General Secretary To Lam: Party committees of Central Party agencies affirm the role of the Party's 'strategic staff'

On the morning of September 24, in Hanoi, the 1st Congress of Party Committees of Central Party Agencies, term 2025-2030, solemnly opened, with the participation of 293 official delegates representing more than 8,700 party members of 14 Party Committees under the Party Committees of Central Party Agencies. General Secretary To Lam attended and delivered a speech directing the Congress.

General Secretary To Lam speaks. Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA

Important contributions to strategic consulting work

After listening to the presentation of the draft Political Report, the draft Report on reviewing the leadership and direction of the Party Executive Committee of the Central Party agencies and a number of comments at the Congress, on behalf of the Party and State leaders, giving a speech directing the Congress, General Secretary To Lam emphasized that this is a political event of special significance, marking a new step of development of the Party Committee of the Central Party agencies - a Party organization with a very important position in the political system. This is also one of the 27 Party organizations directly under the Central Committee to hold the first Congress - a Congress of great significance, determining goals, directions, tasks, and laying the foundation for work in the period 2025-2030.

The General Secretary said that the Politburo and the Secretariat acknowledged and highly appreciated the Party Committees of the Central Party agencies for directing the preparation work for the Congress very actively and urgently, ensuring quality and progress in accordance with Directive 45 of the Politburo. In the newly established context, the subordinate Party Committees have just merged, consolidated, and streamlined their organizational apparatus on a large scale; at the same time, within the Party Committee there are very specific and special institutions of the political system (the Party's strategic advisory body, the judiciary, theory, training, newspapers, magazines, and publishing agencies), Party committees at all levels in the entire Party Committee have made efforts to prepare and organize well the Party Congresses at all levels, creating a vibrant emulation movement among cadres and Party members.

Expressing high agreement with the basic contents of the Congress Document, the General Secretary emphasized that since the beginning of the 13th Party Congress term, the situation at home and abroad has had many complicated developments. Our Party has clearly demonstrated its steadfastness, steering the country to overcome difficulties and challenges and continuously achieving new achievements; aiming to complete all targets and tasks set by the 13th Party Congress, creating a foundation to bring the country into an era of strong and prosperous development.

The General Secretary affirmed that each policy, each document, each resolution issued by the Party has made an important contribution and a clear mark in the strategic advisory work of the Central Party agencies. The results of the work in recent times have affirmed the important, core, exemplary, and leading role of the Party Committees of the Central Party agencies, making an important contribution to the innovation of the Party's leadership and governance methods; enhancing the Party's prestige, position, and strength, and consolidating the people's trust in our regime.

The General Secretary proposed that the Congress continue to discuss and analyze to clarify the causes, especially the subjective causes of the existing problems and limitations, in order to supplement and perfect solutions to overcome them during this term.

The General Secretary pointed out that we are facing a turning point, a historic opportunity to develop the country rapidly and sustainably, realizing the goal of becoming a developing country with an upper middle income by 2030, and a developed country with a high income by 2045. To achieve that great aspiration, more than ever our Party must improve its leadership capacity, governing capacity, policy-making capacity, and implementation capacity.

The Central Party agencies are the "strategic staff", directly serving the Central Committee, the Politburo , and the Secretariat in formulating the Party's major guidelines and policies; in directing and organizing implementation; in inspecting, supervising, summarizing practices, and developing theories. The quality of the activities of the Central Party agencies is decisive to the leadership capacity, governing capacity, and fighting strength of the entire Party. Each cadre and Party member must be deeply aware that he or she is shouldering a great responsibility before the Party, the State, and the people.

Three requirements and four key work directions

General Secretary To Lam speaks at the Congress. Photo: Thong Nhat/VNA

The General Secretary suggested that it is necessary to study, thoroughly grasp and implement three requirements, ensuring Party spirit, combativeness and pioneering spirit in all aspects of work. Party organizations and Party members in the Party Committees of the Central Party agencies must be exemplary, steadfast, and leading forces in all areas of work, ensuring the Party's leadership in all aspects of social life. The Party Committee must be truly clean, strong, and exemplary - setting an example for Party organizations in the political system to follow.

The Party's departments and agencies must strengthen coordination and close cooperation, establish a mechanism for interconnected and synchronous coordination between agencies, forming a unified block, a "strategic general staff" closely linking: Staff - organization - inspection - internal affairs - policy, strategy - propaganda, mass mobilization - theory, propaganda... All for a common goal, to best serve the leadership and direction of the Party Central Committee.

All advisory work and proposals must originate from reality, from the aspirations and legitimate interests of the people, closely connected with the people, strengthening the trust and flesh-and-blood relationship between the Party, the State and the people, so that the people are truly the roots and solid foundation of the Party, in accordance with Uncle Ho's teachings: "Apart from the interests of the Fatherland and the people, our Party has no other interests."

Regarding the four key work orientations, the General Secretary stated that the Party Committee needs to lead, coordinate leadership and direction: Focus on improving the level and quality of strategic advisory work; be one step ahead in grasping the situation, forecasting trends, proposing strategic solutions, meeting the increasingly high requirements of the leadership and direction of the Party Central Committee in the new situation; promote theoretical research, summarize practices, and link with policy orientations... In the immediate future, focus on researching, advising, perfecting and implementing core issues decided by the 14th Party Congress, ensuring effective implementation of the country's three major goals: maintaining stability - rapid and sustainable development - improving people's lives.

Party committees at all levels in the Party Committee need to continue to strongly innovate the content of leadership methods and working styles, promote democracy, exemplary responsibility, and practice what they preach; improve organizational capacity, turn Party policies and resolutions into practical actions and concrete results; strengthen digital transformation, promote administrative reform within the Party, ensure modern Party governance, and take work quality and efficiency as the leading measure to evaluate Party organizations and Party members.

The General Secretary requested that Party committees at all levels in the Party Committee must build a truly clean, strong, exemplary Party Committee, taking the lead in Party building work; must pay special attention to preserving and promoting solidarity and unity within the Party Committee, and more broadly, solidarity and unity within the Party to act as the nucleus to maintain solidarity and unity in the entire political system and the whole society; strictly implement the principles of Party organization and activities; promote democracy along with maintaining Party discipline and State discipline; innovate and improve the quality of Party cell activities.

“Focus on maintaining strict discipline and order, enhancing deterrence and preventing violations; shifting the Party's inspection and supervision methods from "passive" to "active", ensuring that there are no "dark areas" or "gaps" that inspection and supervision cannot reach. Party agencies must set an example in preventing and combating corruption, negativity, group interests, bureaucracy, and distance from the people; must keep the Party apparatus truly clean, streamlined, effective and efficient”, the General Secretary emphasized.

General Secretary To Lam delivered a speech directing the Congress. Photo: Van Diep/VNA

The General Secretary noted that special attention should be paid to improving the quality of the cadre team. This is the "key of the key" issue in Party building work; it is necessary to focus on advising on innovating the content of the work of evaluating, selecting and using cadres appropriately, thereby advising on building a cadre team - especially cadres at the Party committee level, leaders, managers, strategic staff of the Party and the political system to meet the requirements of the tasks in the new era - the era of prosperous development of the country. Special attention should be paid to building a cadre team of the Central Party agencies, commensurate with the responsibilities of each agency and unit. Each cadre and party member in the Party Committee of the Central Party agencies must thoroughly understand and deeply perceive their roles and responsibilities.

“We must clearly see the honor of working in the Party's strategic advisory bodies, and at the same time see the very heavy responsibility; from there, we must constantly train ourselves to have a strong political stance, maintain pure moral qualities, constantly study and improve our working qualifications and capacity; uphold discipline, order, and be exemplary in words and actions; always have an innovative and creative mindset, not be vengeful or stagnant; dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility, put the interests of the Party, the State, and the people above all else,” the General Secretary emphasized.

The Party Committee and its affiliated Party organizations need to research and advise on mechanisms and policies to attract talents and good cadres; mechanisms and policies to encourage and motivate cadres to work with peace of mind, wholeheartedly, and make long-term contributions to the Party and the country.

With the proud achievements that the Party Committees of the Central Party agencies have achieved in the past time, with the spirit of solidarity, intelligence, innovation and aspiration for dedication, the General Secretary believes that the Party Committees of the Central Party agencies will continue to develop strongly, excellently fulfill assigned political tasks, affirm the role of the Party's "strategic staff", and contribute importantly with the entire Party, people and army to bring the country firmly into the new era of national development.

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