The seventh National Party Congress: Guiding the country in rising abovechallenges to step by step stabilise and develop in a dynamic and solidmanner.
By implementing the sixth National Party Congress’ resolution, the national renewal recorded initial important achievements.
These included political stability and positive changes in the nationaleconomy with remarkable progress made in realizing the goals of threeeconomic programmes. A multi-sectoral commodity economy was taking shapethat operate with a market mechanism under the State’s management.
Socialdemocracy was increasingly promoted, the people’s living conditionsinitially stabilised, national defence and security securely maintainedand international relations expanded.
However, weaknesses anddifficulties still remained in the national economy and a great numberof pressing socio-economic problems were yet to be solved.
Inaddition, the world situation underwent complicated developments,particularly in the Soviet Union and socialist countries in EasternEurope.
The Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee convenedthe seventh National Party Congress in Hanoi from June 24 to 27, 1991,which was attended by 1,176 delegates representing 2.1 million Partymembers nationwide.
The congress examined the implementation ofthe sixth National Party Congress’s resolution and summed up first-handexperiences drawn from the implementation of renewal.
Itconcluded that socialist orientations must be maintained in the renewalprocess, the renewal must be conducted in a comprehensive, simultaneousand thorough manner with appropriate moves, forms and ways, and thedevelopment of the multi-sectoral commodity economy must be coupledwith enhancing the State’s management over socio-economic affairs.
Thecongress affirmed that Ho Chi Minh Thought and Marxism-Leninism was theideological foundation and lodestar for the Party’s activities and HoChi Minh Thought was the creative application of Marxism-Leninism toVietnam’s situation.
The congress elected a 146-member Central Committee of the Party and Do Muoi was elected Party General Secretary.
The eighth National Party Congress: Continuing renewal and speeding up industrialisation and modernisation.
Theeighth National Party Congress took place in Hanoi from June 28 to July1, 1996 with the participation of 1,196 delegates representing 2million Party members nationwide and 40 foreign delegations.
Thecongress reviewed the renewal in the past decade to draw major lessonsand defined the 1996-2000 period as an extremely important phase of thenational industrialisation and modernisation.
In the period, thetasks were to mobilise all resources, seize opportunities, surmountchallenges, push up the renewal process comprehensively andsimultaneously, and continue to promote the development of themulti-sectoral economy that operates in line with the market mechanismunder the State management and along socialist orientations.
Thecongress resolved to strive to achieve and surpass the goals adopted inthe socio-economic stabilisation and development strategy to 2000,including posting a fast, highly-effective and sustainable economicgrowth rate, addressing burning social issues, ensuring national defenceand security, improving the people’s living conditions, scaling upaccumulation of internal economic strength, thus creating a solidpremise for higher development at the beginning of the next century.
The congress elected a 170-member Central Committee, which elected a 19-member Political Bureau.
Do Muoi was re-elected Party General Secretary at this congress (to be continued)./.
By implementing the sixth National Party Congress’ resolution, the national renewal recorded initial important achievements.
These included political stability and positive changes in the nationaleconomy with remarkable progress made in realizing the goals of threeeconomic programmes. A multi-sectoral commodity economy was taking shapethat operate with a market mechanism under the State’s management.
Socialdemocracy was increasingly promoted, the people’s living conditionsinitially stabilised, national defence and security securely maintainedand international relations expanded.
However, weaknesses anddifficulties still remained in the national economy and a great numberof pressing socio-economic problems were yet to be solved.
Inaddition, the world situation underwent complicated developments,particularly in the Soviet Union and socialist countries in EasternEurope.
The Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee convenedthe seventh National Party Congress in Hanoi from June 24 to 27, 1991,which was attended by 1,176 delegates representing 2.1 million Partymembers nationwide.
The congress examined the implementation ofthe sixth National Party Congress’s resolution and summed up first-handexperiences drawn from the implementation of renewal.
Itconcluded that socialist orientations must be maintained in the renewalprocess, the renewal must be conducted in a comprehensive, simultaneousand thorough manner with appropriate moves, forms and ways, and thedevelopment of the multi-sectoral commodity economy must be coupledwith enhancing the State’s management over socio-economic affairs.
Thecongress affirmed that Ho Chi Minh Thought and Marxism-Leninism was theideological foundation and lodestar for the Party’s activities and HoChi Minh Thought was the creative application of Marxism-Leninism toVietnam’s situation.
The congress elected a 146-member Central Committee of the Party and Do Muoi was elected Party General Secretary.
The eighth National Party Congress: Continuing renewal and speeding up industrialisation and modernisation.
Theeighth National Party Congress took place in Hanoi from June 28 to July1, 1996 with the participation of 1,196 delegates representing 2million Party members nationwide and 40 foreign delegations.
Thecongress reviewed the renewal in the past decade to draw major lessonsand defined the 1996-2000 period as an extremely important phase of thenational industrialisation and modernisation.
In the period, thetasks were to mobilise all resources, seize opportunities, surmountchallenges, push up the renewal process comprehensively andsimultaneously, and continue to promote the development of themulti-sectoral economy that operates in line with the market mechanismunder the State management and along socialist orientations.
Thecongress resolved to strive to achieve and surpass the goals adopted inthe socio-economic stabilisation and development strategy to 2000,including posting a fast, highly-effective and sustainable economicgrowth rate, addressing burning social issues, ensuring national defenceand security, improving the people’s living conditions, scaling upaccumulation of internal economic strength, thus creating a solidpremise for higher development at the beginning of the next century.
The congress elected a 170-member Central Committee, which elected a 19-member Political Bureau.
Do Muoi was re-elected Party General Secretary at this congress (to be continued)./.
