General Secretary To Lam gives instructions. (Photo: TRAN HAI)

Speaking at the meeting, General Secretary To Lam emphasized that our Party identifies economic development as the central task, the most difficult task at present, therefore the Socio-Economic Report is a very important thematic report that determines the realization of the Party's viewpoints and policies that will be approved by the Congress to achieve this goal.

The General Secretary highly appreciated the Prime Minister - Head of the Subcommittee and the Standing Editorial Team for being proactive, active, responsible, and actively directing the completion and supplementation of the important draft Socio-Economic Report, updating it when there is a new situation; highly appreciated the draft Report for closely following the requirements, being actionable, objective, feasible, and having a document nature, with many new breakthrough points.

General Secretary To Lam gives instructions. (Photo: TRAN HAI)

In terms of volume, the draft Report has been shortened, this is a great effort, very general, condensed, concise, ensuring full content, supplementing, emphasizing many strong solutions, especially the determination to achieve double-digit growth in the coming period, with an appendix of goals, projects that need to be completed, legal documents that need to be amended. The Report is highly actionable and can be implemented immediately. However, the current situation is evolving very quickly, requiring us to supplement and update new situations promptly, ensuring quality refinement, streamlining, and no redundancy.

General Secretary To Lam raised important issues and the highest goals of the 14th National Party Congress to decide on strategic issues to ensure stability, development, and improve people's lives; national stability, social stability, not being passive, surprised, not allowing conflicts and wars to occur, not allowing hot spots to arise in the world; the country must be united, the society must be peaceful, healthy, without conflicts, without crime; ensuring national defense and security in foreign affairs; ensuring national development, social development, and common development. Once stable and developed, people's lives must be improved; so that people trust in the Party's leadership.

Leaders who are members of the Economic-Social Subcommittee attended the meeting. (Photo: TRAN HAI)

The General Secretary directed that the “red thread” running through the contents of the document is the need to fully understand the dialectical relationship between stability and development, stability for development, development for long-term sustainable stability. The ultimate goal is to improve people’s lives, to satisfy the people’s increasingly better and increasing needs. This spirit must be reflected throughout the draft Report.

We are united in our determination to develop rapidly and sustainably in the coming period. The most important of which is the target of sustainable and long-term double-digit GDP growth to overcome the risk of falling behind. If we develop as in the past period, we will always lag behind the region and the world. The middle-income trap is always lurking, so we must do our best to avoid this trap; there is no other way but the path of development; we cannot be leisurely, if we do not go faster, we will fall behind.

Delegates attending the meeting. (Photo: TRAN HAI)

General Secretary To Lam emphasized the need to have breakthrough thinking, breakthrough ways of doing things, and reform oneself; pointing out that General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong once said "we must not rest on our laurels".

The General Secretary also affirmed that the Socio-Economic Report is the solution to the problem that has a specific answer: our country will become a developing country with modern industry and high average income by 2030; and become a developed country by 2045 with high income. We must calculate to achieve this goal, including the variables and changes of the world situation, sudden and unexpected situations such as the Covid-19 pandemic, conflicts and wars in some places in the world in recent years... With our foundation, potential and position after 40 years of innovation, we must consider the long-term goals for the period 2030-2045, not just the immediate years.

We must affirm the viewpoint of developing a socialist-oriented market economy under the leadership of the Party, not to deviate from it; affirm that without economic development and without increasing labor productivity, there can be no socialism. We have faith, a way of going, a way of looking at things, and are not hasty in this process, but we also cannot “grope around” or “do it while being afraid”…

General Secretary To Lam affirmed that the essence of building the Socio-Economic Report is to plan socio-economic development policies in the future, specifically for the 2026-2030 period, with a vision to 2045; which is reflected in major projects such as the North-South high-speed railway, nuclear power projects, or the arrangement of administrative boundaries to ensure a long-term stable vision...

Policies must be inter-regional, not fragmented; there are things that must be done right now; shortcuts must be taken. It is necessary to immediately remove obstacles in the fields of bidding, science and technology, education and training; immediately solve the problem of "having money but not being able to spend it" in disbursing public investment capital; the whole society must work, contribute to the development of the country, and create jobs. Whatever can be done quickly must be done quickly.

The General Secretary also suggested a number of specific issues for research, discussion, and additional updates: the highest requirement of the next stage is high-quality development; the requirements of this stage are very different from the previous stage when emphasizing the quality of growth. It is necessary to pay attention to the connotations of high-quality sustainable development; the targets and objectives set are very specific and must be highly feasible.

General Secretary To Lam chaired a meeting with the Economic-Social Subcommittee of the 14th National Party Congress. (Photo: TRAN HAI)

The General Secretary noted that we must not be passive or surprised in strategic issues such as national defense and security, protecting the Fatherland and socio-economics; we must be proactive in development, relying on internal strength, self-reliance and initiative. Vietnam must have scenarios and solutions to respond proactively and positively to all situations and developments outside.

The General Secretary noted that we must look straight at the truth, clearly see the internal problems of the economy over the past years to have solutions to overcome and serve development, first of all in the next 5 years, accordingly, we need to actively increase labor productivity, solve employment; promote the development of modern industry, science and technology, focus on developing modern, core, advanced technology industries, move towards mastering technology, develop biotechnology, quantum, accelerate digital transformation...; must move into space, into the ground, the seabed, the seabed; actively attract foreign direct investment, attach importance to indirect investment as well as form financial centers; promote proactive achievements in implementing Free Trade Agreements with partners; improve the ecological environment, save energy; have a development strategy on urbanization, balanced development...

Speaking, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Head of the Subcommittee, expressed his gratitude to General Secretary To Lam for taking the time to work with the Subcommittee and the Standing Editorial Board. Afterwards, the Subcommittee and the Standing Editorial Board met to receive the General Secretary's direction; and at the same time, made written comments: to make the draft Report more concise; to restructure the topics to be appropriate, logical, and to have reasonable relationships between the parts; to demonstrate a higher combativeness, a stronger revolution, and to be more feasible, effective, and more suitable to the situation.

General Secretary To Lam shakes hands with members of the Socio-Economic Subcommittee. (Photo: TRAN HAI)

The Prime Minister pointed out that the world and regional situation has changed rapidly since the 10th Central Conference, so it is necessary to update the Socio-Economic Report to be connected, not separate from other Reports but still ensure independence; it is necessary to update the socio-economic impacts in the country; the response must be flexible, effective and appropriate. We are carrying out a revolution in the arrangement of the organizational apparatus under the direction of the Politburo, the General Secretary also needs to update the report; have resolutely implemented Resolution 57-NQ/TW of the Politburo, concretizing the Resolution on science and technology, innovation, digital transformation to ensure strong and effective, especially related to institutions, infrastructure, investment in high-quality human resources, and allocation of funding for implementation. The results of implementation in 2024, raising the growth rate in 2025 to at least 8% or more and double digits in the following years, what solutions are needed to ensure this goal in a difficult context?

Accepting the General Secretary's direction on key issues such as how to stabilize for development, how to develop for stability; ensuring progress, social justice, social security, leaving no one behind; the material and spiritual life of the people is increasingly improved.

Issues related to health, education, culture, society, etc. require new thinking, methodology and approaches to improve quality, efficiency, and fundamentally and comprehensively innovate education and training, care, health protection, and improve people's health; need to change thinking, approaches, and indicators to ensure they are correct and appropriate to the situation.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh - Head of the Socio-Economic Subcommittee spoke at the meeting. (Photo: TRAN HAI)

Recently, we have implemented the direction of the Politburo and the General Secretary on reducing tuition fees. In the coming time, we need to continue to improve the quality of education and training, improve physical fitness, and take care of people's health. Therefore, these two programs on health and education will be reported to the Politburo, and at the same time included in the National Target Program must be implemented systematically, with focus, key points, and substance to improve people's health and education, which is to train high-quality human resources, ensuring "morality-intelligence-body-beauty". Developing the cultural and entertainment industry, how people enjoy the cultural achievements of the country; nationalizing the world's elite identity, internationalizing the nation's cultural quintessence.

Identify the private economy as the most important driving force of growth; cut at least 30% of administrative procedures; reduce compliance costs; resolutely and drastically remove institutions to liberate all productive forces and mobilize resources for national development. Strengthen decentralization and delegation of authority, along with resource allocation, improve implementation capacity at all levels, strengthen supervision and inspection; promote the development of social housing, establish a social housing fund, etc.

Regarding the business investment environment, it is necessary to balance management, consumer protection with open business conditions; to be both manageable and developable; to form a National Investment Portal (a national and provincial one-stop investment promotion center).

Modernize national defense and security by 2030, strongly develop defense industry and security industry; form resource mobilization models such as "public leadership - private administration", "public investment - private management", "private investment - public use"...

According to Nhan Dan Newspaper

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