General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong chaired the meeting of the Politburo and the Secretariat.

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong shakes hands with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.

At the meeting, the representative of the Standing Committee of the Steering Committee for the Project presented the content of the Proposal. The Politburo discussed and said that, in more than 35 years of innovation, especially in 10 years of implementing the Resolution of the 5th Central Committee, Session XI, innovation and development of social policies has been a consistent and consistent policy of our Party and State with the spirit of economic growth coupled with social progress and equity; the effective implementation of social policies, ensuring social security for the people has contributed to strengthening the people's trust in the Party, the State and the regime, while bringing about great achievements in social progress and equity, the material and spiritual life of the people has been significantly improved, affirming the superiority of the socialist regime in our country under the leadership of the Party...

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong talks with National Assembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue; Permanent member of the Secretariat, Head of the Central Organization Commission Truong Thi Mai; Head of the Central Inspection Commission Tran Cam Tu.

In addition, there are still some shortcomings and limitations such as social policies still lack inclusiveness, lack of linkage between policies in implementation organization, low coverage rate; large gap in living standards between regions and target groups, unsustainable poverty reduction results, low poverty standards and subsidy standards; low quality of human resources, low social insurance and not really attractive to workers, quality of primary health care services does not meet requirements; slow development of social service delivery system; ineffective investment in social policies...

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong chaired the meeting of the Politburo and Secretariat.

The Politburo affirmed that continuing to innovate and promote the effectiveness of social policies is a strategic and regular task of the Party, the State, the entire political system and the whole society, contributing to ensuring socialist orientation, realizing economic growth along with social progress and equity; ensuring social security and social welfare for the people and creating conditions for the people to participate and enjoy the fruits of development better and better.

Building and implementing social policies must be placed in the overall management of sustainable social development; harmoniously resolving social relations, ensuring sustainability in social policies, especially social welfare, social security, and human security. Investing in implementing social policy goals in accordance with the economic capacity and the requirements for realizing social policy goals, in which State resources play a leading role along with important resources of enterprises, society, and people's contributions; combining internal resources with external resources through international cooperation. Building and perfecting comprehensive, modern, inclusive, sustainable social policies, taking people as the center, the subject, the goal, the driving force, and the resource for development.

The meeting of the Politburo and Secretariat took place on the morning of March 30.

The implementation of social policies must be under the direct and comprehensive leadership of the Party, the strict and effective management of the State, the regular supervision of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations, and the active participation of the people and businesses. Arouse the aspiration for development, promote the tradition of mutual love and affection, the spirit of great national solidarity, and the will of self-reliance and self-improvement of the People in solving social problems.

The Politburo assigned the Standing Office of the Steering Committee to receive opinions from the Politburo and relevant agencies to complete the project report for the Politburo to submit to the 7th Central Conference of the 13th tenure./.