Objective and comprehensive assessment of the situation of epidemic prevention and control and socio-economic development

Speaking at the opening of the Conference, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong emphasized that 2021 is the first year of implementing the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, creating new momentum and new spirit for the successful implementation of the 5-year Socio-Economic Development Plan 2021-2025; the 10-year Socio-Economic Development Strategy 2021-2030 and vision to 2045.

However, from the beginning of 2021 until now, the Covid-19 pandemic with new variants, spreading faster and more dangerously, continues to develop in a complicated and difficult-to-control manner, negatively affecting the world economy, including Southeast Asia and our country; profoundly changing the economic order, structure, governance methods, organization of economic activities and global social life, forcing many countries to adjust their orientations and strategies for disease prevention and control in conjunction with socio-economic development in the direction of: Improving internal strength, focusing on developing the domestic market, developing the digital economy, digital society, e-commerce...

The world economy has recovered and grown again, but it is still slow, uneven, and not really stable, depending on the development of the pandemic and the ability to prevent, combat, and safely adapt to the pandemic; global public debt has increased sharply, and the world financial and monetary markets have many potential risks.

According to General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, after the great success of the 13th National Party Congress, the Central Executive Committee, the Politburo, and the Secretariat have successfully led the election of deputies to the 15th National Assembly and People's Councils at all levels for the 2021-2026 term; promptly completed the leadership agencies of the Party and State; urgently developed programs and actively organized the implementation of the socio-economic development plan, state finance and budget, and public investment in 2021 and the 5-year period 2021-2025.

The entire political system has proactively and actively participated; inherited and promoted the achievements and results that have been achieved; overcome the remaining limitations and weaknesses; and calmly and soberly proposed many policies and measures to promptly and properly handle new issues arising from the adverse impacts of the pandemic.

However, the fourth outbreak from the end of April until now, with the new strain - Delta, spreading very quickly, extremely dangerous, difficult to control, has greatly and extremely negatively affected all aspects of economic, cultural and social life of our country; on the material and spiritual life of our people and the psychology and social mood; especially has taken the lives of thousands of our compatriots, including officers and soldiers of the armed forces, doctors, medical staff and grassroots cadres at the front line of the fight against the epidemic.

Therefore, together with the General Summary Report, the Government Party Committee has researched and developed reports on the situation of Covid-19 pandemic prevention and control; viewpoints, policies and solutions on pandemic prevention and control in the new situation; socio-economic situation in 2021, expected socio-economic development plan for 2022; implementation of the State budget in 2021, State budget estimate for 2022 and the 3-year State financial and budget plan for 2022-2024; as well as postponing the implementation of salary policy reform according to Resolution No. 07-NQ/TW of the 7th Central Conference of the 12th tenure.

Stating that these reports are organically and closely related to each other, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong suggested that the Conference take time to carefully study the submitted documents and, based on the actual situation in each sector, field and locality, discuss and objectively and comprehensively assess the situation of disease prevention and control, socio-economic development in the first 9 months of the year, forecast until the end of 2021, especially forecasting the situation of the Covid-19 pandemic in the world and in our country in the coming time.

Pay attention to summarizing and evaluating the necessity, correctness, effectiveness, efficiency, as well as the limitations and shortcomings in promulgating and organizing the implementation of new policies and measures to handle practical issues arising in the process of both preventing and fighting the epidemic, overcoming the consequences caused by the epidemic, and maintaining and developing the socio-economy in the past time. Point out the results and achievements that have been achieved, the new difficulties and challenges that are arising, the limitations and weaknesses that need to be overcome; analyze and clarify the causes, especially subjective causes.

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Compare and analyze the ability to complete the goals and tasks planned for 2021, especially the goals and tasks of soon controlling the epidemic, maintaining macroeconomic stability, ensuring major balances of the economy, supporting workers and businesses to maintain, restore and develop production and business activities, taking care of people's lives, ensuring social security; protecting national independence and sovereignty, political security and social order and safety, maintaining a peaceful and stable environment for national development in the new situation.

Based on analyzing and forecasting possible scenarios, especially the epidemic situation in the world and in our country in the coming time; grasping opportunities, advantages and difficulties, challenges, clearly defining viewpoints and policies on epidemic prevention, control and socio-economic recovery and development in the new situation; general goals, basic and most important indicators; Orientations, guidelines, policies, tasks, solutions and plans, specific implementation roadmap for 2022, ensuring close to reality, high feasibility, meeting the requirements of the annual socio-economic development plan, finance - State budget, associated with disease prevention, control and implementation of the salary policy reform roadmap in the spirit of looking straight at the truth, being truly objective, impartial, not evasive, not pessimistic but also not embellishing to focus on leadership and direction of implementation from now until the end of 2021 and throughout 2022.