Imbued with Uncle Ho's ideology on mass mobilization work, our Party and State have led and directed many great results in the country's socio-economic fields.

I. On the people's strength in developing all aspects of the country's economic and social life

Marxism-Leninism always emphasizes the role of the masses, considering the strength of the people to be invincible; to lead the revolution, one must have close ties with the people, and to win the revolution, one must have the support of the majority of the people. Lenin affirmed: The main source of the Party's strength lies in its close ties with the people, the vanguard can only fulfill its historical mission when it is closely connected with the masses it leads and truly leads the entire masses forward. He also pointed out that for a ruling party: "One of the greatest and most frightening dangers is to cut off ties with the masses."

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One of the greatest and most fearful dangers is to cut oneself off from the masses.”

VI Lenin

In the process of leading and directing the revolution, President Ho Chi Minh and the Communist Party of Vietnam always deeply recognized the great role of the people, constantly taking care to build and strengthen the close relationship between the Party and the people. This is a very special relationship formed due to the objective requirements of the revolutionary cause. The Party is both the leader, the ruler, and the servant of the People, while the People voluntarily follow the Party, accept the Party's leadership, trust and are loyal to the Party, and are the masters of the country. The strength of the Party lies in the close connection between the Party and the People.

President Ho Chi Minh pointed out: “The Party is both the leader and the loyal servant of the people. Organizations from the central to communal levels are organized by the people. The government is elected by the people and authorized by the people to govern and manage the country on behalf of the people.” He said, “The country is based on the people”; “Our country is a democratic country, the highest position belongs to the people, because the people are the masters.” “Our regime is a democratic regime, meaning the people are the masters.” Since the people are the masters, they must be the masters and have the right to be masters. Because if the people are not the masters, democracy is just a formality.

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The Party is both the leader and the loyal servant of the People. Organizations from the Central to the communal level are organized by the people. The Government is elected by the people and authorized by the people to represent the people in governing and managing the country.

President Ho Chi Minh

Promoting the thousands of years of tradition of building and defending the country of our ancestors, absorbing the theory of Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's thought, our Party puts forward a very correct viewpoint: Revolution is the cause of the people, by the people, for the people.

The 13th National Party Congress documents especially emphasize promoting the role of the people and relying on the people to build the Party. From the practice of the renovation process, our Party draws 5 lessons, including the lesson: “In all work of the Party and State, we must always thoroughly grasp and seriously implement the viewpoint that “the people are the root”; truly trust, respect and promote the people's right to mastery, persistently implement the motto “people know, people discuss, people do, people inspect, people supervise, people benefit”. The people are the center, the subject of the renovation, construction and protection of the Fatherland, all guidelines and policies must truly originate from the requirements, aspirations, rights and legitimate and just interests of the people; strengthen close relations with the people, rely on the people to build the Party; take the happiness and prosperity of the people as the goal to strive for; consolidate and strengthen the people's trust in the Party, the State and the Socialist Regime”. In the 5 guiding viewpoints, the 13th National Party Congress emphasized the viewpoint: “Strongly arouse the spirit of patriotism, the will of national self-reliance, the strength of great national unity and the aspiration to develop a prosperous and happy country; promote socialist democracy, the combined strength of the entire political system and of the culture and people of Vietnam; foster people's strength, improve the quality of human resources, have breakthrough mechanisms to attract and promote talents, strongly apply science and technology…”. In the 6 key tasks of the 13th National Party Congress term, there are 3 tasks that mention promoting the role of the people: “Strengthening the people's trust and attachment to the Party, the State, and the socialist regime”; “Arouse the aspiration to develop a prosperous and happy country,…”; “Complete the synchronous legal system, mechanisms, and policies to strongly promote socialist democracy, the people's mastery,…”.

It is thanks to the consistency with those viewpoints that since its founding, especially over 35 years of carrying out the cause of renovation, our Party has maximized the strength of all classes of people to defeat the invaders and achieved many great achievements of historical significance in the cause of building and defending the country. The 13th National Party Congress clearly assessed those achievements: “The scale and level of the economy have been raised. The people's material and spiritual lives have been significantly improved. Our country has never had such a foundation, potential, position and international prestige as it does today.”

Regarding socio-economic development, according to the Government's Report at the 7th Session of the 15th National Assembly: In 2023, the GDP growth rate will reach 5.05%; The economic scale will reach 430 billion USD, entering the group of upper middle-income countries; Inflation will be controlled, CPI will increase by 3.25%; State budget revenue will reach more than 1.75 million billion VND, exceeding 8.2%; Total import-export turnover will reach 681 billion USD, trade surplus will be 28.3 billion USD; FDI attraction will reach 39.4 billion USD, up 34.5%; Realized FDI capital will reach 23.2 billion USD, up 3.5%, the highest ever.

In the first months of 2024, the macro economy was basically stable, inflation was controlled, and major balances were ensured. GDP growth in the first quarter reached 5.66%, the highest in the 2020-2023 period. The average CPI in the first 4 months increased by 3.93% over the same period. In the first 4 months of 2024, state budget revenue reached 43.1% of the estimate, up 10.1%; import-export turnover increased by 15%, with a trade surplus of 8.4 billion USD. Total registered FDI capital reached 9.27 billion USD, up 4.5%; realized FDI capital reached 6.28 billion USD, up 7.4%, the highest in the past 5 years. Infrastructure development was promoted. Social security policies continued to be well implemented, people's lives were improved. Vietnam's human development index increased by 8 places, ranking 107/193. Vietnam's happiness index increased 11 places, ranked 54/143,...

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The above results and achievements in all aspects of the country's socio-economic life further demonstrate the great strength of our people under the leadership of the Party and the direction and management of the State.

II. Results and limitations of mass mobilization work in recent times

1. About the results:

In a general assessment of the mass mobilization work in recent times, the 13th National Party Congress affirmed the following advantages: “Mass mobilization work has been focused on and continued to be innovated; the viewpoint that “people are the root” and the subject of the innovation process has been increasingly deeply and fully recognized and implemented; the close relationship between the Party and the people has been consolidated and strengthened. The awareness of responsibility of Party committees, Party organizations and organizations of the political system has been enhanced; importance has been attached to listening, grasping the situation and resolving the legitimate and just aspirations, recommendations and pressing issues of the people; contributing to strengthening the close relationship between the Party and the people and promoting the role of the people in participating in Party building”.

In fact, the content and methods of the Party's leadership and the State's management of mass mobilization work have been innovated. The Party has promptly issued many resolutions on mass mobilization such as Resolution No. 08B/NQ-HNTW dated March 27, 1990, Resolution No. 25-NQ/TW dated June 3, 2013, resolutions on the working class, youth, women, veterans, "three farmers", businessmen, intellectuals, overseas Vietnamese, religious work, ethnic affairs, great national unity, etc. to lead and gather all classes of people. At the same time, the Party has had many policies and guidelines for economic development, ensuring social security, eliminating hunger and reducing poverty, improving material and spiritual life, and promoting the people's right to mastery. The mass mobilization work of state agencies has achieved many positive results. The reception of citizens and dialogue with the people by leaders have been carried out in a disciplined manner. Grassroots democracy regulations in various forms have been implemented quite well. The exemplary spirit of cadres and party members has been raised.

The organizational system of the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations has been consolidated, strengthened and continued to innovate the content and methods of operation towards the grassroots, enhancing supervision, social criticism, and giving opinions on Party and government building. Forms of mobilizing and gathering union members and association members have become increasingly rich, diverse and effective. Many patriotic emulation movements, especially the "Skilled Mass Mobilization" movement, have been promoted in conjunction with studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style, contributing to socio-economic development, ensuring national defense, security, foreign affairs, improving material and spiritual life, and effectively resolving the legitimate and legal aspirations of the people.

2. About limitations

Although mass mobilization work has changed and improved compared to before, there are still some limitations that need to be overcome. The institutionalization of some of the Party's policies and viewpoints on mass mobilization work such as the mechanism of "Party leadership, government management, people mastery", or the motto "people know, people discuss, people do, people inspect, people supervise, people benefit" is not timely, not suitable for each group of people, each type of grassroots. Some Party committees, organizations, and governments have not taken the work of mobilizing and caring for the interests of the people as the main content in their leadership and direction. The implementation of democracy regulations at the grassroots level, especially in the type of enterprise, is still a formality in some places.

The work of assessing and forecasting the ideological situation among the people in some places is still inaccurate and untimely, slow to grasp the legitimate thoughts and aspirations of the people, and there are still "hot spots" or complicated complaints. The work of propagating and guiding people to implement the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws has not received due attention. There has been no good leadership and direction to promote media agencies such as social networks, and to expand channels of direct dialogue with the people. The activities of the mass mobilization system, the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations in some localities are slow to innovate. The selection of content and methods of mobilizing and gathering union members and association members in many places lacks creativity and is not close to reality, so the effectiveness is not high. The propaganda work of typical examples of organizations and individuals who are good at production and business and have become rich legitimately has not received due attention,... In addition, the work of inspection, preliminary review, and final review of the implementation of resolutions and directives on mass mobilization work has not been done well in some places. The preliminary review and final review according to the regulations of the Central Committee has been slow in some places or done perfunctorily,...

3. About the cause

The above situation has objective causes but is mainly due to the following subjective causes.

Some Party committees and authorities have not fully recognized the position and role of mass mobilization work in the new situation. The leadership capacity and fighting strength of some Party organizations, especially at the grassroots level, are still limited. A number of cadres and Party members lack exemplary role, their pioneering and core roles are still vague, and in some cases, they have degraded in political ideology, ethics, and lifestyle, reducing people's trust in Party committees and authorities. The organization and implementation of the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws, especially on socio-economic development, thereby improving people's material and spiritual life, is still slow and ineffective. The quality of cadres doing mass mobilization work and socio-political organizations has not met the requirements of the new situation.

III. Solutions to improve the effectiveness of mass mobilization work to promote people's strength in the new period

In the coming years, the documents of the 13th National Party Congress forecast that the world and regional situation will continue to have many rapid, complex and unpredictable changes. Peace and cooperation are still the major trends, but also face many obstacles, difficulties and challenges. The 4th Industrial Revolution is developing strongly, creating breakthroughs in many fields, bringing both opportunities and challenges to all countries. Developing a market economy, on the one hand, helps to liberate huge resources among the people, contributing to improving people's lives, but on the other hand, it also divides social classes with different interests. The explosion of the internet and social media networks makes information spread quickly, affecting people's thoughts and feelings. Besides good information, there is also false information, distorting and distorting the situation.

The process of deep international integration helps us attract and mobilize many external resources, enhance the country's position, but also allows hostile forces to take full advantage and intensify their sabotage against our Party, State and people. Faced with such opportunities and challenges, mass mobilization work must actively contribute to promoting the great strength of the people to build and protect the Fatherland with the following basic solutions:

The first:Party committees at all levels continue to lead and create strong changes in awareness and action on mass mobilization work of the entire political system and all classes of people.

First of all, continue to thoroughly disseminate the Central Committee's resolutions, directives, decisions and regulations on mass mobilization work to Party organizations and Party members such as Resolution No. 25-NQ/TW on "strengthening and innovating the Party's leadership over mass mobilization work in the new situation", Decision No. 23-QD/TW dated July 30, 2021 on promulgating the regulations on mass mobilization work of the political system and the Central Committee's resolutions on youth, working class, women, veterans, intellectuals, businessmen, etc. On that basis, continue to innovate mass mobilization work in a practical and creative direction, taking work results, satisfaction and trust of the people as important criteria to evaluate the quality of the apparatus organization and the quality of cadres and Party members. At the same time, promote the role of the people in participating in building a clean and strong Party and State, creating consensus, strengthening the people's trust in the Party and State and promoting the great strength of the Great National Unity Bloc in the cause of building and defending the Fatherland.

Monday:Party committees at all levels continue to lead the State to focus on implementing mass mobilization work well.

Based on the practical situation, state agencies should have effective and practical methods and forms to promote the role of people's participation in the process of formulating and implementing policies and laws, ensuring the harmony of legitimate and legal interests between the State, enterprises and people in association with national and ethnic interests. Gradually strengthen the form of direct democracy to promote the intelligence and contributions of opinions of all classes of people, well organize the implementation of the law on "referendum" passed by the National Assembly. Quickly complete and concretize the mechanism of "Party leadership, State management, people mastery" and the motto "People know, people discuss, people do, people inspect, people supervise, people benefit".

Continue to effectively carry out voter contact, monitoring activities, social criticism, public reception, dialogue with citizens, promptly and legally resolve citizens' petitions, complaints and denunciations. Continue to improve and implement regulations on public ethics in combination with strengthening inspection and examination work. Pay attention to training and fostering skills in mass mobilization for civil servants and public employees of state agencies at all levels. Promote the exemplary role of cadres and party members, especially cadres who regularly work with the people, strategic-level cadres, heads of sectors, levels, units, cadres and soldiers of the armed forces, etc. Resolutely criticize and strongly fight against manifestations of indifference, apathy, bureaucracy, arrogance, authoritarianism, and harassment of the people, while opposing tendencies to demagogue and incite the people in the face of negative phenomena. Continue to propagate and organize the implementation of the "Law on Grassroots Democracy", regularly listen to the legitimate thoughts and aspirations of the people to promptly resolve them. Focus on thoroughly handling urgent issues directly related to people's lives, not allowing complicated complaints to drag on, and "hot spots" of security and order to occur at the grassroots level.

Tuesday:Continue to innovate the organization, content and methods of operation of the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations.

This is one of the national development orientations in the documents of the 13th National Party Congress, aiming to contribute to maximizing the people's strength in the country's socio-economic development. In order to effectively perform the role of representative, protecting the legitimate and legal rights of members, union members, and members of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations, it is necessary to build and consolidate the organization, apparatus, and a strong cadre team at all levels, meeting the requirements of theoretical level, practical capacity and skills in mass mobilization work. Pay attention to the selection, training, fostering and having policies and mechanisms to motivate cadres to do mass mobilization work, the front, and mass organizations, resolutely not assigning cadres who are not exemplary, have poor ethics, and violate discipline to do mass mobilization work. Continue to innovate the content and methods of operation in a focused, key direction, strongly oriented towards the grassroots, diversifying forms of gathering and mobilizing union members, association members, the Fatherland Front, and socio-political organizations to act as advisors to Party committees and core in grasping public opinion, the people's situation, promoting democracy, and citizens' sense of responsibility in supervising the building of a clean and strong Party and State.

Strictly and consistently implement the principles of voluntariness, self-management, and self-financing in accordance with the law when developing mass organizations. Improve the quality of activities of mass organizations, regularly train outstanding members and associates, both morally and talentedly, to introduce cadres to the Party and the State. At the same time, pay attention to building and promoting the role of prestigious people in the community, including our compatriots abroad, towards national construction.

Wednesday:Continue to promote Party building and rectification work, anti-corruption work, and resolutely fight against wrong viewpoints and arguments.

The 13th National Party Congress clearly defined the direction of Party building and rectification work: “Improving the leadership capacity and fighting strength of grassroots Party organizations and the quality of Party members; promoting the vanguard, exemplary, respecting, being close to the people, trusting the people, understanding the people, and learning from the people of cadres and Party members. Further strengthening the close relationship between the Party and the people, consolidating and constantly enhancing the people's trust in the Party”. The Congress set out “In the coming years, it is necessary to pay special attention to and further promote comprehensive Party building and rectification in terms of politics, ideology, ethics, organization and cadres”. Strictly implement the principle of democratic centralism, self-criticism and criticism in Party activities; prevent and push back the degradation of political ideology, ethics and lifestyle. At the same time, continue to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of Party inspection, supervision and discipline work. Resolutely and persistently fight against corruption and waste. Closely combine active prevention with proactive detection and strict and timely handling of acts of corruption, cover-up, tolerance, abetting corruption, interference, and obstruction in the fight against corruption and waste.

The recent results of the fight against corruption and waste have been approved and supported by the people, increasing their confidence, arousing and promoting the people's strength in the country's socio-economic development. In the new situation and conditions, hostile forces have many sophisticated activities to divide the relationship between the Party and the people, sabotage the Party's correct guidelines and policies, and the State's policies and laws. Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen propaganda and explanation work so that the people can clearly and correctly understand the guidelines and policies, promote the "people's hearts and minds position", resolutely fight and refute false and distorted arguments, etc.

Thursday:Party committees at all levels continue to lead the entire political system to promote patriotic emulation movements, contributing to promoting the people's strength to develop the country's economy and society in the new period.

In the new period, the Party's mass mobilization work must actively contribute to mobilizing and gathering all classes of people in the entire political system into a great force to participate in patriotic emulation movements in the spirit of "emulation is patriotism, patriotism requires emulation". Party committees at all levels, authorities, the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations closely follow political tasks, grasp the legitimate interests of all classes of people to determine the content and choose ways to launch emulation movements that are close to the reality of the locality, unit and suitable for each subject. On the basis of summarizing the emulation movement "Skilled mass mobilization" and emulation movements by the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations in the past to draw experience for better implementation in the coming time. Emulation movements need to be practical, avoiding formalities, waste and expense; taking political, economic and social effectiveness as a measure to evaluate each emulation movement.

Regularly organize monitoring, urging, inspection, interim and final reviews and timely rewards. In the current situation, the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations need to direct the emulation movement to encourage organizations, enterprises, union members and members to compete in production and business to enrich themselves legitimately. On that basis, create more jobs, increase the state budget, contribute to the goal of "rich people, strong country" and increasingly better implement social security policies. The country's economic potential and financial security are very important issues to build and protect the Fatherland. Emulation to mobilize, gather and maximize the people's strength in developing all aspects of the country's socio-economic life is very urgent and important in the new situation.

Friday:Continue to lead the entire political system to closely and synchronously coordinate in implementing the regulations on mass mobilization work.

On July 30, 2021, the Politburo (13th tenure) issued Decision No. 23-QD/TW on the "Regulations on mass mobilization work of the political system" to meet the requirements and tasks of mass mobilization work in the new situation. The Regulations clearly state the responsibilities for leadership and implementation of mass mobilization work of the Politburo, the Secretariat, the Central Mass Mobilization Commission, the Central Party Office, the Central Party Committees, the Party Delegations, the Central Party Executive Committees, the Central Secretariat, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the provincial Party Committees, the municipal Party Committees, the Party Committees directly under the Central Committee, the responsibilities of the National Assembly, the National Assembly Standing Committee, the Government, the ministries, branches, and judicial agencies, the responsibilities of the armed forces, the responsibilities of the authorities at all levels, the responsibilities of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations. On the basis of the responsibilities for mass mobilization work assigned by the Politburo, if organizations in the political system study, thoroughly grasp and organize implementation well, mass mobilization work will definitely have clear progress. To effectively carry out mass mobilization work, organizations in the political system must have close and synchronous coordination. It is necessary to build a new coordination mechanism between the government and organizations with the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations at each level. Party committees at all levels regularly urge, inspect and supervise the implementation of the regulations. Periodically organize preliminary and final reviews and timely rewards according to the regulations of the Central Committee (5-year preliminary review, 10-year final review).

Implementing the above 6 solutions with quality is practical to improve the effectiveness of mass mobilization work, contributing to maximizing the people's strength in developing all aspects of the country's socio-economic life.