Priority should be given to perfecting market economic institution: Party chief

General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong has stressed the need to prioritise perfecting the socialist-oriented market economic institution in 2018 following the Resolution of the 12th tenure Party Central Committee’s fifth plenary meeting.

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong speaks at the conference. (Photo: VGP)
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong speaks at the conference. (Photo: VGP)

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2018 will be the year in which the success of the implementation of five-year socio-economic development targets set by the 12th National Party Congress will be decided, Trong stated at the Government’s teleconference with localities on December 28.

Therefore, while making, promulgating and implementing theses policies and mechanisms, it is necessary to be aware of, respect and make use of the objective rules of the market economy and international practices in order to ensure that socialist orientation conforms with the nation’s development conditions.

The State plays a role of orienting, building and improving economic institutions, creating an equal, transparent and healthy competitive environment, while using its tools, policies and resources to orient and regulate the economy, thereby boosting business and production, protecting natural resources and the environment and developing cultural and social fields, Trong said.

He emphasised the necessity to thoroughly grasp the Party’s stances and policies on restructuring the economy in line with growth model reforms, and increasing labour productivity and the competitiveness of the economy.

It is essential to carry out the Party’s resolutions on basically and comprehensively reforming education and training, intensify human resource development and information and technology application, in addition to paying greater attention to improving policies toward those who have rendered services to the nation and implementing sustainable measures to ensure poverty reduction and social welfare.

The Party chief said that it is a must to protect independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity, ensure political security, social order and safety, and effectively implement foreign work and international integration, while improving citizen protection work and creating favourable conditions for overseas Vietnamese to contribute to the nation building cause.

He asked for the continued building of the Party and political system, a stricter implementation of thrift practice and anti-wastefulness and stricter solutions to corruption cases.