Closing of the 11th Central Conference, Session XIII: Historic conference discussing historic policies

After three days (April 10-12) of urgent and serious work with a high sense of responsibility, the 11th Conference of the 13th Party Central Committee completed all the contents and agenda and closed on the afternoon of April 12.

General Secretary To Lam chaired the Conference.

Politburo member and National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man chaired the closing session.

General Secretary To Lam delivers the closing speech at the 11th Conference of the 13th Party Central Committee. (Photo: Doan Tan/VNA)

In his closing speech at the Conference, General Secretary To Lam said that the Central Committee members had democratically discussed, listened to, and frankly exchanged many new and important issues and reached a high level of consensus on important and core contents. The Central Committee voted to pass the Conference Resolution with an absolute majority.

It can be affirmed that the 11th Central Conference of the 13th tenure has completed all the contents and programs set out. Many Central Committee comrades suggested that the Politburo recognize this as a historic Conference, discussing historic decisions in the new revolutionary period of our country.

On behalf of the Politburo and the Secretariat, General Secretary To Lam acknowledged, highly appreciated and commended the Central Committee's spirit of active, responsible, proactive, scientific, creative, decisive, effective and innovative work; the thoughtful, thorough, focused and improved preparation and service work for the Conference of the Sub-committees, the Central Party Office and relevant agencies.

The number of provincial-level administrative units after the merger is 34 provinces and cities and the number of commune-level administrative units is reduced by about 60-70%.

The General Secretary said that the Central Executive Committee highly agreed on the proposed content stated in the Submissions, Reports, and Projects under the working group on continuing to reorganize the apparatus of the political system, reorganize administrative units, and organize two-level local governments.

The Central Executive Committee highly agreed on policies on organizing local governments at two levels: Provincial level (Province, City directly under the Central Government), Commune level (Commune, Ward, Special Zone directly under the Province, City); the number of provincial-level administrative units after the merger is 34 provinces and cities (28 provinces and 6 cities directly under the Central Government) with names and administrative-political centers determined according to the principles stated in the Submissions and Projects; ending the operation of district-level administrative units after the National Assembly resolves to amend and supplement a number of articles of the 2013 Constitution and the Law on Organization of Local Government 2025 (amended); merging commune-level administrative units ensures that the whole country reduces the current number of commune-level administrative units by about 60-70%.

The General Secretary clearly agreed with the policy of establishing local party organizations corresponding to the provincial and communal administrative systems; ending the activities of district-level party committees; and the establishment of local party organizations in accordance with the Party Charter and regulations of the Central Committee.

With the new administrative organization model, the provincial level is both the level that implements policies from the central government and the level that issues policies in the province and city, and directly directs and manages the activities of the commune level in the area. The commune level mainly implements policies issued by the central and provincial levels; is further decentralized and has the authority to issue legal documents to decide on the organization of law enforcement in the area and decide on issues under its authority.

General Secretary To Lam delivers the closing speech at the 11th Conference of the 13th Party Central Committee. (Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA)

The General Secretary said that he agreed with the policy of arranging, streamlining, and merging the agencies of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations, and mass organizations assigned by the Party and the State at the central, provincial, and communal levels as stated in the Report and Project of the Party Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and central organizations; the policy of ending the activities of civil servant unions and armed forces unions, and reducing the level of union dues contributed by cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers.

The Central Committee agreed to the policy of continuing to arrange and streamline the People's Court and People's Procuracy apparatus; ending the activities of the People's Court and People's Procuracy at the high and district levels; establishing a system of People's Court and People's Procuracy organization with 3 levels: People's Court and Supreme People's Procuracy; People's Court and People's Procuracy at the provincial, centrally-run city and regional levels (the system of military courts and procuracies retains the current model).

The Central Executive Committee agreed on the policy of amending and supplementing the Constitution and laws of the State related to regulations on local governments to serve the organization and apparatus of the political system; regulations on the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations; ensuring completion before June 30, 2025; effective from July 1, 2025; stipulating a transition period to ensure smooth, uninterrupted operations, in accordance with the plan and roadmap for the expected arrangement and merger.

The General Secretary emphasized that the Central Committee requires the National Assembly, the Government and relevant agencies to closely and effectively coordinate in implementing tasks on institutional improvement. Focus highly on performing these tasks well, strongly innovate thinking and working methods, strive to thoroughly remove institutional barriers, difficulties and obstacles in 2025 to create a legal corridor, create a foundation for development, especially issues related to bidding, budget, public investment, private economy, science and technology, innovation, digital transformation; create a solid and favorable foundation for the Revolution in arranging and streamlining the apparatus of the political system; clear bottlenecks and resources; promote thorough decentralization associated with streamlining the apparatus, effective and efficient operations; create new development space for localities and the whole country.

The development and promulgation of laws and policies must closely follow the Party's leadership, closely follow the practical situation and the specificity of the revolution in organizational structure, not allowing the situation of waiting for laws and mechanisms to lead to delays and lost opportunities; creating an open, transparent, safe, low-cost business environment; thoroughly handling institutional "bottlenecks" to turn them into resources and competitive advantages, making Vietnam one of the leading countries in administrative reform and creative startups to be able to catch up with, go along with, and surpass the leading countries.

Continue to contribute to perfecting the documents of the 14th National Party Congress

Regarding the draft documents serving the 14th National Party Congress, the General Secretary said that the Central Committee unanimously assessed that the drafts this time were edited to be concise and brief (reduced by about 30%-35%), but the content was quite complete and profound, ensuring both the document nature and comprehensiveness as well as high actionability, which can help with immediate implementation, updating and supplementing many major issues, and is a model for the drafting of documents by Party organizations.

General Secretary To Lam delivers the closing speech at the 11th Conference of the 13th Party Central Committee. (Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA)

Through exchanges and discussions, the Central Committee reached high consensus and realized the need to immediately implement a number of major solutions that have been unanimously approved in the draft documents, and at the same time concretize them in the documents for the 2025-2030 term of Party organizations. From there, it requested the Sub-Committees to continue reviewing the Central Committee's opinions, fully supplementing the difficulties and objective challenges that must be faced, the shortcomings and limitations that have lasted for many terms and have not been overcome, the tasks and solutions to adapt to the new situation, new opportunities and challenges with new thinking, new revolutionary ways of doing things, surpassing oneself to ensure proactive, autonomous, fast and sustainable development; at the same time, it requested that Party Committees, in the process of preparing and organizing the congress, must focus on thoroughly discussing the tasks and solutions to continue contributing to perfecting the documents of the 14th National Party Congress and the documents of the congresses at their level...

Regarding the work of organizing the development and implementation of the Party's Charter, the General Secretary stated that the Central Executive Committee discussed, gave opinions and basically agreed to approve the draft Direction for personnel work of the 14th Party Central Executive Committee; supplementing personnel planning for the 14th Party Central Executive Committee; contents of amendments and supplements to the Central Executive Committee's Regulations on the implementation of the Party's Charter; Regulations on the Party's inspection, supervision and discipline work; contents of amendments and supplements to Directive No. 35-CT/TW dated June 14, 2024 and Conclusion No. 118-KL/TW dated January 18, 2025 of the Politburo on Party congresses at all levels towards the 14th National Congress of the Party; Direction for the election of deputies to the 16th National Assembly and People's Councils at all levels for the 2026-2031 term.

The Central Committee requests the Politburo, Party committees, Party organizations, and relevant agencies to urgently implement the contents agreed upon and approved by the Central Committee.

Regarding the immediate tasks, the Central Executive Committee requested that immediately after the Conference, Party committees, Party organizations, agencies, units, localities and leaders immediately deploy the tasks. Regarding the organization of congresses at all levels in merged and consolidated localities, the General Secretary noted the following documents:

Provincial level must soon supplement and complete the documents of its Congress on the basis of the new draft documents of the Central Committee.

For provinces that are merged or consolidated, the Standing Committees must discuss with each other to develop the Documents of the new Provincial Congress. The documents must be developed in the spirit of the "expanded development space" of the new province. It is not a mechanical amalgamation of the Documents of the old province into the Documents of the new province. The merged communes must also follow this spirit.

Delegates attend the closing ceremony of the Conference. (Photo: Doan Tan/VNA)

Regarding personnel, the highest standards must be based on job requirements, followed by other criteria. The Standing Committee of the provincial level (with mergers and consolidations) must discuss this issue thoroughly with each other, creating high unity in implementation, especially in arranging heads of agencies after the merger.

For issues that have not been agreed upon, comrades of the Politburo and Secretariat assigned to be in charge of the area will provide guidance and direction (provinces also need to assign provincial Party committee members to provide guidance and direction for commune-level Congresses).

The Central Committee requested the Subcommittees preparing for the 14th Congress to promptly receive additional comments and suggestions, complete the draft documents (especially the part on socio-economic development orientation for regions and localities after the merger) and send them to the Party Congresses at all levels for discussion and comments, continue to complete the draft documents, and report to the Central Executive Committee at the 12th Central Conference for cadres, Party members and people to discuss and give opinions.

The work ahead is very complicated, the reality of life is urgent, the people and party members are waiting, the tasks ahead are very heavy and difficult, the General Secretary stated that the Party Central Committee believes that, promoting the tradition of solidarity, resilience and indomitability of the nation, under the Party's talented and wise leadership, the joint efforts, unanimity and striving of the entire Party, people and army, we will definitely overcome all difficulties and challenges, and excellently complete the set goals, targets and tasks.

According to Vietnamplus.vn

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