The Communist Party of Viet Nam’s Central Committee had completed drafts of key documents to be submitted to next year’s 11th National Congress . . .

General Secretary Nong Duc Manh delivers a speech at the 12th meeting of the Communist Party of Viet Nam’s Central Committee.

The Party and people must spare no effort to build Viet Nam into a modern and socialist-oriented industrial nation between now and mid-century.

Affirming the significant achievements of the Vietnamese people in the past decade of carrying out the 2001-10 socio-economic development strategy, Manh outlined the development strategy for the next ten years.

It would include rapid but sustainable development; uniform economic and political renewal towards building a socialist and powerful Viet Nam with a wealthy people and a democratic, equitable and civil society; practising democracy and promoting to the highest extent the human element in development, considering people as the subject, primary resource and object of development.

The strategy would also call for strong development of the workforce, with more advanced technology, while improving labour relations and institution for an independent and self-reliant economy in the conditions of international integration.

The strategy would set an overall target that, by 2020, Viet Nam would become an industrialised nation with political stability and social consensus in the form of a democratic and disciplined society, Manh said.

The material and spiritual lives of the people must be clearly elevated and national independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity firmly maintained, he said, with Viet Nam’s position in the international arena raised to create a basis for further development.

In order to attain these targets, Manh called for concerted efforts to achieve such strategic breakthroughs as: perfection of a socialist-oriented market economy, focusing on fair competition and administrative reform; comprehensive reform of the educational system towards developing the nation’s human resources; and the construction of a co-ordinated system of infrastructure.

At the same time, the efficiency and effectiveness of State administration needed to be enhanced, he said, stressing to the need to advance the fight against corruption and waste, strengthen the Party’s leadership, and promote the people’s right to mastery over the State apparatus.

During 2011-15, Manh said, the nation would continue to comprehensively advance the renewal process, enhancing the Party’s leadership capacity and combativeness, building a pure and strong political system, promoting democracy and national unity, hastening sustainable economic development, raising the people’s spiritual and material living standards, firmly maintaining political stability, and enhancing foreign affairs while protecting national independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity.

To obtain these targets, Manh noted the tasks necessary to stabilising the economy, renewing growth models and economic structure, raising quality and efficiency, effectively using resources, and incrementally building modern infrastructure.

He touched on the importance of raising the quality of education in order to develop science, technology and a knowledge-based economy, as well as taking progressive steps toward achieving social equality, reducing the property rate, improving healthcare and preserving and promoting the nation’s fine traditions and cultural values.

Active preparation for and mitigation of natural disasters and contingency plans for climate change were all necessary, Manh reminded the conference.

He spoke of the need to boost national defence and security to firmly maintain political stability, independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, ensure social order, prevent and foil all schemes of sabotage by hostile forces, and enlarge the scope of foreign relations.

Manh called for the promotion of democracy and the strengthening of the great national unity, increasing the effectiveness of a socialist State governed by law, by renewing the operation of the National Assembly, Government and local administrations and advance the struggle against red-tape, corruption and waste.

He urged a renewal in the quality of work performed by the Fatherland Front and mass organisations and greater Party-building and rectification efforts, following President Ho Chi Minh’s moral example as a matter of routine. He also stressed the need to raise the quality of Party members and cadres and continue renewing the Party’s formula of leadership.

Manh said that building and strengthening Party organisations from the grassroots up was closely connected to the process of building and consolidating the political system of the new regime under the Party’s leadership. Through practical review, recommendations to adjust Party’s statutes would be made in order to make them commensurate with development laws and the Party’s leadership role in the near future.

Changes to party statutes needed to be made in line with three principles: loyalty to the basic principles of the Party and Party-building on the basis of Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought; studying provisions in Party Central Committee resolutions concerning Party-building to ensure that they have been implemented on a trial basis and found to be correct, necessary, ripe to be put into practice, universal and within the jurisdiction of the national Party congress; and promoting democracy in discussion and the gathering of opinions voiced by Party members, committees and organisations and members of the political system, particularly opinions and comments drawn from theoretical and practical Party-building work and approved with high concensus by the entire Party.

In order for the 11th Party Central Committee to be strong enough to accomplish the enormous tasks set for the coming stages of the revolution, Manh said, those with political firmness and the grit and determination to carry out the lofty goals of the Party and people on national independence and socialism should be selected.

“They are those who have exemplary morality with excellent lifestyles, integrity, free from red-tape, corruption and waste, renewed and creative thinking, intelligently and practically capable of performing their tasks and taking part in making Party policies and decisions, bearing responsibility for the common good, showing and creating solidarity and enjoying high prestige among Party members and the people,” Manh said.

He also mentioned the need to ensure the structure and harmony of the Party Central Committee, ensuring full representation by geographical areas, branches, ages, gendre, ethnicity and social strata, with a close adherence to criteria in selecting candidates for the Party Central Committee as key.

Manh affirmed that the factors discussed and decided at this conference would be of tremendous significance, constituting a basic step toward the preparation of draft documents for comment by Party committees at all levels, the National Assembly and the public.

He called on the Party Central Committee and Party committees as well as Party organisations nationwide to simultaneously carry out preparations for Party congresses and the Resolutions of the 10th National Party Congress, considering accomplishment of the Resolutions of the 10th Congress and the implementation of the 2006-10 socio-economic plan as the most important duties.

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