Criticizing the distortion of the "four pillars" resolutions

The newly issued Resolutions of the Politburo include: Resolution 57; Resolution 59; Resolution 66 and Resolution 68, which are considered the "four pillars" that are being implemented in practice by the entire Party, people and army. Public opinion highly appreciates the Party's issuance of these resolutions and has high expectations for the country's development. However, there are still ignorant voices that distort the views and policies of our Party and State, denying the results that the country has achieved and is achieving.

Báo Quân đội Nhân dân•09/06/2025

The arguments are out of place.

When Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW dated December 22, 2024 of the Politburo on breakthroughs in science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation was implemented, some websites specializing in opposing Vietnam published articles deliberately fabricating and distorting the content of Resolution 57. There was an article that "commented": "Freedom is the "National Policy" and not science and technology as our Party determined, and then claimed that Resolution 57 is just a "bait" to "recruit talented people"! Some other subjects followed that argument.

Also after the Politburo issued Resolution No. 59-NQ/TW dated January 24, 2025 on "International integration in the new situation", on a number of websites with ill will towards Vietnam, articles appeared with the same one-sided argument: "Vietnam is secretly "following" its comprehensive strategic partner... to fight against other countries"; "Vietnam is leaning towards the West"; "Vietnam has abandoned its independent and autonomous foreign policy in international relations"...

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Recently, taking advantage of the Politburo's issuance of Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW dated April 30, 2025 on innovation in law-making and enforcement to meet the requirements of national development in the new era and Resolution No. 68-NQ/TW dated May 4, 2025 on private economic development, on popular social networking platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, Telegram or personal blogs of opposing subjects, a series of news, articles, images, and video clips appeared with distorted slogans such as: "Vietnamese law, a step backward for social progress", "creating barriers to business"... On many online forums, hostile forces, exiled reactionary organizations and a number of opposing subjects have spread rumors that our Party's viewpoint on private economic development this time is "inconsistent", considering the private economy as the most important driving force of the economy means "acknowledging exploitation, acknowledging capitalist production relations". meaning". They believe that this is "contradictory to the Party's viewpoints in previous periods". From there, they spread doubt, resentment, and incitement to divide the great national unity bloc.

Correct understanding of the resolutions considered as “the four pillars”

After nearly 40 years of comprehensive innovation, promoting industrialization, modernization and international integration, science and technology continue to make important strides in all aspects, making practical contributions to the cause of socio-economic development, improving people's quality of life and strengthening national defense and security. In 2024 alone, Vietnam's innovative startup ecosystem ranked 56th in the Global Startup Ecosystem Index. Vietnam's Global Innovation Index (GII) has continuously improved, rising from 59th (in 2016) to 44th in 2024. Vietnam's GII 2024 results have three world-leading indexes, including the Creative Goods Export Index for the first time. The country's total annual budget expenditure for science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation has gradually increased according to development requirements. Those achievements have proven that the arguments of hostile forces are false, fabricated, and clearly reveal their reactionary nature.

The issuance of Resolution 57 on the basis of the country's developing science and technology is a necessary support, launching pad and legal corridor to maximize and promote the development in this field. And only when science and technology develop can the country truly develop and affirm its superiority.

The birth of Resolution 59 with the consistent viewpoint is: International integration is the cause of the entire nation, under the absolute, direct and comprehensive leadership of the Party, the unified management of the State, taking people and enterprises as the center, as the creative subjects. In nearly 35 years of implementing the "Platform for national construction in the transition period to socialism", our Party has identified many complex intertwined relationships that require proper and effective handling, including the relationship "between independence and autonomy and proactive, active international integration". Regional and global integration have contributed to significantly improving domestic potential, enhancing Vietnam's geostrategic position in the region and globally. According to the General Statistics Office, in 2024, the total import and export turnover of goods reached 786.29 billion USD, an increase of 15.4% over the previous year. This is a record figure for the picture of Vietnam's import and export of goods. The difficulties and problems arising in international trade relations have always been proactively, flexibly, sincerely and substantially proposed by the Party, the State, ministries and branches to remove them and promote economic and trade cooperation. It is also the deep international integration that helps Vietnam break the siege and embargo, becoming a partner and friend with countries around the world. The viewpoints of our Party and State have always consistently expressed and gradually concretized the content of the independent and autonomous foreign policy in international integration for each period, in accordance with the context of the world and regional situation. These are the core guiding ideas that Resolution 59 has identified, but the opposing forces deliberately ignore and distort this idea.

In recent times, our Party and State have paid great attention, made great efforts, and prioritized the building and completion of the legal system. Typically, in the period from 2019 to the end of 2022 alone, the National Assembly passed 49 Laws, including many legal documents directly related to human rights and civil rights such as the 2015 Criminal Procedure Code (amended and supplemented in 2021), the 2019 Labor Code, the 2020 Law on Residence... In 2023 alone, the National Assembly passed 16 Laws, including important draft laws with many difficult and complicated contents such as the Housing Law, the Real Estate Business Law... To meet the requirements of streamlining the apparatus, the National Assembly is continuing to supplement and complete to pass amendments to the Constitution and laws to meet development requirements. Human rights and civil rights as stipulated in the Constitution continue to be specified in law and better implemented in practice. Internationally, Vietnam has actively and proactively participated in global and regional human rights mechanisms; ratified and acceded to key international conventions in all fields.

Practical experience in both Vietnam and other countries shows that perfecting institutions and laws is a strong driving force for the rapid and sustainable development of the country; becoming a competitive advantage, a solid foundation for development. The above results are vivid evidence to deny and refute the distorted arguments of hostile forces when they fabricate "Vietnamese law, a step backward for social progress".

After nearly 40 years of innovation, Vietnam has achieved an impressive gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate, averaging 6.37% per year. Compared to ASEAN countries, Vietnam has achieved the highest GDP growth rate. Vietnam has risen to become one of the fastest growing economies in Southeast Asia... Our country's private economy has gradually developed in both quantity and quality, becoming one of the important driving forces of the socialist-oriented market economy. The private economic sector is contributing about 50% of GDP, more than 30% of total state budget revenue and employing about 82% of the total workforce in economic growth, creating jobs, being an important force promoting innovation, improving labor productivity, increasing national competitiveness, contributing to hunger eradication, poverty reduction, and stabilizing social life.

It is on the basis of the change and development of correct and timely awareness of the position and role of the private economy with multi-sector economic mechanisms and policies, the socialist-oriented market economy has created conditions and premises for the private economy to develop, constantly grow and become one of the important factors for the rapid growth of the economy. Also, just after a short time of Resolution 68 being issued, a series of large and small private enterprises have boldly proposed and invested in many fields, the most typical of which is the field of investment in transport infrastructure, highways, airports, and ports using their own capital and self-mobilization without using the state budget on the legal basis of operation that Resolution 68 determined.

Both theory and practice affirm that the 4 Resolutions - the "four pillars" - are a creative application of Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's thought, in line with the revolutionary reality of our country at the present time, and are also evidence to refute the wrong, reactionary, and distorted views on the spirit of the "four pillars", which deviate from the socialist orientation and the orbit of building socialism in our country. Therefore, cadres, party members and people need to be alert to identify and resolutely fight and criticize these wrong, hostile views, contributing to strengthening the people's trust in the Party, the State, and the socialist regime of Vietnam in general and in the guidelines, policies, and economic development policies of the Party and the State in particular.

Lieutenant Colonel, Dr. DO NGOC HANH, Deputy Head of the Department of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy, School of Political Officers

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