General Secretary and President chaired the meeting of the XIII Party Congress Document Subcommittee

Also attending the meeting were members of the Document Subcommittee: Politburo member, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc; Politburo member, National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan; Politburo members, Party Central Committee Secretaries...; members of the Party's XIII Congress Documents Editing Team.

Since the 10th Central Conference, the Standing Committee of the Document Subcommittee and the Editorial Team have focused on directing the development, promulgation and implementation of the Plan for developing the draft Political Report and the Report on 10 years of implementing the 2011 Platform to submit to the Subcommittee. The development of the draft reports is based on the detailed outline that the 10th Central Conference has given direction and direction for completion; based on the research results of 34 delegations surveying theoretical and practical issues at departments, ministries, branches and localities, 5 scientific seminars and 36 research reports with recommendations and proposals from theoretical and scientific research agencies.

Speaking at the meeting, the General Secretary, President, Head of the Document Subcommittee highly appreciated the thoughtful, elaborate and thorough preparation. The Editorial Team and the Standing Editorial Team in a short time completed the survey plan, organized many scientific seminars, and distilled the results of theoretical and practical research to have the draft Political Report and the Report on 10 years of implementing the 2011 Platform to be presented to the Subcommittee today.

General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trong asked the members of the Subcommittee to focus on discussing and giving opinions on major issues raised in the Submission on the draft Political Report, including: Assessment of the results of the implementation of the Resolution of the 12th National Party Congress and the country's appearance over 35 years of renovation, vision and development orientation, key tasks and development breakthroughs. The General Secretary and President noted that it is necessary to give opinions on new issues and contents or those with different opinions such as: Structure, guiding viewpoints, national development goals, newly raised issues...

At the meeting, the opinions expressed unanimously agreed that the draft reports were carefully and seriously prepared, with theoretical and practical bases, closely following the Outline, Platform, Constitution and the practical situation of the country; the survey reports, scientific discussions, especially the direction of the Standing Committee of the Document Subcommittee at the meeting on August 23. However, this is only the first draft, it is necessary to continue to study, absorb the direction of the Subcommittee, submit to the Politburo, the Central Executive Committee, and distill the results of theoretical and practical research to gradually perfect it from now until the 13th Congress, first of all from now until the 11th Central Conference. The vast majority of opinions agreed to keep the structure of the report consisting of 15 items; unanimously agreed that the Political Report must match the Socio-Economic Report and the Report on Party building work... in which the Political Report is the center.

About performance evaluation, the results achieved, General Secretary, President Nguyen Phu Trong stated: Not only evaluating 5 years but also looking back at more than 30 years of innovation, closely following the tasks set out in the Resolution of the 12th National Congress and comparing with the 2011 Platform. The evaluation must be summative, looking at what are the outstanding marks of this term? What are the shortcomings and limitations? Concise, close to reality, focusing on the main features, not following the beaten path. For example: Has the economy grown continuously and stably? Is the work of building the Party and the political system, fighting against corruption and negativity, strong, effective and obvious? Why is the people's support like that? Is the entire political system involved synchronously and rhythmically? Is the work of national defense and security, maintaining national independence and sovereignty good this term? Are foreign relations and international integration good? Have we stood shoulder to shoulder with friends around the world as beloved Uncle Ho wished? Looking back on this term, internal solidarity and unity are very good, and people trust us - that is also a valuable lesson, the General Secretary and President pointed out.

On the goal of national development, The General Secretary and President emphasized: "Open but must adhere to the Platform"; focus on 3 strategic breakthroughs: Infrastructure, institutional improvement, human resource development, and continue to research further.

On leadership methods, The General Secretary and President requested: It is necessary to properly handle and resolve the dialectical relationships between opposing sides, at the national level, as well as at a locality or a field... The 2011 Platform has outlined eight basic relationships. These are the relationships between steadfastness in goals and creativity in strategies; the issue of ethnicity and class; national independence and socialism; market economy and socialist orientation; economic growth coupled with cultural development, ensuring social justice in each step and each development policy; the relationship between scale and quality of development; the issue of national interests and international integration... Recently, we have succeeded because we have handled the relationships well, without extremism or one-sidedness... The General Secretary and President emphasized: "Be steadfast in principled ideal goals, while at the same time being extremely creative, closely following reality to innovate promptly".

Agreeing with many opinions expressed at the meeting on the issue of Vietnamese culture and people, the General Secretary and President said that culture is culture, people are the sum of relationships, both the goal and the driving force for development.

The General Secretary and President requested that after this meeting, the Editorial Team urgently and seriously absorb the guidance of the Document Subcommittee, complete the draft reports to submit to the Politburo for consideration, give direction and complete them, and submit them to the upcoming 11th Central Conference.