I. National situation and international circumstance
1. In continuing to follow the Party’s
renovation guidelines, we have, during the 2001-2010 period, created new
driving force for the national development.
By expanding democracy in the economy through
stipulating and enacting the Enterprise Law, promoting the development of
privately-run economy, stepping up State-owned enterprise equitization and
foreign investment attraction, implementing administrative reforms with the
focus on administrative procedures, participating deeply and broadly into
regional and international integration process, and joining the World Trade
Organization, we have been able to tap our country’s inner strength and
potential, make use of external resources and combine national strength with
the power of our times.
During a decade of implementing the 2001-2010
strategy under effects from the regional crisis and adverse impacts from the
global crisis, our country has weathered a great array of difficulties,
challenges, as well as complex developments in the global economy to record
immense and very important achievements. The draft 2011-2020 socio-economic
development strategy gives an overview of the major results we have gained
as well as problems and difficulties and draws lessons from reality.
2. We enter a new strategic phase in the context
of rapid changes and unexpected fluctuations occurring in the word. The
following is the prominent tendencies.
(1) The leaping development of science and
technology; the formation of the knowledge-based economy, the use of
energy-saving and environmentally-friendly technologies; the development of
a green-economy. These will be seen as the major driving force to change the
global economic and market structures and boost economic reforms and
restructuring in each country as well as economic structure shifting among
countries. Each country will accept the process naturally or in a proactive
manner depending on its own internal capacity and policies.
(2) Deeper and broader globalization and
economic connectivity, thus pushing up the internationalization of
production and labor assignment and shaping a global production network and
a global value chain. In that context, competition will increasingly be
fiercer. Accordingly, developing an independent, self-reliant, and
highly-competitive economy will become our country’s biggest economic
challenge in the next decade.
(3) The growing role of newly-emerging
economies, especially the robust development of India and China, will change
the balance of economic and political power in the world. Holding a crucial
geo-strategic position, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
has been making deeper and broader integration, thus facilitating each
member country’s development and affirming its major role in regional
architecture that is taking from. However, there are risks hidden in this
region that may affect stability and development in our country as well as
other countries in the region.
After crisis, the global economy’s recovery has
been occurring slowly and full of contradictions; the public debt crisis is
still spreading and threats of a monetary warfare yet being eliminated. In
that circumstance, policy adjustment made by countries, especially powerful
countries, will amplify risky level and uncertainty.
In parallel with that, environmental degradation
and climate change, particularly sea level rise, to which our country is
among a few that will be hardest affected, can become a big variable in our
country’s development course.
With such ample challenges and opportunities,
never has the international circumstance exerted such big influence on our
country’s development. The question is what we must do and what position we
will stand in this complicated movement.
The draft strategy has defined the viewpoints to
serve as the basis for determining goals and outlining development
orientations for the 2011-2020 period that suit the national circumstance
and international context and ensure their unity with long-term goals set
forth in the draft Platform.
II. New progress in development thought
1. Viewpoints on development
The viewpoint on sustainable development as
presented in this draft strategy pursue a new internal perception which
reflects the close link between fast development and sustainable development
and considers sustainable development a requirement that run-through the
Strategy. The viewpoint aims to handle the relations between economic
development and socio-cultural development in the right way to achieve
social progress and fairness and protect the environment. It emphasizes
securing a fast growth rate, narrowing the development gap with other
countries, and at the same time eliminating the way of thinking that focuses
on growth rate rather than growth quality.
In the renovation course over the past 25 years,
our Party begun with economic reform, making it the key in liberating all
resources available in our country. This step is necessary and correct.
However, when the economic renewal has recorded great achievements and
economic relations made basic changes, it is essential to carry out economic
and political renewals concurrently to promote a comprehensive renewal. This
reflects our Party’s accurate awareness on moves to be taken and the
dialectics of development of the renewal process. The draft strategy
underlines that “renewal should be taken in a simultaneous and proper manner
in both economic and political spheres towards the goal of building a
Socialist Republic of Việt Nam into a strong, democratic, just and civilized
country with rich people. The implementation of this goal must be taken as
the highest standard to evaluate the effectiveness of the renewal and
development process”.
The focus of political renewal is to perfect the
content and breath a new life into the Party’s leading methods, combine
Party committees’ power and responsibilities in performing their leading
role, broaden democracy in the Party and the entire society with the aim of
bringing into full play the State agencies’ active role, the people’s great
creative capability and the strength of the national great unity bloc in the
national construction and defense.
We are living in the era of globalization during which economic competition
is taking place fiercely. Each country tries to seek ways to make the best
use of its available comparative advantages and turn them into competitive
advantages and at the same time creating new competitive ones. Though being
very important available comparative advantages, natural resources and
geo-economic location are, however, not the most decisive factors. Reality
has proved that human resources are an internal dynamic factor which decides
a nation’s long-term competitive advantage. This is especially right at a
time when science and technology – human being’s intellectual product has
made leaping developments as seen in our era. Moreover, economic development
goals are eventually set for the people, thus a person can develop
comprehensively, leads a life that is materially and spiritually rich, has
intellectual ability and is able to utilize his/her creative ability, while
aware of the inevitable so that he/she is able to master himself/herself as
well as society and reach freedom. The draft strategy highlights the
viewpoint of “maximizing the human factor, considering the people the
subject, the key resource and the target of development”. It also emphasizes
the need to enhance capacity and create mechanisms to enable the people to
fully exercise their rights to mastery, especially to direct democracy, to
bring into full play all forms of creativity and ensure a high consensus in
society, thus creating a driving power for the country’s development.
The viewpoint of “strongly developing production
forces with increasingly high scientific and technological levels while at
the same time perfecting production relations in the socialist-oriented
market economy” lays stress on a new, important requirement of production
forces and production relations.
Production forces need to rely on growingly high
scientific and technological level, which reflects the trend that science
and technology has become a direct production force while production
relations in the socialist-oriented market economy must ensure that “all
economic sectors and all forms of enterprises develop in a fast and
harmonious manner. The State economic sector’s potential, strength and
efficiency are enhanced. The State economy holds the leading role and acts
as an important material force to help the State regulate and orientate the
national economy, thus contributing to stabilizing the macro-economy. The
collective economy is developed in diverse forms with cooperative playing
the core.”
The State economy not only comprise State-owned
enterprises but also other resources owned by the State, including the
state budget, land, natural resources and national reserve. Through
development policies and effective regulating and allocating mechanisms,
these resources will be factors to activate and direct the implementation of
structural policies and socio-economic development in general. Hence, the
State economy’s leading role does not involve only materials resources but
also in policy impacts and the State’s ability to use these resources
effectively. This role is not only involve economic development either, but
also socio-economic development in general. This requires us to study again
and re-define the operation and management mechanisms of State enterprises.
Apart from defining the State economy’s leading
role, the draft strategy stresses on the need “to create an equal
environment for competition among all economic sectors, encourage the
development of multi-ownership forms of production and business mainly joint
stock businesses to make this economic form popular in the national economy,
thus speeding up socialization of production, business and ownership.
Mechanisms and policies need to be perfected for the strong development of
the private economy, turning it into one of the driving forces behind the
national economy.”
Beginning with economic integration, countries
are expanding their integration course to other fields as part of an
objective process. In order to be active and proactive in our international
integration and improve the effectiveness of the process, we need to “build
an increasingly independent and self-reliant economy in the context of wider
and deeper international integration”. It is very necessary to stress in the
current circumstance. Only when the country’s economic potential and
business forces are strong, then the national economy is robust and the
country’s position in integration is heightened. The more effective our
integration is, the more favorable conditions we can enjoy to build an
independent and self-reliant economy.
2. The strategy’s goals and breakthrough points
The draft strategy outlines the general goals of
“striving to turn our country basically into a modern industrialized country
by 2020; with stable, democratic, rule-governed, and consensual
politics-society; the people’s spiritual and material life is enhanced
remarkably; independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity are
maintained; Việt Nam’s position in the international arena continues to be
heightened; and a firm premise will be created for the country to develop
further in the next phase.”
Taking economic development as the core, the
general goals and specific targets mentioned in the draft strategy
constitute the unity of economy, social affairs, politics, defense and
security. They combine mid-term tasks with long-term development
requirements to become the “Party’s second platform” with the aim of
deploying tasks set in the first phase of implementing the Platform.
To achieve these general goals and specific
targets, we need to carry out simultaneously various solutions and make
breakthroughs in areas with blocked points which are hindering development.
Once these areas are cleared, premises will be created for us to liberate
all potential and effectively exploit all resources for development. The
draft strategy plans to make three breakthroughs as follow:
Firstly, to perfect the socialist-oriented
market economy institution, focusing on forming an environment of equal
competition and administrative reform. The good point of the market economy
has is the rational distribution of resources in accordance with the
market’s signals, thus increasing the economy’s common efficiency. The
market economy can only be perfected when all factors and all kinds of
markets are formed synchronously within an environment of equal competition.
Competition is an inherent character of the market economy. Through
competition, businesses are forced to seek ways to cut down production costs
and increase productivity – which in the final analysis is the decisive
factor for the triumph of a mode of production, a social regime. The market
economy is always run by administrative institutions and procedures. Thus,
in order to perfect the socialist-oriented market economy institution, it is
necessary to accelerate administrative reform, creating favorable conditions
to people and businesses. On the other hand, the market economy that we are
building is a socialist-oriented market economy, in which economic
development must be in harmony with socio-cultural development and the
implementation of social progresses and justice in every step and every
development policy. Therefore, the State should have proper policies and
effectively use regulation tools in order to deal with problems caused by
the market economy.
Secondly, to rapidly develop human resource,
especially the high-quality one, focusing on reforming basically and
comprehensively the national education system; and combine closely the
development of human resource with the application of scientific and
technological advances. Human beings are the subject producing all material
and spiritual products. Humans create institutions, develop and apply
sciences and technologies, and are the most important productive force.
Hence, to basically and comprehensively renew the national education system
in order to develop the human resource, especially high-quality one, must be
seen as a strategic breakthrough. This is both an urgent demand and a
long-term task. The need to combine closely the development of the human
resource with the development and application of sciences and technologies
is a new content, showing the target of the human resource development. Only
the human resource that is able to develop and apply scientific and
technological advances in production and management work can obtain a high
productivity for a rapid and sustainable development.
Thirdly, to build a comprehensive infrastructure
system and a number of modern projects, concentrating on large-scale urban
infrastructure and transport systems. Infrastructure is a “link’ for
productive factors to shift and a condition for the socio-cultural
development in regions of the country. The weakness of the infrastructure
system now is a big obstacle for socio-economic development, increasing
costs, reducing competitiveness, preventing the converging and spreading
effects from inner factors, as well as the use of our country’s geo-economic
location in the global chains of supply, and threatening to expanding the
gap in living conditions between regions in the country. In the next ten
years, we should mobilize all resources to make this breakthrough.
3. Directions for development
Based on the above-mentioned points of view and
overall targets, the draft strategy maps out 12 directions for development,
forming a synchronous system of major solutions in all fields of economy,
society, environment, national defense, security and external relations as a
perfect whole of sustainable development; ensuring the combination of two
strategic tasks of building socialism and defending the socialist republic.
The following are the some new contents:
It can be said that restructuring the economy,
shifting the development model, developing social fields in harmony with
developing the economy and environmental protection are the most important
ideas as well as the new points in the development thought.
The restructuring of the economy is not an issue
to be considered only in the context of crisis. This process happens in
progress or by leaps and bounds in correspondence with the development of
sciences, technology and the shift of competitive advantages between
countries. The content and pace of restructuring depends on the specific
conditions in each country. For our country, the restructuring of the
economy must be conducted synchronously in the fields as follows:
(1) To accelerate industrialization and
modernization process, push up the economic restructuring, increase rapidly
the proportion of industry and services in GDP. In the other hand, it is
necessary to attach importance to the long-term strategic role of
agriculture in stabilizing the society, ensuring food security and improving
farmers’ living conditions.
(2) To restructure production and services
sectors, focusing on developing supporting industries and hi-quality
services of big added value in order to produce competitive products capable
of joining the global production network and value chains. At the same time,
we must build a commodity agriculture using high technology in order to
increase value added on an unit of land acreage; closely combine
scientific-technological application with production, production and
processing with distribution within a value chain, ensuring the harmony of
interests among links of this value chain, and agricultural development with
the building of new-styled areas.
(3) To restructure enterprises, continue
renewing State-owned businesses, and strongly develop private ones. In
parallel, each enterprise must conduct self-restructuring to adapt to the
technological and market changes in order to increase productivity, quality
and efficiency.
(4) To pay more attention to the domestic
market. Businesses should develop the distribution network of domestic
market in order to dominate this market, using it as the base to reach
further to the world markets, expand export markets and effectively exploit
the markets that join free trade agreements.
(5) To adjust investment mechanism and increase
investment efficiency. The State concentrates investment on developing human
resource and most essential socio-economic infrastructure projects, at the
same time mobilizing resources of economic sectors for development
investment. To encourage investment in production of big value added
products, supporting industries and those using clean technologies. To limit
investment in mining industry and industries occupying large acreages of
land or using a lot of energy, and to reject low-tech investment projects
polluting the environment.
Implementing the contents of the above-mentioned
restructuring requires the shifting from the growth model that depends on
increasing investment capital, exploiting natural resources and low-quality
human resource to the in-depth growth model that relies on applying new
scientific and technological achievements and using skillful human resource
and modern management skill. These factors are closely related to one
another and have an integrated impact and a decisive role in raising the
efficiency of capital utilization, increase labor productivity and
competitiveness. Science and technology are the decisive motive power and
human beings play the central role who invent and use science and technology
and execute management functions. Only can modern management skills bring
into play the impacts of the two factors.
Changing the growth model is an objective
requirement of the development process, particularly in the context of
globalization and fierce competitiveness but it is impossible to act under
one’s wish. Premises and conditions must be created for the shifting
process. These premises and conditions are strategic breakthroughs. Hence,
the first years of the coming strategic period should focus on settling
breakthroughs and logically combining wide-scale and in-depth growth towards
the in-depth model.
Economic restructuring and changing the growth
model require the efforts of all branches, authorities at all levels and the
business community in which the State is responsible for paving the way and
providing assistance while businesses are the subject and the major force of
the process.
Socio-culture is a broad field with interactive
associated contents and has a strong impact on economics, all fields of
life, each person and the whole community. Culture forms a value system of a
nation, creates an identity of a nation and is an important factor in the
development thought. President Hồ Chí Minh said “culture lights up the road
for people”. The draft strategy aims for “the comprehensive development of
socio-cultural fields in harmony with economic development, and the good
handling of the relationship between economy and culture to turn culture
into a real spiritual foundation for the society and a development driving
force.” The draft strategy sets the requirement of basic and comprehensive
reform of the national education to increase the human resource’s quality.
This is a highlight in the draft strategy, aiming to overcoming shortcomings
and weaknesses and creating new developments in socio-cultural fields.
Over the past years, the Party and State have
always paid attention to ensuring social security and welfare for the people
with documents with regulations on a number of concrete policies. The draft
strategy outlines a system of uniform and comprehensive viewpoints and
policies which will serve as a foundation for the development of an
effective and sustainable social security and welfare system.
Manifesting a full awareness of the threat of
environmental pollution, climate change and rising sea level to sustainable
development, the draft strategy presents basic directions and concrete
targets regarding environmental protection and improvement, emphasizing the
requirement of environmental protection in each branch and locality’s
development strategy and scheme as well as in each project, promoting the
society’s involvement in environmental protection and environmental
services’ development. The draft strategy lays stress on the implementation
of programs to cope with climate change, particularly rising sea level, and
accelerating international cooperation in this global issue.
4. Raising the effectiveness and efficiency of
State management
To successfully implement the strategy with the
above mentioned contents, unceasing efforts are required to perfect the
mechanism of the Party leadership, the State management and people’s
mastery. The draft strategy manifests more profound awareness of the
relationship among three components of the mechanism in the context of our
Party being the only one holding power and the existence of a socialist
law-governed State. The Party plays the leading role while the people are
the masters; the Party performs its leadership by the State and through the
State. In this mechanism, the people entrust the State with implementing the
management power with the basic function of creating an environment for
development and serving development. It is a must to set the request of
enhancing the Party leadership in the relationship with increasing the
effectiveness and efficiency of the State management and bringing into play
the people’s right to mastery. The draft strategy defines the State’s
functions of management and facilitation of development, the relationship
between the State and the market; puts forward solutions to renovate the
Party’s leadership modes and raises the effectiveness and efficiency of
State management; and emphasizes the requirement of bringing into play the
role of the Việt Nam Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations and the
people’s right to mastery in Party building and the State construction.
Together with finalizing institutions to exercise democracy and increase
direct democracy, the draft highlights social critics’ role and the
responsibility of explanation of State agencies at all levels. Social
critics and the responsibility of explanation contribute to, perfecting
policies and increasing management and leadership capability.
III. Creating a strong change in the first year of implementing the strategy
The 2011-2020 strategy’s viewpoints and
orientations must be included in the 2011 socio-economic development plan.
The Government has reported and the National Assembly has adopted a
Resolution on the 2011 socio-economic development plan which comprehensively
puts forward targets, tasks and big solutions. Following are key tasks of
2011.
1. Stabilizing macro-economy and controlling
inflation
We implement the 2011 socio-economic development
plan in the context of a predicted slower growth of the world economy,
higher commodity prices than 2010, the likely spread of the public debt
crisis in the Euro zone, the devaluation of the US dollar – the major
currency in international payment, and the rise in gold price which will
change investment channels and cause big fluctuations in the international
financial market.
In the country in 2010, the economy recovered
and attained a relatively high growth rate (6.78 percent), exports increased
sharply (25.5 percent), trade deficit represented only 17.3 percent of
export revenues and deficits in balance of payments was reduced
dramatically. However, the high inflation and interest rates and the
fluctuations of the exchange rate have put pressure on macro economic
stability, caused difficulties to business and production activities and
threatened sustainable growth. In 2011, efforts need to be focus on
reinforcing macroeconomic stability and controlling inflation which are
considered a key task.
The gap between savings and investment must be
narrowed, unnecessary projects cut to concentrate resources on projects that
create new production and export capabilities and essential socio-economic
infrastructural facilities, budget overspending and trade deficit must be
cut and inflation curbed. Recent years’ reality has proved that macro policy
must convey clear messages in order to create confidence for the market and
make orientations for business and production activities. It is a must to
closely follow the world and domestic economic movements, improve forecast
capability, make active and sharp reactions, flexibly use monetary policies’
tools under the market principles, restrict the use of administrative
measures when unnecessary, increase the interbank market’s efficiency in
stabilizing and regulating capital sources among credits organizations, and
closely combine financial policy with monetary policy to stabilize the macro
economy and control inflation. It is necessary to increase monitoring the
activities of credits organizations, securities companies, investment funds
so as to ensure honest business activities and abide by safety standards.
2. Strongly starting the economic restructuring
process and changing the growth model
To focus on perfecting institutions and creating
a healthy land market based on the principle that land is national asset and
farmers’ main production material. The State and people who hand over the
land use rights must be those who benefit from transferring land use rights.
This is a basic principle to make land policies and market.
To accelerate the reform of State-owned
enterprises (SOEs). Although the SOEs reform is a content of business
restructuring, it is a condition to create an equal competitive environment
for all economic sectors – a criteria of the market economy. The orientation
and main content of the SOEs reform are to speed up the equitization and
renovation of State corporations and groups. State economic groups and
corporations should focus on major fields of the national economy and change
from operating in various fields to specialized fields so as to implement
the restructuring policy. They should promote renovation and creativeness,
raising the efficiency and creating long-term competitiveness to take part
in the global production network and value chain. It is important to place
State businesses in the competitive environment and stipulate quality
criteria for business operation. The renovation of mechanisms and
organizations should be conducted to raise the responsibility and the
effectiveness, efficiency of State management and owners’ management for
SOEs. Compulsory auditing mechanism must be implemented and auditing results
should be made public.
In 2010, it is a must to strongly carry out the
supporting industrial development program, considering it as a key content
of the restructuring of industrial production sectors. It is an urgent need
to perfect the mechanism and policies for development and management of the
supporting industry. A link must be created between manufacturing and
assembling enterprises, local firms and foreign investors in selecting and
developing supporting industry in product groups based on the market’s need
and with state orientations, focusing on a number of engineering products,
electric and electronic appliances and IT products. Foreign investors are
encouraged to invest in development of supporting industry.
It is necessary to strongly develop
high-value-added services which have widespread effects, such as tourism,
distribution, transport, logistics and seaport services, in order to take
advantage of the country’s geo-economic position in the global supply chain.
Improvement of the management mechanism should be made to accelerate healthy
development of financial services and real estate business. The national IT
development program should be implemented, with the aim of turning Việt Nam
into an IT power by 2020.
Efforts should be made to raise awareness on the
important and strategic role of agriculture in the national
industrialization and modernization process, and to implement the 7th
Party Central Committee Resolution on agriculture, farmers and rural areas.
It is necessary to accelerate the implementation of the program on building
new-styled rural areas. The State increases investment and encourages
enterprises to develop socio-economic infrastructure in rural areas, invests
in biotechnology, processing industry to produce high-yield, high-quality
and competitive products. Examinations should be stepped up on the
compliance to food safety and hygiene standards from production, processing,
circulation to consumption. More investment should be made in storage and
preserving systems to prevent losses and ensure goods’ quality, regulation
of supply-demand, price stability.
3. Creating favorable conditions for businesses to invest in production and
business development and expand markets, focusing on the following tasks:
To perfect investment policies and mechanisms to
mobilize resources for development investment and improvement of investment
efficiency; expand forms of investment under the BOT, BT forms, quickly
issuing regulations on public-private-partnership (PPP) cooperation for
traffic system development, especially major projects. To speed up
administrative procedure reform in investment, establishment of land use
rights, customs procedure and taxation, helping reduce business expenditure
for enterprises.
To improve businesses’ access to capital. The
development bank’s operations should focus on supporting small- and
medium-sized enterprises; increase this bank’s fundings for credit guarantee
and project appraisal capacity. Priority should be given to credit resources
for key products, while considering a system of allocating credit quota for
business areas based on their contributions to GDP and export turnover.
To develop support services for business
start-up. It is necessary to accelerate trade promotion, overseas market
expansion to help sharply increase exports, while increase quality checks of
imported commodities to protect consumers and encourage domestic production.
More attention should be paid to the domestic markets, especially rural
ones. The Campaign “Vietnamese use made-in-Vietnam product” should
intensified.
4. Developing socio-cultural areas, focusing on
urgent issues
To effective build and implement the 2011-2020 social security strategy, the
sustainable poverty reduction program and the job placement program for the
2011-2015 period, with the aim of reducing the poverty rate by 2 percent in
2011 under the new criteria; developing insurance types and expanding social
security network.
To complete policies on medical examination and
treatment and hospital fees. To speed up construction of hospitals using the
State budget, encourage economic sectors to invest in building hospitals;
sending more doctors to district- and commune-level hospitals, ensuring
compatibility between facilities, equipment and medical workers who use the
equipment, improving quality of medical check and treatment at grassroots
hospitals, to reduce the burden of provincial and central-level hospitals.
State management on medicines, food hygienic safety is required to
strengthen.
To take comprehensive measures to improve education quality; continue to
implement approved education-training projects; focusing on both two
contents in the quality of general education which are knowledge and
morality. The teaching staff, teaching and learning conditions should be
improved to expand scale of tertiary education and improve its quality;
building a number of high-quality universities and colleges under
cooperation programs with foreign countries, international organizations.
Vocational training must be strongly developed with quantity and structure
suitable to market demand, focusing on vocational training for the
supporting industry. Rapid development of the technology market is needed.
Incentives must be issued for businesses to apply and renew technology in
order to promote economic restructuring, and the shifting of growth model.
To continue pushing up the movement of “All people unite to build cultural
life” focusing on establishing of cultured behavior, abolishing
superstitions, and making each person behave and live in a cultured manner.
To implement information dissemination
activities to raise awareness on environmental protection among people and
businesses. Checks, inspection and strict punishment of law violations must
be intensified. It is necessary to implement the national target and action
plan on climate change resilience, sea and river embankment upgrading
programs, flooding control solutions for major cities and effective response
to natural disasters.
To highlight the responsibility of Party
organizations and authorities at all levels, promoting the roles of the
Fatherland Front, mass organizations, the people and media in the fight
against corruption and waste. It is a must to effectively implement
anti-crime and social evil programs, ensuring traffic safety order.
5. Accelerating completion of management
mechanism based on the principles of ensuring the people’s democratic right
and promoting the synchronous formation of the market economy’s elements. It
is a need to review decentralization system to ensure that the central
management on development planning is strengthened to fully tap comparative
advantages in inter-region vision to save human resources and ensure
economic scale while promoting the proactive, creative and responsible role
of localities. Preparations for elections of the National Assembly, people’s
councils and consolidation of the administrations at all levels for the new
term must be done in accordance with the requirements of building a
streamlined, more effective and efficient state administrative apparatus,
focusing on serving people as the main function of administrations at all
levels.
Together with the above-said tasks, we have to
attach importance and well implement national defence, security, diplomacy
tasks, creating a stable peaceful environment for socio-economic
development, firm protection of national independence sovereignty and
territorial integrity.
The Government and ministries, localities have
to pay attention to preparation for the Tân Mão (the Year of the Cat) Lunar
New Year festival, take synchronous measures to ensure commodities supply,
control prices, maintain social order and security, and traffic safety, and
care for the poor and welfare beneficiaries to ensure that all people enjoy
a happy, healthy and economical Tet festival.
Over the past time, the entire Party, people and
army actively gave opinions to draft documents to submit to the 11th
National Party Congress. We firmly believe that the Congress will set out a
strategy to meet the country’s development requirement. The good
implementation of the strategy, first of all fulfilling the 2011 tasks, is a
practical work to translate the 11th Congress Resolution into
reality and carry out Uncle Hồ’s statement teaching: “the Party needs to
make good plans for economic and cultural development, in order to
unceasingly improve the people’s life.”/.
