The workshop was chaired by comrades: Professor, Dr. Ta Ngoc Tan, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council; Nguyen Ho Hai, Deputy Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee; Professor, Dr. Nguyen Quang Thuan, Head of the Economic Subcommittee (Central Theoretical Council).

Attending the workshop were Vice Chairmen of the Central Theoretical Council; representatives of leaders of Tay Ninh, Binh Duong, Binh Phuoc, Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Long An, Tien Giang provinces, Ho Chi Minh City and experts and scientists.

Comrade Nguyen Ho Hai delivered a welcome speech and opened the workshop.

In his welcome speech and opening the workshop, comrade Nguyen Ho Hai said: The Government has just submitted to the National Assembly a draft Resolution to replace Resolution No. 54 dated November 24, 2017 of the National Assembly on piloting special mechanisms and policies for the development of Ho Chi Minh City. The city is excited to receive and determined that when the new resolution is passed by the National Assembly, it will create great advantages and conditions, creating momentum and motivation for the city to develop.

Comrade Ta Ngoc Tan delivered a keynote speech at the conference.

In his opening speech at the workshop, Professor, Dr. Ta Ngoc Tan stated: The new context of the world and the country from now until the end of the 13th Congress term is forecasted to have many difficulties and great challenges in addition to opportunities and advantages, requiring us to be extremely calm and clear-headed, to promote the results and lessons learned, to overcome the remaining limitations and weaknesses, especially from the beginning of the 13th term until now, to continue to promote innovation, strive, take advantage of all opportunities and advantages; overcome all difficulties and challenges to successfully implement the programs, plans, goals and tasks set for the second half of the 13th term.

The Standing Vice Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council emphasized that one of the important and urgent tasks is to continue summarizing practices, especially from the results achieved in Implement the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress in all fields associated with the practice of nearly 40 years of implementing the renovation process in localities to provide scientific arguments for planning the Party's guidelines and the State's policies in the coming period, prepare for the drafting of documents for the 14th National Party Congress to strive to achieve the goal of turning Vietnam into a developing country with modern industry and high middle income by 2030 and a developed country with high income in the socialist orientation by 2045...

Conference scene.

At the workshop, delegates focused on discussing and evaluating the achievements, results, limitations, causes of those achievements and limitations; pointed out the shortcomings, bottlenecks, obstacles, theoretical and practical issues raised in the leadership, direction, and organization of the implementation of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress and the Resolution of the 11th National Party Congress of Ho Chi Minh City, the Resolution of the Party Congresses of Tay Ninh, Dong Nai, Ba Ria-Vung Tau, Long An, Binh Duong, Binh Phuoc, Tien Giang provinces for the 2020-2025 term in the fields of economic, cultural, social, and human development; science and technology, resources and environment; national defense, security, foreign affairs; Party building and the political system through local practices.

Delegates also analyzed and clarified typical models, new experiences, and good practices in various fields; proposed viewpoints, key tasks, breakthrough solutions, and recommended solutions to properly resolve theoretical and practical issues...

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