Our Party, all for the happiness of the people

The Party has led our people and nation to make great turning points and miracles, changing the fate of an entire nation, opening up good prospects for our people's lives in the Ho Chi Minh era - the era of National Independence and Socialism.

The path of innovation quickly enters life

Nearly 30 years ago, the 6th National Congress (December 1986) of the Party took place as a Congress opening the Doi Moi period. With the courage of self-criticism, with the motto of "looking straight at the truth, telling the truth, evaluating the truth correctly", the Party initiated the renovation policy, led the renovation process, brought the country out of crisis, and escaped the dangerous situation when the socialist regime in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe collapsed and the world socialist system disintegrated. Doi Moi is the answer to Vietnam's survival and development. Doi Moi demonstrates the Party's steadfast stance in choosing Vietnam's development path.

Innovation has promptly seized the opportunity and courageously overcome the challenges of development; unified the Party's will with the people's will and the law of the country; responded properly to the urging of reality, the command of life and the people's aspirations from urgent needs and daily, intimate interests. The resonance between the Party's responsibility and political determination and the people's earnest wishes has made the innovation ideology and guidelines quickly enter life, creating an unprecedentedly large social effect, attracting and motivating all levels, all sectors, all people to join in innovation, and act for innovation.

Thanks to the renovation, the country has emerged from the crisis, overcome poverty, backwardness, and underdevelopment, and has increasingly integrated into the international community, creating the position and strength of Vietnam as it is today. Maintaining political stability, economic growth, gradually achieving social progress and justice, improving and raising the living standards of the people, consolidating the strength of the great national unity and consensus towards sustainable development and modernization of the country - That is a great achievement, of historical significance of the renovation. The journey of nearly 30 years of renovation that the entire Party and people have gone through is a vivid and valuable reality that gives us faith in the leadership of the Party, in the creative potential of the people and the endogenous source of strength of the Vietnamese nation.

The formation of the "10 golden words" in the system of goals of innovation: "Rich people, strong country, democracy, fairness, civilization" is the result of the Party's theoretical thinking innovation, from practice to test theory, and also from summarizing practice to supplement and develop theory to increasingly understand Vietnamese socialism and the path to socialism in Vietnam. That is the maturity of the Party's leadership capacity and governing spirit. The practice of innovation has provided our Party and People with new theoretical knowledge and experience, and has strengthened the Party's intellectual and ideological potential.

The strength of the Party comes from the strength of the people.

The practice and achievements of innovation also bring to our Party and People the important conviction that the strength of the Party and the sustainability of the regime originate from the strength of the people, from the close relationship between the Party and the people, between the people and the Party, and at the same time, the strength of great national unity, the organic combination of national strength with the strength of the times.

Following the rules, pleasing the people and keeping up with the times – that is the secret of success, the sure guarantee of victory according to Ho Chi Minh's instructions that our Party has constantly applied and creatively developed.

The people are the root of the country, so if the people are rich, the country is strong. The Party is for the people and the country, so the people trust the Party, follow the Party, support and protect the Party, because the people clearly understand that the Party is their Party.

Having such prestige and profound influence among the people, in the solidarity of the entire nation and social consensus is the Party's legitimate pride in its glorious tradition and noble values ​​honored by the people and nation.

More deeply, the more proud the Party is, the more clearly and fully aware it must be that the deep source of the Party's strength and vitality is the People, born from the People and the Nation, the Nation and the People have nurtured, protected and promoted its Party, so that the Party is always worthy of the people's trust, trust and expectations. The relationship between the Party and the people, between the working class and the Vietnamese nation, in the historical circumstances and conditions of Vietnam since the 1920s and 1930s, when the Party was born, has had a special meaning and nuance, which is the outstanding characteristic of our Party compared to many other Communist Parties in the world.

Ho Chi Minh summarized the law of the birth of the Communist Party of Vietnam as follows: The Party is the product of the combination of Marxism-Leninism with the workers' movement and the patriotic movement of the nation. Thus, from the nature that creates its strength, the Vietnamese working class with the Party as the vanguard has from the beginning been closely attached to the people and the nation.

Therefore, although the number is small, the real industry of the nation has not been produced, only the industry imported by colonial capital for the purpose of exploiting the colonies... yet the working class of our country through the vanguard, the Communist Party, still excellently assumes the leadership role and carries out its historical mission.

It is the historical tradition of the nation and the people's ardent patriotism that has created the strength of the Party, has become the source of life, creating vitality, character and courage for the Party. A heroic and indomitable nation, with a history of thousands of years of building and defending the country, with a unique cultural and civilized identity that creates the intellectual, spiritual and moral appearance of the Vietnamese people, has nurtured and trained the Vietnamese working class, has crystallized the best qualities of the class and the nation into the Communist Party of Vietnam.

And our people, a mass of people who have experienced the situation of slavery, the humiliation of losing the country, so they yearn for independence and freedom, would rather die with honor than live in humiliation, would rather sacrifice everything and refuse to be slaves... Such a nation, such a mass of people, is not only full of vitality, creativity, courage, and intelligence, but also loyal, altruistic, benevolent, tolerant, respectful of truth and morality, upholding dignity, honor, and integrity in life and being human, praised by the world as more precious than a bar of gold. With such a social foundation, such a source of strength,The Communist Party of Vietnam owes a great debt of gratitude to its nation and people.

Being aware and self-aware of that importance, the Party and each Party organization, each Party cadre and member will always be aware of their responsibilities, obligations, and duties to the people and the country. This is especially necessary and important when the Party is in power, especially in the condition of a single party in power, in a market economy environment, in the trend of developing a knowledge-based economy, in the context of globalization and international integration.

The greater the opportunities and fortunes, the more severe the challenges and dangers. The temptations of fame and profit, of power, position, of consumption and pleasure are always before everyone's eyes. If one does not have enough willpower and faith, is not guaranteed by pure and noble morals, is not motivated by honor, conscience, self-respect and integrity, then as Ho Chi Minh once warned, it will lead to corruption, evil and sin.

There have been many such cases, from individuals to organizations, with painful prices to pay. Ultimately, it is due to individualism, the "internal enemy", "the enemy in the hearts of the people". The state of degradation of a large number of Party members and cadres, leaders and managers at all levels, including at high levels, in political ideology, ethics, and lifestyle, as pointed out by the 4th Resolution of the 11th Party Central Committee on "some urgent issues in Party building today", is a typical and serious situation. It threatens the survival of the regime and the life of the Party.

We must make the Party clean and strong, truly moral and civilized, as Ho Chi Minh emphasized with a responsible effort, with drastic actions in Party rectification, determined to regain the trust of Party members and people in the Party - That is the command of life for the Party at this time. That is also the earnest wish, the urgent demand of the people for the Party.

Every action is for the people, aimed at the people.

Without the people, the Party has no force, the revolution has no strength. Without the Party, the people have no leader. To be worthy of being the leader of the people, the Party and each Party member must be devoted to the people in every action, uphold the virtues of diligence, integrity, impartiality, solidarity and purity, serve the public, uphold the law, and put public service first, following the ideology and moral example of Ho Chi Minh.

The eternal law is this: if you have the people, you have everything; if you lose the people, you lose everything. Rely on the people to build and rectify the Party, respect the people, respect the law, be close to the people, learn from the people, listen to the people, trust the people to love the people and work for the people. That is the morality and ethics towards the people, it is also the moral, political and legal responsibility towards the people of the Party and each Party member. The Party is great because the Party is open and just. The Party is great because the Party is truly revolutionary, in the direct perception and assessment of the people, in the help, inspection and criticism of the people with all the people's trust and love for the Party, both strict and tolerant, trusting, hopeful and proud of their Party.

84 years in the glorious history of the Party with nearly 70 years of the Party continuously ruling, leading the State and society so that Vietnam has a foundation and career as it is today. When making the August Revolution in 1945, the Party had only nearly 5,000 members in the strength of a nation of 20 million people. Now, the Vietnamese nation has 90 million people and the Party has nearly 4 million members. The heroic nation, the glorious Party and the great Uncle Ho are always the pride of our people, of each of us.

The country has entered Spring. Society is transforming from tradition to modernity. The nation is facing new opportunities for development, full of creative vitality. The Vietnamese people, generation after generation with increasingly improved education and knowledge, are living in an environment of innovation and integration, are building a democratic society and a rule-of-law state, moving towards civilization and modernity, with talent, enthusiasm and responsibility to the people and the nation, will certainly make Vietnamese intelligence and personality shine.

The Communist Party of Vietnam's leadership of the State and society has been trusted and honored by the entire people, and has been enshrined in the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, affirming the legal status of the ruling Party. The worthy qualities of the Party create the legitimacy and legitimacy of the Party in carrying out the heavy and glorious responsibilities that history has entrusted and the people have entrusted.

The Party is strong because it has a strong State and especially because it has strength from the support, assistance and protection of the People, the strength in the hearts of the people, the strength of the great national unity bloc.

In the current new stage of development, the Party's will, the people's will, and the country's law must be more closely linked.

During his lifetime, Uncle Ho always cared, worried and did his best to ensure that people had food, clothing, shelter, education, health care and freedom of movement. These were things that he considered urgent, practical and must be done immediately. He advised and reminded us that people only know about freedom and democracy when they have enough to eat and wear. If the country gains independence and freedom but the people are still hungry, cold, miserable and backward, then independence and freedom are useless. The people are the masters and the people are the masters, then the Party and each Party member are the loyal and devoted servants of the people. State officials, most of whom are Party members, working in the public apparatus, must "put public service first" all their lives and must cultivate a philosophy of life that "serving the people means obeying the highest truth" because the people are the most precious, democracy is the most precious thing in the world for the people.

All for the happiness of the people - it can be said that this is the noble and sacred determination that the Party has vowed to strive and sacrifice to realize the people's right to life, freedom, and pursuit of happiness - human rights and civil rights as stated in the Constitution. With that same noble responsibility, the Prime Minister's New Year Message 2014 especially emphasized the role of the People, the responsibility of the State and the Government in serving the Fatherland and the People. "This is the time when we need more motivation to regain rapid growth and sustainable development. That motivation must come from institutional innovation and strongly promoting the people's mastery". "A rule-of-law state must uphold the law. The law must ensure justice and reason. The state must perform well its function of creating development". From that spirit, the Party, State, and Party members must act for the people, consistently, all activities and actions are only for the people, aiming at the people.

Prof. Dr. Hoang Chi Bao/chinhphu.vn