Int’l public highlight importance of VN’s Party Congress
A Spanish website has posted an article
highlighting the importance of Vietnam’s 11th National Party
Congress to the future of the country, especially in its external
relations.
In his article on the Centre for Political
Studies for International Relations and Development’s website, political
analyst Alberto Cruz said that the Congress did not only play a
decisive role in identifying a direction of the Doi Moi (renewal)
process in Vietnam but also the country’s international integration
policy.
He divided two decades of Vietnam’s implementation
of Doi Moi process into two phases. The first phase began with the sixth
National Party Congress in 1986 to 1995 and the second phase commenced
after the visit of US President Bill Clinton and the normalisation of
Vietnam-US relations, which created the opportunity for Vietnam to open
its market, join the World Trade Organisation in 2007 and approach
international investment flows.
Differing from other Southeast
Asian countries, Vietnam still focuses on social issues and
protecting people by specific measures, such as preferential credits for
small and medium enterprises, and stronger investment in infrastructure
projects to create jobs, according to Cruz.
These facts have
helped Vietnam cope with the recent global economic crisis better than
other “Asian tigers”, he said, citing the WB’s report that the crisis
made a 37 percent reduction in Vietnam’s growth rate, while the rates
in Thailand were 155 percent, Malaysia, 137 percent, US, 219
percent, EU, 224 percent and Japan, 335 percent reduction.
Australian
radio and the “Connect Asia” programme of the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation (ABC) news on Jan. 10 said that the 11 th National Congress
of the Communist Party of Vietnam would debate personnel selection for
the 2011-15 Party Central Committee and the 10-year socio-economic
strategy from 2011-20.
According to the source, this
year’s Congress will take place over nine days, from Jan. 11-19 instead
of four or five days as in previous congresses, which enables nearly
1,400 delegates, representing more than 3.6 million Party members, to
discuss and consider issues carefully.
The source quoted Prime
Minister Nguyen Tan Dung as saying that Vietnam needed an abundant
workforce with high quality professional skills, a modern infrastructure
system and effective operation of State-owned enterprises with an aim
to turn into a “modern industrial country” by 2020.
The Vietnamese government targeted a yearly average per capita income of 2,000 USD in its draft socio-economic development plan for 2011-15./.