A powerful breakthrough for development.

On January 23rd, after five days of work, General Secretary To Lam affirmed that the 14th National Congress of the Party had been "a brilliant success, a very good success."

The 14th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam is introduced at the congress - Photo: NGUYEN KHANH

The Congress reached a high level of consensus on the content of the documents and also a very high level of agreement on the selection of the 14th Central Committee of the Party. The 200 members of the 14th Central Committee represent approximately 5.6 million Party members and possess all the necessary qualities, ethics, prestige, capabilities, and qualifications to shoulder the important responsibilities in the new revolutionary period.

General Secretary To Lam was unanimously elected by the 14th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam at its first meeting on the morning of January 23rd to continue serving as General Secretary for the 14th term.

After being elected, the General Secretary, on behalf of the 14th Central Committee, stated that they would work with the highest exemplary spirit, matching words with actions; working to the end, working for the people, working quickly, correctly, and well with organizational capacity; the effectiveness of serving the people would be the measure of each member's competence, prestige, and honor.

Establishing a new growth model

The Resolution of the 14th National Congress, with many new and groundbreaking points, was adopted with 100% of delegates in agreement. Throughout the resolution, it outlines policies, decisions, major directions, key tasks, and strategic breakthroughs for building and developing the country rapidly and sustainably, and firmly protecting the Fatherland in the new context.

The resolution identifies socio- economic development and environmental protection as central; Party building as key; and cultural and human development as foundation.

Outlining its vision and development direction, the resolution emphasizes the development goals of resolutely and persistently maintaining a peaceful and stable environment; achieving rapid and sustainable national development and firmly protecting the Fatherland; comprehensively improving and enhancing the people's lives; and achieving strategic autonomy, self-reliance, self-confidence, and strong progress in the new era of the nation.

Successfully achieving the goal of becoming a developing country with modern industry and high middle income by 2030; realizing the vision of becoming a developed country with high income by 2045 for a peaceful, independent, democratic, prosperous, civilized, happy Vietnam, steadily advancing towards socialism.

The resolution also outlines 12 development orientations for the period 2026-2030, notably focusing on continuing to strongly innovate thinking and action, promoting strategic breakthroughs, and creating a new development ecosystem.

Ensuring the perspective of using development to stabilize, and stability to promote development, while continuously improving the lives and happiness of the people; focusing on comprehensively and synchronously perfecting the institutions for rapid and sustainable national development.

The resolution clearly states the establishment of a new growth model with the goal of improving productivity, quality, efficiency, added value, and competitiveness of the economy; with science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation as the main driving forces.

Creating new, high-quality productive forces and production methods, focusing on the data economy, digital economy, green economy, and circular economy; promoting digital transformation, green transformation, energy transformation, and transformation of the structure and quality of human resources...

High-altitude fireworks display in Hanoi on the evening of January 23rd to celebrate the successful conclusion of the 14th National Congress - Photo: NAM TRAN

3 strategic breakthroughs

Notably, one of the five key tasks in the 14th Party Congress term is to prioritize the comprehensive development of institutions, focusing on the legal system, mechanisms, and policies to promptly and decisively remove bottlenecks and obstacles, promote innovation, and ensure synchronicity and harmony between growth and development...

Along with that, the development of the state-owned economy truly plays a leading role, while the development of the private economy is the most important driving force of the economy...

Focus on implementing breakthroughs in science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation to create a foundation for developing a new, modern workforce; prioritize the development of a number of strategic industries and technologies, with a focus on semiconductor chips and artificial intelligence; and promote the training and utilization of high-quality human resources.

The Congress identified three strategic breakthroughs to focus on during the term: development institutions, human resources, and strategic infrastructure.

This includes a strong breakthrough in institutional development, enhancing the capacity for planning and organizing the implementation of the Party's guidelines and policies, and the State's laws and regulations, in order to unlock, liberate, and effectively utilize all resources to become a competitive advantage, and reduce compliance costs for the people and businesses;

Promote decentralization and delegation of power in development management and governance between the central and local governments, and enhance the autonomy and accountability of local authorities.

Regarding human resources, the next five years will focus on restructuring and improving the quality of human resources, developing high-quality, highly skilled human resources; contributing to increased labor productivity and quality.

Promote the attraction and utilization of talent; encourage and protect dynamic, creative officials who dare to think outside the box, take initiative, and assume responsibility for the common good. Finally, continue to comprehensively improve and make strong breakthroughs in the construction of socio-economic infrastructure...

The documents of the 14th National Congress contain many new and groundbreaking points.

In his closing remarks, the General Secretary once again affirmed that the documents contained many new and groundbreaking points. The documents set forth enormous and important tasks; tasks that are both urgent and of long-term strategic significance.

The Party is determined to achieve the goals of maintaining a peaceful and stable environment; developing the country rapidly and sustainably; firmly protecting the Fatherland; and comprehensively improving and enhancing the lives of the people.

Simultaneously, we must maintain strategic autonomy, self-reliance, and confidence to advance strongly in the new era of the nation. We must successfully achieve the goal of becoming a developing country with modern industry and high middle income by 2030; and realize the vision of becoming a developed country with high income by 2045.

"The overarching spirit of the 14th Party Congress term is strategic autonomy, seizing opportunities, working together in unity, overcoming all challenges, strongly igniting the aspiration for development; transforming will into action, turning decisions into concrete results; saying what you mean and doing it immediately, doing it right, doing it decisively, doing it to the end, and doing it effectively," the General Secretary emphasized.

According to the General Secretary, the congress emphasized the need to strengthen the building and rectification of the Party and the political system to be clean, strong, and comprehensive; and to enhance the Party's leadership capacity, governing ability, and fighting strength.

Building, training, nurturing, and developing a team of cadres with sufficient virtue, strength, and talent; thoroughly understanding the viewpoint that "the people are the foundation," maintaining and strengthening the close relationship between the Party and the people, and using the happiness and satisfaction of the people as a measure of the effectiveness of the work of Party organizations and the entire political system.

"The spirit of innovation is a requirement of our time. Without innovation and reform, we cannot break through, we cannot compete, and we cannot develop. We must continue to innovate our thinking, innovate our development models, our growth models, and innovate our organizational methods so that the right policies become concrete results in life," the General Secretary emphasized in his closing remarks.

On the afternoon of January 23, at the closing session of the 14th National Congress, Mr. Tran Thanh Man - member of the Politburo and Chairman of the National Assembly - announced the results of the election of the Politburo, General Secretary, Secretariat, Central Inspection Committee, and Chairman of the Central Inspection Committee of the 14th term at the first meeting. Accordingly, General Secretary To Lam was unanimously re-elected as General Secretary for the 14th term by 100% of the members of the 14th Central Committee of the Party.

The 14th Politburo was elected with 19 members, and the 14th Central Secretariat of the Party had 13 members, including 10 Politburo members assigned by the Politburo to participate and 3 elected members: Ms. Vo Thi Anh Xuan - Member of the Central Committee, Vice President; Ms. Pham Thi Thanh Tra - Member of the Central Committee, Standing Committee of the Government Party Committee, Deputy Prime Minister; and Mr. Nguyen Van Quang - Member of the Central Committee, Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court.

Tran Cam Tu, a member of the Standing Committee of the Party Central Committee, was re-elected. The 14th Party Central Inspection Committee has 23 members, with Tran Sy Thanh, a member of the Politburo, as its Chairman.

Some key targets and objectives for the 5-year period 2026-2030 (as set forth in the Resolution of the 14th National Congress)

- Strive to achieve an average annual growth rate of gross domestic product (GDP) of 10% or more. GDP per capita should reach approximately US$8,500 by 2030.

- The processing and manufacturing industry accounts for approximately 28% of GDP. The digital economy accounts for approximately 30% of GDP.

- The labor productivity growth rate reached approximately 8.5% per year.

- The urbanization rate has reached 50%.

- The Human Development Index (HDI) is targeted to reach approximately 0.8.

- The average life expectancy at birth is approximately 75.5 years (of which at least 68 years are lived in good health).

- The proportion of trained workers with degrees or certificates reaches 35-40%.

- The poverty rate (according to the multidimensional poverty standard for the period 2026 - 2030) will maintain a reduction rate of 1 - 1.5 percentage points per year.

- Strive to be among the top 40 countries with the highest happiness index.

- Forest cover rate remains at approximately 42-43%.

- Greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 8-9%.

International media extensively covered the results of the 14th National Congress.

Nikkei Asia's article on the 14th Party Congress, January 23rd.

On January 23, many major international news agencies simultaneously reported that the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam had concluded.

On the homepage of Xinhua News Agency, China's largest news agency, a congratulatory message from General Secretary and President of China Xi Jinping to General Secretary To Lam was published after his re-election as General Secretary of the 14th Party Congress.

News agencies such as Reuters of the UK, AFP of France, Nikkei Asia of Japan, and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong have also been reporting on the 14th National Congress of the Party over the past few days.

News reports on January 23rd largely focused on the major outcomes of the congress, including the re-election of General Secretary To Lam, and offered positive assessments of Vietnam's future development.

"Vietnam is on track to become a top performer in the region within the next five years," Adam Samdin, an economist at Oxford Economics, told Reuters on January 23.

Reuters then reviewed Vietnam's major policy decisions in recent times, including the "reorganization of the country," streamlining the government apparatus, and the economic development goals and the promotion of double-digit growth outlined at the 14th National Congress.

AFP noted that following the 14th National Congress, Vietnam's new leadership is expected to focus on promoting private sector growth, digitalization, and technology, gradually realizing the goal of becoming an upper-middle-income country by 2030.

"Economic growth will be the top priority for the Vietnamese government over the next five years. The business environment will be made more favorable for investors to achieve double-digit growth targets each year," Professor Alexander L. Vuving at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies in Hawaii (USA) told Nikkei Asia.

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/dot-pha-manh-me-de-phat-trien-20260124075744137.htm#content-1