Overall, over the past 30 years of renovation, our country has achieved great and historic achievements on the path of building socialism and defending the socialist Fatherland. At the same time, there are still many big and complicated problems, many limitations and weaknesses that need to be focused on and overcome to develop the country quickly and sustainably.

Over 30 years of renovation, our country has achieved great and historic achievements on the path of building socialism and defending the socialist Fatherland.

The Draft Political Report of the 11th Party Central Committee at the 12th National Congress of the Party clearly stated: Thirty years of innovation (1986 - 2016) is an important historical period in the development of our country, marking the maturity in all aspects of our Party, State and people. Innovation has revolutionary stature and significance, is a process of profound, comprehensive and thorough transformation, is a great revolutionary cause of the entire Party and people for the goal of "rich people, strong country, democracy, fairness and civilization".

Overall, over 30 years of renovation, our country has achieved great and historic achievements on the path of building socialism and defending the socialist Fatherland. At the same time, there are still many big and complicated problems, many limitations and weaknesses that need to be focused on and overcome to bring the country to rapid and sustainable development - the Draft affirms.

According to the draft, after 30 years of renovation, “the country has emerged from the socio-economic crisis and underdevelopment, becoming a middle-income developing country, promoting industrialization, modernization and international integration. The economy has grown well, the socialist-oriented market economy has gradually formed and developed. Politics and society are stable; national defense and security have been strengthened. Culture and society have developed; the face of the country and people's lives have changed a lot. Socialist democracy has been promoted and increasingly expanded. Great national unity has been consolidated and strengthened. The work of building the Party, building a rule-of-law State and the entire political system has been promoted. The country's strength in all aspects has been enhanced; independence, sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity and the socialist regime have been maintained. Foreign relations have been increasingly expanded and deepened; Vietnam's position and prestige in the international arena have been enhanced”.

Those achievements create an important premise for our country to continue to innovate and develop strongly in the coming years; affirm that the Party's innovation policy is correct and creative; our country's path to socialism is consistent with Vietnam's reality and the development trend of history.

However, besides the achievements, the draft states that "we still have many limitations and shortcomings".

Specifically, the work of summarizing practices and researching theories is still inadequate, failing to clarify a number of issues arising in the process of innovation to guide practice, providing a scientific basis for planning the Party's guidelines, policies and laws of the State. The theory of socialism and the path to socialism still has a number of issues that need to be summarized through practices to continue to clarify.

Economic development is not sustainable, not commensurate with the potential, requirements and reality of mobilized resources. In the past 10 years, the macro economy has been unstable, economic growth has declined, and recovery has been slow. The quality, efficiency, social labor productivity and competitiveness of the economy are still low. Development is unsustainable in terms of economy, culture, society and environment. Many pressing issues have arisen, especially social issues and social management issues that have not been fully recognized and effectively resolved; there are still potential factors and risks of social instability. In some aspects and fields, a part of the people has not fully and fairly enjoyed the results of the renovation process. Political renovation has not been synchronized with economic renovation; the capacity and efficiency of the political system are not up to the task.

The creation of a foundation to basically become a modern industrialized country did not achieve the set goal.

The four risks raised by the 7th National Congress of the Party (1994) still exist and have complicated developments, such as the risk of "peaceful evolution" by hostile forces with new tricks, especially the thorough use of Internet media to sabotage us and the manifestations of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation" within the Party. The trust of cadres, party members and people in the Party and the regime has been reduced.

The above limitations and shortcomings require our entire Party, people and army to make constant efforts to overcome them and continue to develop the country rapidly and sustainably on the path of socialism.

Looking back at 30 years of innovation, from achievements as well as limitations and shortcomings, the draft presents 5 lessons.

One isIn the process of innovation, we must be proactive and constantly creative on the basis of firmly maintaining the goals of national independence and socialism, creatively applying and developing Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh thought, inheriting and promoting national traditions, absorbing the quintessence of human culture, and applying international experience suitable for Vietnam.

Second,Innovation must always thoroughly grasp the viewpoint that "people are the root", for the benefit of the people, rely on the people, promote the role of mastery, sense of responsibility, creativity and all resources of the people; promote the strength of national solidarity.

Third,Innovation must be comprehensive, synchronous, and have appropriate steps; respect objective laws, originate from practice, closely follow practice, attach importance to summarizing practice, researching theory, and focus on promptly and effectively solving problems raised by practice.

Four is, must put national interests above all; firmly maintain independence and autonomy, while proactively and actively integrating internationally on the basis of equality and mutual benefit; combine promoting national strength with the strength of the times to firmly build and defend the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland.

Five is, must constantly self-innovate, self-rectify, improve the leadership capacity and fighting strength of the Party; build a contingent of cadres, especially strategic-level cadres, with sufficient capacity and qualities, equal to the tasks; improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the operations of the State, the Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations and the entire political system; strengthen close relations with the people./.

According to Chinhphu.vn