implementation of 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 11th Central Conference.

In his opening remarks, General Secretary To Lam stated that the Party has identified economic development as the central task. Without economic development, it will be difficult to achieve other goals. Therefore, the socio-economic report is a very important thematic report, deciding the realization of the Party's viewpoints and policies to be approved by the 14th Congress.

"I know that the Prime Minister and the standing members of the Socio-Economic Subcommittee are very responsible, proactive, and urgent in supplementing and perfecting this important Report," said General Secretary To Lam.

He highly appreciated the draft Report this time, which closely followed the requirements, was concise and succinct but still ensured full content; added and emphasized many strong policies and solutions for double-digit growth in the coming period, along with 3 appendices on the goals to strive for, the list of works and projects to be implemented and the list of legal documents that need to be amended.

Guiding the discussion at the meeting, General Secretary To Lam oriented and suggested 4 issues.

First, in general, the highest goal of the 14th Congress is to decide on strategic issues to ensure stability, development and improve people's lives. This is the overarching goal that needs to be thoroughly understood. The red thread running through the contents of the documents is directed towards these three goals.

It is necessary to fully understand the dialectical relationship between stability for development and development for long-term stability and sustainability. At the same time, the ultimate goal is to improve people's lives and increasingly better satisfy their growing needs.

Second, we must be unified in our awareness and determined to develop rapidly and sustainably in the coming period, not develop normally, and cannot be leisurely, to overcome the risk of falling behind and avoid falling into the middle-income trap.

Therefore, we must have new thinking, new ways of doing things that are innovative, breakthrough, and surpass ourselves to achieve effectiveness.

Therefore, the socio-economic report must clarify feasible solutions and tasks for our country to become a modern industrial developing country with high average income by 2030 and a high-income developed country by 2045.

The General Secretary asked the members of the Socio-Economic Subcommittee to consider whether the solutions presented in the Report were convincing enough. Do such policies and solutions achieve the goals? What needs to be added? What needs to be done?

Third, the nature of the preparation of this Report is to plan socio-economic development policies for the future, specifically the period 2026 - 2030 and vision to 2045.

However, it is also necessary to clearly realize that the policy is continuous, not fragmented. There are things that must be done now to prepare for the next stage, avoiding waste.

The General Secretary gave an example of institutions, it is necessary to immediately remove obstacles in bidding, land, budget, public investment, planning, science and technology, education and training. How to immediately solve the problem of "having money but not being able to spend it".

How to disburse public investment capital right from the beginning of the year, focusing on key issues. How to promote the private economy further, creating a new vitality in the whole society, workers, production and business, creating material wealth.

Fourth, the highest requirement of the coming period is high-quality development. "So what is sustainable, high-quality development, what is its content, what are the issues? The goals and indicators need to be set at what level, they must be very specific," the General Secretary asked.

Turning institutions from bottlenecks into competitive advantages

Concluding the meeting, General Secretary To Lam stated that socio-economic issues are very broad, very difficult, highly specialized, and change very quickly, requiring regular updating and supplementation.

If the political report is a torch to light the way, the socio-economic report is a handbook for action to help us achieve the set goals, the General Secretary emphasized.

In terms of specific content, this draft Socio-Economic Report has many new points, closely following practical requirements, with high actionability and feasibility.

Some contents have been clarified, but there are still issues that need further research to supplement and perfect in the spirit of bold innovation, all for the benefit of the nation and people. Continue to research, update, supplement, perfect and deepen the task.

The General Secretary proposed to continue studying new issues to implement policies to continue streamlining the apparatus of the political system, merging provinces, not organizing district level, and merging communes.

This is not simply a matter of adjusting administrative boundaries but also a matter of adjusting economic space, adjusting the division of labor, decentralization, adjusting the allocation and combination of economic resources for development. At the same time, it is necessary to re-evaluate national planning, regional planning, planning and development orientation of provinces and cities.

Organization is a big issue, affecting many aspects, requiring time and effort to carefully research to make appropriate adjustments, updates and additions to socio-economic reports.

Regarding the growth model, the General Secretary proposed updating the new thinking mentioned in the political report. Accordingly, we move from "innovating the growth model" to a stronger affirmation of defining a new growth model.

From there, it is necessary to supplement and clarify the contents of Vietnam's new growth model, especially the fundamental issues for rapid and sustainable development, high-quality development, proactiveness and autonomy in development.

The General Secretary suggested contents such as creating new production methods, new production and business methods and fields, new quality, developing science and technology, innovation, digital transformation, green transformation, energy transformation associated with developing high-quality human resources... In this new growth model, it is necessary to clearly and correctly define the roles of economic sectors.

It is necessary to form growth zones and poles with specific goals to contribute to the country's GDP growth.

Regarding institutions, the General Secretary pointed out that this is a bottleneck; the barriers, difficulties and obstacles of the institutions are being gradually removed to create a foundation for development. The development and promulgation of laws must be in accordance with the practical situation, not allowing the situation of waiting for laws and mechanisms to lead to delays and lost opportunities.

We must study to reform the policy-making process more strongly to meet development requirements, build a favorable legal environment, an open, transparent, safe, low-cost business environment, and carry out a revolution in this field. We must make Vietnam a leading country in administrative reform, creative startups, and have an open investment and business environment.

Another institutional aspect is that we must pay close attention to policy implementation by the staff. We need to study solutions for synchronous and unified policy implementation from the central to the grassroots level.

Building a team of cadres with a proactive spirit to serve the people and businesses. Reorganizing the apparatus and administrative units at all levels is an opportunity for us to be ready to screen the cadres, building a team that truly meets the requirements of national development in the coming period. We must turn institutions from bottlenecks into competitive advantages.

We must innovate more strongly in developing human resources, especially high-quality human resources. The potential of Vietnamese people is not inferior to any other nation in the world. We need to research to have stronger and more breakthrough solutions.

Regarding resource mobilization for development, the General Secretary suggested that it is necessary to continue to study and deepen specific solutions to mobilize resources; carefully study the strategy to attract FDI capital as well as indirect investment capital in the new development stage of the country; mobilize capital from the people to participate in business, and circulate capital in the economy. Developing local economies with autonomy, decentralization, and delegation of power must ensure fairness and nurture development resources.

The General Secretary noted that the contents of the Report should be continued to be reviewed to ensure balance between economic, cultural and social development.

The ultimate goal is to improve and increasingly better meet the material and spiritual life of the people; to study growth policies so that the people's living standards correspond to the economic growth rate and the people can enjoy the achievements of economic development; to quantify specific policies so that the people can see and evaluate them...

Ensure high action and combat

Speaking at the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that in recent times, Party and State leaders, especially General Secretary To Lam, have paid close attention to, closely monitored, and regularly directed the development, supplementation, and completion of documents submitted to the 14th National Party Congress, including the socio-economic report.

In the past time, the Socio-Economic Subcommittee has spent a lot of time, effort and intelligence to research, update and urgently complete the draft Report in the context of the world situation changing rapidly, complicatedly and unpredictably and in our country implementing many important revolutionary and historical decisions.

The Prime Minister stated that the development and completion of socio-economic reports must be regularly reviewed, updated, and supplemented according to the country's socio-economic development situation, new guidelines, policies, mechanisms, and policies of the Party, State, and Government until they are approved by the 14th National Congress.

The draft report ensures the nature of a document and its connection with other documents submitted to the 14th Congress, especially the political report, while specifying economic and social contents; ensuring high action and combativeness, innovation, feasibility and effectiveness.

The Socio-Economic Subcommittee seriously and fully absorbed and concretized the instructions and orientations of the General Secretary and the opinions of the delegates at the meeting to promptly update, supplement and complete the draft socio-economic report to promptly report to the Politburo and submit to the Central Conference according to the set schedule and plan, ensuring the highest quality.