Full text of the opening speech of the 10th Central Conference, 13th tenure, by General Secretary and President To Lam

Dear Politburo members, Secretariat members, Party Central Committee members,

Dear Conference attendees!

Implementing the entire working program, today the 13th Party Central Committee organized the 10th Conference. The Conference took place at a very special time: Comrade General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, an exceptionally outstanding leader, thinker, and theoretical flag bearer of the Party, left us at a time when the entire Party, people, and army were determined to successfully implement the Resolution of the 13th Party Congress; Storm No. 3 caused extremely heavy damage to people and property in most of the northern provinces and cities; when the entire Party, army, and people were concentrating their utmost efforts to overcome the consequences caused by the storm...

On behalf of the Politburo and the Secretariat, I would like to welcome the Politburo members, Secretariat members, Central Executive Committee members, and all delegates attending the Conference; wish you good health, happiness, and many successes in your work and life.

Dear comrades!

This Central Conference takes place earlier and shorter than expected, we will work outside of office hours. The Conference will discuss and give opinions on 10 contents belonging to 2 groups of strategic issues and some specific tasks; the documents have been sent about 1 week in advance, I suggest that comrades continue to spend time studying to have truly accurate opinions, reflecting the reality of their ministries, branches and localities.

Focus on contributing specific issues and general issues, especially practical issues that have not been mentioned in the draft documents but need to evaluate and summarize important contents on viewpoints, guiding thoughts, innovative policies with breakthrough strategies and high feasibility.

*Opening session of the 10th Conference of the 13th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam. (Photo: Duong Giang/VNA)*

We identify the 14th Congress as the Congress that marks the moment when the country enters a new era - the era of national development, requiring that right from the process of document building, each comrade member of the Party Central Committee, member of the Secretariat, member of the Politburo needs to promote their intelligence and responsibility to the highest level. In that spirit, I would like to suggest the following issues:

Firstly, the work to accelerate the "finish line" to successfully implement the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress.

Successfully implementing the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress is the highest goal of the entire Party, people and army in 2025; it is the foundation for successfully implementing the 100-year strategic goals under the Party's leadership and towards the 100th anniversary of the country's founding. This goal must be achieved with the highest determination, greatest effort, drastic actions with the most effective implementation solutions, ensuring that the set goals are achieved and strive to exceed them; this is the Party's responsibility to the people, to the glorious and heroic history of the nation, to international friends; it is a testament to the Party's leadership, governing capacity and fighting strength, so all resources and measures must be concentrated to complete it.

The 2025 socio-economic development plan has set out the main goals, targets, tasks and solutions; analyzed the ability to complete the 5-year socio-economic targets for 2021 - 2025 based on the implementation of the 2024 socio-economic development plan. The Politburo discussed very carefully, made comprehensive assessments, considered all aspects and decided to report to the Central Committee for discussion and comments.

Second, regarding the preparation work for the 14th National Party Congress, there are three issues:

One is about the documents submitted to the 14th National Party Congress: With the position of the Political Report as the center; Summary of 40 years of innovation is a very important report to distill the quintessence into the 14th National Party Congress Documents; Report on socio-economic development strategy, Report on Party building work and implementation of the Party's charter are specialized reports, I request that comrades focus on discussing and clarifying:

(i) Has the content of the Political Report presented to the Conference met the level of a central report in terms of viewpoints, guidelines, and policies, summarizing the values of the past, present, and looking toward the future? Has it been a "lighting torch" leading our entire Party, people, and army to achieve the strategic goals set forth by the 13th Congress?

(ii) Have the strategic reports on socio-economic development; Party building and implementation of the Party's charter; theoretical and practical issues drawn from the summary of 40 years of renovation fully covered the basis for the general arguments in the Political Report? Are the reports consistent with each other and with the Party's viewpoints and policies on national development in the 2026-2030 period and vision to 2045?

(iii) Specific content in each report, especially assessments of existing problems, limitations and strategic directions, breakthrough tasks that have been set out. It is necessary to clarify whether the policies and measures are "correct" and "accurate" enough to bring the country into a new era? What are the new elements of practice that need to be added?

Regarding some specific issues, I hope comrades will discuss:

(i) Regarding strategic breakthroughs in the next term, should we focus on institutional and development breakthroughs, strongly innovate personnel work, synchronously improve and strongly make breakthroughs in building and developing socio-economic infrastructure? Developing new productive forces together with perfecting production relations creates opportunities and new development spaces, creating key driving forces for the cause of national development and national defense; along with developing new productive forces (combining high-quality human resources with new means of production) and strategic infrastructure (focusing on transport infrastructure, digital infrastructure and energy infrastructure).

(ii) Regarding strategic directions and solutions: should we focus on perfecting production relations, focusing on:

(1) Streamline the apparatus of the Party, State, National Assembly, and socio-political organizations to operate effectively and efficiently; innovate the Party's leadership and governing methods to move our nation forward.

(2) Promoting decentralization and delegation of power with the motto "locality decides, locality does, locality is responsible", the Central Government, the Government and the National Assembly strengthen institutional improvement, play a constructive role and strengthen inspection and supervision; at the same time, thoroughly reform administrative procedures;

(3) Arouse motivation and spirit of dedication to the country, unleash all social resources and resources within the people;

(4) Promote digital transformation, green transformation, take science and technology, innovation as the main driving force for development, have a mechanism to focus on technology, especially source technology, core technology... at the same time, development must have focus, key points, not spread out. Proactively and actively take advantage of external resources, combine national strength with the strength of the times.

Second, regarding personnel preparation for the 14th Congress: Personnel work for the 14th Congress is an important task, the "key" of "keys," which is decisive for the successful implementation of the Party's policies and guidelines to bring the country into a new era. The report summarizing the personnel work of the 13th Party Central Committee and building personnel directions for the 14th Party Central Committee is very important, and is the basis for preparing personnel to participate in the 14th Party Central Committee, Politburo, Secretariat, Central Inspection Committee and key leadership personnel of Party and State agencies for the 2026-2031 term.

I believe that the Central Executive Committee will uphold its responsibility before the Party, before the people, before the glorious history of the Party and the traditions of our ancestors to do this job well with a spirit of impartiality, transparency, science, objectivity, prudence, thoroughness, putting first the common interest, the interest of the nation, the people and the prosperous and happy life of the people.

Third, on the work of Party building and implementation of the Party Charter: I request that comrades discuss and give their opinions on the results achieved, the limitations and obstacles, and propose directions, tasks and solutions for Party building in the 14th term. What limitations and obstacles are caused by the provisions of the Party Charter, to what extent, is it necessary to supplement and amend the Party Charter? Or is it only necessary to adjust the regulations and instructions of the Politburo and the Secretariat?

I believe that collective intelligence will be brought into full play at this Conference. On behalf of the Politburo and the Secretariat, I declare the 10th Conference of the 13th Party Central Committee open; I wish the Conference effective work and great success.

Thank you very much./.

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