As reported by the People's Representative Newspaper, this morning, November 17, in Hanoi, General Secretary To Lam and Politburo member and National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man joined Party and State leaders to attend the ceremony to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Vietnam Inspectorate's Traditional Day (November 23, 1945 - November 23, 2025).
Detecting misconduct, creating transparency, promoting innovation, protecting social stability and trust
With the theme “Keeping the oath of integrity to the Party and the People”, the 80th Anniversary of Vietnam Inspectorate’s Traditional Day is an event of special significance to review the glorious tradition; pay tribute to generations of leaders, cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers, and together confidently and proudly step into the new era with the aspiration to contribute to a strong and prosperous Vietnam.
Speaking at the ceremony, General Secretary To Lam emphasized that this is a special milestone, not only reviewing the glorious tradition of the inspection sector but also affirming the stature, position and mission of inspection work in the cause of building, developing and protecting the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
The General Secretary pointed out that, right from the first days of the country's founding, President Ho Chi Minh signed Decree No. 64 on November 23, 1945, establishing the Special Inspectorate, the predecessor of today's Vietnam Inspectorate. He advised: "Inspectors are the eyes and ears of superiors, friends of subordinates"; "Inspectors are like mirrors for people to look at their faces, a cloudy mirror cannot reflect on them."
"That is not only a directive on professional work but also a motto for training the ethics, mettle, and personality of an inspector - a profession with unique characteristics, requiring determination, humanity, honesty, and understanding," the General Secretary emphasized.
After 80 years of construction, development and growth, the General Secretary acknowledged that the Vietnamese Inspection sector has been in step with the glorious historical journey of the country.
During the resistance wars against France and the US, despite the harsh war conditions, inspection organizations still operated, contributing to maintaining order and discipline, ensuring that all resistance and nation-building policies were implemented fairly and strictly.
In the period of innovation and integration, inspection officers continue to be an important force in protecting the integrity of the state apparatus, preventing, detecting and handling violations, especially corruption, waste and negativity.
"It can be said that wherever there is inspection work, discipline is established, trust is strengthened, and the law is respected. That is the pride of 80 years of history, 80 years of affirming the mettle, intelligence, loyalty, and filial piety of the inspection staff towards the Party, State, and people," the General Secretary affirmed.
In recent times, the General Secretary pointed out that the inspection sector has been more proactive and determined, advising the Party and State on many mechanisms, policies, and strategic solutions in the work of preventing and combating corruption, waste, and negativity; has organized many thematic and large-scale inspections, focusing on areas prone to violations, making an important contribution to the work of Party building and rectification.
The work of receiving people, handling complaints and denunciations has been innovated in methods, improved in quality, and coordinated with ministries, branches, and localities. Many pending, prolonged, and complicated cases have been resolved, contributing to social stability, ensuring the legitimate rights and interests of the people. Thereby, it has contributed to stabilizing political security, social order and safety, and strengthening people's trust in the Party, the State, and the political system of our country.
Implementing Resolution No. 18 dated October 25, 2017 of the 12th Party Central Committee and Conclusion No. 134 dated March 28, 2022 of the Politburo and the Secretariat, the Inspection sector has proactively arranged and streamlined the apparatus, improved the effectiveness and efficiency of operations, perfected institutions, strengthened discipline and administrative discipline, contributing to the effective operation of two-level local governments, better serving the people.
The achievements and contributions of the inspection sector over the past 80 years have been recognized by the Party, State and people, and have been awarded many noble awards such as: Gold Star Order, Ho Chi Minh Order, First Class Independence Order, First Class Labor Order and many other glorious emulation titles.
Emphasizing that this is the pride, the foundation, and the driving force for the inspection sector to continue to develop steadily, the General Secretary also pointed out that rapid, strong development, deep integration, along with economic, social, technological and environmental challenges, pose higher and more comprehensive requirements for inspection work, the agency that plays the role of ensuring integrity, efficiency and fairness in state management.
According to the General Secretary, today's Inspectorate is not only a tool to detect violations but also an institution that creates transparency, promotes innovation, and protects social stability and trust. Good governance has a strong monitoring mechanism and the inspection sector is the pillar of this mechanism.
With that vision, the General Secretary requested the inspection sector to continue to comprehensively innovate and strongly modernize, linking inspection work with development goals, putting people at the center of activities, aiming to build an honest, effective, and people-serving administration.
Need to shift focus from handling violations to early, remote prevention
Suggesting a number of key orientations and tasks for the inspection sector in the coming period, General Secretary To Lam stated that thoroughly grasping the Party's guidelines and policies on building and rectifying the Party and the socialist rule-of-law State, effectively implementing the Resolution of the 14th National Party Congress, concretizing the spirit of innovation, rapid and sustainable development, the Government Inspectorate Party Committee needs to focus on developing a project to strengthen the Party's leadership over inspection work, meeting the requirements of preventing and combating corruption, waste and negativity.
In particular, it is necessary to clarify the mechanism, content and methods of the Party's leadership in the inspection field, ensuring the Party's comprehensive leadership, while respecting the principles of independence, objectivity, publicity, transparency and compliance with the law.
"It is necessary to consider the work of inspection, receiving citizens, resolving complaints and denunciations, preventing and combating corruption, waste and negativity as key political tasks, closely linked with the work of Party building and rectification and building a socialist rule-of-law state that is honest, creative and serves the people," the General Secretary pointed out.
Along with that, it is necessary to strongly innovate the thinking and working methods of inspectors. Inspection is not only to detect and handle violations but also to prevent, create and promote development. Each inspection must aim at a dual goal: early detection of violations to protect public assets, while creating conditions to remove difficulties and obstacles for organizations, businesses and people.
According to the General Secretary, preventing and combating waste, corruption and negativity is not only to handle violations but also to clean up the investment environment, strengthen trust, promote economic development, and ensure healthy and transparent competition.
Inspection work needs to shift its focus from handling violations to early and remote prevention, combining administrative inspection with thematic inspection, and field inspection with digital data analysis.
Inspectors must be one step ahead, predict and warn of risks early, not allowing small violations to accumulate into major ones.
"All inspection activities must be objective, impartial, transparent, and adhere to the principle of no forbidden zones and no exceptions, but must not be extreme or formal," the General Secretary requested.
Through the inspection results, General Secretary To Lam suggested that it is necessary to step up summarizing practices, detecting problems, making recommendations to improve institutions, policies, and laws, and detecting and overcoming gaps and loopholes in state management and law enforcement, creating a favorable environment for innovation, creativity, and development.
"This is the highest value of inspection activities in a socialist rule-of-law state. Many lessons from practice have proven that a correct, objective, and timely inspection conclusion can help save thousands of billions of dong, remove a series of institutional obstacles, contribute to improving the investment environment, and promote socio-economic development," said the General Secretary.
Towards conducting inspection work entirely in the digital environment
General Secretary To Lam requested to promote modernization, technology application and digital transformation in the inspection sector, that is, to effectively implement Resolution 57 of the Politburo. Focus on building and operating a national database on citizen reception, handling complaints and denunciations and controlling assets and income of people with positions and powers, connecting with other national databases such as population, land, finance, banking, towards carrying out inspection, handling complaints and denunciations, monitoring and handling entirely in a digital environment, transparently, quickly, effectively and economically.
Take care of the work of building the Party, building a team of inspectors who are truly honest, brave, intelligent, and proficient. Inspectors must be people with a bright mind, strong will, good career, right actions, courage to protect what is right, fight against what is wrong, dare to take responsibility for the common good, just as Uncle Ho taught: "Inspectors are like mirrors for people to look at themselves, a dirty mirror cannot be used to look at others."
It is necessary to continue to improve mechanisms and policies to protect cadres who dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility, promptly reward those who are honest, and strictly discipline violators to create a clean, democratic, and united environment.
In performing its duties, the General Secretary requested that the inspection sector closely coordinate with departments, ministries, branches, and localities, especially agencies in the internal affairs sector, to ensure consistency, unity, and effectiveness.
Party committees and authorities at all levels need to pay attention to leadership, direction, and creating favorable conditions for the inspection sector to perform its functions and tasks well, so that inspection can truly become one of the important tools in building an honest, rule-of-law state and creating development.
Believing that the glorious tradition of 80 years is a source of pride and a valuable asset for the inspection sector to continue to move forward firmly on the path of innovation, integration and development, the General Secretary believes that, with the comprehensive leadership of the Party, the management of the State, the accompaniment of the entire political system and the people, and the spirit of solidarity, responsibility and dedication of all cadres, civil servants, public employees and workers, the Vietnamese inspection sector will continue to promote its glorious tradition, make many great achievements, and contribute worthily to the cause of building and defending the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
"The inspectorate must always be the ear of the superiors, the trust of the subordinates, a mirror reflecting the integrity and fairness of the state, and a solid support of the people for the Party and the regime. Keeping the example of the inspectorate always pure means keeping the people's trust always sustainable, keeping our public administration always clean, effective and efficient," the General Secretary emphasized.
The General Secretary wished the Vietnamese inspection sector to develop more and more strongly, worthy of the trust and love of the Party, State and people.
On behalf of the officials, civil servants, public employees and workers of the Inspection sector, Government Inspector General Doan Hong Phong affirmed that the inspection sector will concretize the direction of General Secretary To Lam into programs and action plans for immediate implementation in the coming time.
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