The Congress made the assessment that Vietnam had maintained macroeconomic stability and that people’s living standards continued to improve, however economic growth was not stable and the transition towards modernisation and industrialisation remained slow.
In the context of the country at that time, the Congress concluded that importance must be attached to sustainable growth, combining economic development and social progress and building a strong and trustworthy Party.
The Congress determined that the overall goals in the next five years would include enhancing the Party’s leadership and combat capacity, pushing through with comprehensive reform, building a strong political system, promoting democracy and national unity, accelerating economic growth, improving the people’s living standards, stepping up external relations activities, defending national sovereignty and territorial integrity and laying the foundation for Vietnam to become an industrialised and modernised nation by 2020. The Congress also set out major tasks based on these general goals.
The Congress adopted the updated platform of national construction during the transitional period towards socialism, the 2011-2020 Socio-Economic Development Strategy, the Report of the 10th Central Committee, the amended Party Charter and many other documents of high importance.
The Congress elected a Central Committee of 175 official members and 25 alternate members. The Central Committee elected a Politburo of 14 members and a Secretariat of four members. Nguyen Phu Trong was elected General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
At the 7th Plenum of the Party Central Committee, two more members were elected to the Politburo and one to the Secretariat.
During the tenure of the 11th Congress, the Central Committee, the Politburo and the Secretariat issued many important resolutions, directives and conclusions, notably Resolution 4 of the Central Committee on Party building and Directive 3 of the Politburo on promoting the movement to study and follow the moral example of Ho Chi Minh.
