The Central Economic Committee needs a revolution in thinking and organizational structure.

On the morning of December 9, General Secretary To Lam worked with the Central Economic Committee on the results of task implementation since the beginning of the 13th National Congress term and the direction of tasks in the coming time.

Attending the conference were comrades: Nguyen Xuan Thang, Politburo member, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council; comrades Secretaries of the Party Central Committee: Nguyen Duy Ngoc, Chief of the Party Central Committee Office; Le Hoai Trung, Head of the Party Central Committee's External Relations Commission; comrade Ho Duc Phoc, Party Central Committee member, Deputy Prime Minister; comrades Central Committee members, leaders of Party committees, the Party Central Committee Office, and the General Secretary's Office.

Reporting at the Conference, the leader of the Central Economic Committee said that since the beginning of the term, the Committee has made efforts to preside over the development and completion of a large number of projects submitted to the Central Executive Committee, the Politburo, and the Secretariat.

The implementation of the Projects has been organized scientifically, methodically, completed on time and with guaranteed quality. The resolutions that the Central Economic Committee has advised the Central Executive Committee, the Politburo and the Secretariat to issue since the beginning of the term, as well as the contents that the Committee is continuing to research to present in the coming time, have made and will make an important contribution to the implementation of the 6 key tasks and 3 strategic breakthroughs set forth by the 13th National Party Congress, and at the same time contribute to the development of documents for the 14th National Party Congress and the implementation of new directions of the Central Committee.

However, research and consultation with the Politburo and the Secretariat on strategic issues, current and urgent issues related to socio-economic development are still limited. Inspection and supervision tasks are not performed regularly; mainly supervision work has been implemented, but inspection work has not been implemented according to assigned functions. The application of information technology and digital transformation in the activities of the Committee is still slow and lacks synchronization.

In his concluding remarks at the conference, the General Secretary acknowledged and commended the efforts and results achieved by the Central Economic Commission.

The General Secretary affirmed that, as the strategic advisory body of the Central Executive Committee, directly and regularly the Politburo and the Secretariat on major issues related to the socio-economic field, the activities of the Central Economic Committee always receive special attention from the Party and State leaders.

During the process of implementing the renovation process, over the past nearly 40 years, the Central Economic Committee has made many important contributions to perfecting the market economic institution, socialist orientation, planning important guidelines, policies and measures on socio-economic management, contributing to our country achieving impressive and proud economic development achievements.

During the 13th term, the Central Economic Committee chaired the consultation on the issuance of 19 Resolutions, Directives, and Conclusions on socio-economic fields and was one of the Party Committees that advised on the issuance of the most documents.

However, the General Secretary pointed out that the Committee has not really brought into full play its role as the Party's leading strategic advisory body on socio-economics. The Committee has not created a channel to guide, pave the way, and lead development practices in line with the new trends of the times; its research, forecasting, and advisory capacity is still limited, and there have not been many breakthrough proposals in development. The inspection and supervision of the implementation of a number of Party guidelines and policies have not been very effective, and the difficulties and shortcomings in the implementation of Party Resolutions have not been promptly detected to propose adjustments.

In implementing the tasks in the coming time, the General Secretary emphasized that Vietnam's biggest economic challenge is how to escape the middle-income trap and narrow the development gap with advanced countries in the world. We must set specific growth targets for the next 5, 10, and 20 years; what are the breakthrough solutions to achieve these targets? What can be done to improve technological capacity, especially in the era of the 4.0 Industrial Revolution and the emergence of artificial intelligence? This is a prerequisite to increase productivity and thereby improve people's living standards. Meanwhile, the economy has many major bottlenecks that limit development, preventing potential from being unleashed, of which institutional development is considered the biggest bottleneck.

The General Secretary believes that the most important issue still lies in thinking. Without innovation in thinking, no matter how much the development system is adjusted, there will be no breakthrough; therefore, there must be new people with new thinking, and a new apparatus with new thinking. The Central Economic Committee needs a revolution in thinking; a revolution in organizational structure and working methods to create a breakthrough in efficiency, effectiveness, and operational efficiency, meeting the requirements of the new stage.

This is linked to the goal of continuing to innovate and reorganize the political system that the Central Committee is proposing. The Committee's apparatus must be compact and must gather the country's leading research experts and those with rich practical experience.

The Committee needs to become a leading strategic research and advisory body of the Party on socio-economics, with international prestige, continuously inheriting existing achievements and developing to new heights, on the basis of deeply imbuing the core principles of Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh thought, the consistent viewpoints of the Party, especially the Platform for national construction in the transitional period to socialism.

The Central Economic Committee needs to constantly innovate its thinking, be creative, strengthen its strategic planning capacity, research capacity, analysis and forecasting of major world trends such as technological revolution, technical progress, security challenges, especially non-traditional security, regional and international geo-economic and political situations, thereby proposing guidelines, policies and solutions to serve the Party's leadership and direction on socio-economic issues.

Continuously improve the capacity and quality of appraisal of major projects submitted to the Central Committee and the Politburo, and the capacity to evaluate and supervise the implementation of Party resolutions in the socio-economic field, ensuring that Party resolutions are concretized and implemented quickly and effectively.

The General Secretary suggested that the Central Economic Commission continue to strengthen closer and more effective coordination with executive agencies, legislative agencies, Party committees, and localities in the work of reviewing and concluding the Party's guidelines and policies on economy and society (first of all, summarizing the implementation of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, summarizing the achievements of 40 years of national renovation); closely coordinate with agencies in researching, advising, and proposing guidelines and policies on economy and society to the Central Executive Committee, the Politburo, and the Secretariat, especially in perfecting the socialist-oriented market economic institution.

Actively cooperate internationally with research and theoretical institutions of fraternal Parties; cooperate with international organizations, universities, and leading policy research institutes in the world; learn from good development experiences of other countries; and at the same time share and spread Vietnam's successful development experiences with international friends.

To achieve the above-mentioned tasks, the General Secretary emphasized that the core is that the Central Economic Committee must form a team of high-level, specialized researchers, and must be able to connect to use the brainpower of real intellectuals, experts, and scientists with capacity and enthusiasm; build and train a team of high-quality civil servants with independent research capacity, courage, experience, and qualifications.

Besides, the Board must attract and gather talented people and good experts, focus on improving the quality of research and advisory tasks, especially developing new and modern production forces associated with perfecting new and advanced production relations.

VNA

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