Prime Minister: 'Accelerate and break through' to carry out the country's major tasks

On the morning of December 1, the Politburo and the Party Central Committee Secretariat held a national conference to disseminate and summarize the implementation of Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW of the 12th Party Central Committee; Report on the socio-economic situation in 2024; Solutions to accelerate socio-economic development in 2025; Remove institutional bottlenecks and bottlenecks. The conference was held in both in-person and online formats.

At Dien Hong Hall, National Assembly House, comrades: To Lam - General Secretary; Luong Cuong - Politburo member, President; Pham Minh Chinh - Politburo member, Prime Minister; Tran Thanh Man - Politburo member, Chairman of the National Assembly; Tran Cam Tu - Politburo member, Standing member of the Party Central Committee Secretariat, Head of the Central Inspection Commission attended and directed the Conference.

At Nghe An province, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired the conference. Attending the conference were comrade Hoang Nghia Hieu - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; comrades in the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Provincial Party Executive Committee...

Focus on implementing 3 strategic breakthroughs in 2024

At the conference, Comrade Pham Minh Chinh - Politburo member, Prime Minister presented a report on the socio-economic situation in 2024 and solutions to accelerate socio-economic development in 2025.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said that the priority in 2024 is to promote growth associated with maintaining macroeconomic stability, controlling inflation, ensuring major balances of the economy; focusing on cultural and social development, ensuring social security; preventing, combating and overcoming the consequences of natural disasters; strengthening national defense and security and preventing and combating corruption, negativity and waste; promoting foreign affairs and international integration...

Focus on implementing three strategic breakthroughs, especially in terms of institutions; promoting decentralization, delegation of power, cutting and simplifying administrative procedures and unnecessary business conditions that cause trouble and harassment to people and businesses.

Thanks to the drastic participation of the entire political system, business community and people nationwide under the leadership of the Party, headed by the General Secretary, the socio-economic situation in the first 11 months of 2024 achieved many important results, better than the same period in most areas.

It is expected that 15/15 main targets will be achieved and exceeded, especially the growth target: The whole year's growth is estimated to reach over 7% (among the few countries with high growth rates in the region and the world); the macro economy continues to be stable, inflation is controlled below 4%.

By the end of November, total import-export turnover was estimated at about 715 billion USD, up 15.3%, with a trade surplus of over 23 billion USD; the whole year is estimated to reach 807.7 billion USD, the highest ever. FDI attraction is a bright spot and is among the 15 developing countries attracting the largest FDI in the world...

However, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh also pointed out a number of major shortcomings, in which institutions and laws are still the "bottlenecks of bottlenecks", especially the viewpoints, processes, methods and approaches to drafting legal documents; investment in financial and human resources for law-making is not commensurate with practical requirements.

Production and business activities in some sectors and the real estate market are still facing difficulties; the disbursement rate of public investment capital of many agencies, units and localities is still slow. Decentralization and delegation of power still have many obstacles and are not thorough, many specific tasks are still concentrated in the Central Government...

2025 must "accelerate, break through"

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh emphasized that 2025 is of special significance, marking the 95th anniversary of the Party's founding, the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the South and national reunification, the 135th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh's birthday, the 80th anniversary of the founding of the country, and the year of holding Party Congresses at all levels, towards the 14th National Party Congress in the era of national growth.

"In 2025, we must both "accelerate and break through", focus on striving to successfully achieve the socio-economic development goals of the entire 2021-2025 term; and reorganize the apparatus; successfully organize party congresses at all levels towards the 14th National Party Congress," Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said.

To achieve the above goals, the Prime Minister said that it requires all levels, sectors and localities to have innovative and breakthrough thinking with high determination, great efforts, drastic actions, timely, flexible and effective implementation with the spirit of "dare to think, dare to do, dare to break through for the common good"; "what is said is done, what is committed is done; what is done, what is done must be effective"; "The Party has directed, the Government has agreed, the National Assembly agrees, the People support, then only discuss doing, not backtracking".

Accordingly, the Government continues to perfect institutions, which is a "breakthrough of breakthroughs"; build mechanisms and policies strong enough for cadres to dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility for the common interest. Fully, promptly and effectively institutionalize the policies and guidelines of the Party, the State, and General Secretary To Lam, ensuring openness and creating development with the innovative mindset of "both strict management and development creation, mobilizing maximum resources for development, creating new development space"...

Building institutions and creating a legal framework for rapid, healthy, and effective development of all types of markets. Summarizing specific mechanisms, policies, and pilot models to legalize them in conjunction with promoting decentralization, delegation of powers, and expanding the scope and subjects of application.

Promote the "Slim - Lean - Strong - Effective - Effective - Efficient" organizational arrangement, especially the rearrangement of agencies in the political system at the Central level; innovate and rearrange public service units, administrative units at district and commune levels; promote decentralization and delegation of power associated with resource allocation; promote the initiative, self-reliance and self-reliance of all levels...

The Head of Government recommended that the National Assembly continue to study and innovate the thinking of law-making, first of all, immediately amend and supplement the Law on Promulgation of Legal Documents, with a spirit of brevity, stipulating frameworks and principles, creating an environment and space for creation, openness and efficiency.

For ministries, branches and localities, the Prime Minister suggested renewing thinking, thinking and doing as President Ho Chi Minh once advised: "What is old and bad must be abandoned. What is old and not bad, but troublesome, must be modified to be reasonable. What is old and good must be further developed. What is new and good must be done."

On the other hand, it is necessary to strengthen self-reliance, self-strengthening, and proactiveness with the spirit: "Locals decide, local authorities act, local authorities take responsibility". Focus on reviewing regulations, promptly handling difficulties and problems within their authority, not shirking or avoiding responsibility.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh proposed that the Central Propaganda Department direct the promotion of propaganda work on the Party and State's guidelines and policies to raise legal awareness, create consensus, solidarity and unanimity among the whole society, especially on important issues and major policies.

Create motivation, inspiration, consensus and active participation of the people and business community to join in building a new era, an era of national growth, prosperity and prosperity.