Prime Minister: Socio-economic strategies and directions must clearly demonstrate development aspirations

This is the 5th meeting of the Subcommittee consisting of 51 members to develop socio-economic documents chaired by the Subcommittee, which are the 10-year Socio-Economic Development Strategy 2021 - 2030 and the 5-year Development Tasks and Directions 2021 - 2025.

At the first meeting on November 9, 2018, the Subcommittee gave its opinion on the organization of the standing agency, the Ministry of Planning and Investment, the Standing members of the Subcommittee, the Editorial Board, and the overall work program of the Subcommittee. At the second meeting on January 19, 2019, the Subcommittee agreed on the program and work plan, gave its opinion on the topics, structure, and some key contents of the 10-year Strategy and 5-year Orientation, assigned, ordered, and assigned research topics, and the Subcommittee's operating regulations.

The third meeting was on March 4, 2019, the Subcommittee gave opinions and approved important contents to report to the Politburo, including options on topics, structures, preliminary outlines and some key points of the 10-year Strategy and 5-year Orientations. The fourth meeting was on April 10, 2019, focusing on discussing and giving opinions on specific topics on detailed outlines of reports requesting opinions from the Politburo to complete and submit to the 10th Central Conference, term XII.

At the same time, at the above meetings, the Subcommittee also requested ministries, branches, localities, research institutes, and universities to conduct research on 42 topics, organize 6 working sessions with localities nationwide by region, and organize many domestic and international seminars and surveys, especially to collect opinions from many experts and scientists.

The subcommittee has seriously implemented the tasks assigned by the Central Committee, urgently carried out the necessary work to develop these two important documents, while ensuring consistency and timeliness with the working program of the Politburo and the Central Committee, the Prime Minister emphasized.

At the 10th Central Conference last May, the Subcommittee presented a detailed outline and reports; the Central Committee commented and approved them. According to the announcement of the Central Office, the Socio-Economic Subcommittee must develop and complete reports and documents to send to the Politburo for comments before September 5 to submit to the 11th Central Conference.

During the process of drafting the report, the Head of the Subcommittee requested the Editorial Team to research and comprehensively collect the research results of 42 topics, the content of 6 working sessions with localities in the regions, seminars, surveys and consultation with domestic and international experts.

At the meeting with the Editorial Board and the Standing Committee of the Subcommittee, the Prime Minister requested that the reports must ensure that "the Party accepts, the people are excited, and the international community highly appreciates".

The editorial team completed the first draft of the reports and submitted them to the Prime Minister, Head of the Subcommittee on July 30, then continued to complete the second draft and submitted them to the Standing Committee of the Subcommittee at the meeting on August 8. On that basis, under the direction of the Prime Minister, the editorial team completed the reports and submitted them to the Subcommittee at today's plenary session.

“I have asked the Editorial Board to continue to proactively organize seminars, survey and collect opinions widely, especially from experts and scientists at home and abroad, to continue to improve, not just stop here”. The Prime Minister asked the members of the Subcommittee, with a spirit of democracy, frankness, responsibility, to focus on discussing and giving specific and concise opinions on the draft reports, both content and writing style, both economic and social, national defense, security, and people's situation. The general spirit is to assess the situation correctly and objectively. Neither beautify nor blacken, analyze and assess closely and accurately the country's current situation in the context of complex and unpredictable international developments. In particular, to propose orientations and key solutions to create development breakthroughs in the next 5 years and 10 years, especially on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Party's founding and the vision to 2045, the 100th anniversary of the country's founding.

“Evaluate the situation correctly and closely, while having the desire for development, especially the spirit of breakthrough development, discussing forward rather than backward, to bring our nation to a new step of development,” the Prime Minister stated. Therefore, the members of the Subcommittee need to discuss, discuss thoroughly, and reach consensus on 7 main contents. First, assess and evaluate the results achieved, highlighting the achievements, bright spots, and major features in the past 5 and 10 years.

Second is the existence, limitations and causes, lessons learned, in which it is necessary to correctly assess the nature of the remaining problems and shortcomings, clearly indicating the objective and subjective causes and lessons learned on all aspects.

Third is to recognize and evaluate the international and domestic context in the coming time, paying special attention to analyzing and forecasting new points, both opportunities, advantages and difficulties, and challenges at home and abroad in the next 5 and 10 years.

Fourth is the development perspective, which clearly identifies the key issues of perspective that need to be unified throughout the Party, people, and army to focus on implementation.

The fifth is strategic goals, including general goals and specific goals, including goals to strive for by 2030, with a vision to 2045. The sixth is strategic breakthroughs, which note new points in science and technology, innovation, cultural factors, people and aspirations to rise.

Seventh is the direction of tasks and solutions for the coming time, in which special attention is paid to the content of breakthrough solutions, promoting development in all fields.

“At the same time, through the practical management of the areas that you are in charge of, I request that you provide additional comments on new issues and innovative breakthrough ideas to create new momentum for socio-economic development in the coming time,” said the Prime Minister, because this is not the final document, and during the discussion process, we will continue to collect more opinions.

An important task is to coordinate with the Document Subcommittee. The Prime Minister requested the Editorial Team to report specifically on the coordination situation, especially the comparison and contrast of related contents between documents, especially the assessment and assessment of the situation, development perspectives, general goals, strategic breakthroughs, etc.

After listening to opinions and concluding the meeting, the Prime Minister assessed that the draft reports closely followed the detailed outline approved by the Central Committee, basically met the requirements, were comprehensive and general, had inheritance, innovation, and many new creative ideas.

The Prime Minister requested the Editorial Team to continue researching and reviewing the contents to match other draft political reports being developed, including the issue of rapid and sustainable development, using rapid development to maintain stability, creating a foundation for sustainable development, strongly promoting science and technology, innovation, improving institutional quality... Regarding the context of the coming time, the Prime Minister emphasized the issue of climate change, which tends to become more severe.

The Prime Minister also requested the Editorial Board to accept comments on general and specific goals in the draft reports, ensuring scientific and practical basis, appropriate calculation methods, feasibility and high aspirations.

Regarding the growth target, the Prime Minister suggested that there should be research to propose a reasonable growth rate, sufficient to ensure escape from the middle-income trap, narrow the gap with developed countries, but must continue to maintain macroeconomic stability.

In addition to clarifying the direction and tasks for the coming period in the draft report, the Prime Minister also requested the Subcommittee to clarify the driving forces of economic development in the coming period such as high-tech agriculture, processing and manufacturing industry, tourism, information technology, urban development and regional connectivity. The draft reports must also focus on social, environmental, defense and security issues; consider people as the center, the subject and driving force of development, building a self-reliant economy with resilience and high competitiveness...

In the coming time, the Prime Minister suggested that from now until the 11th Central Conference, the Subcommittee will continue to work with ministries and branches, and organize seminars. The editorial team will proactively organize seminars on a number of important topics with research institutes, scientists, experts, and managers to continue reviewing and perfecting the content of the draft report.