Party Congress opens

Themed “Continuing the Party’s leadership and fighting capacity, upholding national strength, comprehensively spurring the renovation and laying the foundations for Vietnam to become a modern industrialised country by 2020,” the congress will discuss and ratify plans  and strategies for national economic development, politics, culture, social affairs, defence and security, and diplomacy for the next five and 10 years.

Particularly, a new leadership board of the Communist Party of Vietnam’s Central Committee will be selected at the congress, followed by the National Assembly election elect a new government. According to the congress’ organising committee, around 1,400 delegates representing 3.6 million Vietnam Communist Party members will gather at the congress.

“In the renovation course over the past 25 years, our Party begun with economic reform, making it the key in liberating all resources available in our country. This step is necessary and correct.”

“However, when the economic renewal has recorded great achievements and economic relations have basically changed, it is essential to carry out economic and political renewals concurrently to promote a comprehensive renewal,” Politburo member and Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung wrote about Vietnam’s draft Socio-Economic Development Strategy for 2011-2020, which is set for the congress ratification.  “We firmly believe that the congress will set out a strategy to meet the country’s development requirements,” Dung stressed.

According to the draft Socio-Economic Development Plan during 2011-2015, Vietnam will strive for an annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 7-8 per cent per annum and the GDP per capita will reach $2,100 by 2015, or 1.7 times higher than 2010. Despite becoming a middle-income nation, Vietnam faces new challenges such as marcoeconomic instablility, poor infrastructure networks, shortages of human resources, environmental pollution and uneffective use of natural resources. 

Vietnam’s doi moi policy was a milestone of the sixth National Party Congress, taking  place in December, 1986, which outlined the conprehensive reform focusing on economic policy and maintaining political stability to ensure the success of the renovation process.

To celebrate the 11th congress, a special exhibition was opened last week at the Hanoi-based Ho Chi Minh Museum to display more than 200 photos, documentaries and objects featuring the establishment and development of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV).

The show highlights the CPV’s important historical milestones, including a conference to unite communist organisations in Vietnam.