Directive of the Secretariat on organizing Tet At Ty 2025

Hai Duong Newspaper respectfully introduces the full text of Directive No. 40-CT/TW:

Our country welcomes the Lunar New Year of At Ty 2025 and the 95th anniversary of the Party's founding. The whole country is focusing on accelerating and making breakthroughs to successfully implement the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress and the Resolution of the Party Congresses at all levels, while preparing to organize Party Congresses at all levels for the 2025-2030 term towards the 14th National Party Congress, bringing the country into a new era. In order to best prepare the conditions to serve the people to enjoy spring, welcome the new year safely, healthily, economically, create new momentum and motivation, and successfully carry out the tasks of work in 2025 right from the first months of the year, the Secretariat requests Party committees, Party organizations, authorities, the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations at all levels to focus on leading, directing and organizing the implementation of a number of key tasks as follows:

1. Strengthen solidarity within the Party, national solidarity, promote the tradition of "mutual love and support", accelerate the implementation of poverty reduction programs, eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses; effectively implement social security and welfare policies, take good care of the material and spiritual lives of the people, especially those in difficult circumstances, poor households, people in localities affected by natural disasters, epidemics, remote areas, border areas, islands, ethnic minority areas, workers, laborers, unemployed people... to ensure that every household and every person has the conditions to enjoy spring and celebrate Tet.

Organize well the visits, encouragement, and New Year greetings to veteran revolutionary cadres, Vietnamese heroic mothers, war invalids, sick soldiers, families of martyrs, families with meritorious services to the revolution, families of policy beneficiaries, intellectuals, artists, prestigious people among ethnic minorities, typical religious dignitaries, armed forces units, regular forces on duty during the New Year, in border areas, islands, difficult areas, and areas with complicated political security, order, and social safety.

2. Strictly implement the management and organization of festivals according to regulations, ensuring that spring activities, traditional anniversaries, year-end summaries, New Year meetings, tree planting festivals, etc. are practical, safe, economical, avoiding ostentation, formality, waste, and are consistent with the cultural lifestyle, traditions, customs, and good practices of the nation. Localities, based on their capabilities, conditions, and practical situations, decide on organizing fireworks displays to welcome the New Year, ensuring safety, economy, and creating a joyful and exciting atmosphere among the people.

3. Strengthen the work of preventing and combating waste and negativity; do not organize visits and New Year greetings to superiors and leaders at all levels; do not organize delegations from the Central Government to visit and wish New Year greetings to local Party committees and authorities; strictly prohibit giving or presenting New Year gifts to leaders at all levels in any form; do not participate in superstitious activities; leaders at all levels are only allowed to attend pagodas and festivals when assigned (except for participation in personal capacity); do not use state budget, means, and public assets against regulations for festival and entertainment activities... Strictly implement regulations on revolutionary ethical standards; exemplary responsibility of cadres and party members and things party members are not allowed to do, especially the regulation on not driving a vehicle after consuming alcohol or beer.

4. Strengthen national defense and security, avoid being passive or surprised in any situation, firmly protect the independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the Fatherland, maintain a peaceful environment, maintain political security, order, social safety, and safety in cyberspace. Absolutely protect the safety of key targets, projects, political, foreign affairs, cultural and social events of the country. Strengthen prevention, combat and strictly handle all types of crimes, violations of the law and social evils. Synchronously implement solutions to inspect, closely monitor, manage the market, stabilize prices, ensure balance between supply and demand of goods and services; ensure food safety, environmental sanitation, disease prevention and control...; pay attention to urban beautification, streets, village roads, alleys, residential areas to ensure brightness, greenness, cleanliness and beauty. Proactively plan to ensure means of transporting goods and serving people and overseas compatriots returning home to celebrate Tet. Strengthen guidance, patrolling, controlling, ensuring traffic order and safety; preventing and fighting fires and explosions. Strictly implement regulations on the management and use of fireworks, not allowing the situation of illegal use of fireworks to become complicated during Tet.

5. Organize well the activities to celebrate the 95th anniversary of the Party's founding, associated with spring and Tet activities, creating a joyful, excited, confident and proud atmosphere in the whole society. The Central Propaganda Department shall preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Information and Communications, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and relevant agencies to direct, guide and strengthen propaganda about the country's foundation, potential, position and prestige after 95 years under the Party's leadership; organize well cultural, sports and festival activities during Tet; raise the sense of responsibility and self-awareness of the people in implementing regulations on traffic safety, fire and explosion prevention and control; food safety; environmental sanitation; prevention and control of natural disasters and epidemics; proactively fight against false and distorted information and viewpoints, and defeat all sabotage plots of hostile forces against the Party, the State and the people.

6. Party committees, party organizations, authorities, and the Fatherland Front must complete the summary of 2024 work early in December 2024 and send reports to the Central Party Office before January 10, 2025. Each agency and unit must review work before the Tet holiday, not to delay progress. Arrange staff and employees to be on duty during Tet, promptly handle and resolve work and arising situations, not to affect the interests of businesses, organizations, and individuals; strictly implement the information and reporting regime during Tet holiday. Agencies and organizations must ensure a return to normal work immediately after the Tet holiday, focus on strongly, drastically, and synchronously implementing the tasks of 2025 right from the first months of the year, especially implementing on schedule the summary of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW, streamlining the organization and apparatus of the political system to operate effectively and efficiently; Accelerate and make breakthroughs to successfully implement the socio-economic goals and tasks in 2025 and the entire 13th Congress term, creating a solid foundation to bring the country into a new era, striving to develop richly, prosperously, civilizedly and happily.

The Central Party Office shall preside over and coordinate with relevant agencies to grasp the implementation situation and report to the Secretariat the results of the implementation of this Directive.