In his opening
speech at the meeting, which opened in Hanoi on October 9, the Party leader
asked the Party Central Committee to examine the Politburo’s reports and reality
in local socio-economic performance in order to make objective and comprehensive
assessment of socio-economic development in January-September and forecasts for
the remaining months of this year.
On the basis of set targets and tasks, the committee should predict
possibilities in the time ahead and lay out general goals and key targets for
2017, he said, adding that more focus should be given to the control of public
and bad debts; the restructuring of State budget, public investment, State-owned
enterprises, and commercial banks; as well as improvement of business and
investment environment.
The Party General Secretary noted that as 2016 is the first year to carry out
the Resolution of the 12 th National Party Congress, the entire political system
has built on the past achievements and promptly dealt with problems such as
impacts from the slow and unpredictable recovery of the global economy, falling
crude oil prices, prolonged drought in the south central region and the Central
Highlands, and the serious environment incident in the central region.
On the reform of the growth model and improvement of growth quality, labour
productivity and economic competitiveness, the Party leader stressed that this
is an issue of strategic importance that decides the success of the renewal
cause.
According to him, a report and a plan submitted to this plenum have present an
overview of the reform of the growth model in combination with economic
restructuring in the country over the past years, which comprises seven
outcomes, six shortcomings, three major causes and five lessons. The documents
also outline the viewpoints and orientations for major policies on this issue in
the time ahead.
Trong requested the Party Central Committee to thoroughly examine and discuss
the report and scheme, paying attention to new proposals regarding newly
emerging and complicated problems.
The Party Secretary General stressed that the plenum should define clearly which
growth model that the country should strive to build and how it is different
from the current model. A roadmap for the next 5-10 years should be drafted,
along with a vision to 2030, he said, particularly pointing to policies and
measures to promote science-technology, improve workforce quality, effectively
mobilize social resources, especially from the private economic sector, the
concentration of land, measures to solve bad debt and weak commercial banks.
As for another important item on the plenum’s agenda- international economic
integration, Trong acknowledged new steps forwards such as the signing of many
new-generation free trade agreements, adding that the establishment of the ASEAN
Economic Community, the enforcement of FTAs with the Republic of Korea, the
Eurasia Economic Union, and the signing and upcoming ratification of the
Trans-Pacific Partnership and the FTA with the EU will bring many opportunities
and advantages along with new challenges in terms of not only economics but also
national defence, security, external relations, culture and social affairs.
He asked the Party Central Committee to make a comprehensive and objective
assessment on the situation and pinpoint opportunities and challenges facing the
process as well as the national construction and defence for the next 5-10
years.
During the process, the committee should keep to the 12 th Party Congress
Resolution on global integration, the implementation of relevant resolutions and
directives by the Party Central Committee and the Politburo, and the national
defence strategy in the new situation, towards the goal of issuing a Resolution
on global economic integration that suits the national, regional and global
realities.
The resolution must clarify the guiding viewpoint for integration in the time
ahead, along with specific policies and measures to address challenges and
negative impacts from the new international commitments, particularly the
effects of opening the market on agriculture, farmers, small and medium-sized
enterprises, or how commitments in labour-trade unions, liberalisation of
services market in financial-monetary, telecommunications, Internet and social
media fields will affect national defence-security and socio-political stability
along the way.
On Party building, the Party leader emphasized that the Party’s leadership is
the leading factor deciding every success of the Vietnamese revolution, hence
the Party building and strengthening work is vital to the Party and regime.
To put the 12 th Party Congress Resolution by the into action, the Party Central
Committee has decided that the 4 th plenum must issue a Resolution on building
and strengthening Party, stopping and curbing the degradation in political
ideology, morality and lifestyle along with the signs of “self-evolution” and
“self-transformation” within the Party, he said, adding that it is both an
essential and urgent matter and one of the six major tasks during the tenure.
According to the Party General Secretary, the “self-evolution” and
“self-transformation” phenomena are becoming complicated that can cause
unpredictable consequences. He asked the meeting to analyse the causes and put
forward effective solutions.
The plenum will last through October 15.
VNA