Speech of the General Secretary at the Conference to disseminate 4 Resolutions of the Politburo

Speech of the General Secretary at the National Conference to disseminate 4 Resolutions of the Politburo on International Integration in the New Situation; Ensuring National Energy Security to 2030, with a vision to 2045; Breakthrough in Education and Training Development; Some Breakthrough Solutions to Strengthen Protection and Health Care for the People.

General Secretary To Lam delivered a speech at the conference. (Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA)

Dear Politburo members, Secretariat members, Party Central Committee members,

Dear comrades attending the Conference at the connecting points,

Today, the Politburo held a National Conference to disseminate and implement four extremely important resolutions of the Politburo: Resolution No. 59 on International Integration in the New Situation; Resolution No. 70 on Ensuring National Energy Security to 2030, with a vision to 2045; Resolution No. 71 on Breakthroughs in Education and Training Development; Resolution No. 72 on Some Breakthrough Solutions to Strengthen the Protection and Care of People's Health.

Resolution 59 is one of the four pillar resolutions mentioned in the Politburo's Resolution deployment session on May 18, 2025. The remaining three resolutions are three thematic resolutions. These three resolutions continue and strongly complement the strategic "Quad Resolutions", creating a unified whole, a breakthrough to realize the two 100-year goals, building a strong, prosperous, everlasting and sustainable Vietnam.

The conference listened to Comrade Pham Minh Chinh, Politburo member, Prime Minister; Comrade Le Hoai Trung, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs; Comrade Le Thanh Long, Deputy Prime Minister; Comrade Nguyen Thanh Nghi, Party Central Committee member, Head of the Central Policy and Strategy Committee, convey the core contents of the 4 Resolutions. I highly appreciate the report content and implementation proposals of the above-mentioned comrades.

Tổng Bí thư Tô Lâm phát biểu chỉ đạo Hội nghị. (Ảnh: Thống Nhất/TTXVN) — General Secretary To Lam delivered a speech at the conference. (Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA)

I think: The consistent spirit of Resolution 59 and the three resolutions 70-71-72 is to quickly shift from "promulgating policies" to "executive management", taking people and businesses as the center, taking practical effectiveness as the measure. Each agency, organization, and individual is responsible for turning the content of the Resolutions into daily work, into specific action programs, with resources, deadlines, measurable indicators, supervision and accountability.

I propose that the entire political system thoroughly grasp and strictly implement a number of principles in the process of implementing these Resolutions, which are: 5 consistency (politics-law-data-resource allocation-communication); 3 publicity (goals-progress-results); 3 early (early completion of institutions-early launch of key projects-early allocation of capital) and 5 clarity (clear work, clear people, clear responsibilities, clear time, clear results) and immediately implement the contents of the Resolutions as soon as possible at all levels.

To ensure unified direction, smooth coordination and "reaching the grassroots", it is necessary to establish a Central Steering Committee for each Resolution or a Central Steering Committee on the implementation of the Politburo's Resolutions (comrades, please consider this issue further). In addition, it is necessary to build a public "digital dashboard", updated weekly and monthly, to monitor core indicators, bottlenecks, and progress of implementation of each Resolution. Responsibility of the Government, ministries, branches, localities and the people. At the same time, it is possible to invite independent expert groups and policy appraisal departments to participate in appraising solutions, evaluating, and giving objective feedback.

I would also like to emphasize some key orientations, tasks and solutions of each Resolution, and at the same time clarify the dialectical and complementary relationship between the Resolutions implemented today.

For Resolution 59

(1) Clearly identify international integration as a strategic driving force based on the decisive role of internal strength, increase internal strength while taking advantage of external strength, closely link integration with protecting national interests, both cooperate and fight. Ensure the principles of new mindset, position, new thinking and approach to international integration, shift from receptive thinking to contributing thinking, from general integration to full integration, from the position of a behind-the-scenes country to the state of a rising country, pioneering in new fields.

(2) Synchronous, comprehensive and extensive integration. Integration areas must be closely linked and complement each other in an overall strategy, with focus, key points, and selection with appropriate roadmaps and steps. In particular, economic integration is identified as the center, integration in other areas must facilitate economic integration with the top priority being economic restructuring, growth model innovation and digital transformation promotion.

Integration in politics, security and national defense must aim at enhancing the country's potential and position, protecting the Fatherland early, from afar, before the country is in danger. Science, technology and innovation must be identified as the top important breakthrough, aiming at bringing domestic standards and regulations on science and technology closer to advanced international standards and practices.

Promote comprehensive integration in culture, society, tourism, environment, education-training, health and other fields, to promote and popularize national culture, strengthen cooperation in research and application of science in medicine, health care for people, innovate and improve the quality of domestic education to regional and international standards, develop Vietnamese people to stand shoulder to shoulder with international friends in both intelligence and physical strength.

Tổng Bí thư Tô Lâm và các đồng chí lãnh đạo Đảng, Nhà nước tham quan triển lãm “Những thành tựu nổi bật trong ngành y tế và giáo dục.” (Ảnh: Thống Nhất/TTXVN) — General Secretary To Lam and other Party and State leaders visit the exhibition "Outstanding achievements in the health and education sectors." (Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA)

(3) Improve the capacity to implement and perfect institutions and policies, overcome bottlenecks in implementing international commitments and agreements, promote the review and internalization of international laws to fully, synchronously and effectively implement our obligations and commitments. Make effective use of international commitments, agreements and economic links, especially new-generation FTAs to enhance intertwined interests, not depending on a few partners. Urgently complete the draft Resolution of the National Assembly on a number of special mechanisms and policies to improve the effectiveness of international integration, and submit it to the National Assembly at the upcoming 10th Session.

(4) Promote the attraction of high-quality FDI, especially from large global corporations that play a leading role in a number of important supply chains such as information technology, telecommunications, semiconductor chips, artificial intelligence, etc.; prioritize investment projects with advanced technology, new technology, high technology, clean technology, modern management, spillover effects, eco-smart industrial parks, innovation centers, logistics, strategic infrastructure projects, including transport infrastructure. Encourage Vietnamese enterprises to invest and do business effectively abroad, building national brands of international stature.

(5) Promoting the central role, active, proactive and creative participation of people, businesses and localities in linking international integration and domestic integration, connecting regions, localities, connecting sectors and fields, connecting research and implementation, contributing specifically to consolidating political position, promoting economic development, ensuring national security, and raising the country's influence on the world map.

For Resolution 70:

The core goal is that the energy system must be safe, stable, and have reliable backup; provide enough power for production and daily life; shift towards green, low-emissions; operate intelligently on a digital platform and ensure reasonable and transparent costs. From now until 2030, we strive to have a minimum capacity backup of 15%, significantly reduce power loss; increase the proportion of clean energy in accordance with planning; build competitive, transparent electricity market mechanisms with a solid roadmap.

In terms of solutions, we have 10 focus groups.

First, balance supply and demand by region, update synchronous power-grid planning, and finalize the list of key projects.

Second, invest heavily in transmission and storage - especially 500kV lines, smart grids, and pilot energy storage systems at bottlenecks.

Third, mobilize diverse capital: public-private partnerships, green bonds, power purchase agreements with reasonable risk allocation; apply payment mechanisms according to available capacity for flexible sources.

Fourth, develop a competitive electricity market according to a roadmap, standardize long-term reference price mechanisms, and enhance transparency.

Fifth, diversify fuels and reserve LNG, ensure warehouse capacity, pipelines, long-term contracts, and strategic coal/gas reserves.

Sixth, promote energy efficiency and demand side management, apply time-of-use pricing, and require mandatory savings at high loads.

Seventh, develop renewable energy according to “system thinking”: competitive bidding, synchronous planning of source-grid-storage, and fair sharing of connection costs.

Eighth, protect vulnerable populations and ensure electricity for basic industries through targeted, time-bound, and transparent support packages.

Nine, digital transformation of the electricity industry: remote measurement, real-time data, load forecasting using artificial intelligence, ensuring network security.

Tenth, human resource development and localization: training system engineers and supporting industries.

Identify breakthroughs in strategies to ensure energy security, sustainable development and realize the Net Zero commitment by 2050.

Focus on three points: Institutional reform; facilitate the attraction of social resources, especially the private economic sector to participate in renewable energy investment, power transmission and distribution. Ensure the principle that energy development must be consistent with the socialist-oriented market economic institution, associated with progress, social equity, social security, ensuring national defense, security, and environmental protection for development.

For Resolution 71:

Clearly identify education and training as the top national policy, the key driving force for national development. Investing in education is investing, cultivating, and enhancing the "national spirit", is investing in the future of the nation. This is the key field of all keys, the fundamental driving force for increasing productivity, breaking through national competitiveness, and nurturing the desire for development. Education and training follow the motto "Taking quality as the axis - taking teachers as the key - taking technology as the lever".

Regarding solutions, there are 8 main groups.

First, build national output standards by education level and profession; implement mandatory accreditation, and public rankings with attached missions.

Second, innovate programs and assessments, reduce achievement disease, combat widespread extra tutoring; implement standardized assessments, focusing on core skills.

Third, breakthrough in the teaching staff: new professional standards, performance-linked incentives, scholarships to attract teachers, training numbers, ensuring ethics and honor of teachers.

Fourth, promote university autonomy coupled with accountability; co-create programs with businesses; increase paid internships; and build innovation centers.

Fifth, upgrade vocational education linked to the supply chain, real learning - real work following the dual model; recognize digital skills certificates; and evaluate by businesses.

Sixth, digital transformation of education: national open learning materials, lifelong electronic learning records, secure examination platforms, ensuring data security.

Seventh, targeted education finance: focus on supporting vulnerable groups with appropriate solutions (not favoritism); skill development fund, training ordering mechanism according to regional and industry needs.

Eight, internationalization: credit recognition, joint programs, attracting international experts, raising foreign language standards by industry.

For Resolution 72:

Prevention is key - Grassroots is the foundation - People are the center. The goal is to increase healthy life expectancy, reduce patient payments, digitize the system, strengthen primary health care, improve service quality and patient satisfaction.

There are nine groups of solutions to focus on.

First, strengthen preventive medicine and public health: vaccination, nutrition, non-communicable disease prevention; real-time epidemiological surveillance.

Second, develop primary health care and family doctors: upgrade health stations, deploy basic service packages, and connect hospitals.

Third, universal health insurance goes hand in hand with value-based payment: expanding benefits and reducing costs for patients.

Fourth, promote controlled hospital autonomy: service prices based on actual costs, public quality, transparent centralized purchasing, and fight against group interests.

Fifth, ensure security of pharmaceuticals, equipment, and vaccines: electronic bidding, encourage domestic production to meet international standards.

Sixth, focus on mental health and occupational diseases, integrating them into primary health care, schools, and workplaces.

Seventh, comprehensive school health: nutrition, physical fitness, adolescent reproductive health; data linkage with learning records.

Eight, digital transformation of healthcare: electronic health records for all people, electronic prescriptions, remote medical examination and treatment, shared data warehouse. Nine, development of healthcare human resources: competency standards, remuneration regimes, training-practice linkage, and attraction mechanisms for grassroots level. Strive for the entire population to be “Healthy to study – Healthy to work – Healthy to be happy – Healthy to protect the Fatherland”.

Dear comrades,

The country's new development momentum is formed from the organic connections between resolutions. International integration is the door to the world; Stable and green energy is a necessary condition for production, for schools and hospitals; High-quality education and training provides a team of future system engineers, doctors and public service administrators; Modern healthcare, solid prevention and good care help people stay healthy to study, to work and to create.

These pillars are simultaneously reinforced by transparent institutions, strict enforcement, data-driven and intelligent resource allocation. When each gear is in tune, the national development machine accelerates steadily.

I propose that each ministry, branch, locality, unit, cadre and party member immediately get to work with the spirit of "practice what you say", "do not leave today's work for tomorrow". The leader must take responsibility for the results, not push the issue or avoid it. Every quarter and every year, we must seriously review, be transparent and public, and reward those who dare to think, dare to do, and dare to take responsibility for the common good; at the same time, strictly handle violations and negativity.

Dear comrades,

The road ahead still has much to do, many challenges to overcome; but we have firm faith in the strength of the great national unity bloc, in the intelligence and mettle of cadres and party members; in the aspirations of the young generation; in the cooperation of the business community; and in the creativity of the people.

The four Resolutions, if implemented resolutely and synchronously, will foster new driving forces, creating strong impulses for us to break through and successfully achieve strategic goals, making our country increasingly rich, civilized, and our people increasingly happy.

I call on the entire political system, Party committees, authorities, the Fatherland Front and organizations; call on the business community, diplomats, intellectuals, teachers, doctors, workers, farmers and youth nationwide to unite, join forces and join hands to carry out. Each person has a specific task, each day has a specific result, with perseverance, persistence, method, discipline and creativity.

Let's make the spirit of the Resolutions implemented today permeate every level, every sector, every social component, every ward, every village, every hamlet, every classroom, every workshop, every field, every house, every person; turn aspirations into actions, turn actions into results, turn results into new beliefs.

Once again, I wish you good health, happiness and success. Thank you very much./.