The Politburo gives opinions on the personnel plan for the Party Congresses of Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

On August 21, the Politburo chaired by General Secretary To Lam worked with the Standing Committee of the Hanoi Party Committee and the Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, giving opinions on draft documents and personnel plans for the Party Committees to be submitted to the Congress of Delegates of the Hanoi Party Committee and the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee for the 2025-2030 term.

Attending the meeting were representatives of leaders of a number of central agencies and departments, branches and sectors of the two cities.

In his opening speech, General Secretary To Lam emphasized that the Politburo worked with the Standing Committee of the Hanoi Party Committee and the Standing Committee of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee based on the role and importance of the two localities to the whole country. With the aim of carefully preparing documents and personnel to submit to the Congress, ensuring that the vision and development orientation are met in the context of the new situation with many changes in development space, resources and motivation for Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to develop commensurate with the role, position, potential and strengths of each locality and the whole country.

At the working session, the Politburo listened to representatives of the Hanoi Party Committee Standing Committee and the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Standing Committee report on draft documents and personnel plans for the 2025-2030 term, and reports on receiving and explaining comments from central committees, ministries, branches, and Politburo members.

The Politburo gave opinions focusing on emphasizing solutions to completely resolve the limitations, shortcomings, and development bottlenecks of the two cities, while suggesting and supplementing orientations on tasks, solutions, leadership methods, experiences, and new approaches in leadership and direction of the two cities in the 2025-2030 term and vision to 2045.

Concluding the working session, General Secretary To Lam acknowledged and highly appreciated the important results achieved by the Hanoi Party Committee and the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee in the 2020-2025 term.

The General Secretary highly appreciated the preparation of Congress documents that had been carried out methodically, scientifically and thoroughly by the two Party Committees.

Regarding the direction and tasks for the 2025-2030 term, General Secretary To Lam requested the Hanoi Party Committee and the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee to deeply understand the particularly important position and role of the capital and Ho Chi Minh City to fully understand the attention and facilitation of the Central Government in terms of mechanisms, policies and outstanding resources, to clearly see the responsibility to the whole country.

The General Secretary hopes that along with the goal of rapid and sustainable development, Hanoi City needs to focus on promoting the unique cultural values ​​of the thousand-year-old civilized and heroic Capital, "Capital of conscience and human dignity"; building elegant, civilized, modern, and humane Hanoians.

Hanoi must be the representative political and cultural center of the whole country, building the image of a green - smart - livable capital - attractive both domestically and internationally.

For Ho Chi Minh City, it is necessary to establish a new growth model based on science, technology, innovation, digital transformation; develop a knowledge-based, creative economy with high added value to become a civilized, modern urban area, a center for innovation and development, dynamic, integrated, leading in the cause of industrialization and modernization of the country, continuing to be the "locomotive" of the economy of the whole country, with a prominent position in Southeast Asia. Vision to 2045, Ho Chi Minh City will become an urban area on par with major cities in the world; an economic, financial and tourism center of Asia; an attractive global destination, where the economy, culture and society develop distinctively and sustainably, with a high quality of life, deep international integration, in the top 100 global cities with smart and sustainable development, becoming a typical socialist city of Vietnam.

Building Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City into orderly, disciplined, safe and healthy capital cities; becoming secure and safe destinations in the world.

General Secretary To Lam asked the Hanoi Party Committee and the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee to absorb the opinions of Politburo members and comments from ministries, departments and branches to perfect the content of the documents and successfully organize the Party Congress for the 2025-2030 term.

At the same time, focus on building an action program to implement the Congress Resolution, with appropriate task groups, solutions, and a feasible roadmap; ensure successful implementation of the Congress's goals and targets, soon bring the Resolution into life; well implement the Resolution of the 14th Party Congress, the orientations and directions of the Central Committee, the Politburo, and the Secretariat in the new era; take advantage of opportunities, overcome challenges, and successfully implement the 2-level local government model, for the whole country, together with the whole country to develop prosperously and well.