Prime Minister chairs meeting of Socio-Economic Subcommittee of the 14th National Party Congress

Attending the meeting were Politburo members: Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court Nguyen Hoa Binh; Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Do Van Chien; Minister of National Defense Phan Van Giang.

Also attending were Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha, leaders of a number of ministries, branches, central and local agencies.

Opening the meeting, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Head of the Subcommittee, said that after the second meeting, the Subcommittee had been proactive, active, and made efforts to deploy and complete many tasks to ensure progress and quality. In particular, it submitted to the 9th Central Conference for approval of the detailed outline of the Socio-Economic Report; developed the Draft Socio-Economic Report; researched, compared, and updated the content of the Draft Political Report according to the principle that the Political Report is the central report and the Socio-Economic Report is a thematic report.

The Editorial Team of the Document Subcommittee and the Socio-Economic Subcommittee regularly exchange information to ensure consistency and updates between the two reports. The Subcommittee has organized survey and working delegations in the following regions: Northern Midlands and Mountains, Red River Delta, North Central and Central Coast, Central Highlands, etc.

Along with studying valuable reports, proposals and recommendations from the practices of localities in the Regions and in-depth research topics of a number of ministries and branches on important and key areas, the Editorial Team updated and drafted the Report on the assessment of 5 years of implementing the 10-year Socio-Economic Development Strategy 2021 - 2030, and the directions and tasks for socio-economic development for the 5 years 2026 - 2030.

The Prime Minister requested that at this Session, the Subcommittee members focus on discussing and giving comments on the draft Report on the assessment of 5 years of implementing the 10-year Socio-Economic Development Strategy 2021 - 2030, the direction and tasks for socio-economic development in the 5-year period 2026 - 2030. In particular, analyze and evaluate the international and regional context, update new and unusual developments in the world situation affecting our country, especially the COVID-19 pandemic, strategic competition, conflicts, etc. Meanwhile, our country also has internal difficulties and challenges and must deal with emerging issues, as well as many long-standing issues.

Along with that is the assessment of the process of thoroughly grasping and implementing the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress; reviewing the direction, administration, and decisions to turn around the situation, change the status, prevent and control the COVID-19 pandemic, restore and develop the economy, ensure social security, maintain political security, social order and safety, national defense, foreign affairs and international integration; especially the results of implementing the 3 strategic breakthroughs; planning; developing socio-economic regions...

The Prime Minister pointed out that it is necessary to state the results of the general goals, compare them with the region and the world; affirm the assessment of the 13th National Party Congress: "Our country has never had such a foundation, potential, prestige and international position as today". This shows that Vietnam has followed, progressed with and surpassed the group of developing countries, participating with countries with a level of development in a number of fields.

The Prime Minister also requested the members of the Subcommittee to analyze and clarify the limitations and bottlenecks in socio-economic development; the subjective and objective causes of both results and limitations, and lessons learned. Along with that, the members of the Subcommittee proposed to supplement viewpoints, main goals, and new contents suitable to the context and situation, especially breakthrough solutions to achieve the basic and strategic goals, striving to make our country a developing country with modern industry and high average income by 2030, and a developed country with high income by 2045.