General Secretary: 'When we hear about the policy of increasing wages, the market prices have already increased'

Afternoon of September 23, General Secretary and National Assembly deputies of constituency No. 1 met with voters of 11 wards of Hanoi (Dong Da, Kim Lien, Van Mieu - Quoc Tu Giam, Lang, O Cho Dua, Ba Dinh, Ngoc Ha, Giang Vo, Bach Mai, Hai Ba Trung, Vinh Tuy) before the 10th session of the 15th National Assembly.

Here, the General Secretary informed voters about job positions, staffing in the education and health sector, salary policies for civil servants, and adjustments to pensions and social benefits.

General Secretary To Lam. (Photo: Viet Thanh)

The General Secretary emphasized that determining the payroll and job positions is a very important task to implement salary reform according to Resolution 27 of the Central Committee. Currently, the Politburo has directed agencies to complete the job position project in the fourth quarter of 2025.

" This is also a very important basis for determining the staffing of agencies in the political system, and is also the basis for implementing the contents of salary reform in the spirit of Resolution 27. Currently, Resolution 27 has 6 contents, but we have only implemented 4. What salary is needed to maintain labor force, what salary is needed for retired cadres... ", said the General Secretary.

Emphasizing the "no equalization" viewpoint, the General Secretary noted the need for preferential salary policies for teachers, doctors, armed forces, or scientific and technological research staff...

" This must have a roadmap and be calculated. We are proposing that the Government manage the macro economy and prices, and not let 'prices increase before wages increase', so that people's actual lives do not meet requirements. Sometimes when we hear about the policy of increasing wages, prices in the market have already increased, " the General Secretary stated the reality.

Referring to the goal of building a nursing home to care for the elderly, the General Secretary suggested that it must be calculated in accordance with pensions. It is impossible for a pension of 6 million VND/month to cost 10 million VND to go to a nursing home.

" For a country to grow and develop, it must improve people's lives. That is the real result. How can one person working support another? Young couples do not want to have children because their salaries are not enough to raise them," the General Secretary emphasized, saying that if public sector salaries are increased, the salaries of workers in enterprises and workers must be increased.

Regarding the issue of improving the quality of healthcare, with the view of shifting the mindset from treatment to disease prevention, the General Secretary proposed to strictly control factors that can potentially affect people's health, including food safety.

" This is also a big issue that needs to be considered. Why are there whole communes and markets in Hanoi producing counterfeit goods? How can people trust them? Everyone knows that this is the center of counterfeit goods, so why don't we fight it? What profit is there in doing business over the health of others? ", the General Secretary asked.

The General Secretary also suggested that localities could take advantage of surplus headquarters to build food centers that ensure food safety, invite the most famous stores there, and exempt taxes for the first 1-2 years to gradually help people give up the habit of eating on the sidewalk.

"The civilized world has done a lot that we don't have. Each ward and commune must be creative and plan to have those places ," said the General Secretary.

The General Secretary also informed about the work of Party congresses at all levels leading up to the 14th National Party Congress. Accordingly, the congresses at the grassroots and upper-level levels have been basically completed, and the congresses at the central level have been held. To date, the congress organization work of about 1/4 of the ministries, branches and agencies at the central level has been completed.

According to the General Secretary, we will continue to perfect the draft documents to be submitted to the 14th Congress to seek opinions from voters and the people.

" In October, the Central Conference will approve the most complete version. The draft document will supplement the spirit of the resolutions recently issued by the Politburo; on innovation of the development model; the issue of the country's strategic autonomy... ", the General Secretary informed.

General Secretary To Lam shared good news that after 9 months, many indicators achieved positive results, typically the 9-month state budget collection results met the plan, finishing 3 months ahead of schedule.

According to the General Secretary, the last three months of 2025 play a very important role, an opportunity to accelerate and complete the tasks.

" By September, the national budget revenue target has been basically completed, which is a very happy thing. In 2024, we have a budget of about 2 million billion VND to spend. This year, the estimated budget is about 2.5 million billion VND, it is completely possible to complete this goal, " said the General Secretary.

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