Steering committee for building law-governed socialist state convenes 4th session

President Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks at the meeting. (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) - President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on July 25 chaired the fourthsession of the steering committee for building a strategy for a law-governedsocialist state of Vietnam by 2030, with a vision to 2045.

Also attendingthe event were Politburo members: Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, National Assembly Chairman VuongDinh Hue, and Phan Dinh Trac, Secretary of the Party Central Committee andChairman of its Commission for Internal Affairs, who are all also deputy headsof the steering committee.

Afterits third session in late May, the steering committee focused on completing adraft strategy. It organised also conferences in  three regions to collect opinions from municipaland provincial Party Committees, and held eight working meetings with ninerelated agencies and organisations.

Speakingat the event, President Phuc, who is also a Politburo member and head of the steering committee, affirmedthat the process of drafting the strategy must always be put under theleadership of the Party, based on Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's thought topromote the fine traditions of the nation, as well as achievements andpractical experience in national construction and development.

Itis necessary for the selective absorption of international experience inconformity to the conditions and circumstances of Vietnam, and ensuringpolitical stability and national sovereignty, maintaining the socialistorientation and better promoting socialist democracy, he stressed.

Heraised a number of major issues that have been agreed upon and need to befurther improved, including the relationship between the Party leadership,State management, and people's mastery.

TheState leader also stressed the need to perfect the power control mechanismamong State agencies, step up the prevention and fight against corruption andnegative phenomenon, and speed up administrative and judicial reforms./.

VNA