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JQ 831 D34 2011 MEM

nents of the 11th

National Congress

of the Communist Party

of Viet Nam

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Thế Giới Publishers

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Documents ofthe 11th National Congress ofthe Communist Party of Việt Nam

DOCUMENTS OF THE 11TH

NATIONAL CONGRESS OF

THE COMMUNIST PARTY

OF VIỆT NAM

noin -Madicon

Madison, WI 53703-1404 U.S.A.

© Thế Giới Publishers 2011 English translation First edition 2011

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National Library ofVietnam Cataloguing in Publication Data Communist Party of Vietnam . Documents Documents ofthe 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of Việt Nam . - H. : The gioi , 2011. - 186p. : phot. ; 21cm 1. Communist Party 2. Documents 3. Congresses 4. Vietnam

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MEM JQ 831 D34

2011

24 ĐẢNG CỘNG SẢN VIỆT NAM ĐẠI HỘI XI

The 11" National Congress of the Communist Party of Việt Nam

CONTENTS

POLITICAL PROGRAM FOR NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION DURING THE PERIOD OF TRANSITION TO SOCIALISM

1

I- Revolutionary process and lessons

of experience II- Transition to socialism in our country

1 4

III- Major orientations for economic, cultural and social development, national defense, security and foreign relations

10

IV- Political system and the party's

leadership role

20

SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 26

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STRATEGY FOR 2011-2020 I - Nation's situation and international circumstances II- Viewpoint on development

26 32

III - Strategic targets and breakthrough links 36 IV- Orientations for socio-economic

development growth model renovation

and economic restructuring

40

V- Improvement of efficiency of State

management to ensure successful implementation of the strategy

67

VI- Organise the implementation of the

strategy

73

CONTINUE ENHANCING THE PARTY'S LEADERSHIP CAPACITY AND COMBATIVENESS, PROMOTING THE ENTIRE NATION'S STRENGTH, COMPREHENSIVELY BOOSTING THE RENEWAL PROCESS , CREATING FOUNDATIONS FOR MAKING VIET NAM A MODERNITY-ORIENTED INDUSTRIAL COUNTRY BY 2020

75

I - Reviewing the five-year implementation of the 10th party congress ' resolution, looking back on 10 years' implementation of the strategy for socio-economic development for 2001-2010, and 20 years' implementation of the 1991 political program

77

II- Continuting the comprehensive promotion of the renewal process along the path of socialims; orientations and tasks of national development

in the five-year period (2011-2015)

107

III- Innvating growth model and economic retructuring, enhancing industrializa modernization and sustainable

development IV- Finalizing the institutionalization of the socialist-oriented market economy

VI

114

125

V- Developing education and training, science and technology, and knowledged -based economy; protecting the environment VI- Taking care of cultural development

134

140

VII- Efficiently realizing social progress and equity, ensuring social security in every development step and policy

143

VIII- Strengthening national defense and safe-guarding the socialist Việt Nam fatherland

148

IX- Comprehensively implement forreign relation activities; and be proactive in international integration

150

X. Promoting socialist demecracy and the strength of the great national unity

153

XI . Enhancing development of the lawgoverned socialist state of Việt Nam

160

XII- Enhancing leadership capacity and combativeness of the party

167

VII

POLITICAL PROGRAM FOR NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION DURING THE PERIOD OF TRANSITION TO SOCIALISM (amended, developed in 2011)

I- REVOLUTIONARY PROCESS AND LESSONS OF EXPERIENCE

1. Since 1930, the Communist Party of Việt Nam , founded by President Hồ Chí Minh , has led our people in staging a long revolutionary struggle, overcoming difficulties and challenges, and winning great victories: the victory of the August Revolution in 1945, overthrowing the colonial-feudal domination, founding the Democratic Republic of Việt Nam, and bringing our nation into an era of independence and freedom; the victories of resistance wars against foreign aggressors, with the historical triumph of Điện Biên Phủ in 1954 and the Great Spring Victory in 1975 as the pinnacles of our success. All of these efforts helped Việt Nam liberate the nation, reunify the country, defend the Fatherland and accomplish its

international

obligations .

They have also contributed to the successes of the renewal process, national industrialization, modernization and international integration,

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and the gradual advancement of the country through the period of transition to socialism with a new, sound way of awareness and thinking in accordance with Việt Nam's realities .

With the victories achieved over the past 80 years, our country, once a semi-feudal colony, has become an independent and free nation that has developed following the path of socialism . Our people, once enslaved have become owners of the country and society as our country has got out of the state of being an underdeveloped nation, accelerated the process of modernization and industrialization with a wide range

of

international relations. Even though Việt Nam plays an increasingly important role in the region and the world, it still faces a lot of difficulties and challenges . While exercising its leadership, the Party has sometimes made mistakes, some of which are serious due to dogmatism , subjectivism, voluntarism , and violations of objective rules. The Party has always taken care to criticize and renew itself and correct its mistakes in order to advance the revolutionary cause . 2. From the abundant experiences from the revolution, the Party has drawn out major lessons:

First, firmly holding the banner of national independence and socialism -- the glorious banner President Hồ Chí Minh handed over to the present and future generations. National independence is a prerequisite to realize the goal of socialism, and socialism is a firm foundation to ensure national

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independence. Building socialism and defending the socialist Fatherland are two strategic tasks that are closely connected together. Second, the revolutionary cause is of the people, by the people, andfor the people. It is the people who make historical victories. The Party's activities must proceed from the legitimate interests and aspirations of the people. The Party's strength lies in its close attachment with the people . Bureaucracy, corruption, and aloofness from the people would lead to immeasurable losses for the destiny of the country, the socialist regime and the Party.

Third,

incessantly incessantly

consolidating

and

strengthening solidarity: solidarity of the entire Party and the entire people, national solidarity, and international solidarity. That is a valuable tradition and a source of great strength of our country's revolution . President Hồ Chí Minh once said: Unity, unity, great unity -- Success, success, great success . Fourth, combining the strength ofthe nation with the strength ofthe era, and the national strength with the international strength. In any circumstances, it is a must to consistently adhere to the will of independence and self-reliance, uphold the spirit of international cooperation, and bring internal strength into full play, while making the best of external resources and combining traditional factors with modern ones. Fifth, the Party's sound leadership is a leading factor in ensuring the victory of the Vietnamese

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revolution. The Party has no interests other than serving the Fatherland and the people. The Party must thoroughly grasp,

apply,

and

develop

Marxism - Leninism and Hồ Chí Minh Thought, constantly enrich its brainpower and improve political firmness, virtues and organizational capacity in order to resolve issues posed by revolutionary reality. All guidelines and policies of the Party should proceed from reality and respect objective rules. It is a must to prevent and combat major dangers such as mistakes in guidelines, bureaucracy, and degeneration and degradation of cadres and Party members .

II- TRANSITION TO SOCIALISM IN OUR COUNTRY

1. Our country is in the period of transition to socialism in the context that the international situation is witness to great and profound changes. The revolution of science and technology, the and economy

knowledge - based

globalization process have had

a profound

impact on the development of many countries. The fundamental contradictions in the world, demonstrated in different forms and levels, still exist and develop . Peace, national independence, democracy,cooperation and developmentremain a major trend; but national and class struggles, local wars, armed, racial and religious conflicts, arms races, intervention, subversion, terrorism, territorial, sea, island and natural resources disputes, and tough competition for economic

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benefits continue to complicate the situation . The Asia-Pacific and Southeast Asian regions are developing dynamically, but are still facing potential

instability. This

developmental

has

opportunities

created and

both tough

challenges, especially for developing and lessdeveloped countries.

During the

process

of

formation

and

development, the Soviet Union and other socialist countries recorded great achievements in many aspects. They constituted a sheet anchor for the world's peace and revolutionary movements, and greatly contributed to the struggle for peace, national independence, democracy and social progress . The collapse of the socialist regime in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe caused heavy losses for the world's revolutionary movements; however, a number of countries that have followed the socialist path, including Việt Nam, have consistently adhered to their goals and ideals, performed reforms and innovations, reaped

great

achievements,

and

continued

to develop; the international communist and worker's movement has seen signs of recovery. However, the countries that have followed the socialist path and the communist and leftist movements are still facing many difficulties: hostile forces continue to sabotage and attempt to abolish socialism . At present, capitalism still holds potential for

further

development,

but

by nature it

remains a regime of oppression, exploitation and injustice. Capital's inherent fundamental

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contradictions,

especially those

increasing socialization

of

between the

productive

forces

and the regime of capitalist private ownership, have not only remained unsolved but have also become more profound . Economic, political and social crises continue to occur. It is the motion of these internal contradictions and the struggle of the working people that will decide the destiny of capitalism .

Developing and less-developed

countries

must stage a very difficult and complicated struggle

to

combat

poverty,

backwardness,

intervention, imposition and aggression to protect their national independence and sovereignty. The world's people are now facing urgent global issues related to mankind's destiny. These issues include maintaining peace, reducing war risks,

fighting terrorism,

protecting the

environment, coping with global climate change, reducing

population

boom,

and

preventing

dangerous epidemics . The settlement of those issues requires cooperation and a high sense of responsibility from all nations . An

outstanding

feature

of the

present

period is that countries with different social regimes and development levels coexist, despite struggling and competing against one another for national interests. The struggle staged by the people of different countries for peace, national independence, social

democracy,

progress indicate

development

new steps

and

forward

despite the many difficulties and challenges.

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In accordance with the law of evolution of history, mankind will certainly advance to socialism. 2. Advancing to socialism is an aspiration of our people, and a judicious choice of the Communist Party of Việt Nam and President Hồ Chí Minh, in conformity with the developmental trend of history.

The socialist society that our people are building is a democratic, equitable and civilized society with wealthy people; a society owned by the people; having a highly developed economy based on modern productive forces and suitable advanced production relations; having an advanced culture profoundly imbued with national identity; a society where people enjoy a life of abundance, freedom and happiness, and conditions for a comprehensive

development.

The

different

ethnic groups in the Vietnamese community are equal and united, and respect and help each other for mutual development. The Vietnamese society is a society with a socialist law-governed State of the people, by the people, and for the people under the leadership of the Communist Party; with friendly and cooperative relations with other countries in the world. This is a thorough revolutionary process, with a complicated struggle between the old and the new with the aim of creating a change in the quality of all aspects of social life. The social life must thus undergo a long -lasting transition development steps and forms of economic and social organizations . We

period with various

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have many fundamental advantages: the sound leadership of the Communist Party of Việt Nam founded by President Hồ Chí Minh and the steady political firmness and seasoned leadership experience. Our nation is a heroic one with a determined will to advance forward; our people have intense patriotism and traditions of unity, humanity,

industriousness

and

creativeness,

and support and trust in the Party's leadership; we have gradually built important material and technical infrastructures . The modern scientifictechnological

revolution, the

development

of

formation

knowledge-based

and

economy

together with the processes of globalization and international integration constitute an opportunity for development. The overallgoal at the end ofthe transition period in our country is to build the economic foundation of socialism with a proper political, ideological and cultural superstructure, laying a basis for our country to become an increasingly prosperous and happy socialist nation. From now to mid-21st century, our entire Party and people should make every effort to build our nation into a modern, socialist-oriented industrialized country.

To that end, our entire Party and people should uphold the spirit of offensive revolution and the will of self-help for self-improvement, promote all potentials and brainpowers, make the best of opportunities, overcome challenges, thoroughly grasp and implement the following basic directions:

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First, step up national industrialization and modernization, develop the knowledge-based economy, and protect natural resources and the environment. Second, develop a socialist-oriented market economy. Third, build an advanced culture intensively imbued with national identity; promote human development, improve people's living conditions, and advocate social progress and equality. Fourth, firmly ensure national defense and security as well as social order and safety. Fifth,

implement

a

foreign

policy

of

independence, self-reliance, peace, friendship, cooperation and development; actively engage in international integration.

Sixth, build a socialist democracy, strengthen great national unity; consolidate and expand the National United Front. Seventh, build a socialist law- governed State of the people, by the people, and for the people. Eighth, build a transparent and strong Party.

During the process of implementing these basic directions, special attention should be paid to thoroughly grasp and deal with major relations such as those that tie innovation, stability and economic between relations development; and political renovation, market economy and socialist orientation; development of productive forces and gradual building and improvement of

socialist

production

relations;

between

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economic growth, and cultural development and implementation of social progress and equality; between socialist construction and defending socialist

Fatherland;

between

independence

and self-reliance, and international integration; between the

Party's

leadership,

the

State's

management, and the people's ownership; etc. There should be no one-sidedness, extremeness and voluntariness .

III- MAJOR ORIENTATIONS FOR ECONOMIC, CULTURAL AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, NATIONAL DEFENSE, SECURITY AND FOREIGN RELATIONS 1. Develop a socialist-oriented market economy with different forms of ownership, economic sectors, business organization and distribution. All economic sectors that operate in line with the law constitute important components of the economy, are equal before the law, and develop, cooperate and healthily compete with each other in the long-term . The State economic sector plays the leading role. The collective economic sector is constantly strengthened and developed . The State economic sector, together with the collective economic sector, becomes the increasingly solid foundation of the national economy. The private economic sector is one of the driving forces ofthe economy. Foreign investment is also encouraged. Different forms of ownership are interwoven with one another to form diverse and developed economic

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organizations.

Market

factors

are

synchronously formed and markets of different types are established and developed step by step, following the rules of the market economy while ensuring the socialist orientation . It is imperative to

clearly define the

rights

of the owners,

rights of the users of means of production, and management rights of the State in the economic field. It is also important to ensure that all means of production have their respective owners and that all economic units are self-reliant and selfaccountable for

their business

performance .

Distribution relations must ensure equity and create

for

impetus

development;

resources

must be allocated according to socio-economic development strategies, schemes and plans. Allocation is conducted based on labor outcomes and economic efficiency, as well as contributions in terms of capital and other resources, and channeled through social security and welfare systems . The State manages the national economy, regulates

and

and

promotes socio-economic

development by laws, strategies, schemes, plans, policies and material forces . Consider economic development the central task;

implement

modernization

national combined

industrialization and developing with

knowledge-based

economy and protecting natural resources and the environment; build a modern, efficient and sustainable economic structure, agriculture

closely and

coupled

service.

with

Special

industry,

importance

should be attached to developing heavy and manufacturing

industries

and

those

with

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advantages;

developing

agriculture,

forestry

and fishery with higher technological levels and quality in association with processing industry and building of new rural areas . It is important harmonious development the to ensure among regions and areas; promote the rapid development of key economic regions, while creating favorable conditions for the development of the

disadvantaged

areas .

Building

an

independent and self-reliant economy with an active integration in the international economy is one of the major objectives of the State. 2.

Build

an

advanced

Vietnamese

culture

profoundly imbued with national identity, which develops comprehensively, unifies in diversity, and is deeply impregnated with humanism, democracy and progress; incorporate culture into the social life and make it a firm spiritual foundation and an important internal strength for development. Inherit and promote the fine cultural traditions of Vietnamese ethnic groups, acquire the cultural essences of mankind, build a democratic, equitable and civilized society for the true interests and dignity of humans, with growing levels of knowledge, ethics, health and aesthetics. Develop and improve the quality of literary and artistic creation; confirm and commend values of the true, the good and the beautiful, criticize backward and weak things, and combat anti-culture manifestations. Ensure the rights to be informed and freedom of creation of citizens . Develop means of mass media and provide true, diversified and timely information

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to serve the cause

of national

construction

and defense .

Humans are the centers of development strategies and the

subjects

of development.

Respect and protect human rights, incorporate human rights with the rights and interests of the nation, the country and the mastery right of the people. Combine and promote the roles of society, families, schools, working units, mass organizations, and residential communities in developing Vietnamese people with profound patriotism, a sense of mastery and citizenship responsibility; sentimental

help

life

people live

with

adequate

a

cultured,

knowledge,

health, and labor skills; encourage the spirit of true

internationalism.

Build

progressive

and happy families and make them healthy cells of the society, and create an important environment to directly educate the lifestyle and enrich their personality. Production, work, study and combat units must be environments to train the working style with high disciplines, techniques, productivity and efficiency, and to strengthen the friendship,

comradeship

and

companionship, and to build up Vietnamese personality and culture. Education and training are entrusted with the mission of improving the people's intellectual standards, : developing human resources and nurturing talents that contribute to the development of the country and the building of Vietnamese culture and people. Developing education and training, along with science and

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technology, constitutes a top national policy; investing in education investing

in

and

development.

training Other

means

important

policies include comprehensive innovation in education and training in conformity with social development demands;

improvement in the

quality of education and training in line with the requirements of standardization, modernization, socialization, democratization and international integration, thus, efficiently serving the cause of national construction and defense. It is also imperative to step up the building of a learning society, creating opportunities and conditions for every citizen to pursue lifelong study. Science and technology play a key role in developing modern productive forces, protecting natural resources and the environment, and enhancing growth

productivity,

rate

and

quality,

efficiency,

competitiveness

of the

economy. Developing science and technology helps accelerate national industrialization and modernization, develop the knowledge -based economy, and reach out to the world's advanced standards. The simultaneous development of the scientific and technological fields along with the culture can greatly improve the people's intellectual levels. There is a growing need to increase the efficient use of the country's scientific and technological potentials, study and apply the world's modern scientific and technological achievements and at the same time formulate mechanisms and policies aimed at encouraging innovation, employing talents

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and stepping up the application of scientific and technological advances. Environmentalprotection is the responsibility of the political system, the society and every citizen. Closely

incorporate

controlling,

preventing

and overcoming pollution with restoring and protecting the ecological environment. Develop clean energy, clean production and clean consumption. Pay special attention to research, forecasting, and performance of solutions to cope with climate change and natural disasters. Manage, protect, renew national resources . Judicious,

equitable

and

and

efficiently use

people-oriented

social policies serve as a strong momentum to promote the

people's

creative

capability

in

national construction and defense. Ensure equity and equality in terms of rights and obligations among citizens; combine economic development with

socio-cultural

development,

implement

social progress and equity right in each step and each policy; harmoniously develop material and spiritual life, constantly improve the living standards of all members of society in terms of food, housing, traveling, education, relaxation, health care and physical improvement,

and

combine obligations with rights, contributions with benefits, and interests of individuals with those of the collective and social communities.

Create

a

favorable

environment

and

conditions to allow laborers to get better jobs and

income. Adopt

reasonable

salaries

and

remuneration policies, thus creating an impetus

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for in

development; society.

properly

Encourage

regulate

legal

incomes

enrichment and

sustainable poverty reduction; gradually reduce the gap between the rich and the poor. Bring social security into effect. Implement policies targeted at persons and families who have done great service to the country. Pay special attention to improving the living, working and studying conditions of young people and teenagers, as well as educating and protecting children. Take care of the elderly, the lonely, the disabled, the incapacitated and orphans . Restrict and gradually drive back crimes and reduce the adverse impacts of social evils. Ensure a reasonable size of the population of the country, gender balance and quality for the population. Build a civilized social community, in which classes and population strata are united and equal in terms of rights and obligations. Build the working class that is strong in terms of both quantity and quality; that constitutes the revolution leading class through its vanguard team, the Communist Party of Việt Nam, and the pioneers in the cause of socialist construction . Build and promote the role of the peasantry in the process of agricultural and

rural

development.

Train,

foster

and

promote all potentials and creative capabilities of intellectuals to create intellectual resources and talents for the country. Build a contingent of talented businessmen and managers who are socially-responsible and devoted to the country and the nation. Pay attention to educating and fostering younger generations who can succeed

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the revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation. Implement gender equality and act for the advancement of women. Pay appropriate attention to the interests of other strata of the population and promote their capacities . Assist compatriots residing overseas to stabilize their lives, preserve national identity, strictly observe the law of resident countries, look towards the Fatherland and actively contribute to national construction. Implement

a

policy

of

equality,

unity,

mutual respect and assistance among ethnic groups, create conditions for all ethnic groups to develop together and contribute to the common development of the community of Vietnamese ethnic groups. Preserve and promote the cultural identities, languages, and fine traditions of all ethnic groups. Combat tendencies towards ethnic discrimination

and

division.

Socio-economic

policies must conform to specific characteristics of regions and ethnic groups, especially minorities. Respect and ensure the people's rights to freedom of belief and religion in accordance with the law. Strictly combat and handle all violations and abuses of freedom of belief and religion against the interests of the Fatherland and people. 3. The objectives

of national defense

and

security are to firmly safeguard the Fatherland's independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, protect the Party, the State, the people and the socialist regime, maintain peace and national security, political stability, ensure ensure national

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social order and safety; proactively prevent and defeat all schemes of hostile forces against the revolutionary cause of our people. Strengthening

the

national

defense

and

firmly maintaining national security, social order and safety are essential and regular tasks of the Party, the State and the entire people, particularly the People's Army and People's Public Security. Build a national defense disposition, closely combined with the people's security disposition. Develop people's war military guidelines and strategies, and people's security theories and sciences .

Proactively

enhance

international

cooperation in national defense and security. Stability and sustainable development in all aspects of socio-economic life constitutes the solid foundation of national defense and security. Socio-economic development should go hand in hand with national defense and security. Combine economics with national defense and security and vice versa in each socio-economic development strategy, and in each locality.

Build a modern, well trained revolutionary People's Army and Public Security forces, loyal to the Fatherland, the Party, the State and the people. They have to be trusted and loved by the people. Build the People's Army with a rational number of regular soldiers with high combating capacity, and large and powerful forces of reserve troops and militia . Build the comprehensively strong People's Public Security Forces; combine full-time and part-time forces, law enforcement agencies

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with the

all-people

movement for

national security protection. Pay attention to improving revolutionary quality and political, professional and technical qualifications for officers and soldiers of the armed forces; ensure living conditions, both material and spiritual, in conformity with operations of the People's Army and Public Security Forces in the new conditions. Solidify the national defense and security industry and ensure that the armed forces are equipped with gradually-modernized techniques and weapons . Enhance the Party's

absolute

and

direct

leadership in all aspects and the State's centralized and unified management over the People's Army, Public Security Forces, and the national defense and security. 4. Consistently implement a foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, peace, cooperation and development; diversify relations and actively integrate

into

the

international

community;

enhance the country's position; strive for a prosperous and powerful socialist Việt Nam ; be a reliable friend and partner and a responsible member contribute

of to

the

international

peace,

national

community,

independence,

democracy and social progress in the world. Cooperate with all countries on the principles of equality and mutual benefit and on the basis of the fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter and international law.

Consistently support communist workers' parties and movements for social progress in the

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struggle for the common goals of the era; expand relations with left-wing parties, ruling parties and other parties in order to ensure national interests and maintain independence, self-reliance, peace, friendship, cooperation and development.

Enhance mutual understanding, friendship and cooperation between the Vietnamese people and the people of other countries in the world. Strive together with other countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to build Southeast Asia into a region of peace, stability, cooperation and prosperity.

IV- POLITICAL SYSTEM AND THE PARTY'S LEADERSHIP ROLE

1. Socialist democracy constitutes the nature of our regime motivation

of

and both the national

objective

development.

and Build

and gradually perfect socialist democracy, and ensure that democracy is implemented at all levels and in all spheres . Democracy is closely connected with disciplines and rules, and should be institutionalized and guaranteed by the law. The State respects and ensures human rights and citizen rights; cares for happiness and free development of each person. Citizen rights and obligations are stipulated by the Constitution and law. Citizen rights are inseparable from citizen obligations .

The through

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people

perform

activities

of the

the

mastery

State,

the

right entire

political

system

and

forms

of

direct

and

representative democracy. 2. Our State is a socialist law-governed State of the people, by the people and for the people. All of State power belongs to the people and is based on the alliance between the working class, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, under the leadership of the Communist Party of Việt Nam. State power is unified with a division of responsibility, coordination and control among agencies in the executive

and

performance judicial

of legislative,

powers .

The

State

promulgates laws; organizes and administers the society by laws, and constantly strengthens the socialist legal system.

The State serves the

people; is closely

connected with the people, fully implements the people's democratic rights, respects and listens to the people's opinions, and is subject to the supervision by the people; enacts mechanisms and measures to control, prevent and punish wastefulness, bureaucracy, corruption, irresponsibility, abuse of power, and violation of

democratic

rights

of

citizens;

strictly

maintains social rules, and severely punishes all infringements of the interests of the Fatherland and the people. The organization of the State apparatus follows the principle of democratic centralism with a division of responsibility and decentralization of power, while ensuring the

e

unified guidance of the central level .

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3. The Việt Nam Fatherland Front and people's organizations

play

an

extremely

important

role in preserving national unity for national construction and defense; represent and protect the legal and legitimate rights and interests of the people, and care for the interests of members; implement

democracy

and

build

a

healthy

society; participate in Party and State building; educate revolutionary ideals and ethics, citizen rights and obligations, and tighten the linkage between the people, the Party and the State. The Việt Nam Fatherland Front is a political alliance and a voluntary union of political, sociopolitical and social organizations, and prominent individuals from various social classes, ethnic groups, religions and the Vietnamese diaspora. The Việt Nam Fatherland Front constitutes a part of the political system and the political foundation of the people's administration. The Communist Party of Việt Nam is both a member and a leader of the Front. The Front operates on the principles of voluntarism , democratic consultation, coordination, and unity of actions among members. People's organizations,

depending on their

respective natures, guidelines and objectives, mobilize and educate their members to abide by laws and policies; care and protect the legitimate rights

and interests of their members; help

them improve their qualifications in all aspects and build a new life; and participate in State administration and social management .

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The Party respects the self-reliance of the Front and people's organizations , supports all of their voluntary, positive and creative activities, and sincerely listens to their opinions . The Party and the State adopt mechanisms and policies, and create conditions for the Front and people's organizations to operate efficiently and exercise their role as social overseers and critics . 4.

The Communist

Party

of Việt

Nam

is

the vanguard of the working class and the nation of Việt Nam. The Party takes MarxismLeninism and Hồ Chí Minh Thought as its ideological foundation

and

guideline for its

actions, and democratic centralism as its basic organizational principle.

Hồ

Chí

Minh

Thought

is

a

system

of

comprehensive and profound viewpoints on the fundamental issues ofthe Vietnamese revolution, It comprises of the results from the creative application

and

development

of

Marxism-

Leninism into the specific conditions of our country. It has inherited and developed the fine traditional values of the nation, and absorbed the cultural essence of mankind. It constitutes valuable spiritual assets of our Party and nation, illuminating our people's revolutionary cause on the path to victory. The Communist Party of Việt Nam is the ruling Party that leads the State and society. The Party performs its leadership by its political programs, strategies and orientations on major policies and decisions; through propaganda,

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mobilization,

persuasion,

organization,

inspection, supervision and exemplary actions by its members. The Party exercises its unified leadership over personnel work and management of cadres, nominates its outstanding members with sufficient capacity and qualifications to work in leading agencies of the political system . Party

The party

performs

organizations

its

leadership

through

and

members

working

in organizations of the political system, and increases the responsibility of individuals . The ruling capacity

Party regularly enhances its and

leadership

efficiency,

while

strongly

promoting the role, pro-activeness, creativity and responsibility of other organizations in the political system. The Party leads the political system, and at the same time is also a part of that system . The Party is closely connected to the people, respects and promotes the people's mastery right, relies on the people to build the Party, is subject to the people's oversight, and operates within the framework of the Constitution and laws.

To undertake the leadership role, the Party must be strong politically, ideologically and organizationally; frequently innovate and rectify itself, and make every effort to improve its intellect, political firmness,

moral virtues

and leadership capacity. Maintain the tradition of unity in the Party and intensify democracy and discipline in the Party's activities. Resort to self-criticism and criticism during times of crisis and combat individualism , opportunism,

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bureaucracy, corruption, wastefulness and all actions ofdivisiveness and factionalism . The Party pays special attention to building a contingent of clean cadres and members with qualifications, ability and high combating capacity following Hồ Chí Minh's moral example in order to nurture and train the next generation of successors for the revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation. *

The Political Program of the Party constitutes the combat banner for the success of national construction of Việt Nam during the period of gradual transition to socialism, guiding all activities of the Party, the State, the entire political system and our people in the coming decades. By successfully implementing this Political Program, our country will certainly become a prosperous socialist nation. The Party calls on all its Party members and Vietnamese compatriots both at home and abroad to contribute their will and energy in order to successfully implement the Political Program and advance towards the future.

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SOCIO- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY FOR 2011-2020

I - NATION'S SITUATION AND INTERNATIONAL CIRCUMSTANCES 1. Nation's situation During the 10 years of implementing the 2001-2010 Socio-economic Development Strategy, we seized on the opportunities,

advantages

and overcame many difficulties and challenges, especially the negative impacts of two regional and global financial-economic crises . We were able to obtain important achievements, and uplift the country from the era of underdevelopment into the group of developing countries with average income . Many key targets of the 20012010 were fulfilled, gaining new development steps in both productive force and relations of production. The economy grew rapidly at an average rate of 7.26 percent per year. In 2010, GDP per capita reached US$ 1,168 . The economic structure moved along a positive direction. The socialist-oriented market economy institution continued to be built and perfected . Cultural and social areas saw many important achievements, especially in hunger elimination and poverty reduction. People's material and spiritual life improved and democracy in the society continued

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to expand . The politics and society was stable and national defence and security was maintained . Foreign relations and international integration were implemented effectively on a wide scale, contributing to the creation of a peaceful and stable environment and the acquisition of resources for national development. The

country

saw

many

changes .

Our

country's position and power was strengthened . Việt Nam's position in the international arena was enhanced, creating important premises to speed up the process of national industrialisation and

modernisation

and

improve

people's

living standards . Those

above-said

attributed to our

achievements

can

be

success in mobilising the

strength of the nation, the outstanding efforts, dynamism and creativity of the people, army, business circle and the political system as well as the effective management and control of the State under the sound leadership of the Party. However, those achievements do not match the country's potential. Economic development is

not

sustainable.

The

growth

quality,

productivity, effectiveness and competitiveness of the economy are still low. The macro- economic balances are not strong and electricity supply did not meet the demands. Planning work and the mobilisation and use of resources was inefficient and saw many limitations . The investments were scattered. State management of enterprises met with shortcomings in

exercising ownership in

State-owned enterprises. Economic growth still

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depended on extensive

development factors

and was slow to shift to in-depth development. The faults in cultural and social areas, especially in education, training and health care were repaired very slowly; the morals and the way of living of a part of the society were degraded . In many places, the environment was polluted; the management of land and natural resources was not good, their exploitation was ineffective, and the land policies had undesirable elements . The market economy institutions, the quality of human resources and infrastructure still pose problems that can hinder development. The solid foundation that will launch Vietnam as a modern industrialised

nation

had

not been

formed

completely. There are still dormant factors that could cause political and social instability and threaten national sovereignty. The

above-mentioned

limitations

and

shortcomings were partially due to objective reasons, including new unprecedented problems, which arose during the transformation into the socialist- oriented market economy, but subjective reasons

should

still

shoulder

most

of the

blame. The thinking regarding socio-economic development and the mode of leadership of the Party were slow to reform, and thus unable to meet the country's development requirements; the mania for achievements was rampant, there were many shortcomings in the legal system. Law enforcement was not strict. State management was

weak; the

apparatus was

cumbersome

and a part of cadres and public employees did

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not meet the standards both in capacity and quality. The organisation of implementation was unproductive, the phenomena of "discrepancy between statements and actions" still existed;

·

effective changes were not made in dealing with key domains and urgent social problems; the right to mastery of the people was not fully exercised; . disciplines and order were lax and corruption and wastefulness were serious problems.

From

the

development

realities and

of

the

country's

the

achievements

in

implementing the 10-year Strategy, we can draw out major lessons, which are as follows: Firstly, develop democracy, wake up the combined power of the nation as

a whole,

combine national power with the era's power, and mobilise and effectively use every resource for national development . Secondly, attach special importance to quality, effectiveness and sustainability of development to ensure the stability of macro economy, and solve the

relations

between growing

speed

and quality. Thirdly, ensure national independence, selfreliance and sovereignty, preserve socio- political stability, actively integrate into the international community, and create favourable environment for national development .

Fourthly,

ensure

close,

effective

linkage

between boosting the Party leadership, increasing the efficacy of State management and fully exercising the right to mastery of the people.

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2. International circumstances The country enters a new strategic period whenthe world is seeing many rapid, complicated and unforeseeable changes. In the next decade, peace,

cooperation

and

development

will

continue to be a major trend, but ethnic and religious conflicts, the fight for natural resources and

territory,

terrorism

and

trans-national

crimes may increase together with other global problems like poverty, epidemics, climate change and natural disasters, which will force nations to work out policies and coordinate their actions. The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) has entered a period of new cooperation under the ASEAN Charter, building the ASEAN Community on three pillars: politics-security, economy, culture-society. Its cooperation with its partners will continue to be developed and deepened . ASEAN has been strengthening its central role in forming regional structure, and also facing new challenges. The

Asia-Pacific

develop

dynamically

region with

and cooperation forms.

continues

diverse

However,

to

linkages there

are

factors that can cause instability, especially the competition for influence and disputes regarding sea and island sovereignty and natural resources. Economic globalisation continues to develop in scale, level and forms with active and negative influence, opportunities and challenges. Transnational firms play increasingly bigger roles. The process of internationalisation of production

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and labour assignment is taking place on a wider

scale. Participation in the production

network and the global value chain has become a requirement for economies. Mutual dependence, integration, competition and cooperation among countries has become increasingly common. The knowledge-based economy has developed in such a way that the people and their knowledge have become the decisive factor for the development of each country. After the global financial-economic crisis, the world will enter a new period of development. The power balance among economies and the global development situation will see changes with the new appearance of new linkages. The position of Asia in the world economy is rising; the strong development of a number of countries in the region in the context of deep East Asian integration and free trade agreements implementation will open up a large market and create fierce competition . The restructuring of economies and adjustment of global financial institutions will take place

along with new

advances in science and technology and the economical use of energy and natural resources. On the other hand, the crisis has also left heavy consequences: protectionism is on the rise again and has become an obstacle for international trade. Although the world economy has started its period of recovery, there are still many difficulties and instablities. The adjustment of policies of nations, especially big ones, will impact our country.

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The country's situation and the international circumstances have created a new position for our country. While this has showered many and

advantages

opportunities,

also

has

it

brought challenges in implementing targets of socio-economic development and protection of national independence, sovereignty, territorial unity and integrity in the next strategic period .

II - VIEWPOINT ON DEVELOPMENT

1.

Rapid growth

sustainable

combination

in

with

sustainable

development:

development is the requirement throughout the Strategy It

is

a

must

to

achieve

sustainable

development, maintain macro-economic stability and ensure economic security. Promotion of economic restructuring, change in the growth model

with top

productivity,

priority

efficiency

given to

and

quality,

competitiveness

and the development of the knowledge- based economy are essential . Economic growth must be

harmoniously

combined

with

cultural

development, implementation of social progress and equality, and the constant improvement of people's life quality. Socio-economic development must be carried keeping in mind the importance to protecting and improving the environment and proactively coping with climate change. Sustainable development is the foundation for rapid

development and rapid development creates resources for sustainable development .

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Rapid and sustainable development must be taken into

consideration

in

planning socio-

economic development policies. The maintenance

of political and

social

stability, the strengthening of national defence and security, the protection of independence, sovereignty, and territorial unity and integrity must receive special attention in order to ensure rapid and sustainable development of the country.

2. The renewal in economy and politics with the aim of building Việt Nam into a strong socialist

country

prosperous

with

people,

democracy, equality and civilisation Political

renewal

must

be

conducted

resolutely and synchronously with economic renewal following a suitable roadmap, focusing on completing the institution of the socialistoriented market economy. It is important to reform the Party's mode of leadership, build a law governed socialist State, expand democracy in the Party and in society together to accelerate comprehensive

renewal

and

develop

the

collective strength of the nation in order to build a strong socialist Việt Nam with prosperous people, democracy, equality and civilisation. The implementation of this target will be the highest standard of evaluating the effectiveness of the renewal and development process .

3.

Expand

democracy,

utilise

to

the

utmost the human factor; consider people the subject, the main resource and the objective of development

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Human rights, the rights of citizens and conditions for every person to develop comprehensively, must be ensured. We must create mechanisms for people to fully exercise their right to direct democracy in order to bring the creative abilities into play and ensure high consensus in society. This will help build the momentum for national development. It is also important to make use of the advantages in population and the people of Vietnam, raise the quality of human resources, make good use of talents, take care of the legitimate interests, constantly improve the material and spiritual lives of all people and implement social equality. 4. Strongly develop the productive forces with increasingly high level of science and technology; at the same time complete relations of production in the socialist-oriented market economy

Complete

institutions

to

remove

all

obstacles, create favourable conditions to liberate and strongly develop the productive forces, boost the application of science and technology, mobilise and effectively use every resource for development . Rapidly develop economic sectors and forms of enterprises in a harmonious way. Strengthen and improve the efficiency of the State economy. The State economy plays the key role, serving as an important material force for theState to direct and regulate the economy, contributing to

stablising

the

macro-economy.

Develop

collective economy with diversified cooperation forms with cooperatives to be the key factor.

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Encourage the development of multi-ownership organisational forms of production and business, mainlyjoint stock enterprises in order to make this kind of economic form to become common in the economy, boost the socialisation of production, business and ownership. Complete mechanism, policies to strongly develop the private economy into one of the driving forces for the economy. Encourage foreign-invested sector to develop following plans . Create an equal and transparent environment for competition. Develop synchronous, complete and increasingly modern markets of all types . Continue to perfect management and distribution mechanisms to ensure equal benefits and create momentum for socio-economic development.

5. Build an independent and self-controlled economy in the context of deeper and wider international integration While developing internal resources and national strength is the decisive factor, taking advantage of external resources and the era's strength serves as an important factor in rapid and sustainable development and the building of an independent and self- controlled economy. We have to constantly strengthen the economic and national collective power for deeper, wider and effective international integration .

We also need to develop domestic enterprises with strong and highly competitive trade marks to dominate the domestic market, expand foreign markets, contribute to ensuring independence

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and self-control of the economy. We have to take the initiative to adapt to changes and ensure efficiency and national interests in order to further international integration .

III - STRATEGIC TARGETS AND BREAKTHROUGH LINKS

1. Overall targets Strive to turn the country into a

modernity-

oriented industrialised country by 2020, with stable, democratic order, consensus in politics and society, improved material and spiritual lives for the people, independence,

sovereignty,

territorial unity and

integrity. Continue to raise Việt Nam's position in the international arena and create firm premises to develop the country at a higher level in the next period . 2. Major targets for economic, cultural, social and environmental development

a) On economy Strive to gain an average Gross Domestic Products (GDP) growth of 7-8 percent per year. Increase the GDP, based on comparative prices, at about 2.2 times that of 2010 by 2020. The percapita GDP based on actual prices will stand at about US$3,000 . Ensure

macro-economic

stability.

Build

a modern and effective industry-agricultureservices structure . Industries and services will make up about 85 percent of GDP. The value of hitech products and products of hi-tech application

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will account for about 45 percent of GDP. The value of products of manufacturing industry will make up about 40 percent of the total industrial production value. Agriculture will be developed along the direction

of modernity,

efficiency,

sustainability with many products with high added value. Economic restructuring should be combined with labour restructuring; agricultural labourers will make up 30-35 percent of the labour force. Total

factor productivity

will

contribute

about 35 percent to growth, energy consumption basing on GDP will be reduced by 2.5-3 percent a year. Implement thrift in the use of every resource .

Put in place synchronous infrastructure with a number of modern projects . The urbanisation rate will reach over 45 percent. About 50 percent of communes will meet the standards of newstyled rural areas.

b) On culture and society Build

a

society

of

democracy,

order,

consensus, equality and civilisation. By 2020, the country's Human Development Index (HDI ) should be among the world's higher average group; keep the population growth rate stable at about 1 percent, life expectancy at 75 years of age; there will be nine doctors and 26 patient beds for every 10,000 people (excluding beds at communal-level infirmities), medical insurance will cover the whole population, the rate of workers that have undergone training will cross

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the 70 percent mark, and that with vocational training will reach 55 percent in the entire total labour force; the rate of poor households will decrease by an average of between 1.5-2 percent a year, social welfare, and social security and public healthcare will be

ensured .

People's

real income will be 3.5 times higher than that in

2010,

and

development gaps

population

groups

will

among regions be

narrowed .

Rudimentary houses will be eradicated, the rate of permanent houses will reach 70 percent with an average of 25 sq.m. of housing floor per person. Education

and

training,

science

and

technology will meet the demands of national industrialisation and modernisation. By 2020, some fields of science and technology, education, health care will reach modern and advanced levels . The number of students per 10,000 people will reach 450 . Build a progressive culture imbued with national

identities;

prosperous ,

progressive

and happy families; each person shall enjoy comprehensive development in terms of intelligence, morality, physique, creative capacity, citizen sense and respect of law. c) On environment

Improve the quality of the environment. The forest coverage rate will reach 45 percent by 2020, including areas under perennial industrial trees . Most urban and rural residents shall have access to safe and hygienic water.

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New production establishments must apply clean technologies or be equipped with facilities to reduce pollution and treat wastes; over 80 percent of existing production and business establishments must meet the standards of environmental protection . Urban areas from fourth grade upward and all industrial zones, clusters and export processing zones must have concentrated waste water treatment systems . 95 percent of common solid waste, 85 percent of toxic waste and 100 percent of medical waste must be treated in line with standards . Improve and recover the environment in heavily polluted areas. Limit the impact of natural disasters ; take the initiative in effectively coping with consequences of climate change, especially the rising of sea water. 3. Strategic Breakthroughs

(1) Complete the institution of the socialistoriented market economy, focusing on creating an equal environment for administrative reform .

competition

and

(2) Rapidly develop the human resources, especially hi-quality human resource, focusing on comprehensive reform of the national education; closely combine the development of human resources and the application of science and technology. (3)

Build

a

synchronous

infrastructure

system with a number of modern projects, focusing on major transport and urban infrastructure systems .

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IV. ORIENTATIONS FOR SOCIOECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, GROWTH MODEL RENOVATION AND ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING Strongly build suitable synchronously

develop

productive

forces,

relations of production and form a socialist-oriented

market economic institution. Shift the growth model from mainly extensive development to rational combination of extensive and intensive development,

expand

scales

while

paying

attention to improving the quality, efficiency and sustainability. Implement economic restructuring with focus on restructuring production and service sectors depending on regions; promote the restructuring of enterprises and adjustment of market strategies; rapidly increase domestic values, added values and the competitiveness of products, businesses and the whole economy; develop the knowledge-based economy. Combine economic

development

with

environmental

protection and green economic development.

1.

Complete

socialist-oriented

market

economic institution; ensure macroeconomic stability; effectively mobilise and use resources Completing a synchronous and modern socialist-oriented market economic institution is an important premise for promoting the process economic restructuring, growth model transfer and macroeconomic stability. Continue

of

to renovate the buildings and enforce lawsto ensure equal and transparent competition

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among businesses in every economic sector. Renovate planning work and manage economic market-oriented the under development mechanism, and implement social policies well . Put in place a suitable system of mechanisms and policies, especially financial and monetary mechanisms and policies in order to improve growth quality and

ensure safe and sound

development of the economy. national

The

financial

policy

should

mobilise, distribute and use all resources for socio-economic

development

effectively

and

allocate benefits equally. Continue to complete the tax policies and system, price management mechanism, laws on competition and business monopoly control,

customer protection and policies on incomes, salaries and wages . Balance the budget positively and ensure a rational reserve

for

development

investment;

strive

to gradually reduce budget overspendings. Continue to renew financial mechanisms and policies for State-owned enterprises, especially economic

groups

and

corporations .

Closely

manage foreign loans and debt payment; keep government, national and public debts within safe limits . Strengthen the budget supervision role of the National Assembly and People's Councils at all levels . The monetary policy must be proactive and flexible to boost sustainable development, control inflation and stabilise the value of the currency. Form a synchronous legal framework for banking operations . Expand forms of payments through

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banks and non- cash payments. Apply flexible policies on interest rate and foreign exchange rate in line with the market principles . Renovate foreign currency and gold management policies; gradually expand the scope ofcapital transactions; gradually eliminate the use of foreign currencies as means of payment in the Vietnamese territory. Strengthen the role of the State Bank in mapping out and enforcing monetary policies . Closely combine monetary policies with fiscal policies . Consolidate inspection and supervision financial and monetary operations.

of

Complete the system of laws and policies on land to ensure a harmonious interests between the State, land users, land use right transferers and investors, create favourable conditions forthe effective use of land resources for development; overcome the wastefulness and corruption in land use. Ensure the rights to freedom and equality in business transactions between economic sectors . Continue to strongly renovate and improve the efficiency of State- owned enterprises, especially economic groups and corporations . Complete as early as possible institutions for managing operations of State groups and corporations. up the equitisation of State- owned

Speed

enterprises; building a number of strong and multi-ownership

economic

groups

in which

State ownership plays a dominant role. Clearly define the ownership of the State and the business right of enterprises and completing a management mechanism for State capital in

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enterprises . Create favourable conditions for the diversified development and scale expansion of the collective economy; put in place suitable mechanisms and policies to support economic organisations

that

train

officials,

expand

markets, apply new technologies and access capital sources.

Encourage the development of

different types of enterprises and organisational forms

of

combined

business ownership,

and

production

with

joint

stock

especially

businesses. Complete mechanisms and policies to strongly develop the private sector in line with planning and laws, boost the formation of private economic groups and encourage the private sector's capital contributions to State economic groups . Attract foreign investment with modern and environmentally-friendly technologies and strengthen links with domestic businesses . Implement the national programme on enterprises development in combination with the process of business restructuring. Support the strong development of small- and medium-size enterprises. Create conditions for the formation oflarge and competitive businesses in the market. Develop businesspeople in both quantity and management capacity as well as heighten their ethics and social responsibility. Perfect a legal framework to strengthen the connection between employers and employees. Form and smoothly operate various types of markets. Develop the goods and service market in the direction of trade and investment liberalisation. Develop the financial market so

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that it has a complete structure, expanded scale, operational scope, and effective management and supervision. Effectively develop and control the stock market. Boost the sound and sustainable development

of the

market

real estate

and

prevent speculations; complete the operation mechanism of real estate trading floors . Develop the labour market, encouraging different forms of job transaction . Develop the scientific and technological market; encourage and support scientific and technological activities in line with the market mechanism. 2. Develop industry and construction along the direction of modernisation with improved quality and competitiveness

Restructure industrial production in terms of

economic- technical

sectors,

regions

and

new value. Increase the content of science and technology and the proportion of domestic value in

products .

Selectively

develop

processing

industry, manufacture, hi-tech industry, energy industry,

mining,

metallurgy,

chemicals

and

defence industry. Give priority to developing products with competitive edges and products capable of joining global production networks and value chains in hi-tech industry, mechanical engineering, information communications, and

technology and pharmaceuticals ...

Strongly develop

industries.

support

importance to developing

Attach

industries serving

agriculture and rural areas, clean and renewable energies and new materials that apply energy and material saving technologies.

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Gradually

bio-technology

develop

environmental

and

industry. Continue to develop labour- intensive industries reasonably. Promote the effectiveness of industrial zones as well as speed up industrial development in the form of product clusters and groups in order to create large-scale and highly effective industrial complexes; complete the construction of hitech zones and build a number of technological renovation

research

Implement the

centres .

rational industrial allocation in the entire territory, ensure a balanced and effective development among regions. Develop the construction sector to bring it to an advanced level in the region. Quickly access and master modern technologies, improve the construction and installation industry's capacity to meet domestic construction demands and their ability to compete in international biddings . Strongly

develop

the

construction

material

industry, especially high- quality materials, with the application of new technologies.

3.

Boost

comprehensive

agricultural

development in the direction of modernity, effectiveness and sustainability Exploit

the

advantages

of the

tropical

agriculture to develop large-scale commodity production

with

high

productivity,

quality,

efficiency and competitiveness . Quickly increase the output and export turnover of agricultural products, improve farmers' incomes and living standards, and

firmly

ensure

national food

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security. Build a suitable production and business model for plants and animals. Encourage land concentration; develop farms and agricultural businesses suitable to the size and conditions of each region. Closely combine the interests of growers, processors and consumers, harmonise the relations between technological application and

production

organisation,

and

between

agricultural development and the construction of new-styled rural areas . Renovate farm produce trading methods, particularly rice trading; ensure a rational distribution of benefits in each stage from production to consumption. Develop a system of agricultural product warehouses, helping regulate supply and demand . Continue to renovate and build organisation models to develop the cooperative economy in line with the market mechanism. Closely control the transfer of agricultural land, especially rice growing land, and ensure the interests of rice growers and rice growing localities. On the basis of regional planning, arrange plant, animal and crop structures in accordance with market demands and reduce damages caused by natural disasters and diseases . Develop suitable insurance forms in agriculture . Speed up the application of scientific advances and modern technologies in production, processing and storage; give priority to the application of bio-technology to create varieties

of plants,

animals

and production

processes with high productivity, quality and efficiency, rapidly increasing added value on a cultivation land unit. Support the development

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of hi-tech agricultural zones . Boost husbandry on industrial and semi-industrial scales, ensure quality and safety against diseases.

Develop sustainable forestry. Make suitable plans and development policies for production forest, protective forest and special-use forest, with improved quality. The State invests and has synchronous policies to manage and develop protective and special-use forests while ensuring stable lives for people who are contracted to look after and protect forests . Encourage organisations and individuals in every economic sector to invest in planting production forests; combine the planting of forests for materials with processing industry right in the process of making plans and investment projects; use revenues generated by forests to develop and generate good income from forests. Boost exploitation

the of

sustainable aquatic

and

effective

resources,

develop

offshore catching and ensure national defence, security and protection of marine environment at the same time. Develop aquaculture in line with plans, focus on products with strengths and high values;

synchronously

build

infrastructure

in farming areas; speed up the application of scientific advances and technologies in production

and

processing,

thus

improving

productivity, quality and competitiveness as well as meeting demands for food safety and hygiene. Build the Vietnamese fishery sector to achieve an advanced standard in the region.

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Make effective development plans for salt production, meeting the national demand and improving the life of salt makers. 4.

Strongly develop the

service sector,

especially services with high values,

great

potential and high competitiveness. Developing the service sector at a growth rate higher than that of the production sector and GDP is an important direction in the economic restructuring . Focus on developing several services with advantages, good knowledge and technology on areas such as tourism, maritime and air transport, telecommunication, information technology and health. Form regional and international tourism and service centres. Expand the domestic market and develop local trade; diversify foreign markets, effectively exploit free trade markets, increase exports and reduce trade deficit in both scale and proportion, and strive to balance import and export. Actively participate in global distribution networks, quickly develop distribution systems of products with competitive edges

in and

outside the country, and build Vietnamese goods trademarks. Diversify products and types of tourism and improve products' quality to meet international standards. Modernise and expand services with high added values such as finance, banking, insurance, securities, logistics and other business

support services . Strongly develop services in the fields of science and technology, education and training,

culture,

information,

sports, job placement and social welfares .

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5. Rapidly develop infrastructure, especially transport infrastructure Forming a

an

infrastructure

number of modern

breakthrough boosting

and

an

socio- economic

completing

is

a

important

economic restructuring. and

system

works

with

strategic

factor for

development

and

on reviewing

Focus

infrastructure

construction

planning on both national and regional levels, especially transport, hydropower and irrigation, thus ensuring the economical use of resources, socio-economic

efficiency

and

environmental

protection. Diversify investment

forms,

encouraging

and creating conditions for economic sectors, including foreign investors, to get involved in infrastructure development. Concentrate resources on building the NorthSouth expressway, upgrade existing railways and building urban railway systems in big cities. On the basis of planning, prepare conditions for gradually building the North-South express railway with a suitable roadmap; build several modern seaports and airports; upgrade urban infrastructure in Hà Nội and Hồ Chí Minh City . Gradually form the North-South traffic axis and the East-West corridors, ensuring linkages of transport means; build road routes for external relations meeting international standards . Develop system

and

gradually,

modernise attach

the

irrigation

importance

to

building and consolidating sea and river dyke

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systems, pumping stations, saltwater intrusion prevention and flood drainage works. Build natural disaster prevention works and ship shelters to mitigate damages. Boost the rapid and sustainable development of power sources, improve

power

technologies,

grids

and

using

ensure

energy-saving

sufficient

power

supplies for development demand . Modernise the information -communication sector and information

technology

infrastructure .

Develop

and

water

clean

hygienic

supply

systems for urban areas, industrial zones and rural residential areas . Resolve the issues of water drainage and waste water treatment in urban areas . 6. Boost the harmonious and sustainable development in regions, building urban and new-styled rural areas Review,

adjust

and

supplement

and put in place suitable mechanisms

plans and

policies to boost the development of regions nationwide; promote advantages of each region by creating a connection among regions . Boost the development of key economic zones, create momentums and pervasive effects for other regions; at the same time, create conditions for backward areas, especially border and island areas such as Southwest, Central Highlands, Northwest regions and the western areas of central provinces, to develop faster. Select areas with

outstanding

advantages,

particularly

coastal areas, to build several economic zones as motive forces for development.

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The implementation of regional development orientations must ensure the effective and economical use of land in combination with measures to cope with climate change, especially rising sea water levels. Plain Form

areas:

Develop

concentrated

hi-tech

agriculture.

commodity

production

zones by reorganising agricultural production and applying technical advances . Zone off large-scale

rice growing

areas

and

promote

intensive rice farming. Modernise preservation and process industries. Develop industries and services that promote agricultural production. Develop industrial zones and clusters of hi-tech industrial and service products together with big urban areas to form regional - scale economic centres which have a leading role and pervasive influence on the development of other regions.

Midland

and

mountainous

areas:

Develop

forestry, the growing of industrial and fruit trees, and cattle breeding in order to create concentrated commodity production regions, firstly materials for processing industry and export. Protect and develop forests . Effectively tap the potential of land, hydropower and minerals; build water reservoirs and develop

small-scale irrigation

works in combination with hydropower and flood prevention. Encourage the development of industries and services that demand large land areas. Develop rural traffic systems, ensure smooth auto transport to communes during the year's four seasons and gradually build roads accessible by car in villages. Speed up sustainable

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poverty

increase

reduction,

and

incomes

continuously improve the living standards and population quality of ethnic minorities . Renovate the organisation and management of State- run farms and plantations . Attach importance to developing

socio-economic

infrastructure

in

border areas, especially border gates. Sea, coastal and island areas : Strongly develop a sea-based economy that matches the position and potential of the country's sea, combine the development of a marine economy with secure national defence and security and protection sovereignty over the waters. Rapidly develop several coastal economic and industrial zones, and give prioritize the development of industries related to energy,

shipbuilding,

high-quality seafood

cement and

processing ... Speed

up

urbanisation and form strong sea -borne economic centres along with the development of a diverse range of services, especially those with high added values such as import-export services , tourism, fishery services, oil and gas services. and transport... Develop seaports, port services and maritime transport, sea and river services; develop ship fleets, ship building and repairing industries...Enlarge the island economy based on the position, potential and advantages of each island . Urban development: Renovate mechanisms and policies,

improving

quality and closely

manage urban development planning. Gradually form an urban area system with synchronous, modern

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and

environmentally- friendly

infra-

structure,

including a number of big cities,

many small- and medium-sized ones which are linked and appropriately located in regions; attach importance to developing urban areas in mountainous and coastal regions. Promote the role of Hà Nội and Hồ Chí Minh City as economic, cultural, scientific and technological centres, the role

of centres in

each region and locality, especially in human development, resource information and knowledge dissemination, technological transfer and

economic

restructuring.

Form

groups

and clusters of products, create efficient ways to connect market production from centre to the periphery.

Make policies

on housing

development,

especially houses for welfare beneficiaries and low-income earners . New-styled rural area building: Combine rural development planning with urban development and residential area arrangements . Develop industries, services and craft villages taking environmental protection under consideration. Implement programmes on building new-styled rural areas aligning them with the characteristics of each region; preserve and promote the cultural characteristics of Vietnamese rural areas. Step up rural infrastructure building . Create a favourable environment for the development of investment possibilities in agriculture, especially investment by small- and medium-sized enterprises, and attract many labourers. Effectively implement

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the vocational training programme for 1 million rural labourers each year.

Implement

programmes

on

housing

the poor and welfare beneficiaries ,

for

housing

programmes for people in storm and flood- prone areas; work on suitable population distribution, ensure safety in coastal and riverside areas that are vulnerable to flood and landslide. Form and develop economic corridors and belts and growth poles that are significant for the country and regional connectivity: Create a synchronous infrastructure connectivity to form the NorthSouth

economic

axis,

East-West

economic

corridors and the trans-Asia economic corridors. Form groups and clusters of industrial products and services, and link central urban areas with economic corridors. Build large economic the development cooperation centres in border gates . 7.

Boost

development

comprehensive in

harmony

socio-cultural

with

economic

development Create a strong socio-cultural development. Increase State investment and mobilise social resources for socio-cultural development. Perfect the system of policies, closely combine economic and social objectives and policies; implement social advancement and equality in each policy in line with specific conditions, ensuring a rapid and sustainable development . Improve people's incomes and life quality. Create

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equal

opportunities

in

accessing

development resources and enjoying basic services and social welfare . Effectively implement poverty reduction policies according to each period;

diversify resources

and

methods to

ensure sustainable poverty reduction, especially in the poorest districts and areas with special difficulties. Encourage people to get rich legally, rapidly increase the number of middle- income households. Make suitable policies and solutions to limit the polarisation of the rich and the poor and to narrow the development gaps between rural and urban areas. Complete

the

system

of

policies

and

mechanisms in providing public services that are suitable for a socialist-oriented market economic institution. The

State

unceasingly works to

improve essential public services for the people. Implement policies on labour, employment, salary

and

income

to

encourage

workers'

capacity. Ensure harmonious labour relations, improving working environment and conditions. Speed up vocational training and generate more jobs. Improve the quality and efficiency of activities to send Vietnamese workers abroad . Provide vocational training and jobs for welfare beneficiaries, poor people and labourers in rural and urbanised areas. Develop a more diversified, and effective system of social welfares . Strongly develop the system of insurances, including social work disease

insurance, accident

unemployment

insurance

insurance .

and

Encourage

insurance,

occupational and

create

favourable conditions for workers to access and

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join insurance forms . Apply preferential policies and continuously improve living standards for people who made contributions to the nation. Expand forms of social assistance and relief, particularly for people with difficulties . Boost cultural development comprehensively, promote the fine values of the nation while acquiringthe cultural quintessence of humankind; harmonise the relations between economics and culture in order to establish culture as the spiritual foundation of the society and a driving force for socio-economic development and international integration. Concentrate on building a healthy lifestyle, and cultural environment; encourage culture in leadership, management, business and behaviour. Pay attention to building Vietnamese people's

personality

intelligence,

in

morality,

terms lifestyle,

of

ideology,

physicality,

national pride, social responsibility,

sense of

law, especially among young people. Promote the fine traditional values and build rich, happy and progressive Vietnamese families; encourage gender equality and advancement of women; provide care, education for children and protect children's rights. Ensure citizens' right to freedom of religions and religious beliefs in line with the law. Encourage free creativity in cultural, literary and artistic activities to create high- value and widely pervasive products that are worth the stature of the nation. Build and upgrade the system of cultural and sports institutions. Attach importance to preserving and promoting national cultural heritages. cultural enjoyment .

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Improve people's

Raise the quality of information system, the press, internet and publishing. Ensure the right to be informed and opportunities to access information for the people, especially those in remote and ethnic-inhabited areas. Continue to renovate mechanisms and improve management efficiency, speed up the socialisation of cultural and information sectors, and form a healthy cultural market. Fight non-cultural phenomena, degradation in ethnics and lifestyle and negative impacts of debauched and violence- inciting cultural and information products. Intensify the fight and prevention of crimes and social evils; reduce drug addiction and prostitution; effectively prevent traffic accidents . Improve the quality of the "all people unite to build cultural life"

movement;

build

united,

democratic,

orderly, civilised and healthy communes, wards, quarters, and villages. 8. Strongly develop public heath sector, improve people's health care quality Concentrate on developing the health care system and improving quality of health services . The State continues to increase investment and encourage society's

involvement

in

rapidly

developing the public and non- public health care

systems;

complete

the

organisational

model and strengthen the grassroots health care network. Improve capacity of communal health infirmities, complete the construction of district-level hospitals and the upgrading of provincial and central hospitals . Construct more

high-quality

specialised

hospitals

in

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Hà Nội, Hồ Chí Minh City and other regions . Build a number of health care establishments that meet the regional standards. Encourage investors to set up high-quality specialised health care establishments . Overcome overload in hospitals, especially central and provincial ones . Renovate the mechanism of operations, particularly health care

financial

of self-reliance, Standardise

mechanism

establishments, publicity,

quality

of

in the

public

direction

and transparency.

of health

services,

and

hospitals, gradually meeting the regional and international standards . Renovate and improve appropriate policies on health insurance, medical checks, treatment and hospital fees; work out a roadmap to achieve health insurance for all people. Carry out policies on health check and treatment for social welfare policy beneficiaries, poor people, children and ethnic minorities, and health care for the elderly. Increase training and improve professional skills, medical ethics, and the sense of responsibility of medical workers . Strive to assign doctors to all communes and wards by 2020. Develop preventive medicine in order to prevent big epidemics . Continue to control and strongly reduce HIV infection. Continue to reduce malnutrition in children . Improve food quality, and food hygiene and safety. Develop pharmaceutical and medical equipment medicine

industries. along

with

Develop modern

traditional

medicine. Closely manage the production and trade of pharmaceutical products.

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Devise and implement the national strategy on improvement of health and stature of the Vietnamese people . Promote the development of amateur and professional sports . Implement policies on population and family planning, maintain the replacement rate, ensure a suitable gender balance,

and improve the quality of

population. Promote the society's participation in the fields of health care, population-family planning, physical training and sports fields . 9. Improve the quality of human resources, comprehensively renew and quickly develop education and training Development and improvement of the quality of human resources,

especially

high- quality

human resources, is a strategic breakthrough and a decisive factor in the development and

application

of science

and

technology,

restructuring of the economy. It is also the most important competitive edge that ensures effective and sustainable development.

fast,

Special attention should be paid to developing the

contingent

of

key

officials ,

managers,

outstanding experts, business executives, skilled workers and leading scientific and technological staff. Train human resources to meet the diverse demands of technology and development of the various fields and sectors. Tighten links between

businesses

and

workshops

using

labourers, training establishments and the State to develop human resources in accordance with the societal demand . Implement programmes and projects on high-quality human training

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for key, spearhead industries and areas . Focus on detecting, fostering, and promoting talents; training human resources for knowledge-based economic development. Development

of

education

is

the

top

national policy. Renew Việt Nam's education in fundamental and comprehensive manner modernisation , standardisation, towards democratisation and international integration through the renewal ofmechanisms for education management, development of the contingent of teachers improving

and

managers .

education

and

Concentrate training

on

quality,

attaching importance to education of morality, lifestyle, creative capacity, skills of practice, and

ability for self business . Reform the finance mechanism of education. Implement verification

of education-training quality

at

all school levels . Build a healthy educational environment with close links between schools, families and society. Expand kindergarten education, providing pre-school education for every five-year-old . Implement primary and junior education with increasingly

high

quality.

Strongly

develop

and improve quality of vocational training and professional education. Review, complete and implement plans for the network of universities, colleges

and

vocational

training

schools

nationwide . Take measures to raise the quality of tertiary education, ensuring the mechanism of

self-reliance

combined

with

enhanced

social responsibility in education and training

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Focus

establishments.

investments

on

the

construction of high-quality schools and faculties in spearhead fields .

Strongly renew content, curricula, methods of teaching and learning at all school levels and grades. Make active preparations to put in place a new general educational curriculum after 2015. Expand and improve the quality of foreign language training . The State increases investment, encourages all sectors' involvement, and mobilises all the society to care for the development of education. Rapidly improve the quality of education in difficult, mountainous and

ethnic

minority

group-inhabited

areas.

Promote study and talent fostering movements, build a learning society, expand the modes of distance education and the system of communitybased learning and regular education centres . Implement equality of opportunity for study and social policies in education. 10. Develop

science and technology to

be the real key drive for fast and sustainable development

Direct scientific and technological activities to focus on serving industrialisation, modernisation and

intensive

development,

and

contribute

to raising productivity, quality, efficiency and the economy's competitiveness . Improve the capacity, renew management mechanism, promote science and technology application, and increase international integration on science and technology.

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Rapidly increase the use of science and technology. Develop and effectively use material facilities and human resources. The State focuses its investment in key national tasks, such as in finding scientific and technological solutions, promoting society's involvement, and mobilising all social resources, especially from businesses for the development of science and technology. Combine tasks of science-technology with socioeconomic development targets, from each and every level, branch, locality and establishment. Renew

the the

organisation,

management ,

operation, and mechanisms for scientific and technological activities. Promote the role of the main scientific- technological

organisations in

implementing key scientific-technological tasks. Develop

the

scientific-technological

market.

Reform the mechanisms for state budget use and build scientific-technological tasks in uplifting the standards of targets and effectiveness of research application; shift scientific-technological non-productive units to establishments operating under the mechanism of self-reliance and self responsibility. enterprises,

Develop

scientific- technological

technological

renovation

funds

and investment venture funds. Build policies on training, attracting and using talents . Foster democracy, respect and freedom of thinking in research, and creative activities of intellectuals for the country's development. Boost research-implementation and application of technology; develop social science, natural science, science and technology in an

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appropriate manner. Social science should fulfil the task of researching the theory, assessing reality,

predicting

development

trends,

and

providing the foundation for making guidelines and policies on national development in the new stage. Strongly direct research and application of science and technology to serve development needs of each sector, field, and product, with close links with training, production and business . Build

and implement a national technology

renovation

programme

with

incentives

for

enterprises to import advanced technologies, firstly for key, spearhead sectors and fields; give priority to high-tech development; apply science and technology in agriculture and rural industry, and use labour-intensive technologies in an appropriate manner. Quickly form a number of research-application to receive and improve technology, and create new technology that is closely linked with production and business. Promote the effective operation of main national labs. Give incentives and support businesses from all economic sectors to renew technology and boost production of high-tech products, prioritising small and medium-sized enterprises. Pay due attention to fundamental research with clear priorities in line with the country's development demand. Pay special attention to developing scientifictechnological sectors that are the foundation of the knowledge-based economic development such as information technology, bio-technology, new material technology, environmental technology...

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Focus on developing hi-tech products with high added value in certain fields and industries.

Form

a system to

evaluate

results

and

effectiveness of scientific- technological activities . Strictly implement regulations on intellectual property rights, focusing on development and exploitation of intellectual assets . Expand and enhance the system of standards and norms to match international levels.

11. Protect and

improve

environmental

quality, proactively respond to climate change, and prevent and control natural disasters

Raise awareness onenvironmental protection, combine

tasks

and

goals

on

environmental

protection with socio-economic development. Reform mechanism of natural resources management

and

environmental

protection.

Integrate issues on environmental protection in strategies and developmental

projects . New

construction investment projects have to meet the standards set for environmental protection . Strictly implement the environment

polluting

roadmap units .

to

punish

Complete

the

legal system on environmental protection; build sanctions to prevent and deal with violations. Overcome environmental degradation, protect the environment and ecological balance, improve

environmental

quality.

and

Implement

forestation programmes, effectively prevent forest destruction and forest fire; expand the area of nature reserve parks . Effectively manage, exploit and use land, water, minerals and other natural

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resources . Limit and strive towards stopping the export of unprocessed natural resources . Pay special attention to developing the green, environmental friendly economy. Implement sustainable

production

and

consumption;

gradually develop clean energy, clean production and clean consumption. Encourage all people and

sectors to

take

part

in

environmental

protection, developing environment services and waste treatment. Step up research and forecasts on hydrometeorology, climate change and assessment of impacts in order to proactively take preventive measures against natural disasters and implement the national programme in response to climate change, especially sea water rising. Increase international cooperation to coordinate with the international community. 12. Firmly protect ' independence,

sover-

eignty, territorial unity and integrity, ensure political security, and social order and safety; expand external relations,

raise Việt Nam's

position in the international arena

Enhance national defence strength, ensure independence, sovereignty, territorial unity and integrity in land, sky, sea and island . Maintain peace, stability for national construction and development. Deploy defence, security arrangements in line with the new situation . Combine national defence and security. Closely integrate defence and security with socio-economic development

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in each locality. Ensure political security, social order and safety, paying special attention to key fields and localities. Broaden the ways of mobilising resources to build the defence industry and raise the national defence industry's secure capacity. Integrate programmes on building economic- defence zones in border areas and islands . Build the people's army and the people's police that are strong in all aspects, revolutionary, regular and well-trained and gradually advance them towards modernity; defend the Fatherland, protect the Party, the State, the people and the socialist regime; maintain political stability, and social order and safety ; defeat all sabotaging plots and acts aimed at violating our sovereignty and territorial integrity; avoid falling into a passive position or being taken by surprise.

Consistently

implement

the

foreign

relations policy of independence, self-reliance, peace, cooperation and development; diversify relations,

actively

and

proactively

integrate

into the international community; Việt Nam is a trustful friend, partner and a responsible member of the international community. Create an environment of peace and stability to build the country. Boost

friendship

and

cooperation

with

neighbouring countries; accelerate the settlement of outstanding issues of border, territory, sea boundary and continental shelf with related countries based on international law and the regional rules of conduct. Build peace, friendship,

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cooperation for mutual development. Be active, and responsible in joining hands with other countries to build a strong ASEAN community. Closely combine the Party's external affairs with the

State's

diplomacy

and

people-to-people

diplomacy, political diplomacy with economic diplomacy and cultural diplomacy, relations with national defence and Improve

the

integration,

effectiveness

and

contribute

economy of independence,

external security.

of

international

to

building

self- reliance,

an and

sustainable development. Promote the role and resources of the overseas Vietnamese community in national development. Continue to improve investment climate, creating favourable conditions to attract international capital resources; seek big investors with high-tech, source technology; and expand the export market.

V - IMPROVEMENT OF EFFICIENCY OF STATE MANAGEMENT TO ENSURE SUCCESSFUL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STRATEGY 1. Perform the State's function and handle the relationship the market

between

the

State

and

Synchronously build, improve the quality and organise effective implementation of the system of laws, institutions and policies on socio-economic

development;

improve

the

implementation of social security and welfares,

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protect and help those who are vulnerable in the market economy. Ensure macro-economic stability and economic security. Build

and

organise

the

implementation

of strategies, master plans, and direct socioeconomic development processes and business system to necessary fields and localities through resources allocation and policies, meeting the goals and demands of development. Effectively manage and use national assets and perform the ownership function toward State-owned enterprises. Organise the supply of essential commodities and services that the private economic sector is unable to produce or does not want to produce; control monopoly and protect consumers. Strongly develop human resources and socio-economic infrastructure system to meet the demand of development.

Ensure

national

defence,

security

and

effectively implement the Party's external policy, firmly maintain socio-political stability, creating an increasingly favourable environment for the country's development. The

State

manages

economy by laws,

and

operates

master plans,

and

the tools

of adjustment that respect the market rule . Increase supervision of the financial market, take the initiative in regulating the market's negative impacts, without interfering with the market relations .

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2. Complete the state apparatus, create strong turning step on administrative reform

Step up legislative, executive and judicial reforms, renew thinking and the legal building process, and improve the quality of the legal system. Continue to build the socialist lawgoverned state, implement the principle of united state power through assignments, coordination and cross-checking among agencies in carrying out legislative, executive and judicial rights . Perfect the mechanism to strengthen the examination and supervision of operations of legislative, executive and judicial bodies. Concentrate

on

building

strong

state

administration to ensure uniform, and effective management. Carry out a master plan on administrative reform and modernise the national administration . Continue to strengthen the

government

apparatus,

improve

macro-

management efficiency, particularly the quality of institutional building, plan making, forecast capacity policy and responding capacity in the context of the market economy and international integration. Review and evaluate the organisational model and operation quality of local authorities in order to establish the appropriate organisational model to ensure the correct assignment of functions, responsibility, authority, as well as its closeness to reality, efficiency, and effectiveness. Build appropriate government models for urban and rural areas. Complete decentralisation to ensure a united management of planning and orientations for

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development, promote supervision, checks and inspections and at the same time uphold the active role, and the sense of responsibility; improve the capacity of the authorities at each level and branch. Expand democracy by consolidating disciplines and laws. Build a contingent of cadres, public and civil servants with good ethics, firm political viewpoint,

competence,

high professionalism

and good dedication to the people . Clearly define and raise the responsibility of the leaders.

demand

Integrate the

on

administrative

reform into the process of institution building and practical experience review, and increase and

dialogue between the State, enterprises

people; expand democracy, promote the role of independent consultancy organisations and experts in building institutions and national procedures; administrative on standards sharply reduce existing procedures . Publicise administrative standards and regulations for people to supervise their implementation. responsibility transparency, and Increase in public duties . Promote the application of information technology in the management and execution work of the state administrative system at all levels . 3.

Boost

the

anti-corruption

and

wastefulness fight Pursuing a against

steadfast and

corruption

and

effective

wastefulness

fight is

an

important long-term task in the State and Party-

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building work. Complete institutions and laws . Raise the ethics of the contingent of public staff; publicise transparent information on officials, public

servants'

assets .

Increase

supervision

of democracy, put in place mechanisms for the people to supervise work relating to state budget and assets. Improve and effectiveness of agencies,

the efficiency encourage the

detection and strict punishment for corruption and wastefulness acts . Fundamentally reform the salary system civil servants .

for

cadres,

public

and

Promote the role of the Fatherland Front, mass organisations and the

mass media in

detecting, fighting and preventing corruption and wastefulness.

4. Increase

Party's

leadership ,

promote

the people's right to mastery in building state apparatus Since our Party is the ruling party and we have a socialist law-governed state of the people, by the people and for the people, the Party's method of leadership must be by the State and through the State. Complete the

contents

and

renew the

methods of the Party's leadership , combining power and responsibility in carrying out the leading functions of party committees at all levels; increasing democracy within the Party and promoting people's right to mastery are important contents of the political renewal that nustbe conducted synchronously with economic

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renewal.

Importance

expanding

direct

should be

democracy

attached to in

the Party and the government,

building

overcoming

situations where the Party relaxes leadership or taking over the functions, responsibilities of the management and execution of the authorities. Review

the

pilot

implementation

of

abolition of people's councils at district and ward levels, direct election of party secretary at party congresses; election of heads of the communal

authorities

by

popular

votes;

integrate the posts of party committee secretary and chairman of the people's committee . On this basis, select effective methods that contribute to renewing the methods and strengthening the Party's leadership, improve the efficiency and effectiveness of management and execution of the authorities and promote the people's right to mastery, particularly direct democracy. Complete the mechanism for the people to give opinions, comments and social feedback, and supervise the work ofthe Party and the State, especially on socio-economic policies, important development master plans, programmes and projects . Stipulate

regulations

on providing

information and accountability of state agencies to the people. Complete the regulations on democracy at grassroots levels . Promote the role of socio-political, social organisations and each individual in managing and organising the life of community in line with the law.

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VI. ORGANISE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STRATEGY

Successfully implement the 2011-2020 Socioeconomic Development Strategy is the key task of the entire Party, people, army, authorities at all levels, and branches from central to grassroots levels . Attention should be focused on performing the following tasks : Party committees, organisations and boards must guide the study to thoroughly grasp the content of the Strategy in the entire Party, people and army, and authorities at all levels, and increase the leadership, creating awareness and actions in implementing the Strategy effectively.

The National Assembly party organisation influences the perfection of the legal system and supervises the strategy implementation . The Government party board instructs the building and

organisation

action

of the

programmes,

implementation

strategies,

of

development

master plans for sectors and regions to ensure that the nation's advantages are fully tapped and all resources used effectively. Guide the implementation of three strategic breakthrough links, the economic restructuring process, the growth model shifting, the five-year and yearly socio-economic development plans and national programmes . Build mechanisms

and

establish regular

supervision to assess the implementation of the Strategy. While implementing the Strategy,

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the Party Central Committee and Politburo will make decisions on pilot implementation in case any issue requires further amendment. Promote

the

role

of

the

Việt

Nam

Fatherland Front, mass organisations, and social organisations; build mechanisms for promoting the people's role in carrying out and overseeing the implementation of the Strategy.

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CONTINUE ENHANCING THE PARTY'S LEADERSHIP CAPACITY AND COMBATIVENESS , PROMOTING THE ENTIRE NATION'S STRENGTH , COMPREHENSIVELY BOOSTING THE RENEWAL PROCESS , CREATING FOUNDATIONS FOR MAKING VIỆT NAM A MODERNITY-ORIENTED INDUSTRIAL COUNTRY BY 2020 (Political Report of the Communist Party of Việt Nam's 10th Central Committee tothe 11th National Party Congress)

The

11th

National

Party

Congress

convenes at a time when the Party and the people have concluded the first decade of the 21st

century

by

successfully

the guidelines and tasks Congress ' Resolution;

implementing

of the

10th

Party

undertaken 25 years

of renewal, 20 years long implementation of the Political Program for National Construction During the Period of Transition to Socialism (the 1991 Political Program) and the completion of 10 years' implementation of the Strategy for Socio-Economic Development for 2001-2010. The Congress is responsible for reviewing the

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implementation of the 10th Party Congress' Resolution and mapping out orientations and tasks

in the five-year period

of 2011-2015;

reviewing the implementation of the ten-year Strategy for Socio - Economic Development for 2001-2010 and deciding the ten- year Strategy for Socio- Economic Development for 2011-2020. The Congress is also entrusted with the task of reviewing, supplementing and developing the

1991

Political

Program;

reviewing the

leadership of the 10th Party Central Committee; supplementing and revising the Party Statutes; and electing the 11th Party Central Committee (the 2011-2015 Tenure) . The Congress is of great significance to the extent that it guides the whole Party and people to further enhance the Party's leadership capacity and combativeness,

bring into full play the

entire nation's strength, comprehensively boost the renewal process, and lay the foundation for the country to become a modernity-oriented industrial

country by 2020,

and

a

modern

industrial country with socialist orientation by the mid-21st century.

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I- REVIEWING THE FIVE-YEAR IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 10TH PARTY CONGRESS' RESOLUTION; LOOKING BACK ON 10 YEARS' IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STRATEGY FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR 2001-2010, AND 20 YEARS' IMPLEMENTATION OF THE 1991 POLITICAL PROGRAM

During the past five years, the world has seen complicated and unpredictable developments . Although peace, co-operation and development remained a major trend, conflicts,

terrorism,

local

wars,

socio-political

armed

instability,

and sovereign and territorial disputes continued to occur in many places. Natural disasters, energy environmental epidemics, crisis, pollution, and climate

change have become

serious issues on a global scale. The financial crisis that originated in the United States has spread out to become a global financial crisis and economic downturn. During the

period

after

the

10th

Party

Congress, the country has developed in a favorable manner and become a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO) .

However,

since the end of 2007 and early 2008, the country's economy and the people's lives have faced numerous difficulties. Hostile forces continued their sabotage acts, stirred up subversive unrest, and intensified the "peaceful evolution ." In this context, our entire Party and people have strived to

avert difficulties and challenges, recording

important achievements in fulfilling objectives and

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tasks adopted at the 10th Party Congress, even though we stillface many shortcomings and weaknesses that need to be addressed.

A - ACHIEVEMENTS 1. The economy has overcome numerous difficulties stability

and

has

challenges;

been

macro-economic

maintained;

economic

growth has been sustained at a satisfactory level; potential and scale of the economy has been enlarged; the country has lifted itself from underdevelopment status. The average

economic growth rate

was

posted at 7 per cent annually during the past five years. Total social investment capital was 2.5 times higher than that of the 2001-2005 period, accounting for 42.9 per cent of GDP. Despite the global financial crisis and economic downturn, our country has attracted foreign investment capital at a high level. ' In 2010, estimated GDP by current price was US $ 101.6 billion, 3.26 times higher than that of 2000; the average GDP per capita was US $1,168 . Most sectors and areas of the economy have recorded satisfactory developments. The

1

In the five year period of 2006-2010, total realized FDI was almost US $45 billion, exceeding the set plan by 77 per cent. Total newly registered and increased capital volume was estimated at US $ 146.8 billion , 2.7 times higher than the set plan and 7 times higher than that of the 2001-2005 period. Total committed ODA capital was over US $31 billion, 1.3 times higher than the set target, in which disbursed capital was estimated at approximately US $ 13.8 billion, exceeding the set target by 17.5 per cent.

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stable development of agriculture, especially food production has ensured national food security. The rural economy and farmers' lives have been further improved . The focus on investment to building rural infrastructure, developing new breeds of high quality and productivity, and developing industrial complexes, trading villages and home crafts, etc has produced positive effects on production, job creation, hunger eradication . and poverty reduction . Industrial products have been more plentiful and diverse. The quality has improved greatly while the level of competition has also increased, thus ensuring supply and demand

of the

economy,

firmly upholding

domestic market share and expanding export markets. There have also been investments in a number of new industries and high-tech sectors. The

services

sector

has

experienced

stable

growth rate. Economic structure has further been shifted towards the line of industrialization and modernization. Labor structure has also been positively shifted.¹

Socialist-oriented

market economy insti-

tutions have been further built and perfected; the Party's renewal guidelines and orientations 1

The proportion of industrial sector in the GDP structure increased to 41.1 per cent in 2010 from 41 per cent in 2005; services sector increases to 38.3 per cent in 2010 from 38 per cent in 2005 ; agriculture sector is down to 20.6 per cent in 2010 from 21 per cent in 2005. The proportion of labor in agriculture is down to 48.2 per cent in 2010 from 57.1 per cent in 2005 ; labor in industry and construction increases to 22.4 per cent in 2010 from 18.2 per cent in 2005 ; labor in services increases to 29.4 per cent in 2010 from 24.7 per cent in 2005.

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have been further institutionalized in laws, and

regulations

highly

and

adequate;

policies

investment

have

and

been

business

environment have been improved; market elements and various markets have been further developed; multi- sector economy has seen steps of robust development. The strengthening of State corporations and pilot establishment of State economic groups have achievements. In the

gained certain

2006-2010

period, the

country's enterprises have increased 2.3 times in terms of quantity and 7.3 times in terms of capital compared to five years earlier. Jointstock enterprises have become a common type of production and business.

2. Progress has been made in education and training, science and technology, culture and social fields; the protection of natural resources and environment has been given more attention; the living standards of people from all strata have been improved . Education renewal has seen initial results. State

budget

for

education

and

training

accounted for over 20 per cent of the overall budget expenditure; attention has been paid to the mobilization of social resources for education

and

education and

training,

development

training in isolated ,

of

remote,

difficulty-ridden and ethnic minority areas. The scope of education has been further enlarged . As of 2010, all provinces and cities have achieved intermediate education universalization .

The

ratio of trained workers has been on the rise,

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reaching 40 per cent of the workforce in 2010 . Research

and

application

of

scientific

and

technological advances have been strengthened, thus contributing to the promotion of socioeconomic development. Innovation has been seen in the management of science and technology, including the implementation of a self- control mechanism in science and technology involving non-productive units. Investments in science and technology have also been increased . Job creation, hunger eradication and poverty reduction, and implementation of the policy tailored for people and families with meritorious services to the

country

and

social welfare

policies have recorded positive results . Over the past five years, jobs have been created for more 1 than 8 million people; the rate of unemployment in urban areas has been brought down to below

4.5 per cent, while the rate of poor households has been reduced to 9.5 per cent. Important progress have been made in population work and family planning, care and protection of the people's health, gender equality, and women advancement; the level of people's access to healthcare services has increased, especially that of children, poor people, and ethnic minorities . The Human Development Index has increased steadily. ' Việt Nam has accomplished most of the UN Millennium Development Goals . 1

Việt Nam's 2008 HDI increased to 0.733 from 0.683 in 2000 , ranking 100th out of 177 countries and belonging to the medium group. Việt Nam accomplished six out ofeight groups of Millennium Development Goals that the UN set forth for developing countries by 2015 .

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Cultural information, activities

activities, physical

have

literature education

been

expanded,

and and

arts, sports

gradually

meeting people's increasing cultural demands. The movement for "the entire people to unite and build a cultural life" has gradually grown qualitatively.

There

been

has

higher

awareness

of

environmental protection . The prevention and control of environmental deterioration and pollution have received ample attention and yielded positive results . Progress has been made in the conservation of nature and protection of biological diversity. The national program to respond to climate change has been implemented at early stages . 3.

National

defense

and

security,

and

external relations have been strengthened

National independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity, socialist system, political security, been

and

social

order

firmly maintained .

and

safety

All- people

have

national

defense and people's security posture have been consolidated; national defense and security potentials have been strengthened, especially in strategic and complicated areas. Education work in imparting national defense and security knowledge has been carried out at a large scale. More attention has been paid in the co-ordination of national defense, security and external affairs . The People's Army and People's Public Security forces have been further consolidated

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to build regular, well-trained, revolutionary and gradually modernized forces . They are truly trusted forces of the Party, State and people and have fulfilled their advisory role and contributed to foiling the hostile forces' ploys of "peaceful evolution",

and

preventing

disturbance and subversion.

unrest,

violent

They have

also

effectively prevented and dealt with activities. of political opportunism and crimes, especially dangerous and organized crimes, drug crimes, foreigner-related crimes, high tech-use crimes, offensive weapons-use crimes, crimes against persons

on

participated

duty; in

actively

and

socio-economic

effectively

development

programs, search and rescue activities, and fights against natural disasters . External relations have been broadened and further developed, creating a new position of strength for the country. This is demonstrated through the

development

of relations

with

neighboring countries and the establishment of relations frameworks with important partners. Accomplish

land

border

demarcation

and

landmark planting along the Việt Nam-China borderline; thicken the Việt Nam-Laos landmark system; record partial accomplishment of land border

demarcation

and

landmark

planting

along the Việt Nam -Cambodia borderline; carry out the initial negotiations with China regarding the demarcation of the waters off the Tonkin Gulf and the promotion of negotiations with concerned countries regarding the demarcation of the south-west waters. Việt Nam has actively and responsibly participated in regional and

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international

fora;

successfully

undertaken

its non-permanent membership of the United Nations

Security

Council;

made

important

contributions in building the ASEAN community and ASEAN Charter and successfully fulfilled its chairmanship of ASEAN and AIPA. The Party's relations with communist and workers' parties, left parties, ruling parties and some other parties, and people-to-people relations have been further expanded. Positive results have been recorded in work relating to overseas Vietnamese . Việt Nam has fully fulfilled its international commitments and held open dialogues on freedom, democracy and human rights .

Our

country

Organization multilateral

and free

joined

the

concluded trade

Trade

World bilateral

agreements

and

with

a

number of important partners; broadened and strengthened cooperation with various partners; made an important contribution to building and enlarging Việt Nam's commodity and services markets and investment, attracted direct foreign investment, and made use of ODA and other sources of international assistance .

4. Socialist democracy has made progress; the strength of great national unity has been consolidated The Party and State continued to map out many guidelines and policies in order to further promote the people's right to mastery, ensure the people's

interests

and their supervisory

role over the operations of Party organizations,

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State civil

agencies,

cadres,

Party

members,

servants . Many innovations

have

and been

seen in mass mobilization work of the political system, both in terms of contents and forms. Party

committees

and

administrations

have

held dialogues with people from various walks of life, and respected their different opinions . Democracy within the Party, organizations and the society has been promoted; the people's right as the owner has been further strengthened . The protection of citizens' legitimate rights and interests and the settlement of law-breaking acts have been given due attention . The great national unity bloc based on the working class-peasantry-intelligentsia

alliance

under the Party's leadership has been further broadened with the common goal of fostering a prosperous people, a strong country and an equitable,

democratic

and

civilized

society.

The Việt Nam Fatherland Front and people's organizations have done a good job of rallying and building the great national unity bloc; consolidated and widened the organization, developed membership, and organized many movements

and

campaigns

with

practical

results . Along with the State, they have protected the

people's legitimate rights and interests, participated in the governance of the State and

society, and actively contributed to the country's achievements .

5. The building of a socialist law-governed State has been accelerated; the effectiveness and efficiency of its operation have been heightened

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The National Assembly has been further improved

in

innovation,

terms

thus

of

organization

improving

and

quality

the

of

its performance . The law system has been Assembly's National supplemented . The supervisory work has focused

on the

most

urgent issues of the country. Discussions and decisions on socio-economic development plans, State budget estimates, and national key projects have shown qualitative and substantial results . The National Assembly's Standing Committee, Nationality have

made

Council many

and

other

Committees

improvements

regarding

contents and methods of their operation and highlighted the responsibility of the National Assembly deputies. The

structure

and

organization

Government have been rearranged,

of the adjusted

and streamlined toward the development of multi-branch

and

multi-domain

authorities.¹

The managerial and executive works of the Government and its ministries have been highly dynamic, with more attention paid to macro management and solutions to major and important issues. Further attention has been paid to administrative reform; administrative procedures have been reviewed and coordinated into a single set of widely publicized procedures. Attentive direction has been given to the pilot innovation of the organization and mechanism of the local administrations (the removal of people's

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The number of ministries and agencies belonging to the Government has been reduced from 29 to 22.

council at district and commune levels) and many lessons have been learnt from this process . Certain changes have been made in the organization and operation of judicial agencies . Initial results have recorded an increase in jurisdiction for district courts, improvement of litigation quality at the trials, and empowerment of the role of lawyers in legal proceedings. The implementation of the proceedings is getting better, thus helping limit the number of unjust investigation, prosecution, trial or criminal missout. The quality of investigation, prosecution, trial and execution has also improved .

The

implementation

of the

Resolution

of the 3rd Plenum of the Communist Party of Việt

Nam Central Committee

(10th Tenure)

on the enhancement of the Party's leadership preventing and fighting corruption and wastefulness and in enforcing the Anti- corruption

in

Law and the Law on Practicing Thrift and Combating Wastefulness has received attention and achieved certain results . Many corruption cases have been brought to trial. Wastefulness and corruption in certain areas have been gradually curbed . 6. Party building and rectification work have been enhanced and gained positive results In theoretical work, many theoretical and practical issues of the renewal process, emerging evolutions

of the world,

and

scientific

and

revolutionary values of Marxism-Leninism and Hồ Chí Minh Thought have been proactively

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studied; the review and development of the 1991 Political Program and the building of the Strategy for socio-economic development in the 10-year period of 2011-2020 and other documents for submission to the 11th Party Congress have become a focus in the Party's theoretical work. Political and ideological communication education works have also been renewed . The task of building ethics for cadres, Party members and people has been further emphasized; through some guidance, there have been initial results in the campaign of "Studying and following Hồ Chí Minh's moral example", attached with the task of Party building and rectification; the fight against "peaceful evolution" and the rejection of wrong perspectives and hostile forces ' propaganda have been carried out more proactively. Information communication and activities, press and publishing work have been adequately guided; due attention has been paid to the prevention and correction of deviations, especially acts deviated from goals and mottos . External communication work has been intensified . The majority of cadres, Party members and people were pleased and confident in the Party and State, the renewal process and the prospect for development of the country. Positive thinking remains prevalent in social life .

Organizational and personnel work have been carried out in a relatively unified manner. Organizational

apparatus

of the

Party

and

State agencies has been reorganized and consolidated toward streamlining and improved

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efficiency.

Regulations

operating methods,

on

functions,

tasks,

and working procedures

of each organization have been developed and supplemented; many regulations on coordination mechanism between agencies of the political system have been issued . The organization and operation of Party caucuses, designated Party representations in executive and judiciary bodies at central and provincial levels, designated Party representation and Party organization model in non-productive units of the Government have been reviewed in order to draw lessons and define the work better.

Many guidelines, viewpoints and solutions to personnel work have been institutionalized and

specified

into

rules

Management, evaluation,

and

regulations .

selection,

planning,

training, retraining, transfer, assignment, and the use and implementation of personnel policies have been done in a relatively unified manner. Planning, training and transferring cadres have seen positive improvements . Decentralization in personnel work has been enhanced . The cadre contingent has been supplemented in term of both quality and quantity. The consolidation and enhancement of the leadership capacity and combativeness of Party organizations and the quality of cadres and Party members have recorded certain results; more attention has been paid to building and consolidating

grassroots

Party

organizations

in important and disadvantaged areas. The functions of various types of grassroots Party

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organizations have been defined to become more suitable. The

recruitment,

management,

and

quality improvement of Party members have been adequately directed . The number of newly admitted Party members has increased annually; the ratio of new members who are young, female, intellectuals

and from ethnic minorities has

increased compared to the previous term . After more than two years of implementing Regulation No.15-QD/TW dated August 28, 2006 of the Party Central Committee (10th tenure) on Party members with private businesses , many Party members who previously worked for Party and State organizations, socio-political organizations, the armed forces, and State-owned enterprises have started private business to legitimately improve their economic conditions and contribute to the country's socio-economic development. The

protection

of the

internal

politics

has

received adequate guidance from the Party's committees and Party organizations ; problems related to the political backgrounds have been further dealt with and special attention has been given to studying and dealing with current political issues. The Party's examination and supervision work has been given due attention and

its

efficiency improved . The Party's committees at all levels have successfully directed the inspection of implementation of the Party's resolutions and directives, projects and programs, land use and management, investment in capital construction, fight against corruption and wastefulness, thrift

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practice and personnel work; strictly handled cases

of Party

involved

in

members

and

wrongdoings,

organizations

contributed

to

preventing violations, enforcing discipline and order, and promoting the realization of political tasks . Functions, duties, authority, organizational structure, and operating conditions of inspection commission and inspection agencies at all levels have been further clarified. The modes of Party leadership have been renewed, ensuring the Party's leadership while at the same time promoting initiatives and creativity of the organizations in the political system. The expansion and promotion of democracy within the Party have been emphasized; direct election of

standing

committee,

secretaries,

deputy

secretaries at Party congress has been piloted . Working styles and procedures of the Party's leading bodies from central to grassroots levels have been further improved towards closely following the grassroots and strong ties with the people, and enhancing supervision, control and monitoring. B -SHORTCOMINGS AND WEAKNESSES 1. Economic development is not sustainable yet;

quality,

efficiency

and

competitiveness

remain low and incommensurate with potential, opportunities and development requirements of the country; certain targets have not been reached. Economic growth has been fuelled mainly by increased investment and exploitation of

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natural resources; the macro-economic balance is not stable. Manufacturing and processing industries developed slowly; outsourcing and assembling work still represent a large share . Economic

structure

among

industries

and

areas has positively shifted, but at a slow pace. Structure within each industry has not been fully balanced . Labor productivity remains very low in comparison to other countries in the region. National competitiveness has slowly improved . Investments are still scattered widely. Efficiency of investment capital use is low and there has been a waste and loss of investment capital, particularly

that

of the

State.

Infrastructure

system has developed slowly, especially in ethnic minority areas. Quality ofmany basic construction projects

remains

poor.

The

management,

exploitation and use of natural resources is inefficient and wasteful . Illegal exploitation of forests and minerals is still prevalent and timely measures are yet to be taken to put an end to the problem. Gaps in development levels between regions are big and still widening . Targets of economic growth (GDP) and economic structure shifting set by the 10th Party Congress have not been reached.¹

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Five-year average growth rate is 7 per cent (target set by the 10th Congress was between 7.5 and 8 per cent, striving for over 8.5 per cent per year) . Regarding sector proportion within GDP, industry and construction is 41.1 per cent (target was between 43 and 44 per cent) ; services is 38.3 per cent (target was between 40 and 41 per cent); agriculture is 20.6 per cent (target was between 15 and 16 per cent)..

Adequate attention has not been paid to the factors which ensure socialist orientation of the market economy. Certain State economic groups and

enterprises

still

grapple

with business

losses, sparking pressing concerns in society. Directions to renovate and develop collective economy, State-run farms and afforestation yards have been slow; the quality of making and implementation of development plans in certain sectors and regions, especially in land and

minerals

use

planning,

remains

poor,

thereby causing waste and big losses . Confusion, loopholes and inadequate control have been seen in market management, especially in real estate and financial markets, leading to speculation and illicit enrichment for certain people; distribution policies remain irrelevant. 2. There are still many shortcomings and weaknesses in the fields of education and training,

science

and

technology,

culture,

social affairs, and the environment, leading to pressing concerns in society. The quality of education and training has failed to meet the requirements of development, especially that of high-level human resources training; there has not been a vigorous shift in education and training to meet the demands of the society. The relationship between increasing the quantity and scale and improving the quality and between teaching and educating people have not been properly maintained . Programs, contents, teaching and learning methods remain obsolete;

education

structure

has

not

been

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reasonable between various educational domains; the quality of comprehensive education has declined and failed to meet the requirements of industrialization and modernization . Confusion remains in the State governance of education. The trend of commercialization and the decline of morality in the education sector have been slowly fixed with poor efficiency, becoming a pressing concern for the society.

Science

and technology have

not really

become driving forces and are yet to be closely linked to socio-economic development objectives and tasks . The market for science and technology remains primitive . We are yet to create an effective connection between research, training and business and production. Investment in science and technology remains low and has not been used effectively. The level of technology is low and slow in renewal. Jobs are still inadequate. Wage and income policies have failed to encourage cadres, civil servants

and

workers

to become loyal

and

dedicated to their jobs . A part of the population, especially those in mountainous and remote areas, continue to live with many difficulties. Hunger elimination and poverty reduction have not been sustainable; the ratio of people falling back on poverty is high. The gap between the rich and the poor remains relatively big and is widening. The quality of health care remains low ; the health care system and the quality of health care services have failed to meet the medical

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demands

of the

people,

especially

that of the poor, the people in hinterland and remote areas and the people in ethnic minority areas. Food safety and hygiene has not been closely controlled . Cultural

development

has

not

been

commensurate with economic growth. Management has been lax in the fields of culture, literature and arts, press and publication . Culture environment is affected by miscellaneous factors which are unfamiliar with habits and traditional customs . Social

evils,

crime

and

the influence of harmful products and services which degrade people's morality, especially those within adolescents and youngsters , are worrying problems . The

making

of

laws

and

policies

on

environmental protection has been slow and not strict in enforcement, resulting in low efficiency and effectiveness. The environment in many areas has been further degraded ; in certain areas, the problem has become alarming.

Research

and forecasting work on the impacts of climate change has not done properly; the consequences of natural disasters remain severe.

Socialization workhas not been strengthened; resources beyond State budget have not been mobilized for the development of education and training, science and technology, culture and for the dealing with social and environmental issues . 3. Certain shortcomings still remain in the fields of national defense, security and external relations

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A number

of the

10th

Congress'

Party

viewpoints and guidelines on the tasks of national defense and security have not been realized on time. A number of cadres and Party members' awareness on all-people national defense and people's security is not complete and they lack vigilance over the "peaceful evolution" scheme of hostile forces and over internal “self-evolution" and

"self-transformation".

Shortcomings

still

exist in security protection in certain sectors; the handling of complex situations arising from the grassroots has not been effective in certain places; crime, social evils, political security and social order and safety in certain places remain complicated . Socio-economic development has not been closely combined with strengthening national defense strategic

regions

and security, such

as

seas

especially in and

islands.

Defense and security industry have not met the armed forces' needs . on Strategic research and forecasting external relations has shown weaknesses in certain aspects. Coordination among the Party's external relations sphere, State diplomacy and people's diplomacy and among external politics, economy and culture have not been properly synchronized. 4. Democracy and the strength of great national unity have not been realized

The people's mastery right has still been violated

in

certain

places .

The

practice

of

democracy remains formalistic and in some

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cases it has been abused to sow internal division and discordance and to undermine social order and safety. The Party's guidelines and viewpoints on national unity and the rights and interests of the people have not been fully institutionalized into

laws;

in

institutionalized enforced;

other into

cases, laws

supervisions

they but

are

have not

not

been

strictly

conducted

regularly; there has been a gap between policy and actual implementation. There have been limitation in communication and mobilization movements and campaigns launched by the Fatherland Front and people's

organizations.

Activities of the Fatherland Front and people's organizations have failed to connect with the people of all strata and the grassroots.

5. The socialist law-governed State is yet to meet the requirements of national economic development and management There is a lack of competence in institutional building, management and law enforcement organization. Organizational apparatus in many agencies are not rational and the number of regular cadres and civil servants has increased; functions and duties of certain agencies overlap and are not clear. The quality of the contingent of cadres and civil servants do not meet the duty requirements in the new context of the country. Administrative reform has not met the set requirements ; administrative procedures are still troublesome for organizations and citizens .

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Forecasting capability, effectiveness and efficiency of State governance in certain areas remain weak; decentralization has been carried out but there has not been adequate control and monitoring; social

order

and

disciplines

are

not

strict .

Judicial reform is slow. Investigation, detention, prosecution and adjudication in certain cases are inaccurate; the number of stocked, canceled and corrected cases remains high.

The prevention and fight against corruption and

wastefulness

requirements . wastefulness the society.

are

Bureaucracy, remain

meet the

yet to

corruption

pressing

concerns

set and in

6. The shortcomings and weaknesses in Party building have not been rectified Theoretical researches and practical reviews have failed to clarify certain issues related to the ruling Party, socialism and the path toward socialism

in

our

country.

Combativeness,

persuasiveness and efficiency in ideological work remain limited, and lack sharpness in combating "peaceful

evolution"

maneuvers.

There

has

been political, ideological, ethical and lifestyle degradation in a segment of cadres . Corruption, waste, bureaucratism, negative practices and social evils have not been checked and continue to exist. This, combined with the gap between the rich and the poor and weak governance in certain sectors has reduced the people's confidence in the Party and the State, threatening the stability and development of the country. The campaign

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"To learn from and follow Hồ Chí Minh's moral example" has not really reached its depth, and remains formalistic in certain places; its effect is far from high and there have not been as many activities to follow Hồ Chí Minh's moral example as expected .

The apparatuses of certain Party and State agencies and socio- political organizations are not efficient; their functions, tasks and interrelations are not clearly defined . Renewals in personnel work have been slow;there are no concrete mechanisms and policies to promote democracy in personnel work, and identify and utilize the talents; renewing procedures for personnel evaluation, and

resignation

appointment,

remains

slow;

dismissal personnel

evaluation is still inefficient. Practices of paying for position, power, offence exemption, certificate and awards are yet to be addressed . Personnel work lacks a long-term vision and personnel training and capacity building is of low quality. Work environment and personnel policies have neither motivated the people nor promoted their capacities and contributions . A number

of Party

organizations

lack

leadership capacity and combativeness ; Party life lacks regularity, meeting contents are poor and lack self-criticism . The building of grassroots Party organizations in private and foreign-invested enterprises have been slow. Certain people have shown erroneous

and

opportunistic motivations while seeking Party membership .

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The treatment, employment and administration of cadres and Party members with problematic political backgrounds lack strictness . There are no concrete solutions to the current political problems of cadres and Party members due to the absence od adequate guidance from many Party committees and organizations. Many Party committees and organizations have not conducted proper Party inspection, supervision

and

discipline

enforcement,

leading to degraded and inefficent work; the implementation of Party guidelines, decisions, instructions, resolutions and the Party Statutes, as well as preventive control and supervision of negative attention.

factors

have

not

Many shortcomings

received and

due

mistakes

of Party organizations and members have not been discovered in time. Lack of responsibility, opportunism and moral and lifestyle degradation are still rampant in a segment of civil servants and employees and Party members. Discipline and order are lax in many Party organizations. Solidarity and unanimity is not well maintained in certain Party organizations . Certain units of the Party, administration, the Fatherland Front and people's organizations have not paid sufficient attention to mass mobilization. The content and methods of mass mobilization remain highly bureaucratic.

The mode forthe Party's leadership over the State, the Fatherland Front and socio- political organizations has not been clearly defined . The functions

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of Party caucuses

and

designated

representations

have

not

been

specified

in

certain fields, resulting in operational confusion. Innovation in working style has been slow. The principle of democratic centralism has still been infringed upon, impairing intra-Party unity.

In sum, over the past five years, despite the impacts of the global financial crisis and economic downturn,

our

Party

and

people

have made great efforts and gained important achievements. Results have been achieved while responding to complicated developments of the domestic and world economy. Macro-economic stability has been basically maintained . Economic growth has been sustained at a satisfactory rate; all sectors have developed and the economy has increased in scale; the people's living standards have continued to improve; the socio- political situation has remained stable; national defense and security have been strengthened; national independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity have been firmly safeguarded; external relations and international integration have been expanded, the international standing of our country has been raised; democracy promotion has made progress, the great national unity bloc has been consolidated; Party building and political system enhancement have achieved positive results. The achievements recorded over the five years' implementation of the Resolution of the 10th National Congress have made significant contributions to the successful execution of

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the ten years' implementation of the 2001-2010 Strategy for Socio-Economic Development and the twenty years' realization of the Political Program for National Construction during the Period of Transition to Socialism. The ten years' implementation of the 20012010

Strategy for Socio-Economic Development has in reality sped up industrialization and modernization, developed the socialist- oriented

market economy and international integration, leading to very important achievements. The economy has grown rapidly, with an average rate of7.26% per year. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2010 was 3.26 times higher compared to 2000; national budget revenues and export turnover were five times higher than in 2000; average life expectancy has increased from 67 years to 72.8 years.

The achievements made in the twenty years' implementation of the Political Program are historically significant. The country has gained initial successes in carrying out the renewal process and lifted itself from underdevelopment, the country's physiognomy and the people's life have seen many changes; our synergy has been enhanced in all aspects; national independence, sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity and the socialist system have been firmly maintained , Việt

Nam's

position

and

prestige

in

the

international arena have been heightened; and premises have been created for the continued development of our country.

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The achievements recorded over the pastfive years result from the judicious leadership and guidance of

the

Party

Central

Committee,

Political

Bureau, Secretariat, and Party committees in the implementation of the Resolution of the 10th National Congress, as well as their timely and successful handling of newly emerging issues; the innovation and improvement of operations of the National Assembly and elected bodies; the dynamic governance of the Government and local authorities at different levels; and the efforts of the Fatherland Front and people's organizations, cadres and Party members, the people from all walks of life and the business community. The context of international integration offers many opportunities

and

favorable

conditions

for

national development . However, a number of targets and tasks set by the 10th National Congress have not been fulfilled . Economic growth has not been sustainable, the quality, efficiency and competitiveness of the economy remain low; economic restructuring toward industrialization and modernization has been slow; irrationalities

remain in the

distribution system, social polarization has increased . Limitations and weaknesses in education, training, science, technology, culture, social

affairs,

and

environmental

protection

have been slow to be addressed ; bureaucratism, corruption, ethical

waste,

crimes,

and lifestyle

social

degradation

vices, have

and not

been prevented . Market economic institutions, human

resources

quality,

and

infrastructure

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remain

inadequate .

Socialist democracy

and

the strength of national unity have not been realized .

There

still

remain

potentials

for

socio-political instability.

The limitations and weaknesses have objective causes, including impacts of the global financial crisis and economic recession; natural disasters and

epidemics;

inherent

weaknesses

of the

economy; and attacks from hostile forces. But, the direct and most decisive causes are subjective ones, inlcuding: Theoretical researches and practical reviews in general have not met requirements. Perception on many concrete issues related to the renewal process are limited and inconsistent. Forecasting is inefficient in many domains . Party leadership and guidance and State governance in certain fields lack focus and determination; discipline

and

order

lack

strictness.

The

organization of implementation remains a weak link. The capacity and virtues of a segment of cadres, Party members, civil servants and employees are inadequate. The Central Committee wishes to criticize itself before the Congress and the people for the weaknesses and limitations which hinder the recorded achievements . From the practice of leading and instructing the implementation of the Resolution of the 10th National Congress, the following lessons can be drawn:

First,

in

whatever

condition,

persist

in

implementing the renewal guidelines and objectives,

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creatively apply and develop Marxism-Leninism and Hồ Chí Minh Thought, and be firm with the goals of national independence and socialism . Comprehensive renewal should be carried out with appropriate steps . Active international economic integration is essential for the development of an independent and self-reliant economy and the preservation of national

traditions

and

identity.

cultural

Democracy can be promoted through enhanced discipline, order and the sense of responsibility in every individual, agency, unit, enterprise and the whole community.

Second, attach importance to growth quality and efficiency and sustainable development, raise the

quality

and

efficiency

of the

economy

while sustaining a reasonable growth rate and macro-economic stability. Internal and external resources should be further mobilized and utilized economically and efficiently to accelerate economic growth. Development of productive should be linked with establishing

forces

corresponding

production

relations;

guaranteeing the socialist orientation

factors of the

economy should be consolidated and enhanced. Third,

emphasize

the

close

combination

of

economic growth with the execution ofsocial progress and equity; ensure social security, care for material and spiritual life of the people, particularly the poor and inhabitants of mountainous and remote areas, especially in the context of economic difficulty

and

recession;

associate

economic

development with cultural development, national defense and security consolidation, and external

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relations expansion, successfully fulfilling the two strategic tasks of national construction and defense .

Fourth,

particular

pay

attention

to

consolidating and building the Party politically, ideologically

organizationally.

and

Promote

democracy, hold firmly to principles, discipline and order; maintain unity and unanimity, have close ties with the people, respect and promote the people's right to

mastery,

rely

on the people for Party building; develop a contingent of cadres and Party members who are politically and ideologically steadfast, clean in ethics and lifestyle, and highly combative and professionally proficient; promote the effectiveness and efficiency of State governance, and the proactiveness and creativity of the Fatherland Front and the people's organizations . Fifth,

leadership

and

guidance

should

be

sharp, determined and creative, closely following realities

of the

country;

attach

importance

suggesting solutions to forecasting while relevant to new situations; enhance information and communication, create a high degree of consensus, thus bringing into full play the synergy of the political system and society as a whole.

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II. CONTINUING THE COMPREHENSIVE PROMOTION OF THE RENEWAL PROCESS ALONG THE PATH OF SOCIALISM ; ORIENTATIONS AND TASKS OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE FIVEYEAR PERIOD (2011-2015) 1. Forecasts for the world and domestic situation in the coming years

Although peace,

co-operation

and

deve-

lopment remain a major trend in the world, there are embedded with new complicated developments, uncertainties and unpredictable factors. Tensions, religious and ethnic conflicts, violence, political wars, local secession, intervention, subversion, and terrorism will still be prevalent; non-traditional security threats, hi-tech crimes in the fields of finance, currency, electronics, telecommunication , biology, ronment, etc will continue to increase. A

multi-polar

world

physiognomy

envi-

will

become increasingly clearer, the trend for democratization of international relations will continue to grow and yet the superpowers will continue to dominate international relations. Globalization

and the

scientific- technological

revolution will develop vigorously,

speeding

up the formation of the information society and knowledge-based economy. Despite signs of post-crisis recovery, the world economy is still ridden with difficulties and instabilities; protectionism will be exercised in different forms, restructuring of economic institutions, sectors

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and domains programs will unfold forcefully in various countries; the co-relation of economic forces among countries, particularly big powers whose relations impact our country, will see many changes. Economic and trade competition, disputes over natural resources, energy, markets, technologies, capital, quality human resources, etc.. will become increasingly fierce . Global issues such as financial security, energy security, food security, climate change, rise in sea level, natural disasters, epidemics will continue to challenge the nations in the world . The common struggle for peace, national independence, people's livelihood, democracy and social progress will keep growing. The national struggle and class struggle will continue to develop complicatedly. The Asia-Pacific, particularly Southeast Asia, will remain a region of dynamic development. However, destabilizing factors such as disputes over territory, seas and islands will become ever more intense. New forms of force rallying and new sets of intertwined interests will emerge. Despite

many

difficulties

and

challenges,

ASEAN will continue to play an important role in the region . In

the

country,

the

achievements

and

experiences of the 25 years of renewal (1986-2010) have created a better posture and strength for the country. The next five years will see our economy recover and regain growth after recession; more bilateral and multilateral trade agreements will be implemented; shortcomings and weaknesses in socio- economic fields, in building the Party and

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the political system will be addressed . However, our country will confront many great challenges that produce aggregate impacts and hence cannot be disregarded . The risk of economically lagging behind many countries in the region and the world still persists . Political, ideological, ethical and lifestyle degradation in quite a few segment of cadres,

Party

members,

accompanied by

bureaucratism, corruption and waste is serious . Hostile forces continue to execute the "peaceful evolution" scheme, stir up subversive unrest and use the cover of "democracy" and "human rights" to change our political system . Internally, there are divergences from the goal of socialism, "self-evolution and "self-transformation" . Overall, these developments and trends will present

both opportunities and challenges for

our national development in the next five years. 2. Continuing with comprehensive

and

strong renewal along the socialist path The realities and achievements of the 25year renewal and 20-year implementation of the Political Program for National Construction During the Period of Transition to Socialism (1991 Political Program) have proved that our Party's renewal guidelines are judicious and creative; advancing towards socialism is a correct choice corresponding with objective rules and realities of the Vietnamese revolution . Once again, we affirm that only socialism can ensure genuine independence

and

freedom

for

our

nation,

prosperity and development for our country,

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and a life of prosperity and happiness for our people . Reviewing the 20-year implementation of the 1991 Political Program, we can clearly see its historical significance and great directional values for the process of renewal along the socialist path; at the same time we can also have a better understanding of emerging issues that need to be addressed . At this Congress, our Party will consider and decide on amending and developing the 1991 Political Program as the political

and

ideological foundation for

all activities of the Party, State and people in the process of advancing the country towards socialism ; for making our country a modernityoriented

industrial country by 2020;

and

a

socialist-oriented modern industrial country by the mid - 21st century. For the successful establishment of socialism and the firm defense of the socialist Homeland, we

should

continue

the

renewal

process

comprehensively, and with higher quality and efficiency;

push

ahead

industrialization

and

modernization in association with development of a

knowledge-based

economy;

develop

a

market economy while addressing the social and environmental issues; build an advanced culture deeply imbued with national identity as the spiritual foundation of society; safeguard national defense and security; pursue a foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, peace, cooperation and development, engage actively and proactively in international integration; build

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socialist democracy, promote the strength of the great all-nation unity, consolidate and expand the national united front; build a socialist lawgoverned state of the people, by the people and for the people; shape a politically, ideologically and organizationally clean and strong Party. Special emphasis should be placed on handling major relationships such as those among renewal, stability and development; between economic renewal and political renewal; between market economy

and

developing

socialist

productive

orientation; forces

and

between gradually

improving socialist production relations; between economic growth, and cultural development and promotion of social progress and equity; between construction of socialism and defense of the socialist Homeland; between independence, selfreliance and international integration; between the Party's leadership, the State's governance, and the people's mastery.

3.

Objectives

development 2011-2015

in

and the

of

tasks five-year

national

period

of

The overall objectives of the next five years are: Continue enhancing the Party's leadership capacity

and

combativeness ;

step

up

the

comprehensive renewal process; build a clean and strong political system; promote democracy and

strengthen

the

great

all- nation

unity;

develop the economy rapidly and sustainably; improve the people's material

and

spiritual

life; maintain socio- political stability; increase

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external

activities;

firmly safeguard

national

independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity; create foundations for our country to become a modernity-oriented industrial country by 2020.

Key tasks: Stabilize the macro economy, innovate the growth

model

and

economic

structure,

raise the quality, efficiency and sustainability of development; mobilize and utilize all resources efficiently; build modern infrastructures . Further improve institutions market economy.

of

a

socialist-oriented

Develop and raise the quality of education, training and human resources; develop science, technology and a knowledge-based economy. Emphasize addressing job and income issues for workers and improving the people's material and spiritual life. Take a drastic step in exercising social

progress

and

equity,

ensuring

social

welfare and reducing the poverty rate; improve healthcare for the people . Continue to build an advanced culture deeply imbued with national identity, preserve and promote the nation's fine cultural values and at the same time absorb the quintessence of human culture. Protect the environment and be proactive in coping with natural disasters and climate change . Strengthen national defense and security potentials; national

maintain

territorial integrity,

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socio- political

independence, social

stability,

sovereignty, order

and

unity, safety;

prevent and foil all hostile forces' schemes; expand

and raise the

efficiency of external

activities, actively and proactively engage in international integration . Continue promoting democracy and the strength of national unity; raise the effectiveness and efficiency of the socialist law- governed state; improve the performance and efficiency of the National Assembly, the Government and local authorities; step up administrative and judicial reforms;

effectively and

corruption

bureaucratism,

combat

wastefulness .

Improve

the

performance of the Fatherland Front and people's organizations.

Push ahead Party building and political, ideological regularly

and

“learn

organizational and

follow

rectification;

Hồ Chí

Minh's

moral example"; enhance the Party's leadership capacity; build a steady Party, raise the quality of cadres and Party members; further innovate the Party's leadership mode. Main targets to strivefor: Average economic growth rate in the 5-year period (2011-2015) : 7-7.5 % per annum . GDP per capita in 2015: around US$2,000 . GDP structure : agriculture: 17-18%; industry and construction : 41-42%; services : 41-42% . Hi-tech products and hi-tech based products to account for 35% of GDP; trained workers to account for 55% of the total labor force. Export turnover to increase by 12% per annum on average; decrease trade deficits and strive for a trade balance

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by 2020. Total social investment capital in 5 years to account for 40% of GDP. State budget mobilization to make up 23-24% of GDP; state budget deficits to be reduced to 4.5% of GDP by 2015. Job creation for 8 million workers . Maintain population growth rate at around 1% and average life expectancy at 74 years by 2015. Decrease poor household incidences according to the new poverty line by 2% per annum on average.

Extend

forest

coverage to 42-43 %

by 2015.

III . INNOVATING GROWTH MODEL AND ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING ; ENHANCING INDUSTRIALIZATION, MODERNIZATION, AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

1. Innovate the growth model and economic structure, raise quality and efficiency, develop the economy rapidly and sustainably Shift the growth mode from mainly extensive development to harmoniously balanced extensiveintensive development, expanding in scale whilepaying attention to quality, efficiency and sustainability. Restructure the national economy, focusing on reshaping production and services sectors suitable for regions. Promote the restructuring and

adjustment

of

enterprise

development

strategy. Increase domestic values, added values and competitiveness of products, enterprises and the entire national economy.

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Continue improving the investment

and

business environment, using diverse incentive forms

to

attract

investment,

utilize

all available

mobilize

and

resources from different

economic sectors at home and abroad; promote internal resources while taking advantage of external resources for development. Encourage investment in industry, agriculture, high-tech services and technological innovation solutions, manufacturing

of

new

products,

etc

and

participate effectively in processes and stages with high scientific content and added value of the global production and distribution chain. Develop a wide range of sectors and industries to create jobs and income ; encourage and facilitate employees ' learning to improve their knowledge and skills, while introducing mechanisms and policies to identify and make good use of their talents. Promote the country's scientific and technological potentials and rapidly raise social productivity and economic growth . quality. Enhance linkages, develop properly potential and advantages of various economic regions; facilitate the development and promote key economic regions as locomotives that create radial-type effects attracting others.

2.

Develop

toward

industry

and

construction

modernization, lay the foundations

for an industrial

country while

enhancing

independent and autonomous economy Restructure and build the industry in the direction

of developing

strongly

sectors

with

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comparative advantages and strategic significance for rapid, efficient and sustainable development, enhance the economy's independence and autonomy to

enable its gradually

participation

in global

intensive

and

production

efficient

chains

and

distribution networks. Prioritize the development and completion of key projects on mechanical engineering; the production of machines and equipments to replace the imported ones in industry, agriculture, and construction; hightech industry manufacturing digital parts and computers; petroleum industry, electricity, coal, mining, chemicals, etc.;

support

security

steel,

industries,

industries

standards,

lower

with

cement,

fertilizers,

and

defense

high

technological

consumption

of

and

materials

and energy, and greater competitiveness and added value . Prioritize the development of industries that facilitate agriculture and rural areas, especially those

producing

equipment

for soil preparation,

and

machinery

harvesting, storing, and

processing of agricultural, forest- and fishery products, export staples, fertilizers, animal feeds, pesticides, etc.

Develop construction, help

industries and

accelerate

facilitating

labor-intensive

labor

transport,

industries

restructuring.

Focus

to on

developing loading equipment at seaports and airports, producing motor cars, locomotives, carriages, heavy transport vehicles, river and sea transport vessels; machinery for road and bridge construction,

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production

of building

materials, especially high quality materials, and electrical and telecommunications equipment. Gradually improve qualifications in designing, planning and construction quality assurance; modernize

construction

industry towards

a

leading regional level to meet the requirements for domestic construction and international bidding. Develop manufacture

capacity for research, design and of products with advanced

technologies and high added values, especially digital control devices and automotive systems eligible for export or import substitution, increase the share of localized product parts; establish

institutes

of industrial

technology,

technologies for the exploration of and

agricultural

technology,

with

minerals, adequate

capacity in technical and technological research and innovation; closely link scientific research and training institutions with production and business organizations . Rationally allocate industries across regions; raise the efficiency ofexisting industrial zones and clusters and step up industrial development in the form of product clusters and groups, thereby shaping large-scale and efficient industrial complexes; form and develop coastal combined economic zones and border economic zones. Strive for a five-year average annual increase of 7.8-8% in added value in industry and construction. 3. Comprehensively develop agriculture, forestry and fishery towards industrialization

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and modernization while properly handling issues related to farmers and rural areas Comprehensively develop

agriculture

toward

modernity, efficiency and sustainability, promote the advantages of tropical agriculture on the basis of land accumulation, mechanization, application of modern technologies (particularly bio-technology); of plants of

and

households,

restructure animals; farms,

the

develop

repartition economies

cooperative

agricultural cooperatives, specialized and agricultural zones, high-tech production the

"fours"

complexes . (farmers,

Efficiently scientists,

teams, zones, major connect

businesses,

and government) and develop small industry, handicrafts and services in rural areas . Develop farmers' associations and agricultural, forestry and fishery extension organizations, and facilitate their practical and efficient performance.

Develop large-scale environmentally friendly agricultural production with high productivity

and

competitiveness;

link

production

with processing and markets, expand export. Preserve areas planned for rice growing; ensure national food security and increase rice export value. Expand cultivated areas and apply high technologies to increase productivity and the quality of vegetables,

cash crops, fruits and

industrial crops . Develop animal husbandry through industrial and semi-industrial methods with advanced technologies . Sustainably develop forestry by focusing on productive,

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protective

and

special- use

forests;

increase afforestation areas and forest coverage to encourage investment by all economic sectors . Introduce incentive mechanisms and policies for farmers to raise their standard of living through forest planting, tending and protection; establish complexes linking materials on forest planting with forest products processing industry, develop specialized forest areas in order to ensure domestic raw materials for wood- processing and wood and paper industries. Strongly develop a diverse aquaculture, promote the respective advantages of different regions in linkage with the market; focus on industrial farming and intensive cultivation for fresh, and

salt

water fish; link cultivation with processing on the basis of food hygiene and safety. Encourage offshore fishing with high-tech applications for fishing field search and catching, and modernize fish processing plants. Build infrastructure and service facilities for aqua-products cultivation, processing and export.

Build a new countryside plan and develop rural areas, develop urban areas and arrange residential areas . Expand industries,

services

and traditional handicraft villages in connection with

environmental

protection .

Carry

out

the new countryside building program with suitable characteristics for each region in each phase; preserve and promote traditional cultural

values

of Việt

Nam's

rural

areas.

Speed up construction of rural infrastructure . Create a favorable environment for exploiting investment possibilities in agriculture and rural

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areas, especially for small and medium-sized businesses, and attract more laborers. Implement job training programs for about 1 million farmers annually;

Competently

implement

housing

support for the poor and social welfare policy beneficiaries, housing programs for residents in flood-hit areas; arrange residency to ensure safety for those living in riverside and coastal areas with high risks of flooding and landslide. Strive for an average annual increase of 2.6-3% in agricultural production in the 5-year period . In 2015, employees in agriculture are to account for 40-41 % of the total social labor force, and rural inhabitants' incomes to increase by 1.8 - 2 times over those in 2010.

4. Develop services, particularly financial, banking, commercial, tourist services and services with high added value Prioritize

the

development

and

modernization of financial, banking, telecom, commercial, tourist, transport, health care,

educational,

training,

scientific

and

technological services. Introduce mechanisms and policies encouraging domestic products consumption, expanding the domestic market, and developing home trade in all

regions;

improve the distribution system with a view of solidifying the position of domestic enterprises in the retail market. Promote and encourage exports, particularly of new items, processed and manufactured products with high scientifictechnological content and added value; sharply

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reduce exports of raw materials, minerals and crude products . Form four major trade- services centers in Hà Nội, Hồ Chí Minh City , Hải Phòng , Đà Nẵng and Cần Thơ , as hubs for domestic transaction and gateways to external business . Build a number of major tourist centers in the country and connect them with major tourist centers in the region. Strive for a higher growth rate of the service sector exceeding the GDP growth rate and at least 1.3 times that of material production sectors. Aim for an average annual growth rate of 8-8.5% in services in the 5-year period .

5. Focus on construction and creating a breakthrough in economic infrastructure to meet the requirements for national development Finalize the planning for nationwide infrastructure networks . Develop priorities and invest in key areas, accomplish key economic infrastructure projects towards modernization and relative harmony in development drivingforce regions, high-tech zones, industrial parks and economic zones . airports,

seaports,

Modernize important

and

certain

key

roads.

linking China, Laos and Cambodia. Further improve the urban communications systems toward modernity, focusing on tackling traffic and floods in Hà Nội and Hồ Chí Minh City . Develop local systems of transportation and strive to provide auto- roads from all communes to their centers (except for the communes with difficult geography) .

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Develop electricity supply sources to ensure sufficient power for industrialization, modernization and daily needs of the people; complete the power transmission

system

operational

ensuring

safety, reduce current power losses by one-third . Modernize post-telecommunication services and information technology infrastructure to meet development requirements . Build multi- purpose water conservancy projects, enhance autonomic irrigation and drainage capacity for a wide range of crops; add water reservoirs in drought-prone areas and river and sea dyke systems in flood prone areas. Ensure clean water supply for urban areas, industrial zones and the rural population. Build projects for the treatment of solid wastes, water, exhaust gas, and for environmental protection . Create

a

system

for

climate

and

weather

forecasting and global climate change research to improve the capacities in forecasting and mitigate the impacts of natural disasters. 6.

Ensure

harmonious

socio-economic

development among regions, between urban and rural areas Tap into the potentials of different regions, increase

linkages

among

localities

within

a

region, overcome overlapped and in- coordinate investment

while

intensifying linkages

and

coordination among regions to ensure their development;

gradually

reduce

gaps in the

development

level

the

regional

and living

standards of the people. Continue developing key economic regions as a driving force for the

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economy. Improve relevant policies to support the development of difficulty-ridden localities, especially hinterland, remote and ethnic minority areas.

For lowland areas: Focus on developing hightech industries and services, form and promote the role of large urban centers and industrial parks and economic zones . Utilize available lands for intensive economic development . Reorganize agricultural production and develop concentrated and intensive commodity production areas and high-tech agricultural preservation and

zones

associated with

processing

industries,

and

domestic and export markets. Reduce excessive industrial and urban concentration in the Red River Delta; take concrete measures to mitigate negative impacts of sea level rise on the Red River and Mekong deltas . For midland and mountain areas: Develop communications

infrastructure

systems,

take

advantage of trade opportunities with China, Laos, areas;

Cambodia, tap

potential,

into

develop

and

lowland

hydropower

coastal

and and

mineral

water conservation

along

with hydropower; utilize agricultural and forest land, form areas for large-scale production of industrial and fruit crops, forests for pulp and timber production, and cattle raising. Continue allocating land and forests and ensure food supplies

to the local

inhabitants

for

forest

plantation and protection. Raise the people's intellectual level, eradicate hunger and poverty; enact rational policies regarding officers, soldiers,

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policemen and people engaged in the protection of national borders, forests and water resources. For coastal areas, sea areas, and islands: Develop coastal, sea and island economies along the Sea Strategy until 2020. Establish a system of seaports, *coastal industrial parks, economic zones and urban centers with the aim of developing ship building and repair industry, oil and gas exploitation and processing, shipping and marine tourism. Develop island economy and offshore fishing,

search and rescue missions

and protection of territorial waters' sovereignty. Promote basic surveys on certain major

marine resources. Harmonious development of urban and rural areas . Develop urban areas in keeping with the economic development process and long-term planning beyond the administrative boundaries and properly handle the relationships between urbanization and rural modernization. Accelerate introduction of industries and services to rural areas to curb farmers' exodus to cities. Improve the quality of urban planning and further invest in infrastructure building in major cities , especially in Hà Nội and Hồ Chí Minh City. Form a system of medium-sized and small among

cities

towards

regions,

rational

overcome

apportionment

unplanned

urban

development. Coastal urban construction should take into account eventual sea level rise due to climate change. Help plan, build and organize rural population centers into clean, beautiful and advanced areas .

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IV- FINALIZING THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF THE SOCIALIST-ORIENTED MARKET ECONOMY

1. Firmly uphold the socialist orientation of market economy The socialist-oriented market economy of our country is a multi-component commodity economy operating under the market mechanism, managed by the State and under the leadership of the Communist Party. This form of market economy follows the rules of market economy although it is guided by the principles and nature of socialism .

In the socialist-oriented market economy, market mechanisms should be flexible in order to promote the development of resources and sustainable economy, improve the livelihood of the people, encourage lawful accumulation of wealth along with poverty alleviation, strengthen social consensus to realize the goal of a prosperous people, a strong country, democracy, equity and civilization. Promote right to freedom of every citizen to do lawful businesses and contribute to the society. All economic sectors and entities participating in the market are respected and treated fairly. Healthy cooperation and competition amongst the various sectors, with the State playing the leading role, will be encouraged . Develop integrate

into

market the

economy,

world's

proactively

economy

while

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maintaining the independence and autonomy of the economy. Promote economic growth in combination with socio-cultural development, and social advancement and equity in each step and policy. Ensure fair distribution of production factors, and access to opportunities and conditions for development. Distribute the economic outputs through the social security and welfare system mainly based on the labor contribution, economic efficiency, the level of capital and other resources . Enhance the State's economic management competency and efficiency. The State manages the socialist-oriented market economy with laws, mechanisms, policies, strategies, planning, plans and economic resources. The State maintains macro-economic stability; establishes and fully develops forms;

comprehensive

improves

market factors

business

environment

and and

competitiveness of the economy; maps out the development aspects

while

orientations; limiting

promotes

and

positive

overcoming the

negative sides of market mechanism; supports democracy and the ownership of the people in all economic fields. 2. Develop forms of ownership, economic sectors and enterprises of various types

Continue institutionalizing the Party's views on the diversification of forms of ownership, economic sectors, and types of enterprises; on the protection of legitimate rights and interests of property owners

and

different types of

enterprises in the economy; on the building and strengthening of ownership laws on various types

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of newly emerging assets such as intellectual property, stocks, bonds, and water resources; and on defining the rights and responsibilities of the owners to the society. Renovate and strengthen laws, mechanisms and policies on the ownership of land, resources, capital and other public assets to ensure effective management and avoid losses and wastefulness . Land,

natural

resources,

capital

and

assets

owned by the State can be assigned to entities of any economic sector for efficient use . The entities enjoy equal rights and obligations in effectively using the State resources. Review the operations of the State Capital Investment Corporation; carry out research on the establishment of organizations

that

can

effectively

manage

State capital and assets in their investment and business activities; avoid direct intervention on business activities via administrative orders by the State administrative apparatus .

Enhance the renovation, restructuring and improvement of business performance of State enterprises. Promptly restructure business lines of economic groups

and State corporations,

focusing on certain key industries and sectors of the economy. Gradually develop regional and global-scale enterprises . Identify the authority and responsibility of the board

of directors.

and managers to the management of the State capital and assets in enterprises, while ensuring the active role of enterprises in production and business, maintaining and improving the efficiency in usage of capital and state assets.

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Further

step

up

the

organization

and

operation mechanism of public service units in line with the socialist-oriented market economy. These

units

are

provided

with

favorable

conditions and encouraged to take initiatives to participate in the market in order to provide better public services, especially in the areas of healthcare, education and training, science, technology, and so on. Enhance the development of collective economy with diversified forms. Review the development of cooperatives and implementation of the

Law

on

improve the legal

Cooperatives. system,

Expeditiously

mechanisms

and

policies to support the development of newstyle cooperatives, cooperation groups and other collective economic models that follow the principle of voluntary and mutual benefits with socio-economic functions.

Facilitate the

development of rural farms and the formation of the farm owners ' cooperatives. Perfect policies and mechanisms to strongly develop the private economy into one of the driving forces of the national economy. Further promote different forms of private economy in the majority of industries and planning sectors that are in line with law provisions . Facilitate the formation of adequate number of private corporations and businesses that are capable of investing in state-owned economic corporation. Strongly attract foreign direct investment into industries and sectors that are in line with the country's

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development

strategies

and

plans,

especially in the areas of high technologies. Support small and medium enterprises, farms, household businesses, particularly those related to agriculture and rural areas, so as to meet the requirements of market economy development and international economic integration. Encourage the development of enterprises with mixed ownership forms such as joint stock companies,

multi-member

limited

liability

companies, partnership companies, and joint stock cooperatives. Revise and strengthen the legal provisions on the rights and obligations of the owner (i.e. the board of directors), authority and responsibilities of those who are assigned to manage the use of assets for businesses (i.e. directorate); and on the distribution of profits to the owner, the assigned managers and employees .

3. Develop synchronously market factors and types Rapidly finalize the revision, supplelegal of mentation and strengthening provisions on business context

of Việt Nam;

operation fitting the protect the

domestic

market while complying with the provisions of international

and

organizations.

regional

Renovate and strengthen the institution on price, competition,

monopoly

control,

the

signing

and implementation of contracts, and dispute settlement; avoid criminalizing civil disputes in economic activities . Consistently implement market price mechanisms regulated by the State. Develop

and strictly enforce

regulations

on

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social responsibility of enterprises to consumers and the environment. Improve the enterprises' understanding of the market, the laws of Việt Nam ,

and

international

customs

and

laws;

develop high quality consultancy organizations to assist enterprises in dealing with business disputes at home and abroad . Develop a number of foundations to support enterprises . Utilize social the

organizations

legitimate

and

interests

unions of

to

protect

both

businesses

and

diversified

and consumers .

Develop

synchronized

markets of goods and services into modern and civilized ones. Continue to boost exports, while paying attention to the expansion of the domestic market; protect the interests of both producers and consumers, especially about price, product quality, food hygiene and safety. Continue perfecting the monetary,

credit

and foreign exchange institutions. Gradually open the market for banking services in line with the national socio- economic development needs and international commitments ; promote the proactive role of the State Bank of Việt Nam in policies, managing the money, credit and

foreign

exchange

markets,

controlling

inflation, maintaining macro-economic stability, and contributing to economic growth; further the restructuring of commercial banks; apply new standards and practices consistent with international practice and domestic conditions to improve competitiveness and develop safe and sustainable domestic banks. Strengthen

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institutions ensuring the healthy development increase of securities markets, market transparency; fight against illegal transactions, money laundering and market disturbances, enabling the market to play an increasingly important role in mobilizing investment capital for development. Diversify and improve the quality of insurance products; encourage and facilitate the development of insurance business of all domestic economic sectors . Implement a roadmap for opening the insurance market in line with the country's conditions and commitments to international economic integration ; and protect the interests of the insured . Rapidly study

and

strengthen the legal

system and policies related to land to ensure harmony between the interests of the State, the land use right holders and investors; provide better

conditions

for

effective

use

of land .

Encourage organizations and individuals whose land is returned to the State to contribute capital by the value of land use rights to investment and business projects . The State creates and manages the real estate market and actively participates in the market as the owner of land and land-based assets to develop and regulate the market.

Strongly develop the market of science and technology associated with protecting intellectual property

rights .

Introduce

many

forms

of

information about scientific and technological activities and products; perfect institutions on buying and selling of scientific and technological products in the market.

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Promote labor market development. Salaries and wages should be regarded as the cost of labor, formed by the market mechanism under the State governance. The mechanism of labor contract should be extended and applied to the majority of the laborers. Renew the organization and

operation

of

the

State

Employment

Service centers; encourage the organization of employment fairs; develop job consulting service organizations and exchanges and strengthen the management of the State to prevent fraud and other negative phenomena. 4. Improve the Party's leading role, the effectiveness and efficiency of State governance in the socialist- oriented market economy

Research and review the reality to clearly identify the path to develop socialist-oriented market economy that is consistent with the specific situation of our country, especially the socialistoriented contents of the market economy.Continue renewing economic thinking and improve the economic leadership of the Party organizations ; use organizations and researchers to consult the Party in building, leading and inspecting the implementation of the Party's policies and guidelines on socio-economic development. The Party and State have to improve the leading role and management of the market economy, and focus in training management staff of high quality, good qualifications and working capabilities. Renew and enhance the State's role and economic management in accordance with the

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requirements of the socialist- oriented market economy

development,

actively

engage

in

international integration in the new period by respecting and applying rules and operational mechanisms of market economy. Apply and promote the positive sides; limit the adverse effects of market mechanisms, creating a premise for economic development under the socialist orientation . The State focuses on maintaining macro-economic stability, providing orientation for development, and creating conditions for rapid economic development and sustainability. Continue

improving

economic policies;

the

legal

system

and

innovate the formulation

and implementation of strategies, planning, and socio-economic development plans . Clearly define

the

State's

economic

management

functions and functions of organizations doing business with State capital and assets. Enhance the role of the elected bodies and the socio- political organizations and professional and social organizations of the people in the development of socialist- oriented market economy. The State continues to improve laws, mechanisms and policies to facilitate the people and organizations to participate in the process of planning, implementing and monitoring the enforcement of laws, guidelines, socio-economic policy development, and prevent and reduce adverse impacts of market mechanisms.

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V- DEVELOPING EDUCATION AND TRAINING , SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, AND KNOWLEDGED -BASED ECONOMY; PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT

1. Promote comprehensive education and training Implement harmonious measures to develop

and

and

improve

training.

the

quality

Renovate

of education

programs,

contents,

methods of teaching, learning, examining and testing; improve the quality of comprehensive education, attaching special importance to the education of ideology,

historic

revolutionary

traditions, ethics, lifestyle, creativity, practical skills, industrial working style and sense of social responsibility. Produce high quality teachers. Highlight the responsibility of the family and society in educating

the

young

generation .

Continue developing and upgrading material and technical facilities for education and training organizations . Invest in building a number of education and training international standards .

institutions

to

meet

Develop high quality human resources, especially

capable

leaders

and

managers,

leading scientific, artistic and cultural staff, entrepreneurs . skillful workers and and Promote vocational training in line with social development

needs ;

develop

mechanisms

and policies to establish close links between enterprises and training institutions . Develop and

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implement

human

resources

training

programs

and

projects

for

industries

and

sectors; focus on training farmers, especially people whose land is to be returned to the State; increase skilled workers rate through training. Pay more attention to developing education and training in remote and disadvantaged areas . Ensure social fairness in education ; effectively implement preferential policies and support for families of revolutionary merit, ethnic minorities,

gifted

students,

poor

students,

students with disabilities, and teachers who work in remote and disadvantaged areas . Continue mechanism

renovating of

enhance the

the

education

capability

of

and

management training

self- control

to and

responsibility of education units . Implement autonomy

mechanism

for

educational

and

training institutions associated with renewing the financial mechanism. Develop credit rating system, make the rating scores of education and training quality public and carry out rating work for education and training facilities . Strengthen the

inspection

and

overcome

the

negative

phenomena in education and training. Perfect mechanisms and policies for the socialization of education and training on three aspects : mobilization of social resources, promotion of the community's supervision, and promotion of study and talent encouragement activities for building a learning society and creating conditions for life-long learning of people. Enhance efficiency of international cooperation in education and training .

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2. Develop and improve the efficiency of science and technology; develop knowledgebased economy Strongly develop science and technology to provide momentum for the modernization and

industrialization, knowledge-based

economy thus contributing in productivity, quality,

to the growth efficiency and

competitiveness of the economy, and the rapid development and sustainability of the country; increase the contribution percentage of total productivity

in

growth

rate .

Harmoniously

implement three main tasks: improve capability of science and technology; renovate management mechanism ; and boost research for application.

Develop science and technology capacity especially on key and leading industries and areas, ensuring synchronization of infrastructure and human resources. The State will increase investment

level

and

prioritize

scientific

and technological tasks and products while promoting the socialization and mobilization of all resources, especially those of businesses that invest in the development of science and technology. Reform the management and mechanisms

of

scientific

and

organizing

technological

activities, using it to promote and improve the effectiveness of science and technology. Shift research and application institutions to those with autonomy and self- accountability mechanisms; develop enterprises and markets of

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science and technology. Renew the mechanism of using the State funds and building criteria systems for the evaluation

of scientific and

technological programs; create projects to serve socio-economic development goals and tasks, and regard applicability as main measures to assess the quality of work. Implement policies of training and encourage preferential treatment of talents in science and technology.

Promote

research

and

application

to

harmoniously develop social sciences, natural sciences, engineering sciences and technology. Social sciences should reviewthe reality, carry out theoretical research, and forecast development trends to provide justifications for guidelines and policies for national development in the new period . Strongly promote research and application of science and technology to serve programs and

plans

of

socio-economic

development,

especially in key industries and sectors. Prioritize development of high technology and rationally use technologies . Rapidly labor-intensive form a number of strong research-application institutions capable of acquiring and improving new and innovative technology in association with major enterprises. Build and implement programs of national technology renovation; adopt policies that encourage enterprises of all economic sectors to renovate technology. Closely combine domestic research and development with foreign technology transfer. Develop the knowledge -based economy on thebasis ofthe developmentofeducation, training,

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science and technology; build infrastructure of science and technology, primarily information technology, communications, and automation technology;

advance

research-application

capacity associated with the development of high quality human resources. Develop industries, industrial and agricultural products, and hi- tech services with high added value and intensive knowledge content . Promote and efficiently use the knowledge of the Vietnamese people and fully explore the knowledge resources of the mankind. Develop and implement a roadmap for the knowledge- based economy by 2020. 3.

Encourage

environmental

protection,

proactively deal with natural disasters, and respond to climate change Raise

awareness

and

responsibility

of

environmental protection of the whole society, and the leaders at all levels . Improve the legal system sanction

building

on environment protection, measures

to

prevent

and

handle

acts causing serious environmental pollution. Effectively prevent deforestation, forest fires and abuse of natural resources; strictly deal with establishments that cause pollution, and improve the environment.

Mainstream environmental protection into the

strategies

and

developmental

plans

of

industries, sectors and regions. New construction investment works and projects will have to implement the environmental protection regu lations strictly. Effectively manage, exploit and

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save natural resources, and ensure ecological balance. Focus on the development of green

and

environmentally- friendly

gradually develop

clean energy,

economy; production,

and consumption . Actively research, evaluate and forecast the impacts of climate change on our country; effectively carry out the national target programs on coping with climate change; and actively participate in and coordinate with international community to limit the negative impacts of climate change and protect the earth climate system. Enhance the investment in the natural disaster warning and forecast system. Promote

information

dissemination

to

raise

awareness of natural disaster prevention among people, especially those from vulnerable areas. Ensure that the

planning

of socio-economic

development of industries and localities meet the requirements of natural disasters prevention; the investment in infrastructure

improve

of shelters for

boats

and

ships

in stormy

weather, system of flood drainage, means of communication and rescue in areas vulnerable to natural disasters; and minimize damages by natural disasters . The State will increase investment, and adopt mechanisms and incentives to promote the mobilization of resources for natural disaster prevention and environmental protection.

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VI- TAKING CARE OF CULTURAL

DEVELOPMENT

1. Continue building a healthy, rich and diverse cultural environment Make the "All people unite to build cultural life" movement successful, practical and efficient; build cultural life in all families, residential areas,

offices, units

and enterprises,

making

the cultural values prevalent in all aspects of life, daily activities, work, and relationships of communities . Continue to accelerate the education and fostering of ethics and educated lifestyle, the building of an advanced lifestyle in weddings, funerals, and festivals; prevent and reverse harmful habits, violence, public order disturbance, prostitution, drugs, gambling, and so on. Create and implement the national strategy on building Vietnamese families, contribute too maintaining and developing traditional cultural values of the Vietnamese people, and nurturing and educating the young generation. Build a system of common values for the Vietnamese people while stepping up industrialization, modernization and international integration. Enhance the operational efficiency of the system of cultural institutions at all levels, and make plans to renovate, upgrade and construct a number of new, modern cultural, art, physical training and sport facilities in the economic, politics and cultural centers of the country. Focus on improving the spiritual and culture life in rural and disadvantaged areas, narrowing the

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gap of cultural enjoyment between regions, social groups, between urban and rural areas. 2. Develop literature and arts; conserve and promote the values of revolutionary and traditional cultural heritages Continue to develop an advanced Vietnamese literature and arts imbued deeply with strong national identities, and values of humanity and democracy that reflects the life, national history and the renewal of the country; encourage the right and beauty, and condemn the evil and cruelty. Encourage the exploration of new methods and styles of arts that meet the diverse mental

needs,

and

cultivate

ideology

and

aesthetic tastes of the public, especially the young generation. Protect the purity of the Vietnamese language. Overcome weaknesses and improve the scientific and persuasive characteristics of literary and art criticism, thus contributing to the guidance of the development of literature and art creativity, and the gradual development of a system of art theories of Việt Nam. Strengthen and strictly enforce provisions of the law on intellectual property rights, conservation and promotion of tangible and intangible cultural heritages of the nation. Closely link the tasks of culture and art development, conservation, cultural heritage values promotion with tourism development and external relation information and communication activities to disseminate the cultural values to the public, especially to the young generation and foreigners. Develop and implement policies to conserve

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and promote cultural values, languages and scripts of ethnic minorities. Develop policies and mechanisms of training, fostering, and caring for the spiritual and physical life of those who work in the field of culture, literature and arts to enable them to create more works of high ideological and artistic values. 3. Develop the mass media system Focus on the improvement of ideology and promote the function of informing, educating, organizing and public debates on mass media for the benefit of the people and country; overcome the trend of commercialization and divergence from principles and purposes of journalistic and publishing activities . Focus on training press and publishing staff to be unswerving in politics, ideology, and their profession and meet the requirements of the new period . Encourage the streamline press and publishing network in the country towards enhancing operation efficiency, and renovating the organization, structures and material-technical facilities. Develop and expand the use of internet, adopt measures to limit the negative impact, snd effectively block any activity abusing the internet to

spread

reactionary

ideas

and

unhealthy

lifestyle . 4.

Expand

and

raise the

efficiency

of

international cooperation in culture Renovate and strengthen the introduction and spread of Vietnamese culture, literature, arts, and people to the world . Expand and improve

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the quality of external relation information and international cooperation in the field of culture, journalism and publishing . Develop a number of Vietnamese cultural centers and translation centers to introduce Vietnamese culture abroad .

Learn from the

successful experience in

developing cultures of other countries,

and

introduce identical foreign literary and artistic works to the public of Việt Nam. Fully realize intellectual international commitments in property products.

rights Build

and

copyrights

mechanisms

cultural

of

and

sanction

measures to prevent and disable the intrusion and the harmful effects of depraved and reactionary products

from

overseas

into

our

country;

cultivate and enhance the public's resistance capacity, especially in the young generations.

VII- EFFICIENTLY REALIZING SOCIAL PROGRESS AND EQUITY, ENSURING SOCIAL SECURITY IN EVERY DEVELOPMENT STEP AND POLICY

1. Focus on proper implementation of labor, employment and income policies

On the basis of economic development investment, take special care of labor restructuring requirements , create jobs for workers; generate more jobs, especially for farmers. Improve the legal

system

regarding

vocational

training;

issue preferential policies on land, taxes, teacher training, and infrastructure support to encourage all economic sectors to participate in vocational

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training.

Raise the

quality

of teaching

and

learning; link vocational training with actual needs. Promote and streamline labor export management and organization.

Resolve the irrational issues of salary, wages, social allowances in line with the country's socioeconomic situation; associate wage reform with placement, strengthening and improving the quality of officials and public employees of the political system. Attach employees' salaries with the efficiency of business performance . Focus on labor protection; improve working conditions; minimize strengthen at accidents work; inspection, and treat labor law violations severely; regulate the implementation of labor laws; build stable, harmonious and advanced labor relations.

2. Ensure social security Continue to revise and improve the system of social insurance, health insurance, unemployment insurance, social assistance and relief to protect and assist all members of society, especially the vulnerable and disadvantaged groups . Ensure broader participation of employees in different forms of insurance. Promote social participation in social insurance services; transform various types of social assistance and relief to communitybased social protection services .

Ensure that

people under social protection have a stable life, better integration into the community, and access to essential economic resources and public services. Inspect, supervise and severely treat violations of social insurance legislation; ensure

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proper implementation of regulations to

all

beneficiaries . Focus on the implementation of hunger eradication and poverty alleviation programs in remote areas, and areas with special difficulties. Diversify

resources and modes of poverty reduction for agriculture and rural development,

education development, vocational training and job creation to sustainably eradicate hunger and poverty, and encourage once-poor people to get rich and help others escape from poverty. Mobilize all social resources together withthe Stateto take better care ofmaterial and spiritual life of people and families with meritorious services to the country. Settle the pending problems regarding people with meritorious services to the country especially those engaged in secret missions, armed forces, youth volunteers during revolution and resistance periods . Encourage people and families to actively participate in economic development activities to improve their material and spiritual life so that they have higher living standards. 3. Improve the quality of people's health care

and

activities

of

population,

family

planning, protection and health care for mothers and children

Pay more attention to preventive health work and people's health care . Strengthen the network of medical facilities at the grassroots level, enhance the capacity for district and provincial hospitals, and modernize a number of leading hospitals .

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Increase state investment and promote the social participation in health care activities . Encourage medical ethics and fight negative practices in health care operations. Strongly develop the pharmaceutical industry and strictly manage the pharmaceutical market. Ensure the examination and treatment for people with health insurance, and high quality medical services for all citizens in need . Continue to control and significantly reduce HIV transmission. Work on preventing and fighting against epidemics . Complete legal system on food hygiene and safety; strengthen the inspection and control and handle cases of violations severely. Strictly implement laws and policies

on

population, maintaining reasonable population growth and small-sized family model . Introduce concrete policies to ensure balanced sex ratio at birth. Raise awareness and mobilize the society to participate in population and family planning activities . Promote reproductive health care, and maternal and children health care; reduce the rate of child malnutrition and improve the quality of population. Ensure the fundamental rights of

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children and create a healthy environment for children to develop a comprehensive physical and mental life. Focus on protection and care of children with special circumstances, children from poor families and children in remote and disadvantaged Replicate

areas;

models

prevent

child

of community-based

abuse. child

care and protection. Develop and implement a national strategy on gender equality and

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advancement of women focusing particularly on regions and areas with inequity and high risk of inequality; prevent women trafficking and domestic violence . Facilitate women to participate in learning and training activities to improve their abilities and skills to meet the working requirements. Develop strongly popular physical training and sports; invest in raising the quality of highperformance sports of our country's strength. Overcome negative practices in sports. 4. Prevent social vices and traffic accidents Diversify forms of community communication and education, promote the role of family education for young people about the harmful effects of drugs, prostitution and other social vices. Control the trade and use of narcotics . Mobilize more capital, and increase investment in building and managing rehabilitation centers. Uphold responsibilities of the families, social organizations and local administrations in the management, employment, and reintegration of rehabilitated people . Provide solutions to limit prostitution, and minimize the impacts of social vices. Replicate the model of communes, urban wards, villages and hamlets free of social vices.

Mobilize the entire political system at all levels and in all sectors in actively implementing solutions to minimize traffic accidents. Increase understanding and sense of law observance; treat violations of traffic laws strictly. Strengthen infrastructure, public transport ,

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traffic organization ability; carry out a plan to regulate the structure and quality management of transport facilities to minimize the number of traffic accidents.

VIII - STRENGTHENING NATIONAL DEFENSE AND SECURITY AND SAFEGUARDING THE SOCIALIST VIỆT NAM FATHERLAND Promote the synergy of the entire nation and the entire political system, and implement the objectives and tasks of national defense and security, namely: firmly defend independence, sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity; firmly safeguard sovereignty over territorial waters, islands, border and air space; safeguard the Party, State, people and the socialist system; maintain political

stability,

social

order

and

safety;

proactively prevent and foil all schemes and acts of sabotage by hostile forces and be ready to respond to globally non-traditional security threats; avoid being passive and unprepared in any situation. Continue expanding international cooperation in the areas of defense and security. Intensify communication and education on patriotism and national spirit, responsibilities and

obligations

to

defend

sovereignty

and

national interests, and on knowledge on national defense

and

security

to

make

the

people

understand the challenges which directly affect the task of safeguarding the Fatherland in the new conditions , such as: hi-tech wars, disputes

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over seas, islands and sky areas sovereignty, "peaceful evolution", political unrest, terrorism, hi-tech crimes, trans-national crimes, etc. Boost the strength of national defense and security both in terms of potential and posture; build

strong

defensive

zones

of

provinces

and cities; build a firm people posture in the implementation of national defense strategy. Closely combine economy with national defense and security, and vice versa in each strategic planning of socio-economic development; place an emphasis on hinterland, remote and border areas, sea and island areas.

Build

the

People's

Army

and

People's

Public Security forces which are revolutionary, regular, well-trained and gradually modernized, with a reasonable size, high aggregate quality and combativeness; build strong militia, selfdefense and reserve forces which are ready to protect the Fatherland in any situation . Intensify development of defense and security industry; technology, strengthen and infrastructure ensuring that the armed forces are gradually equipped with modern facilities, firstly the navy, air defense, air force, security forces, intelligence, and mobile public security forces. Boost research on military science and arts, and security and hitech wars . Ensure the

Party's

direct

leadership in

all aspects of the People's Army and People's public security forces; raise the efficiency of state governance on national defense and security.

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Complete

defense

and

strategies,

security

mechanisms and policies in new conditions; continue to supplement and complete the system of legal documents and coordination regulations between the Army, public security forces and socio-political organizations.

IX- COMPREHENSIVELY IMPLEMENT FOREIGN RELATION ACTIVITIES; AND BE PROACTIVE IN INTERNATIONAL INTEGRATION

Implement a foreign policy of independence, self-reliance,

peace,

cooperation

and

deve-

lopment; diversify relations, and be proactive about international integration; be a reliable friend, partner and a responsible member of the

international

community;

work for the

interest of the country and the nation and for a prosperous and strong socialist Việt Nam. The tasks of foreign relation work are to maintain a peaceful environment and create favorable conditions for speeding up industrialization and modernization while defending independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity; to raise the country's status; to contribute actively to the struggle for peace, national independence, democracy and social progress in the world. Raise the effectiveness of foreign relation activities,

continue

to

deepen

international

relations as we maintain independence and selfreliance, maximize inner strength, preserve and promote the national identity; proactively prevent

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and mitigate the negative impact of international integration process . Strongly promote trade and investment, expand markets, effectively exploit international mechanisms of cooperation and resources of capital, science and technology and advanced management skills. Participate in the mechanisms of political cooperation and bilateral and multilateral security for the national interests with respect to the fundamental principles of international laws and the United Nations Charter. Strive for a good performance in international organizations, particularly in the United Nations .Actively cooperate withcountries, international and regional organizations to cope with unconventional security challenges , notably climate change; be ready to hold dialogues with relevant countries, international and regional organizations on the issues of democracy and human rights; resolutely combat and foil all schemes and actions of interference in Việt Nam's internal affairs and violation of its independence , sovereignty, territorial integrity, national security and political stability. Promote the settlement of existing issues on borders, territory and delineation of sea boundary and continental shelf with relevant countries

on the basis

of the

fundamental

principles of international laws and the regional code of conduct; Manage borders, build the borderline of peace, friendship, cooperation and

mutual

development.

Strengthen

and

promote cooperation and traditional friendship with neighbouring countries . Be proactive and

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other

and work together with

responsible,

countries to build a strong ASEAN community, strengthen relations with partners, and continue to

maintain

an

important

role

within the

framework of cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region. Promote relations with communists and workers' parties, left-wing parties and other political parties on the basis of ensuring national interests and maintaining independence, selfreliance

for

cooperation

the

sake

of peace,

friendship,

development;

and

expand

participation in multilateral mechanisms and forums in the region and the world . Raise the effectiveness of people-to-people relation work. Intensify the strategic research, forecast and consultancy work on foreign relations; constantly

train

the

contingent

performing foreign relation work;

of

cadres

regularly

improve foreign relations knowledge for key cadres at all levels . Ensure the Party's unified leadership and the State's centralized management over foreign relation

activities .

Closely

coordinate

the

Party's foreign relations, the State's diplomacy and

people-to-people

diplomacy;

political

diplomacy, economic diplomacy and cultural diplomacy; foreign relations and national defense and security.

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X. PROMOTING SOCIALIST DEMOCRACY AND THE STRENGTH OF THE GREAT NATIONAL UNITY

1. Promote socialist democracy Continue to build and improve the socialist democracy, ensuring that all state powers belong to the people; all the guidelines and orientations of the Party, policies and laws of the State are to serve the interests of the people; officials and functionaries must successfully fulfill their assigned tasks and functions, show respect for the people and devotedly serve them. Enhance the people's understanding of citizens' rights and obligations, capacity in performing mastery and

participation

Formulate

in

specific

social

management.

mechanisms

enabling

the people to practice their right to direct mastery. Exercise the Regulations of Democracy at the Grassroots Level and the Ordinance on Exercise

of Democracy

in

Communes,

Wards

and Townships. Promote democracy, heighten citizens' responsibilities, social disciplines and rules; criticize and strictly enforce punitive measures on violations of the people's right as the owner and those that abuse democracy to disturb public security, social order and safety; fight against bureaucratic centralism, overcome superficial democracy. Care for the happiness and comprehensive development of the people, protect the legitimate rights and interests of the people, and respect and abide by international conventions on human rights.

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2. Promote national unity

the

strength

of the

great

Raise awareness and responsibilities of the Party and the people in promoting the strength of national unity in the new context. make the goal of building Việt Nam into a country of peace, independence, unity, territorial integrity, common democracy and wealthy people, a target; abolish prejudices against people's pasts and social classes, accept differences which are not contrary to the common interests of the nation; heighten the national spirit, traditions of benevolence and righteousness, tolerance, etc. to rally the people on a common front. The great national unity must be based on harmonious treatment of interest relations between members in the society. The unity within the Party is the nuclei, the solid base for building the great national unity bloc. The Party's committees and governmental administrations at all levels must regularly hold dialogues with the people, listen, learn and acknowledge people's opinions, and solve people's difficulties; place confidence in the people and show respect to those who express different opinions; implement mass mobilization work and provide mechanisms and legal basis to enable the people to express their views, aspirations and practice their right to mastery. Promote training

and

education,

training,

development

mid -career

of the

working

class both in terms of quantity and quality; enhance the workers' political zeal, educational and professional

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levels,

working

skills,

and

professional etiquette to meet the requirements of national industrialization, modernization and

international

integration.

Promote

the

role of the working class as the leading class of the revolution with the Communist Party of Việt Nam acting as the pioneering force; make amendments and supplement the policies, laws on wages, social insurance, health insurance, and unemployment insurance and improve housing and working conditions, etc. in order to protect the rights and improve the material and spiritual lives of the working class .

Enhance the role of the peasantry - the subject of the process of agricultural and rural development. Raise the consciousness of the peasantry and provide favorable conditions for the peasantry to contribute and benefit from the process of national industrialization and modernization. Assist the peasantry in taking vocational training, shifting the labor structure, and applying scientific and technological achievements, and create favorable conditions for the farmers to shift to industrial production and service work. Improve living standards of the population in rural areas; effectively implement hunger eradication and poverty alleviation, and lawful enrichment. Build a strong contingent of intellectuals the national of requirements meeting development process.

Respect

and

promote

freedom of thoughts in research and creative activities. Make good use of intellectuals by assessing

their

qualifications,

capacity

and

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dedication properly. Protect intellectual property rights, honor the contributions ofthe intellectuals . Formulate special policies applicable to talented people of the nation. Promote the role of social consultancy,

debates,

supervision

and

assessments of scientific research agencies in the formulation of orientations and policies of the Party, the State and the social, cultural and economic development projects . Maintain close connections between the Party, the State and the intellectuals . Facilitate the building

and

development

of a strong contingent of entrepreneurs with good management and business ability and a high sense of professional ethics and social responsibilities. Realize the potential and active role of entrepreneurs in production and business development; expand domestic and overseas investment; generate jobs and increase incomes for workers; produce commodities, services for the domestic use and and export; contribute to the national budget; improve product quality; build and maintain trademarks of Vietnamese goods; and further contribute to the national construction and defense. Successfully implement the education work on politics, ideology, traditions, ideals, morality and ways of living; create favorable conditions for

studies,

working,

recreational

activities,

and the physical and intellectual development of the

young

generation.

Encourage

and

embolden the youth to foster great dreams and ambitions, and master advanced sciences and

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technologies. Form

a young generation that

excels in all areas so that they can continue the revolutionary cause of the Party and the nation, making significant contributions to the acceleration of industrialization, modernization, national construction and defense of the socialist Vietnamese teenagers

Homeland . and

children

Attract into

youngsters, organizations

sponsored by the Hồ Chí Minh Communist Youth Union on a wide scale . Enhance women's knowledge in all domains and improve their material and spiritual lives . Study, supplement and strengthen laws, policies applicable to female laborers, create conditions for women to successfully realize their role; increase the proportion of female participation in the Party's committees and State managerial apparatus. Fight against social evils and acts of violence, trade and violations of the dignity of women. Uphold traditions of Uncle Ho's war veterans and encourage them to participate actively in building and protecting the Party, the State, the socialist system and the people. Encourage veterans to

assist

one

another

in

business,

improve life standards, and actively participate in the imparting patriotism, love for socialism and revolutionary heroism to the young generation; battle bureaucracy, corruption, wastefulness and social evils; consolidate political bases and build a healthy and strong Party and administration. Emphasize health care of the elderly people and create conditions for them to enjoy cultural

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products,

to

access

information

happy and healthy life.

and live

a

Utilize the intellect

and experiences of the elderly in life, work and studies in the society and families. Intensify the

movement

of

building

families

where

"grandparents and parents are exemplary and grandchildren and children are dutiful" ; provide support to solitary and aged people. The unity between ethnic peoples is strategic in the revolutionary cause of our country. People in the grand family of Việt Nam are equal to each other, united, caring and show love and respect for one another. They assist one another for progress and the successful realization of industrialization, modernization and national construction. Study and develop mechanisms and policies to generate major economic, cultural and social improvement in ethnic minority areas. Enhance the examination and assessment of the implementation of orientations, policies of the Party and the State on ethnic peoples . Uproot ethnic discrimination; strictly deal with plots aimed at separating and damaging the great national unity bloc. Complete policies and laws on beliefs and religions

in line with the

Party's

positions.

Uphold the moral and cultural values of religions; encourage religious organizations, dignitaries and followers to "have a good social life and a good religious life" and actively contribute to the national construction and defense . Facilitate religious

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organizations

in

practicing

their

religions in accordance with the charters and regulations of the respective organizations, as recognized by the State and in accordance with the laws. At the same time, take initiatives in preventing and fighting against abusive beliefs, and religions that delude and separate the great national unity bloc. Overseas

Vietnamese

constitute

an

inseparable part of the Vietnamese nation . The State issues policies to help them enjoy a stable life and economic development; contributes to enhancing cooperation and friendship between our people and the people in other countries; facilitates overseas Vietnamese

in upholding

their national cultural identities, and help them return to their homeland and contribute to the national construction. The Fatherland Front and mass organizations continue to strengthen the organization, renew contents and forms of operations, overcome administrationization

and highlight the role of

uniting the people to build political bases of the people's administration; implement democracy and enforce social supervision

and

debates;

participate in the building of a healthy and strong Party and State; organize patriotic emulation movements; mobilize people of all strata in the implementation of economic, cultural and social development, and defense and security tasks.

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XI. ENHANCING DEVELOPMENT OF THE LAW-GOVERNED SOCIALIST STATE OF

VIỆT NAM 1. Raise awareness on the development of a law-governed socialist State

Continue to accelerate the development and strengthening of a law-governed socialist State, ensuring that our State is truly of the people, by the people and for the people, led by the Party; successfully implement the functions of economic management and social management; tackle the relationship between the State and other organizations Strengthen

in the

law-abiding

political

system .

management

and

governance capacity of the State and enhance the socialist legal system, discipline and rules . The State cares and serves the people, and protects the legitimate rights and interests of all the people. Study,

develop

and

supplement

institutions

and specific operating mechanisms in order to ensure that all state power belongs to the people and that the state power is unified; ensure the coordination of agencies in the implementation of the legislative , executive and judicial powers . Strengthen the role and effectiveness of economic management of the State in accordance with requirements of the development of a socialistoriented market economy. Continue to improve the legal system, mechanisms and policies for the efficient operation of the economy and successful implementation of international commitments and protection of national interests.

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Study, amend and supplement the 1992 and supplemented in

Constitution (amended

2001 ) in accordance with the new situation. Continue to formulate and strengthen mechanisms for the inspection and supervision of the constitutionality and legality of the operations and decisions of State bodies.

2. Continue innovating State organizations and operation Renew organization and operation of the National Assembly, ensuring that the National Assembly is in essence the highest representative body of the people and the most powerful body of the State. Improve mechanism of the National Assembly election so that voters can elect the representatives who really represent them to the Parliament. Improve the quality of the National Assembly

deputies

to

increase

reasonable

number of full- time representatives; develop mechanisms to support the National Assembly members to be responsible and link closely to the voters. Improve the performance of the Council on Nationality and other Committees of the National Assembly, and the quality of the National Assembly members and the deputies' delegation. Research and entrust questioning rights to the Council on Nationality and Committees . Continue promoting democracy, publicity

and

dialogue

in

discussions

and

hearings at the National Assembly forum. Enhance the quality of law making, firstly the process of law and ordinances

making;

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laws and ordinances need specific provisions of high feasibility to be rapidly enforced in reality; improve on making decisions and monitoring important

issues

of the

country,

especially

key national projects such as allocating and executing

budget;

Monitor

activities

of the

judicial authorities and fight against bureaucracy, corruption and waste. Study and clearly define the State President's rights and responsibilities to fully implement functions of the head of state on internal and external affairs, and control armed forces, and the relations between the President, legislative, executive and judicial authorities. Continue

renewing

organization

and

operation of the Government towards building a consistent, transparent and efficient administration system; streamline the organizations in a rational manner; increase democracy and law-governance of the Government's administration; enhance forecasting

capacity;

respond

and

provide

prompt solutions to emerging problems; clearly define

duties,

powers,

responsibilities

and

organizations of ministries and ministerial-level agencies; correct the duplication of functions and tasks among ministries and sectors; review and assess the implementation of policies on the rearrangement of multi-sector and multidomain ministries and departments to identify appropriate solutions; decentralize power to local governments along with improving quality of planning and increasing control and supervision work of the central authority.

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Promote administrative reforms, especially administrative procedures; reduce and abolish administrative procedures that are troublesome to organizations and citizens. Improve the quality of formulating and implementing mechanisms and policies that promote socialization of public services in line with the mechanism of a socialistoriented market economy. Promote the implementation

of Judicial

Reform Strategy towards 2020; build a clean, strong judicial system which provides justice, respects and protects human rights . Strengthen policies, criminal laws, civil laws, litigation proceedings and organization of judicial agencies; ensure scientific and synchronous characteristics and uphold the independence,

objectiveness

and

law-abidingness of each agency and judicial title . Renew organizational system of the courts of justice in accordance with jurisdiction power; ensure that court hearings reform is the focus of judicial reform ; extend the Courts' power to make jurisdiction over administrative complaints. Organize a procuracy system that is suitable to the organizational system of the courts of justice; ensure better conditions for the people to effectively persecute activities;

enhance

and

control judicial

prosecution

responsibility

in investigation activities; associate prosecution Strengthen with activities. investigation organization agents

and

operation

of

investigating

and streamline the focal points; clearly

identify legal investigation and reconnaissance activities in fighting against crime . Continue

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renewing

and

organizations;

legal

support

professional

capacity

strengthening enhance

and ethics of legal officials; increase supervision mechanisms and ensure the participation and supervision of the people in judicial activities. Continue renovating the organization and operation of local governments. Improve the operational quality of people's councils and committees at all levels, ensuring the autonomy and

responsibility

policy

in

decision

implementation

making

their

in

and

delegated

sphere of authority. Study the organization and power of local authorities in rural and urban areas and islands. Continue the experimental implementation of the policy of removal of people's councils at district and ward levels.

3. Build a contingent of clean and comeptent cadres and civil servants that can meet the requirements of the new situation supplement

Revise, regulations servants;

and

strengthen

on management of cadres, civil · clearly define functions, duties,

responsibilities and authority of each official and

civil

servant;

of openness,

enhance

transparency,

responsibilities

accountability in

public services. Improve quality of officials and civil servants in terms of political firmness, professional ethics, and the capacity of leadership, direction, administration and governance. Develop policies to offer incentives and encourage people to fulfill their duties; develop mechanisms of dismissing and revoking

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those who do not complete their tasks, violate disciplines,

and lose

credibility.

Review the

work of "integration" of particular leading Party and State positions so as to introduce relevant policies. Implement election and reassignment in such a way that the deputy head is recommended by the head for consideration and decided by competent authority. 4.

Actively

prevent

and

fight

against

corruption and wastefulness; practice thrift

Fight against corruption and waste and practice thrift as urgent and long-term tasks . All leading cadres of the Party, State, Fatherland Front and people's organizations from central to grassroots levels and each Party member have to set an example and directly participate in the fight against corruption and wastefulness . Continue promoting

strengthening

administrative

institutions

reforms

for

and anti-

corruption and wastefulness, particularly in areas prone to corruption and waste; study decentralization and clear definition of work functions for all agencies and levels in corruption prevention. Focus on measures of corruption and wastefulness prevention . Practice economic and financial transparency and

accountability

in

administrative

agencies, public services providers, and Stateowned enterprises . Practice mechanisms, basic

policies,

construction,

transparency in

investment

procurement

projects, of

state

budget, mobilization of people's contribution,

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management

and

use

of land

and

public

properties, and official designation. Effectively enumeration and declaration of

implement

assets and income of officials and civil servants as defined by regulations . Reform salary and income policies to ensure living conditions for officials and civil servants and contribute to preventing and fighting corruption. Strengthen regulations on responsibilities of the head if corruption and waste are found . Deal with corrupted officials lawfully; expropriate assets derived measures

from

corruption.

on organizations

Enforce sanction and individuals

who cause severe losses and waste of the state and people's properties . Improve audit, control and supervision work of functional authorities . Develop mechanisms to encourage and protect those who actively fight against corruption and waste; apply strict penalties to those who intentionally abuse corruption accusation to slander and harm others and cause internal disunity. Honor good examples of integrity. Evaluate mechanisms and organizational model of anti- corruption

agencies

for appropriate

guidelines and solutions . Enhance the role of elected bodies, the Fatherland Front, people's organizations, mass media and the people in supervising officials and civil servants, and detecting and fighting against corruption and waste.

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XII- ENHANCING LEADERSHIP CAPACITY AND COMBATIVENESS OF THE PARTY

1. Strengthen the Party politically

Be persistent in Marxism- Leninism, Hồ Chí Minh Thought, creatively apply and develop those theories in line with the situation in Việt Nam; be persistent in the objective of national independence and socialism . Improve political firmness, intellectual level

of the Party and

each official and Party member,

particularly

key leading cadres at all levels. Be persistent in policies of renewal and fight against dogma, stagnation and subjectivism, and impatience to avoid renewal without principles. Institutionalize and effectively implement the 11th National Party Congress's Resolutions . Cohesively

connect

the

tasks

of

economic

development as the core, Party building as the key and culture development as the spiritual foundation of society.

2. Improve the quality and efficiency of ideological and theoretical work

Improve theoretical study and review of reality; clearly define some issues with regard to the ruling party, socialism, path to socialism in our country and newly emerging issues in renewal process; constantly develop theories, set appropriate policies and guidelines to meet the requirements of national development; overcome shortcomings and weaknesses in theoretical study

work.

Create

a

democratic

scientific

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environment

for

discussion

and

debates,

encourage creativity, promote individual and collective capacity in theoretical political study. Develop

democracy

regulations

on

political

theoretical research. Improve quality of operation of theoretical research institutions, and carry out the implementation of theoretical study to meet requirements of practical situation. Review 30 years of renewal. Continue reforming contents and methods, further enhance combativeness , persuasiveness and effectiveness of ideological work,

public

education and study of Marxism- Leninism, Hồ Chí Minh Thought, the Party's viewpoints, State policies and laws; carry out public education programs to encourage new factors, examples

of

"Good

persons-Good

typical deeds";

educate the patriotic and revolutionary tradition. Improve the quality of education in political theory, civil education in political schools and schools in the national education system. Each official and Party member needs to learn and enhance theoretical political standard . Work out regulations of all party members in ideological work.

Key staff of

party

committees

must

frequently meet and hold dialogue with the people; actively capture, evaluate and forecast thoughts and feelings of the officials and Party members to obtain timely solutions. Fight against all schemes and actions of "peaceful evolution" by hostile forces. Actively prevent, combat and criticize the expression of "self-evolution", "selftransformation" within our ranks; overcome

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the degradation in political ideology, ethics and lifestyle in a group of cadres and Party members. Preserve unity and social consensus within the Party. Reform the celebration of important events in a practical and effective manner. 3. Develop revolutionary morality, fight against individualism

Maintain an important, regular and longterm work of cadres and Party members, Party cells and organizations, and various strata by learning and following Hồ Chí Minhs moral example. Each official and Party member has to constantly build up revolutionary ethics, setting an example of ethics and lifestyle. Senior cadres must set good examples for their juniors and the people . Cadres and Party members must enhance their sense of responsibility to the Homeland, the Party and the people, dedicating their service to the Homeland and the people. Party organizations must create favorable conditions for Party members to produce efficient and qualitative work and contribute to the overall development of the country. Criticism and selfcriticism in Party activities need to be practices. Effectively implement "Regulation on mass mobilization" in political system; reform and improve quality of mass mobilization

work;

periodically collect comments from the people on ethics of cadres and Party members. Strictly deal with all cadres and members who violate regulations on responsibilities, ethics and lifestyle .

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4. Continue to renew and strengthen the Party organization and political system Continue

defining

functions,

tasks

and

organizational models of organizations in the political system.

Make early reviews on the

merge of some central commissions, ministries and agencies in order to map out appropriate policies. Reorganize and improve the quality of advisory bodies, contingent of advisory staff, especially at strategic level. Review propose

and

solutions

evaluate to

the

situation,

strengthen and

renew

organizational models and operation modes of Party organizations,

especially Party Caucus

and Designated Party Representation. on directing

and

Focus

strengthening weak party

organizations; strengthen Party committees and increase the number of cadres in areas with difficulties and internal disunity. Focus on

improving

operational

quality

of

Party

committees , Party organizations, quality of selfcriticism and criticism in Party activities. Promote democracy in the activities of Party cells and Party committees from

grassroots

to central levels including the Secretariat, the Political Bureau, the Central Committee by strictly maintaining Party discipline.

Follow

the principle of democratic centralism, fight against

bureaucracy,

factionalism ,

localism,

unprincipled working style, discipline violation, and democracy violation.

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5.

Consolidate

grassroots

zations and improve the members Focus the

on

of grassroots

quality

strengthening

leadership

capacity Party

Party

and

and

organi-

of Party

improving

combativeness

organizations,

generate

improvement in the quality of operations of such organizations, particularly those in nonproductive bodies and enterprises of all economic sectors. Consolidate the

organization of the

political system, and ensure the comprehensive leadership of the Party at the grassroots . Pay attention to training, mid-career training and building of the contingent of Party committee members, firstly secretaries of Party committees. Implement standardization, promote training on professional skills in accordance with the titles of grassroots officials. Renew

and

enhance

the

management

and development of Party members,

ensure

the quality of Party members as required by the Party's Charter. Develop specific and

requirements

on

political

criteria

ideology,

qualifications , ethics, ways of living sp that Party members can meet the requirements of the new revolutionary period; bring into full play the exemplary vanguard, initiative, creativity of Party members in performing their assigned tasks. Expel unqualified persons from the Party. Review and evaluate results and experiences in

order to continue the implementation of

the Regulation No. 15-QD/TW of the Central Executive Committee (10th Tenure) concerning

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Party members undertaking private business . Execute pilot implementation of recruitment of Party members business owners .

among

qualified

private

6. Innovate personnel work and emphasize the internal political protection Continue

to

renew

personnel

work.

Successfully implement the Strategy on personnel in the period of speeding

up

industrialization,

modernization; renew thoughts and methods of implementation,

overcome shortcomings

and

weaknesses in personnel work. Develop

and

strictly implement mechanisms and policies on detection,

selection,

training

and

mid- career

training of officials; put virtuous and talented persons in deserved positions. Improve the quality of training and mid-career training of officials; overcome the trend of collecting certificates and credentials. Successfully implement personnel human resource planning and create official sources, pay attention to young, female and ethnic minority officials and experts in different fields; plan to develop strategic personnel. Evaluate and make full use of officials on the basis of a developed, and complete criteria and procedures; work performance and credibility as assessed by the people should be the main indicator. Do not appoint opportunists who are unqualified, in virtue or talent. Strictly implement mechanisms on position-leaving, dismissal and resignation of leaders

and

managerial

staff.

Promptly replace those who are unqualified

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in quality and competence, fail to complete the assigned tasks and have diminished prestige. Formulate mechanisms to strictly handle cases of soliciting positions, power, place, mitigation of offence, age, qualifications and medals . Rotate the position of leaders and managerial staff in accordance with the planning of branches and levels; overcome departmentalism. education and management of

Enhance officials.

Emphasize the development of the contingent of leaders and managerial staff at all levels and leading experts in various fields . Renew the contingent of leaders and managerial staff with regard to ages to ensure continuity, succession and development . Study and successfully implement policies on the use and management of officials and Party members who have problems in their political background . Focus on grasping and resolving current political problems. 7. Renew and enhance the effectiveness of the control and supervision work

The Party's committees and organizations at all levels must raise the sense of responsibility, better implement the control and supervision work as required by the Party's Charter. Focus on control and supervision of the observance of the Party's Charter, resolutions, directives, regulations ,

State's

observance

of the

centralism , regimes,

laws,

working

practice

and

principle

policies; of

regulations,

the

democratic working

of democracy within the

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Party, protection the internal unity; the practice of thrift and prevention of and fight against corruption and waste, consolidation of moral qualifications,

life

style

of

officials,

Party's

members; the direction and organization of the implementation of the administrative and judicial reforms; the investigation, prosecution, adjudication

and

execution

of

sentences,

particularly with regards to serious cases which cause pressing

concerns

among the

public

opinion; inspect and supervise the recruitment, planning, rotation, training, appointment, assignment and use of officials . Attach importance to the control and supervision of the implementation of the assigned tasks and duties of heads ofbodies and organizations of the Party, the State, the Fatherland Front and people's organizations at all levels . The Party's control and supervision must be in close coordination with the inspection work of the government, the supervision work of the National Assembly and executive and judicial bodies, the Fatherland Front and people's organizations in accordance with the functions and competences of the respective bodies.

Improve operations

of

the

quality

inspection

of

officials

committees

and at

all

. levels . Complete a mechanism for coordination between the Party's inspection committees with the Party's organizations

and

law-protecting

bodies in considering complaints, denunciations and handling officials and Party members who violate disciplines .

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8. Continue renewing the modes of Party leadership Focus on reviewing, supplementing, and promulgating new regulations, developing a comprehensive system of working regulations and

procedures

to

order

in

continuously

renew the modes of Party leadership over the operations of the political system . Overcome the situation of the Party taking the business of the State upon itself or loosening its leadership over State management bodies . Renovate the modes of Party leadership over the Fatherland Front and people's organizations, the principle

of democratic

the organization and

respecting

consultation in

operation of the Việt

Nam Fatherland Front. Renovate the working style and manner of the Party's leading bodies from the central to local levels . Successfully exercise collective leadership while upholding the spirit of initiative, creativity and personal accountability,

particularly

accountability of

the leading officials . Bring into full play the role and responsibilities of the Party's organizations, members and Party committees ' members working in state agencies, the Fatherland Front and people's organizations . Innovate resolutionmaking methods and focus on leading and steering the

implementation

preliminary review,

and the

of inspection, review of the

implementation of the Party's resolutions . Speed up the reform of administrative procedures within the Party, overcoming the cumbersome procedures, reducing paperwork and meetings;

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have a deep understanding of the reality and the grassroots .

*

In the 11th Tenure, emphasis should be put on leadership and guidance to create dramatic changes in implementing thefollowing key tasks: To

enhance

the

leadership

Party's

capacity and combativeness . -

To

particularly

facilitate

in

administrative

administrative

reform ,

procedures

concerning the organization and operation of enterprises, and activities of the people . To

improve

the

of

quality

human

resources to meet the requirements of the national industrialization, modernization and international integration. To develop a compatible, comprehensive economic infrastructure system, particularly the transportation system, a factor that is acting as an obstacle to economic development and causing pressing concerns among the people.

To renew the distribution relationship, policies on wages

and incomes

of officials,

public employees, staff, workers; to overcome unreasonable issues and negative impacts of the current distribution relationship, wage and income policies .

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·

To focus on the settlement of urgent social

problems (degradation in ethics and lifestyle, social vices, social order and iscipline) . ·

To

accelerate

and

enhance

the

effectiveness of the prevention and the fight against corruption and wastefulness.

Our

country

difficulties

and

has

overcome

challenges

and

significant has

been

steadily moving forward . The world's situation is

dramatically

changing,

creating

many

opportunities and posing various challenges to our country at the same time. The 11th National Congress affirms the determination of the entire Party and the entire people to successfully grasp opportunities, overcome challenges, enhance the Party's leadership capacity and combativeness, uphold

the

strength

of the

entire

nation,

comprehensively accelerate the renewal process, develop the country rapidly and sustainably, and successfully implement the targets of a strong nation towards democracy, equity, civilization, and most importantly socialism .

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