Party Congress delegates hear 27 presentations
By Jan. 14, delegates to the 11th
National Party Congress had heard 27 presentations touching on a wide
range of issues.
At the afternoon session on the day, chaired by
Politburo member, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, they listened to ways
and means to develop a contingent of professionals to serve the
country’s knowledge-based economy.
In his paper, Chau Van Minh,
Secretary of the Party Committe of the Vietnam Science and Technology
Academy, pointed out that a knowledge-based economy needed a large
contingent of high-quality professionals.
He also mentioned the
adoption of an appropriate mechanism to enable professionals to bring
into full play their capacity to contribute to the nation’s growth.
Minh
proposed renovating existing mechanisms and policies designed for
scientific and technological development, bettering the legal system to
meet socio-economic development requirements, encouraging businesses to
revamp technologies and sharpening their competitiveness to create an
equal, competitive environment and fight off monopoly.
He also
suggested the creation of a connectivity linking research, training,
production and business while working out an effective mechanism to
support products under research and develop technologies into commodity
products to serve the need of socio-economic development.
Also,
the President of the Academy, Minh called on the State to increase
investment in scientific studies and technological development as well
as in deploying the application of cutting-edge technologies to reach
the world’s average standard by 2020.
He referred to the
requirement of improving the quality of basic research in natural and
social sciences and reforming management and financial mechanisms in the
scientific and technological sector to create a driving force for
intellectuals to maximise their creative capacity.
“Education at all levels must be modernised toward a long-term goal of producing high-quality human resources,” Minh said.
Party
Central Committee member Hoang Tuan Anh, who is Minister of Culture,
Sports and Tourism, touched upon the building of an advanced Vietnamese
culture deeply imprinted with national identity, describing the task as
an important inner strength for sustainable development.
He
affirmed that over the past 81 years of national construction and
defence, the Party has been seriously aware of the importance of
culture, its role and strength in sustainable development.
Mentioning
certain effects stemming from the market mechanism and international
integration on the nation’s traditional culture, the minister raised the
need to take solutions to fix weaknesses in cultural affairs while
promoting achievements gained in the field.
He emphasised the
importance of regarding human development as the centrality of the
national development strategy, paying due attention to literature and
artistry, preserving and promoting cultural heritages of the 54 ethnic
minority groups and developing the cultural industry.
“The
decisive solution is to enhance the Party’s leading capacity and the
State management over all spheres of culture,” Anh said.
Also at
the session, Nguyen Duc Kien, Deputy Secretary of the Soc Trang
provincial Party Committee, delivered a presentation about, “Well
implementing the Party’s ethnic and religious policies to develop the
economy and raise the spiritual and material life of the Khmer
people”./.