Create strong momentum for the country to break through

On the morning of September 16, the Politburo and the Secretariat held a national conference to disseminate and implement four resolutions of the Politburo, including: Resolution 59 on international integration in the new situation; Resolution 70 on ensuring national energy security until 2030, with a vision to 2045; Resolution 71 on breakthroughs in education and training development; and Resolution 72 on a number of breakthrough solutions to strengthen the protection and care of people's health.

Báo Thanh niên•17/09/2025

"Do it now, don't wait"

Speaking at the conference, General Secretary To Lam affirmed that among the four resolutions that have been thoroughly grasped and implemented, Resolution 59 is one of the four "pillar resolutions" mentioned before. The remaining three resolutions are thematic resolutions, continuing and supplementing the four strategic resolutions to form a unified whole, a breakthrough to realize the two 100-year goals of building a strong, prosperous, everlasting and sustainable Vietnam.

The General Secretary also informed that in the near future, the Politburo will issue two more resolutions that are also very important in the overall development: a resolution on the state economy and a resolution on the revival and development of Vietnamese culture.

According to the General Secretary, there is a lot of work to be done, so it must be done urgently and early to make time for action. The Government and the National Assembly must also calculate resources and conditions for implementation. The General Secretary also requested the Central Party Committees and localities to immediately implement it in documents and action programs at the congresses of agencies and localities to "implement immediately and not wait any longer".

General Secretary To Lam and Party and State leaders visited the exhibition of outstanding achievements in the health and education sectors at the national conference to disseminate and implement four resolutions of the Politburo on the morning of September 16.

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The General Secretary stated that the consistent spirit of Resolution 59 and the three resolutions 70, 71, 72 is to quickly shift from "promulgating policies" to "executive governance", 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 these resolutions into daily work, into specific action programs, with resources, deadlines, measurement indicators, supervision and accountability.

"Every cadre and party member must be responsible for this. It cannot be said that the education resolution belongs to the education sector, the health resolution belongs to the health sector. These resolutions are closely related to each other. This is a whole, not the business of any individual," the General Secretary emphasized.

The General Secretary also proposed to consider the establishment of a Central Steering Committee for each resolution or a Central Steering Committee on the implementation of Politburo resolutions. At the same time, it is necessary to build a public digital dashboard, updated weekly and monthly to monitor core indicators, bottlenecks, progress in implementing each resolution and the responsibilities of each Party Committee, agency and unit.

Encourage businesses to invest abroad

Emphasizing the orientation and key solutions of each resolution, the General Secretary noted that Resolution 59 is synchronous, comprehensive and deep integration. At the same time, it is necessary to promote the attraction of high-quality FDI, especially large global corporations that play a leading role in a number of important supply chains such as information technology, telecommunications, semiconductor chips, and artificial intelligence. At the same time, encourage Vietnamese enterprises to invest abroad and build national brands of international stature. "We are moving from opening up for investment to a phase of selective investment attraction," the General Secretary noted.

General Secretary To Lam gave a speech at the conference.

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Regarding Resolution 70, the General Secretary emphasized that the core goal is that the energy system must be safe, stable, and have reliable backup; provide enough for production and life; shift towards green, low-emission; operate smartly on a digital platform and ensure reasonable and transparent costs. The General Secretary stated that the breakthrough in the energy assurance strategy is sustainable development and realizing the "net zero" commitment by 2050, focusing on three points: institutional reform, creating favorable conditions to attract social resources, especially the private economic sector to participate in renewable energy investment, electricity transmission and distribution.

Regarding Resolution 71, the General Secretary noted that it is necessary to clearly identify education and training as the top national policy, the key driving force for national development. Investing in education is investing in nurturing and enhancing national spirit, and investing in the future of the nation. The General Secretary emphasized the educational motto of taking quality as the axis, taking teachers as the key, and taking technology as the lever. Regarding solutions, the General Secretary noted the need to innovate programs and assessments, reduce the disease of achievements, and combat rampant extra teaching. At the same time, make a breakthrough in the teaching staff with new professional standards, incentives linked to efficiency, scholarships to attract talented people to the teaching profession, foster digital capacity and ensure ethics and honor of teachers...

Developing primary health care and family doctors

Spending a lot of time talking about Resolution 72, the General Secretary noted that the goal is to increase healthy life expectancy, reduce patient payments, digitize the system, strengthen grassroots healthcare, improve service quality and patient and public satisfaction.

The General Secretary said that Resolution 72 sets out nine groups of solutions that need to be focused on, including strengthening preventive medicine and public health. According to the General Secretary, the health sector has focused on developing vaccines as the most effective and cheapest solution to prevent diseases. Currently, 50% of vaccines have been produced domestically, while the remaining 50% requires international cooperation. Therefore, it is necessary to continue efforts in this matter.

Another task the General Secretary noted was the development of primary health care and family doctors. The General Secretary emphasized that the goal of Resolution 72 is that every citizen must receive health care, no one is left behind. To do this, it is necessary to deploy primary health care and family doctors. "The family doctor model is very good, not only examining and treating illnesses but also providing advice, health care, physical exercise, and disease prevention. These things are very easy to do but we do not focus on them," the General Secretary noted.

The General Secretary said he really wanted to have models of health care centers to "fight loneliness" for the elderly. "The nursing center takes care of the elderly like students, picking them up in the morning and taking them home in the afternoon. When they come here, they can meet friends and old colleagues, talk about sports, music, culture, arts... very interesting activities," the General Secretary said and asked the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Ministry of Health, and the Association of the Elderly to assign tasks to do.

Another task that the General Secretary also noted was that universal health insurance should go hand in hand with payment based on value; expanding benefits, reducing costs for patients. At the same time, promoting controlled hospital autonomy, service prices based on actual costs, publicizing quality, centralized and transparent purchasing, and fighting against group interests. The General Secretary also emphasized the digital transformation of healthcare with electronic health records for the entire population, electronic prescriptions, remote medical examination and treatment, shared data warehouses as well as developing qualified medical human resources, with preferential treatment, attracting them to the grassroots level...

The General Secretary affirmed that the country's new development momentum is formed from the organic connections between the above resolutions and requires each ministry, branch, locality, unit, cadre and party member to immediately start working on specific tasks.

"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," the General Secretary affirmed.

Breakthrough development, education revival

Implementing Resolution 71, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that this resolution sets out stronger policies and decisions to clear bottlenecks, create breakthroughs in development, modernize and revive the country's education system, contributing to promoting the implementation of new policies of the Politburo on science and technology, innovation, digital transformation; international integration; law-making; and private economic development.

According to the Prime Minister, Resolution 71 identifies 8 groups of tasks and solutions, including many new and breakthrough points. Specifically, breakthroughs in institutions and policies, innovation in thinking and action, creation of unique and outstanding mechanisms and policies for education and training development. Breakthroughs in investment resources with budget expenditure policies ensuring qualified educational conditions, striving for a 5% investment expenditure structure; expenditure for higher education 3%. Prioritizing clean land allocation, exemption and reduction of land use fees, land lease, credit expansion for educational institutions...

Along with that is comprehensive digital transformation, popularization and strong application of digital technology and artificial intelligence in education and training. Focus on building a team of teachers, standard school facilities, improving the quality of preschool and general education. Strengthening the teaching and learning of foreign languages, gradually making English the second language in schools. The Prime Minister said that there has been a direction for research to bring artificial intelligence (AI) into teaching in general schools right from grade 1 with the spirit of "learning while playing", "technology combined with entertainment activities".

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh thoroughly grasps the content of Resolution 71

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Balancing the budget to exempt hospital fees for all people

Explaining the content of Resolution 72, Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long said that there are 3 groups of policies in the resolution that people are particularly interested in, especially whether the State has enough resources to implement the policies.

Accordingly, the first group is about preferential allowances at different levels, for different subjects from 70 - 100% for medical staff working at public medical facilities in remote areas, Mr. Long said, it is expected to need to spend 4,335 billion VND/year. "This level is higher than the current salary level but is balanced," Mr. Long stated.

The second group is the cost of regular health check-ups and screening once a year for the entire population. According to Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long, Vietnam's population is about 106 million people, but if we round up to 100 million people, each check-up costs 300,000 VND, then 30,000 billion VND is needed per year. The number of workers is about 16 million people, regular check-ups and screenings must be paid by employers, about 4,800 billion VND. Thus, the State needs to spend 25,200 billion VND.

The third group of funds is the free hospital fee policy, Mr. Long said, the Ministry of Health took data from 2024, the Health Insurance Fund paid about 140,000 billion VND, patients paid about 21,545 billion VND. If calculated like that, from 2026, the State must spend a maximum of 21,545 billion VND/year. Currently, the Health Insurance Fund's balance is about 49,000 - 50,000 billion VND, enough to spend in the first 2 years, and then we have to calculate a roadmap to increase Health Insurance revenue to gradually balance it. "In short, the Ministry of Health and the Government have calculated quite carefully and found it feasible, and can balance it in the coming time," the Deputy Prime Minister affirmed.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long disseminated the contents of Resolution 72.

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Diversify the market, avoid dependence

Implementing Resolution 59 on international integration in the new situation, Party Central Committee Secretary - Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung said that the resolution stated that integration must demonstrate the spirit of being an active and responsible partner and the mindset must shift from asking - receiving, joining, participating to proactively contributing and building, shaping and being ready to contribute responsibly to the common work of the international community.

Regarding the goal, it is necessary to make the most of external resources and favorable conditions to build an independent, self-reliant, self-reliant, self-reliant, fast-growing and sustainable economy; strengthen the country's overall strength, enhance the country's role, position and international prestige. Mr. Le Hoai Trung also affirmed that it is necessary to propose negotiations and upgrade international economic cooperation agreements and treaties, selectively participate in new trade agreements, diversify markets, and not depend on certain markets or sectors...

Party Central Committee Secretary - Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung disseminates Resolution 59

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Eliminate cross-subsidy mechanism, adjust energy prices according to the market

Implementing Resolution 70 on ensuring national energy security until 2030, with a vision to 2045, Head of the Central Policy and Strategy Committee Nguyen Thanh Nghi said that Resolution 70 adheres to the principle that "energy development must be consistent with the socialist-oriented market economic institution".

Accordingly, develop a synchronous, competitive, transparent energy market, eliminate cross-subsidy mechanisms, and adjust energy prices according to the market under State management. Strongly encourage economic sectors, especially the private sector, to participate fully in energy development.

Regarding encouraging the private sector to participate in energy development, Mr. Nghi said that he will effectively implement the direct electricity trading mechanism; at the same time, increase the choice of electricity customers in accessing and selecting the electricity supplier that suits their needs...