Communist Party sets the goals of the nation

According to the draft report, the overall targets and orientations between 2006-2010 are to improve the party’s leadership capacity and fighting spirit; develop the strength of the whole nation and accelerate the reform process; mobilise and make the best use of all resources; stimulate national industrialisation and modernisation; promote culture; realise social advances and improve justice; strengthen national defence and security; expand external relations and proactively integrate into the international economy; maintain social political stability; drive the country out of the under-developed group, creating foundations for the country to become an industrialised nation by 2020. Also targeted in the draft report was obtaining increasingly high and sustainable economic growth, combined with human development.
“By the year 2010, the country’s GDP will be 2.1 times higher than that of 2000, with the targeted average growth rate of 7.5 to 8 per cent per year,” said the report.
Regarding issues of economic institutions, the draft report specified that the nation is to carry on building and perfecting the institutions of a socialist-oriented market economy, unleashing and liberating production forces as well as creating new incentives for national development.
As figured out in the draft political report, the country will deal with issues of cultural, social and human development and aims to make outstanding progress in developing training and education as well as science and technology. Accordingly, the quality of labour will be improved, employment will be created and people’s lives will be made better.
The Party claimed in the report that it will realise socialist democracy, along with reforming the political system, building up the socialist rule-based state and improving capacity of the state agencies.
The CPV’s draft political report also stated that during 2001 and 2005, the country recorded achievements in almost all areas, particularly in the economy, regardless of complex international developments and a host of domestic difficulties and challenges arising from natural catastrophies and bird flu epedemics.
“The economy has overcome the recession, registering a high growth rate and relatively comprehensive development,” said the report.
Vietnam, in the past five years, has scored a GDP growth rate that has increased year after year, realising the targeted average annual growth rate of 7.5 per cent. The country’s economic structure has been transformed towards industrialisation and modernisation. As of 2005, figures show that the proportion of agriculture, forestry and fishery accounts for 20.9 per cent; industry and construction making up 41 per cent, and 38.1 per cent for the service sector.
Over the past five years, as revised in the report, the country has been internationally recognised for its outstanding progress in hunger eradication and poverty reduction. More specifically, the number of poor households by the end of last year only accounted for 7 per cent of the total number under Vietnamese standards applied for the period 2001-2005.



No. 747/February 6-12, 2006