The Politburo and Secretariat will inspect 30 party organizations under the Central Committee in 2023.

Overview of the meeting. Photo: Tri Dung/VNA

The meeting aimed to give opinions on the Project "Summary of 15 years of implementing Resolution No. 27-NQ/TW, dated August 6, 2008 of the 10th Party Central Committee on building a contingent of intellectuals in the period of promoting industrialization and modernization of the country"; listen to the Central Inspection Committee report on the results of the inspection delegations of the Politburo and Secretariat in 2022 and propose the Inspection Program of the Politburo and Secretariat in 2023

Vietnamese intellectuals contribute to promoting the country's rapid and sustainable development.

After listening to the Standing Office of the Steering Committee for Project Development, reporting on the content of the Project "Summary of 15 years of implementing Resolution No. 27-NQ/TW, dated August 6, 2008 of the 10th Party Central Committee on building a contingent of intellectuals in the period of promoting industrialization and modernization of the country", the Politburo discussed and agreed to assess that in the years of innovation, especially after 15 years of implementing Resolution 27-NQ/TW of the 10th Party Central Committee, the common awareness in the Party, the political system and the whole society about the role and position of intellectuals has become increasingly complete and comprehensive.

The Vietnamese intellectual community has grown rapidly in quantity and quality, proactively and actively participating in scientific research, application and innovation; is a leading force in the Fourth Industrial Revolution and international integration; and has made important contributions to the cause of national construction and defense. This community has become an important force promoting the realization of goals, tasks, strategies and plans for rapid and sustainable national development in the spirit of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress; contributing to consolidating the great national unity bloc on the basis of the worker-farmer-intellectuals alliance.

Besides the positive results, there are still some limitations and shortcomings such as: The system of legal documents related to the building and development of the intellectual team is not complete and synchronous. Resolutions are slow to be institutionalized into mechanisms and policies; there is a lack of breakthrough mechanisms and policies, especially policies to mobilize resources for training, fostering, attracting, rewarding and honoring intellectuals at home and abroad, especially elite intellectuals and leading scientists; investment is still scattered, not focused on key areas; there are not many strong scientific, educational, cultural and economic facilities. Practicing democracy, respecting and promoting initiative in research and creative activities for the intellectual team is still limited and inadequate... The structure of the intellectual team is still unreasonable in terms of profession, region and age; there are not many strong scientific collectives with prestige on par with the region and the world; there are not many great creative works.

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong chaired the meeting. Photo: Tri Dung/VNA

The Politburo affirmed that Vietnamese intellectuals are a high-quality human resource, a creative labor force with the honor and duty to be pioneers, directly participating, contributing, building and defending the Fatherland, improving people's knowledge, training talents in all fields, making an important contribution to raising the intelligence and strength of the nation, promoting the country's rapid and sustainable development; creating a basis for improving the quality of the worker-farmer-intellectual alliance, promoting the strength of national solidarity for the goal of a rich people, a strong country, democracy, fairness and civilization. Building a strong intellectual team in terms of quantity and quality, with a reasonable structure associated with promoting the role, responsibility and capacity of intellectuals in implementing the goals, tasks and strategies for socio-economic development... is the responsibility of the Party, the State, the political system and the whole society. Determining the focus on promoting institutional reform, mobilizing social resources; Respecting and promoting freedom of thought and academics, practicing democracy in creative research activities; having special mechanisms and policies to make use of talented people, elite intellectuals, and leading scientists, is creating the environment, conditions, and fundamental motivation to develop and promote the intellectual community.

The Politburo assigned the Project Steering Committee to receive comments from the Politburo and relevant agencies to complete the Project and report to the Politburo to submit to the Party Central Committee.

Continue to promote Party building and rectification and the political system

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong delivered a concluding speech at the meeting. Photo: Tri Dung/VNA

The Central Inspection Commission reported the results of 6 inspection teams of the Politburo and 5 inspection teams of the Secretariat inspecting 33 party organizations under the Central Committee according to the Inspection Program of the Politburo and Secretariat in 2022.

The Politburo and the Secretariat discussed and agreed that Party committees and organizations at all levels are deeply aware of the significance and importance of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress; have promoted the spirit of solidarity, focused on leadership, direction, program development, plans and organized the methodical and serious implementation of resolutions, directives and conclusions of the Central Committee, the Politburo and the Secretariat, concretized and actively implemented the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress; promoted the building and rectification of the Party and the political system, prevented and repelled degradation in political ideology, ethics, lifestyle, manifestations of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation" within the Party; implemented the Regulations on what Party members are not allowed to do; promoted the responsibility of setting examples for cadres and Party members, first of all Politburo members, Secretariat members and Central Executive Committee members.

In addition to the achieved results, there are still some limitations and shortcomings (which have been reported by inspection teams to Party committees and organizations at all levels). The Politburo and the Secretariat require Party committees and organizations at all levels to promote their strengths and achievements, seriously draw lessons, find solutions to overcome limitations and shortcomings and report to the Secretariat in the first quarter of 2024; continue to promote Party building and rectification and the political system; focus on effectively implementing projects, programs and plans for socio-economic development, maintaining national security and defense and social order and safety, closely following the key tasks set out in the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress.

The Politburo and the Secretariat assigned the Central Inspection Commission, the Government Party Committee and relevant agencies to carry out a number of specific tasks in the coming time.

At the meeting, the Politburo and the Secretariat discussed and decided on the Inspection Program of the Politburo and the Secretariat in 2023.

Established 5 Politburo inspection delegations, 5 Secretariat inspection delegations headed by Politburo members and Secretariat members, to inspect 30 party organizations directly under the Central Committee. The Politburo inspection delegations focused on leading, directing and organizing the implementation of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, the content of cadre work associated with the results of implementing Resolution No. 26-NQ/TW, dated May 19, 2018 of the 12th Party Central Committee on focusing on building a contingent of cadres at all levels, especially at the strategic level, with sufficient qualities, capacity and prestige, equal to the task.

The inspection delegations of the Secretariat focused on inspecting the leadership, direction and organization of the implementation of the Resolution and Conclusion of the 4th Central Committee of the 12th and 13th terms on strengthening Party building and rectification, preventing and repelling the degradation of political ideology, ethics, lifestyle, and manifestations of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation" within the Party; stepping up the fight against corruption, waste and negativity in conjunction with the implementation of Directive No. 26-CT/TW dated November 9, 2018 of the Politburo on strengthening the Party's leadership in investigating and handling complicated cases and incidents of public concern.

Nguyen Hong Diep