Announcement of the General Secretary's Conclusion at the Conference to review the implementation of Resolution 57

General Secretary To Lam emphasized the results, challenges and tasks of promoting science, technology, innovation and digital transformation by the end of 2025.

The Standing Office of the Central Steering Committee for Science, Technology Development, Innovation and Digital Transformation (referred to as the Steering Committee) issued Notice No. 07-TB/CQTTBCD (October 15, 2025) - Notice of the Conclusion of General Secretary To Lam, Head of the Steering Committee, at the Conference to review the implementation of Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW of the Politburo in the third quarter of 2025 and key tasks and solutions at the end of 2025.

The announcement stated: On October 15, 2025, the Steering Committee held a conference to review the implementation of Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW dated December 22, 2024 of the Politburo in the third quarter of 2025 and key tasks and solutions for the end of 2025.

The conference was held in person at the Central Party Office and online to the connecting points of 34 provinces and centrally-run cities.

The conference was chaired by General Secretary To Lam, Head of the Steering Committee, with the participation of Tran Thanh Man , Politburo member, Chairman of the National Assembly, Tran Cam Tu, Politburo member, Standing member of the Secretariat and other Politburo members, Secretariat members, Party Central Committee members, leaders of Party committees directly under the Central Committee, Party agencies at the Central level, ministries, ministerial-level agencies, Government agencies and centrally run provinces and cities; members of the Working Group, the National Advisory Council; representatives of leaders of institutes, schools, corporations and technology enterprises.

Based on the report of the Standing Office of the Steering Committee and the opinions of the comrades attending the Conference, General Secretary To Lam, Head of the Steering Committee, basically agreed and concluded.

Digital infrastructure is gradually taking shape

General Secretary To Lam, Head of the Steering Committee, acknowledged and commended the efforts of all levels, sectors, and agencies in the political system from the central to local levels; highly appreciated the close and decisive direction of the Standing Committee of the Steering Committee; the proactive, active, and responsible advice of the Standing Agency, the Working Group, and the National Advisory Council; the leading role of ministries, sectors, and localities, especially the Ministry of Public Security, in reforming administrative procedures and effectively applying the National Population Database.

The recent achievements have been achieved with the companionship, dedicated and responsible contributions of the team of businesses, experts, scientists at home and abroad, and our overseas Vietnamese.

General Secretary To Lam chaired the meeting. (Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA)

After 9 months of implementing Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW, especially in the third quarter of 2025, with the determination of the entire political system, the work of developing science, technology, innovation and digital transformation has had positive changes, achieving important initial results.

The work of building and perfecting institutions and policies has been promoted, removing inherent bottlenecks, creating an increasingly synchronous legal corridor; digital infrastructure has been gradually shaped, especially the National Data Center No. 1 has been put into operation; digital platforms, applications, and services serving people and businesses have initially seen substantial changes.

The fields of science, technology and innovation have identified bottlenecks to focus on directing and removing them.

Besides the achievements, there are still many shortcomings and limitations that need to be promptly overcome such as:

(1) Regarding national digital transformation: Some documents and regulations for digital transformation are slow to be issued; digital infrastructure at some agencies in the political system has degraded and lacks uniformity; progress in deploying national and specialized databases is slow; connection and sharing between information systems are still ineffective, failing to promote the value of data; the quality of online public services has not met expectations.

(2) Regarding science, technology and innovation: High-tech production is currently mainly processing and assembling; some key national laboratories are not operating effectively; the mechanism for handling and procedures for granting industrial property protection certificates are still inadequate; the National Initiative Portal on science, technology, innovation and digital transformation has not met the requirements of the tasks assigned by the Steering Committee, and has not properly reflected the role and stature of the National Initiative Portal; the deployment of strategic technologies is still limited and inadequate.

(3) The registration, allocation and disbursement of funds still have many shortcomings and are ineffective.

(4) The opinions discussed and presented at the Conference were mostly within the scope and functions of the industry and locality, and did not clearly demonstrate creative thinking and suggestions to jointly solve major national problems and issues.

Providing online public services according to the principle of "one-stop-one-declare"

To thoroughly resolve the practical difficulties and challenges that are arising, and create a breakthrough in the coming time, the General Secretary's Conclusion Notice requires the steering committees at all levels and sectors to thoroughly grasp and take drastic actions according to the following major orientations and action guidelines:

Regarding direction: Thoroughly grasp and firmly implement the new operating principle agreed upon by the recent 13th Central Conference: "Discipline comes first - Resources go together - Results are the measure."

This must be the guiding ideology throughout, in which: Discipline means strictly implementing the guiding conclusions, adhering to progress, not pushing or avoiding, and thoroughly handling overdue tasks; resources must be fully guaranteed, allocated correctly, accurately, and effectively, avoiding spreading and wasting; taking specific, substantive results and contributions to socio-economic development as measures of work efficiency, not through formal reports.

General Secretary To Lam, Head of the Central Steering Committee, speaks. (Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA)

Science, technology, innovation and digital transformation must truly be the main driving force, creating new productivity and production methods, focusing on the digital economy and data economy.

Identify "removing institutional bottlenecks" as the top breakthrough task. Continue to promote the positive results in the work of building and perfecting institutions achieved in the past 9 months; focus on completely removing obstacles in management institutions, sharing, and data exploitation to break "separatist thinking"; institutions on intellectual property, commercialization of research results to effectively connect institutes and schools with the market; institutions on public-private partnership to strongly mobilize social resources.

At the same time, there must be a strong enough mechanism to protect cadres who dare to think, dare to do, and dare to take responsibility for the common interest.

Building an innovation ecosystem, strongly unleashing social resources, identifying enterprises as the center.

Thoroughly grasp the viewpoint that "whatever the private sector can do that is not in the field where the State plays a leading role, create conditions and encourage the private sector to do."

The State plays the role of creating, leading, and ordering; enterprises are the main subjects in investing, researching, applying, and commercializing scientific and technological results, bringing the 3-House cooperation model into reality and effectiveness.

Take the satisfaction and trust of people and businesses as a measure of effectiveness. All digital transformation activities and all technological products must aim towards the ultimate goal of serving people and businesses.

Resolutely digitize the entire process, provide online public services according to the "one-stop-one-declaration" principle on the basis of connecting and interoperating data to reduce time and compliance costs for people and businesses.

Strengthening cybersecurity to protect people from cybercrime.

Real-time data-driven management

Regarding the action motto, the General Secretary's Concluding Announcement clearly stated that, in order to realize the proposed strategic orientations, it is required to unify and resolutely implement the action motto: "Three focuses - Three publicities - One measure," specifically:

- Three focuses: (1) Timely and fully institutionalize the Steering Committee's conclusions and directions. (2) Organize drastic and effective implementation with specific products. (3) Strengthen inspection and supervision work, promptly remove difficulties and obstacles.

- Three publicities: (1) Publicize implementation progress. (2) Publicize responsibilities of organizations and individuals. (3) Publicize results for people and society to monitor.

- One measure: Taking people's living standards and trust as the most effective measure.

General Secretary To Lam, Head of the Central Steering Committee, speaks. (Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA)

To ensure the implementation of the above motto, the General Secretary requested a fundamental change in leadership, direction and administration methods; shifting from management based on periodic reports to management based on data updated in real time, ensuring high transparency and accountability.

Ministries, branches and localities seriously:

Use the Information System for monitoring and evaluating the implementation of Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW as an essential tool in daily direction and management to monitor progress, detect bottlenecks early and support timely and effective decision making.

If necessary, establish specialized, flexible working groups with sufficient authority to coordinate inter-sectoral activities, urge and directly resolve difficulties and obstacles in the implementation process.

Public services must satisfy people and businesses, avoiding formalities.

Regarding the key tasks, the Conclusion Notice clearly states:

Agencies and units, especially their leaders, need to set an example and be responsible before the Party, the State and the people for implementing tasks, ensuring 100% completion of tasks on time, meeting practical requirements and bringing about efficiency.

Data must be "correct, sufficient, clean, alive, unified, and shared."

Public services must satisfy people and businesses in a real way, avoiding formalities. The numbers in the reports are very good, but the reality is different. Cyber ​​security must strictly comply with technical standards and regulations.

Central Party agencies focus on leading and directing the effective implementation of the Digital Transformation Project in Party agencies according to the set roadmap.

The Supreme People's Court is a pioneer in building a modern, transparent judiciary based on digital technology, promptly issuing a Resolution of the Council of Judges on litigation procedures in the digital environment, implementing the Project to digitize all case files, and moving towards building a centralized, intelligent digital precedent database.

The Supreme People's Procuracy promotes digital transformation to improve the quality of prosecution and supervision of judicial activities.

The Government Party Committee focuses on directing and finding solutions to completely resolve the backlog of legal documents; ensuring that 100% of decrees and circulars guiding new laws related to science, technology, innovation and digital transformation are issued and take effect no later than March 31, 2026; Directing the implementation of the National Public Service Portal as a real "One-stop shop", strictly enforcing the principle that people and businesses "only have to provide information once," ending the situation of requiring re-submission of documents and data that state agencies already have or can share with each other.

The National Assembly Party Committee directed the implementation of the National Assembly's digital transformation project; directed the concentration of resources to upgrade the National Assembly's information technology infrastructure and data center.

Direct the organization of explanation and questioning sessions and thematic supervision delegations on the implementation of Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW.

Delegates attending the meeting. (Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA)

Monitoring content must focus on three core issues:

(i) Progress and quality of building national databases. (ii) Efficiency of disbursement and use of state budget resources.

(iii) Substantive results of commercialization of scientific and technological products and the 3-House model.

The Party Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and central organizations direct the implementation of the Digital Transformation Project in the agencies of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations.

Direct the organization of independent and substantive social monitoring and criticism programs on the quality of scientific and technological research and innovation. This monitoring channel must become an important source of information, reflecting the voice of the people so that state agencies can adjust policies and actions.

The Ministry of Justice shall preside over and coordinate with the Government Office, the Ministry of Home Affairs and relevant agencies to urgently review and re-evaluate all administrative procedures at the provincial and communal levels to propose plans for substantial and effective reduction and simplification, and report to competent authorities for consideration and decision. To be completed before November 15, 2025.

Ministries, central agencies and localities are fully responsible for the progress of implementing assigned tasks on science and technology development, innovation and digital transformation within the scope of management functions of their ministries, agencies and localities according to detailed tasks.

Urgently develop a plan and organize its implementation.

The Conclusion Notice clearly states the requirements: Members of the Steering Committee, ministers, heads of sectors, secretaries, chairmen of provincial and communal People's Committees, and leaders of departments and divisions must continue to uphold the spirit of responsibility, pioneering and exemplary; fully and deeply understand the requirements and tasks of developing science, technology, innovation and national digital transformation for the destiny of the country.

We must be resolute in our leadership and management; we must not accept "term-based thinking," "holding on to local interests," not daring to think, not daring to do, not daring to make breakthroughs. Anyone caught up in these situations and not making changes must be promptly replaced, and must not slow down the country's development process.

The tasks ahead require each member of the Steering Committee and each leader at all levels and in all sectors to continue to uphold the pioneering and exemplary spirit, truly "talk less - do more - resolutely - effectively."

Resolutely fight against formalism, achievement disease, stagnation, shirking, and avoidance of responsibility; turn every challenge into an opportunity, turn every difficulty into a driving force for innovation and creativity.

Assign all levels, sectors, agencies and units, immediately after this Conference, to urgently develop plans and organize the serious and effective implementation of key tasks and solutions according to the functions and tasks assigned in this Notice, and send them to the Central Party Office - Standing Agency of the Steering Committee before October 18, 2025.

It is required to maintain discipline, unleash resources, and create breakthroughs right from the last months of 2025, creating a solid momentum for 2026 and for the entire term./.

(TTXVN/Vietnam+)

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