General Secretary and President To Lam chaired a Politburo meeting to give comments on documents.

On the morning of August 30, at the Party Central Committee headquarters, General Secretary and President To Lam chaired a meeting of the Politburo and the Secretariat to give comments on the following documents: Draft Political Report to be submitted to the 14th National Party Congress; Summary Report on a number of theoretical and practical issues on the socialist-oriented renovation process in Vietnam over the past 40 years and a number of other contents to prepare for submission to the 10th Conference of the 13th Party Central Committee.

Attending the meeting were representatives of leaders of relevant party committees, ministries and branches.

Political report crystallizes all the quintessence of past, present and future values

After listening to reports from agencies, heated discussions by the Politburo, the Secretariat and the comrades attending the meeting, and concluding the meeting, General Secretary and President To Lam acknowledged and highly appreciated the preparation of the draft documents.

The documents were carefully and meticulously prepared, selectively absorbing contributions from previous sessions, and are basically qualified to be submitted to the upcoming 10th Conference of the 13th Party Central Committee.

General Secretary and President To Lam emphasized that the draft Political Report of the 14th National Party Congress will be an important milestone on the development path of our country and people.

The Congress has the task of reviewing the implementation of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, summarizing 40 years of carrying out the national renovation in the direction of socialism, 50 years of completely liberating the South and unifying the country, 35 years of implementing the Platform for national construction in the transitional period to socialism; deciding on the directions, goals and tasks of the entire Party, people and army in the next 5 years (2026-2030), continuing to implement the 10-year socio-economic development strategy (2021-2030); aiming for the milestone of 100 years of the country under the leadership of the Party; creating the foundation to realize the vision until 2045, when the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is celebrated.

In the face of these turning points, cadres, party members and the people are looking forward to and expecting the Party’s new, strong and wise decisions to bring about breakthroughs in development for the country. Therefore, this Political Report is of great significance, must be of real quality, truly be the basis for orientation for other documents and the Party’s leadership throughout the next term and lay the foundation for the following years.

Compared to the draft submitted to the Standing Committee of the Subcommittee and the Subcommittee in the past, the quality of this draft Report has been significantly improved. The contents summarizing 40 years of innovation are more concise, absorbing the latest results from the draft Report summarizing 40 years of innovation and reports of other subcommittees. The contents on orientation, key tasks and strategic breakthroughs are also presented more concisely, clearly and coherently than before.

The General Secretary and President noted that as the central report, the Political Report must reflect viewpoints and policies; ensure the crystallization of all the quintessence of past, present and future values; seriously distill the results of summarizing 55 years of implementing the Testament of beloved Uncle Ho, a document of historical and contemporary value for Vietnam and the world; until now, Uncle Ho's teachings still retain their value.

In addition, continue to thoroughly grasp the guiding thoughts of the late General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, especially the three basic principles in document drafting (Persistence and innovation; inheritance and development; smooth combination of theory and practice, theoretical research, summarizing practice with policy orientation).

Continue to persevere in the cause of national renewal

Regarding the Report summarizing a number of theoretical and practical issues on the socialist-oriented renovation process over the past 40 years in Vietnam, General Secretary and President To Lam basically agreed with the summarized comments and assessments with outstanding results: systematically clarifying the theoretical development of our Party on the socialist-oriented renovation process, building and defending the socialist Fatherland over 40 years of renovation in an increasingly complete and comprehensive manner; evaluating and clarifying the achievements and limitations in the practice of building socialism in Vietnam on 4 major groups of issues (Building and developing a socialist-oriented market economy; developing culture, society and people; national defense, security and foreign affairs; building and rectifying a clean and strong Party and political system).

The report generally points out important developments in theoretical understanding of socialism and building socialism in Vietnam, including the proposal to identify three pillars and policies (Socialist-oriented market economy; Socialist rule of law state; Socialist democracy led by the Communist Party); historical achievements, limitations and challenges in the context of unpredictable changes in the domestic and international situation; clarifying issues and lessons learned.

The report forecasts the situation relatively closely, proposes goals, viewpoints, main targets, and orientations for tasks and solutions to continue to comprehensively promote the innovation process. In addition, it has recommended and proposed a number of contents to serve the construction of documents for the 14th National Party Congress.

The Politburo basically agreed that the results of the 40-year summary of innovation are important inputs for the drafting of documents to be submitted to the 14th National Party Congress, such as: The country's foundation, potential, position and prestige after 40 years of innovation; lessons learned of theoretical significance and innovation guidelines; determining the system of viewpoints guiding development goals and major orientations in building, developing the country and defending the Fatherland, strategic breakthroughs in the new period, of which the Political Report is the central report. Therefore, the continued completion of the Report must be carried out urgently and scientifically with a large investment of effort and intelligence to promptly filter and include it in the content of the documents of the 14th National Party Congress.

In addition, the Politburo and the Secretariat also requested consideration of clarifying and deepening a number of specific issues; at the same time, it is necessary to unify the perception of the new context that is opening a new era, an era of rising up of the Vietnamese people after 40 years of carrying out the renovation process, especially after 100 years under the leadership of the Party, thereby renewing more strongly. The spirit is to look straight at the truth, not to embellish or blacken it, accurately assess the achieved results, frankly and objectively point out the limitations, weaknesses, shortcomings and causes, especially the bottlenecks and knots for the country's development that have not been or are slow to be resolved and overcome; continue to firmly pursue the cause of national renovation.

Also on the morning of August 30, 2024, in addition to giving opinions on these two important draft documents, the Politburo also gave opinions on a number of other important contents.

The General Secretary and President requested agencies preparing draft documents to urgently receive comments from the Politburo, the Secretariat, relevant ministries and branches, continue to perfect the documents, ensure quality in preparation for submission to the upcoming 10th Conference of the 13th Party Central Committee.