During the 15-day meeting, PCCmembers discussed and reached a high unanimity on many important guidelines andpolicies in the fields of socio-economics, education-training,science-technology, and Party building. It decided to re-establish the PCC'sEconomic Commission.
A Q&A session in a democratic, frank and constructive atmosphere was heldfor the first time at the plenum.
Speaking at the closing ceremony, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trongclarified some issues and summarized important results.
According to the Party leader, the meeting agreed that despite numerousdifficulties and challenges, the country's socio-economic situation in thefirst nine months of 2012 saw certain positive changes. However, the pressureof inflation and macro instabilities remains great.
In the coming time, the world economy in particular and the internationalsituation in general are forecast to see unpredictable developments. Therefore,in the remaining months of 2012 and the next year, it is necessary to continuestrengthening efforts to stabilize and make the macro economy healthy; payspecial attention to stability, healthiness and safety of the finance-bankingsystem; boost thrift practice; and fight corruption and waste in investment andpublic spending.
The investment and business environment must be improved, bad debts solved,difficulties eased for businesses, domestic investment encouraged while foreigninvestment attraction boosted and investment in agricultural and tourismdevelopment prioritized.
The meeting emphasized the need to speed up the implementation of the threestrategic breakthroughs in combination with renovating the growth model andrestructuring the economy, ensure socio-political stability, and create strongerfoundations for development in the following years.
The restructuring of public investment, State-owned enterprises (SOEs) andespecially the system of commercial banks must be placed in a panorama andclosely combined with the restructuring of the economy, investment and thefinancial market in general.
The committee continued to affirm the core role and important achievements ofSOEs, and at the same time pointed out their weak points.
It urged for the continued grasping and serious implementation of theResolution of the 11th National Party Congress as well as the resolutions andconclusions of the PCC on the restructuring and renovation of the SOEs as wellas the improvement of their efficiency, in line with the context of thesocialist-oriented market economy and the country's deeper internationalintegration.
Resolute adjustments must be made so that the SOEs can have appropriatestructures and take the lead in the scientific and technological renovation andapplication and maintaining the socialist orientation of the economy.
It is necessary to put an early end to non-core investment and complete thewithdrawal of the State capital at businesses holding less than 50% of Statecapital as well as urgently complete the SOEs management mechanism. The SOEsmust be reorganized in the model of joint stock and limited liability companiesin accordance with the Enterprise Law.
An advanced administration system suitable to the market economy should beapplied while a close, open and transparent audit, inspection and supervisionsystem implemented on the basis of expanding the groups of companies eligibleto list on the stock market.
Businesses' functions of regulating the macro economy and ensuring socialsecurity must be renovated and replaced by the mechanism of orders placed bythe State, in accordance with the market mechanism. Major State economiccorporations and groups must be restructured in the model of parent-subsidiarycompanies and audited annually.
The pilot stage of forming State economic groups should be ended and thetransformation of economic groups into corporations considered.
Regarding the land issues, the committee agreed to issue a Resolution to leadand direct the amending and supplementing the 2003 Land Law, meeting therequirement of the new situation, further effectively mobilizing and using landresources for socio-economic development.
Shortcomings, weaknesses and negative phenomena in the field of land must besettled, especially speculations, wastefulness, corruption, disputes andlawsuits must be solved, thus ensuring the harmonious interests of the State,land users and investors, contributing to the socio-political stability.
As for education and training, the committee gave opinions on a project tobasically and comprehensively reform education and training, so as to meet thedemand of industrialization and modernization in the context of thesocialist-oriented market economy and global integration.
General Secretary Trong underlined that the PCC asks for the renewal ofperception and way of thinking, goals of training, organizational system, formsof education and training, contents and methods of teaching and studying,operation and management mechanisms. A contingent of teachers, managerialofficials, facilities and resources must be built to ensure the renewal of thewhole education system.
The committee also affirmed that science and technology development is the topnational policy and an important driving force in the industrialization andmodernization. Human resources in science and technology are an invaluableasset of the country. Intellectuals in science and technology are an extremelyimportant resource for developing the knowledge-based economy. Investment inhuman resources for science and technology and offers of incentives to thetalents are for sustainable development.
The Party and State are responsible for working out special policies fordeveloping and bringing into full play creativeness of science and technologystaff, making science and technology a key driving force and a directproduction force, helping Viet Nam become a modern industrialized country by2020 and a socialist-oriented modern industrialized nation by the middle of the21st century.
About personnel planning for the PCC, the Politburo, the Secretariat and keyState and Party leadership titles, Mr. Trong said it is the first time thecommittee discussed and issued a Resolution on this matter. The planning forstrategic-level officials must stem from political requirements and tasks, theParty building, national construction and defense during the industrializationand modernization.
He also stressed the need to actively and promptly discover those withpromising leadership skills, while attention is paid to those originating fromworkers, farmers and intellectuals, increase the rate of young, female andethnic minority officials, relatives of families that rendered great servicesto the revolution, and those working in science, technology, culture and art.
The building and implementing of the personnel planning must be placed underthe concentrated and concerted leadership of the PCC, the Politburo and theSecretariat; ensuring the principles of democracy, fairness, transparency andobjectiveness. The planning must be taken as a basis for the personnel planningfor the Central Committee at the National Party Congress.
Those included in the planning must satisfy criteria and conditions. Thecommittee must include three age groups to ensure continuousness, inheritanceand development, and a suitable structure to ensure a comprehensive leadership.
The committee also highly valued the Politburo and Secretariat's serious,responsible and exemplary preparations and implementation of criticism andself-criticism. After over two months of preparations, the Politburo and theSecretariat spent 21 days on criticism and self-criticism, considering it as anextremely important political activity for the transparency and strength of theParty, the PCC, the Politburo and the Secretariat.
Each Politburo and Secretariat member has thoroughly grasped the leadingguidelines of ensuring the principles, strengthening solidarity andcomradeship, strictly dealing with cases of shortcomings and violations, andhelping each other progress.
The contents of criticism and self-criticism closely followed the requirementsof the Resolution of the committee's 4th meeting. Outstanding and pressingissues were brought to analysis and many lessons drawn.
Criticism and self-criticism were implemented in a democratic, straightforward,constructive and sincere manner.
The Politburo and the Secretariat seriously self-criticized and admitted theirresponsibility before the committee for the shortcomings and weaknesses inParty building, degradation and negative phenomena among Party officials andmembers as stated in the Resolution of the committee's 4th meeting.
To seriously keep disciplines in the Party, maintain the prestige of the Party,and set an example in the entire Party, the whole Politburo agreed to proposethe committee impose a form of discipline on it and consider discipline on aPolitburo member.
The PCC applauded and highly valued the seriousness, exemplarity of thePolitburo and the Secretariat in this criticism and self-criticism drive aswell as the high determination and great efforts in leading and instructing theimplementation of the Resolution of the committee's 4th meeting.
It agreed with the Politburo's report and gave frank and profound opinions.
Regarding the consideration of discipline, the committee discussed carefullyand considered comprehensively all aspects at the current time and then decidedto not take any discipline on the Politburo and one of its members. It askedthe Politburo to apply active measures to repair shortcomings, thus preventinghostile forces from conducting acts of distortion and sabotage.
The PCC also conducted self-criticism and acknowledged its responsibility forfailing to prevent shortcomings and weaknesses over the past time. It criticizedseriously itself and apologized to the whole Party and people for thoseshortcomings and weaknesses, and pledged to try its best to gradually solvethem. The committee urged the entire Party to uphold the sense ofresponsibility before the Party and the people, strengthen solidarity andunity, maintain trust, and lead the whole people to overcome difficulties andchallenges, create obvious changes and repair shortcomings and weaknesses inorder to build the Party purer and stronger and into a true revolutionary partythat has flesh-and-blood links with the people.
The PCC praised Party committees at all levels, authorities and the entirepolitical system for seriously implementing the Resolution on Party buildingset out at the committee's 4th meeting. Expressing thanks to Party members andpeople across the country for their sentiments and valuable opinions, GeneralSecretary Trong showed his confidence that the whole Party will successfullyimplement the Resolution and conclusion of the PCC's 6th plenum,contributing to the successful implementation of the Resolution of the 11thNational Party Congress.
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