Party Central Committee’s 10th plenum concludes

The 10th plenum of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam wrapped up in Hanoi on May 18 after nearly three days of working, completing all items on the agenda.
Party Central Committee’s 10th plenum concludes ảnh 1The 10th plenum of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam wrapped up in Hanoi on May 18 after nearly three days of working. (Photo: VNA)
  
Hanoi (VNA) – The 10th plenum of the 12thCentral Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam wrapped up in Hanoi on May18 after nearly three days of working, completing all items on the agenda.

In his closing speech, Party General Secretary andPresident Nguyen Phu Trong said the meeting was a success as it touched uponvarious topics, focusing on preparations for all-level Party congresses,towards  the 13th National Party Congress.

Most of the committee’s members agreed withproposals presented by the Political Bureau, he said, adding that all the members consentedto adopt the meeting’s resolution.

The leaderhighlighted new points of the meeting, from preparations to implementation, andlauded sub-committees for their efforts in collecting opinions of the PartyCentral Committee’s members and representatives of localities and agencies.

With thoroughpreparations and high sense of responsibility, the committee reached highconsensus on orientations and targets, he said.

He stressed the need to promptly draft documentswhich will be submitted to the 11th meeting of the Party CentralCommittee slated for latter this year.

The leader calledfor great efforts in implementing the Politburo’s directive on organising all-levelParty congresses, towards the 13th National Party Congress, and realisingprogrammes and plans set for 2019-2020, aiming to materialising the Resolutionadopted at the 12th National Party Congress comprehensively.

Earlier, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc presented areport acquiring opinions of members of the Party Central Committee on thedraft political report, the draft report on the 10-year implementation of the2011 Platform, one on the implementation of the socio-economic developmentstrategy for 2011-2020 and building the socio-economic development strategy for2021-2030, a report on socio-economic situation between 2016 and 2020 and thesocio-economic development plan for 2021-2025, along with a draft report onParty building and the execution of the Party statutes.

Tran Quoc Vuong, Politburo member and permanentmember of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat, presented the draftresolution of the meeting.

The committee emphasised that the political,socio-economic reports and other thematic reports must reflect efforts made bythe entire Party, people and army in the new development period which offersboth opportunities and challenges.

Documents to be submitted to the 13th National Party Congress needs to show the attention to building a pure,strong Party and political system, promoting the great national unity andaddressing major relations like those between reform, stability anddevelopment, and between economic and political reform, the committee said.

The committee notedthat preparations for all-level Party congresses should go in tandem with thefulfillment of regular tasks, with heed paid to issues of public concern likethe management of the use of land, natural resources and public assets, therich-poor gap, environmental pollution, traffic accident, corruption andwastefulness. -VNA  
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