General Secretary talks about the 'four pillars' helping the country take off

On the morning of May 18, the Politburo and Secretariat held a national conference to disseminate Resolution 66 on innovation in law-making and enforcement and Resolution 68 on private economic development.

Speaking at the conference, General Secretary To Lam said that the profound and dramatic changes in the world are creating challenges but also opportunities for all countries.

"Whoever seizes the opportunity and overcomes the challenges will succeed. Otherwise, the result will be the opposite and we will fall into the situation of 'slow buffalo drinking muddy water'," said the General Secretary .

General Secretary To Lam gave a speech at the conference.

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According to the General Secretary, after 40 years of renovation, the country has achieved great achievements, but we must frankly acknowledge that there are still many fierce challenges ahead, requiring us not to be subjective, not to rest on our laurels, not to delay, and even more so, to constantly innovate and reform.

The General Secretary emphasized that the innovations and reforms focus on four breakthroughs: Resolution 57 of the Politburo on promoting science, technology and innovation; Resolution 59 on proactively integrating deeply into the international community; and most recently, Resolution 68 on developing the private economy and Resolution 66 on comprehensively innovating the work of building and enforcing laws.

"Up to now, the four resolutions above can be called the "four pillars" to help us take off," the General Secretary affirmed.

The General Secretary pointed out that internal and external challenges are intertwined, creating great pressure, forcing us to strongly innovate our thinking, working methods and development models. We need a comprehensive, profound and synchronous reform, with new breakthroughs in institutions, economic structures, growth models and organizational apparatus.

"Only drastic, persistent and effective reforms can help our country overcome challenges, seize opportunities and realize the aspiration for rapid and sustainable development in the new era," the General Secretary affirmed.

At the conference, General Secretary To Lam and other Party and State leaders visited the private economic exhibition. At the TH Group booth, the General Secretary instructed TH Group to "bring farmers along", produce clean food, and care for the health of Vietnamese people, especially children.

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"Poor provinces are all due to businesses not being able to develop"

Regarding the development of the private economy, the General Secretary said that Resolution 68 clearly identified the private economy as the most important driving force of the national economy. This viewpoint marked a profound change in strategic awareness of the role of the private sector: from a secondary position to a pillar of development, alongside the state economy and the collective economy, forming a solid "tripod" for an independent, autonomous and successfully integrated economy.

Citing a district in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City like Hoan Kiem, but its budget revenue is equal to that of a province, or even 2-3 provinces, the General Secretary said the main reason is that these districts rely on businesses, trade, and services.

"A province told me that the path to local development is mainly to ask the Central Government for budget and plans. Dependence like that will not allow development. There is a lot of money in the people's pockets, a lot in the bank, but the province cannot spend it. People do not know how to produce and do business, if they do not open businesses, how can the province collect taxes and the people will have a hard time," the General Secretary said, believing that poor provinces are all due to businesses not being able to develop.

In that spirit, Resolution 68 sets out strong reform requirements, from perfecting institutions, creating a fair, transparent and stable investment and business environment; expanding access to land and credit; thoroughly removing institutional and policy bottlenecks...

The General Secretary affirmed that there is a lot of money among the people, and many poor provinces are due to the fact that people do not know how to produce and do business, and businesses do not develop.

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According to the General Secretary, Resolution 68 lays the foundation for a comprehensive transformation in private economic development policy: from "recognition" to "protection, encouragement, and promotion", from "support" to "leading development". This is the right, urgent, long-term strategic choice, aiming to realize the aspiration of developing a strong country in the middle of the 21st century.

Regarding creating real breakthroughs in science, technology and innovation, the General Secretary said that Resolution 57 clearly identifies the development of science, technology, innovation and digital transformation as strategic breakthroughs, the main driving force to promote national modernization, innovate national governance methods, and develop the economy and society rapidly and sustainably.

"If we want to move forward quickly and steadily in the new era, there is no other way than the path of science, technology and innovation," the General Secretary affirmed.

Regarding innovation in law-making and enforcement, the General Secretary said that Resolution 66 has identified fundamental innovation in law-making and enforcement as the core content and foundation for the process of building a socialist rule-of-law state of Vietnam in the new era.

"Legal institutions are the driving force and foundation for national development. A synchronous, feasible and transparent legal system will create a stable environment for production and business, promote innovation, enhance international integration capacity and completely eliminate barriers caused by overlapping and contradictory laws," the General Secretary stated.

Regarding international integration, according to the General Secretary, Resolution 59 is a breakthrough policy, marking a historic turning point in the country's international integration process, identifying integration as a strategic driving force for Vietnam to firmly enter a new era. The Resolution identifies international integration as not only opening up and exchanging, but also a comprehensive cause, requiring proactiveness, positivity and courage.

Party and State leaders at the conference

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From "management" to "service"

The General Secretary emphasized that the four major resolutions of the Politburo have together created a unified whole of strategic thinking and action for the country's development in the new era.

The common breakthrough of all four resolutions is the new development mindset: from "management" to "service", from "protection" to "creative competition", from "passive integration" to "active integration", from "distributed reform" to "comprehensive, synchronous and profound breakthrough". This is a fundamental shift in thinking, inheriting the achievements of innovation over the past 40 years and in line with global trends in the digital age.

According to the General Secretary, the tasks set out in the four resolutions mentioned above are also the key tasks for the next five years. In particular, 2025 is the pivotal year opening a new era. Therefore, if we do not keep up with the pace of reform and do not create breakthroughs right now, we will miss the golden opportunity and fall behind in the global race. Therefore, it is necessary to implement the tasks quickly, systematically, and substantially, taking actual effectiveness as the evaluation criteria.

The General Secretary affirmed that, more than ever, the Party Central Committee is a united, determined, and resolute bloc to lead the entire Party, people, and army to achieve and exceed the targets set by the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, and to prepare well to bring the country into an era of development, prosperity, and happiness.

Since the 13th Central Committee's 10th Conference (September 2024) up to now, the Politburo and the Secretariat have worked day and night to focus on solving many core issues, removing "bottlenecks", and creating new development space for the country.

At the same time, drastically implementing the streamlining of the organizational apparatus; building a two-level local government; rearranging administrative units to "take off"... According to the General Secretary, the above-mentioned tasks are not only seriously implemented by cadres and party members, but more importantly, most people in the country follow, agree, support, and consider this to be a true revolution of the country in the new period.

The General Secretary emphasized that in order to realize the aspiration to develop a prosperous and powerful country, the entire Party, the entire people and the entire army must continue to unite, join forces, and promote the spirit of patriotism, the will to be self-reliant and the strong aspiration to rise up of the Vietnamese people in the new era. Because "knowing how to unite, knowing how to unite/whatever is difficult, can be done".

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