Solemn opening of the 10th Conference of the 12th Party Central Committee

General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong chaired and delivered the opening speech at the Conference. Photo: Tri Dung/VNA

Assigned by General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong, Comrade Nguyen Xuan Phuc - Politburo member and Prime Minister chaired the opening session.

At this Conference, the Central Committee will discuss the outline of documents to be submitted to the 13th National Party Congress; prepare for directing the conduct of Party congresses at all levels, towards the 13th National Party Congress and a number of other important issues.

Specifically, the Central Committee will discuss and give opinions on: Outline of the Political Report; Outline of the Report on 10 years of implementing the 2011 Platform (supplemented and developed); Outline of the Report summarizing the implementation of the 10-year Socio-Economic Development Strategy 2011-2020; building the 10-year Socio-Economic Development Strategy 2021-2030 and the 5-year Socio-Economic Situation Report (2016-2020), the 5-year Socio-Economic Development Plan (2021-2025); Outline of the Overall Report on Party building work and implementation of the Party Charter. The Central Committee will also discuss and give opinions on summarizing the implementation of Directive 36-CT/TW of the 11th Politburo on Party Congresses at all levels, towards the 12th National Congress of the Party and the Draft Directive of the 12th Politburo on Party Congresses at all levels, towards the 13th National Congress of the Party.

General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong and other Party and State leaders at the opening session. Photo: VNA.

The conference will review and comment on reports on important tasks handled by the Politburo from the 9th Central Conference to the 10th Central Conference; reports on the Party's inspection, supervision and discipline work in 2018...

Speaking at the opening of the Conference, on behalf of the Politburo and the Secretariat, General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong warmly welcomed the Central Executive Committee members and delegates attending the Conference; at the same time, he suggested and highlighted a number of issues that need to be discussed and commented on.

Panorama of the opening ceremony of the Conference. Photo: Tri Dung/VNA

Recently, implementing the decision of the 8th Central Conference of the 12th tenure, the Documents Subcommittee, the Economic - Social Subcommittee, and the Party Charter Subcommittee have urgently prepared the draft outline of documents to be submitted to the 13th National Party Congress to seek the direction of the Politburo to continue to complete and submit to the Central Committee for consideration and comments at this Conference. Although it is only a preliminary draft outline, this is a very important first step, guiding the quality preparation of documents to be submitted to the 13th National Party Congress.

General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong requested the Central Committee to spend time carefully studying the documents, discussing and giving opinions on the specific proposals stated in the Reports and draft Outlines, first of all on the topics, guiding ideas, titles of the Political Reports, the structure and major contents of the outlines of the reports. In particular, the theoretical and practical issues raised in recent times need to be focused on and clarified in the process of drafting the documents.

General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong emphasized that the content of this Central Conference's agenda is very important for the completion of the political tasks of the 12th Central Executive Committee in preparing documents for the 13th National Party Congress. General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong asked the Central Committee and comrades attending the Conference to promote their intelligence and sense of responsibility, focus on research, discuss thoroughly, and give opinions to complete the reports and projects, and consider and decide at the end of the session.

After the opening session, the Central Committee held group discussions. According to the program, the Conference will last until May 18, 2019.