Hanoi (VNA) – The Politburo’s Resolution 66 marks a strategic breakthrough in reforming lawmaking and enforcement, serving as a clear call to action for profound institutional reform, contributing to a modern, effective and efficient socialist rule-of-law state, with citizens and businesses at its core, said Minister of Justice Nguyen Hai Ninh.
Ninh, who is also a member of the Party Central Committee, told the press in a recent interview that after the resolution was issued on April 30, 2025, the Party Central Committee’s Politburo and Secretariat convened a nationwide hybrid conference to disseminate the resolution. The event reached more than 1.5 million officials and Party members across 37,000 locations nationwide.
All 22 ministries and ministry-level agencies, government-affiliated bodies, and all 34 cities and provinces have issued schemes or action plans to follow the Resolution. Several have gone further by setting up dedicated steering committees to drive its delivery.
Guided by the Party's leadership and the resolution's directives, the National Assembly, Government, Supreme People's Court, Supreme People's Procuracy and relevant agencies have made concerted and responsible efforts to renew legislative thinking and strengthen coordination. They translated the Party’s guidelines and the Politburo’s strategic resolutions into law, creating a comprehensive legal corridor that supports the streamlining of political system, the rollout of a two-tier local administration model, deeper decentralisation and delegation of authority, and administrative reform. Together, these steps have dismantled long-standing bottlenecks and freed up resources for national development.
The minister described the resolution as a foundational political driver for a series of strategic, unprecedented lawmaking decisions. It has shifted away from the old mindset of banning what cannot be easily managed, transforming institutional framework into a source of competitive strength and unlocking new development pathways. Notably, the resolution's target of largely eliminating legal and regulatory bottlenecks by the end of 2025 has already been met.
In 2025 alone, the Government submitted a resolution amending and supplementing key articles of the 2013 Constitution, together with 99 laws and legal resolutions, a record for any year. The Government also issued 377 decrees and legal resolutions; ministries and agencies drafted and promulgated 1,404 legal documents, the highest total of the current term; while local authorities issued roughly 13,000 legal documents.
Enforcement efforts have closely aligned with Resolution 66, with a strong focus on the removal of legal obstacles and the overhaul of administrative procedures in land, environment, healthcare, education, science-technology, and social welfare.
According to him, the resolution has generated widespread and powerful momentum for institutional and legal reform throughout the political system, from central to local levels. It has earned strong backing from state agencies, the public, legal experts, lawyers, and the business community.
The year 2026 is seen as pivotal for translating the Party’s resolutions into concrete outcomes. Top priority will go to promptly reviewing and turning the major policy orientations set out in the documents of the 14th National Party Congress and the Politburo’s nine strategic resolutions into laws, in line with the 2026 working agenda of the Central Steering Committee on Institutional and Legal Reform.
A core task will be developing a strategy to refine Vietnam's legal system for the new era — one that is rationally structured, comprehensive, democratic, equitable, coherent, unified, open, transparent, feasible, and stable. The strategy will also guide legislative planning for the term and annual agendas that are proactive, flexible and responsive to emerging realities. At the same time, 2026 will focus on revising and supplementing legal documents tied to the two-tier local administration model, while addressing adjustments made by Government and National Assembly Standing Committee’s resolutions, with the aim of fully resolving remaining legal bottlenecks by March 1, 2027, in line with the NA’s Resolution 206 and the Law on Organisation of Local Governments.
Greater resources will be devoted to improving legislative techniques and professional law drafting, with an emphasis on scientific rigor, feasibility and effectiveness. This includes finalising a national law-drafting handbook, along with standardised criteria, technical guidelines, and training projects for lawmaking officials.
Efforts will intensify to enhance the institutional framework and the process of consolidating legal documents. Major reforms to consolidation practices will ensure that consolidated texts serve as the official reference for citation and application, are submitted alongside amended instruments, and use streamlined technical methods. The scope will expand to cover local-level documents and a wider range of eligible texts.
Work will advance on upgrading the national legal documents database, launching a large-scale legal data project, and driving full digital transformation in legal dissemination and education, including the use of artificial intelligence for legal guidance and interpretation. The national legal portal will be further operated as a central hub for policy and legal information, a digital interface between the State, citizens, and businesses, a channel for feedback on legal documents, and an online platform for public input into institutional and legal reform, he added./.
