HCM City (VNA) – The 11th Congress ofthe Ho Chi Minh City Party Organisation for the 2020-2025 tenure opened onOctober 15, with 444 delegates taking part.

Attending the event are Politburo member and Prime MinisterNguyen Xuan Phuc, former Party General Secretary Nong Duc Manh; former StatePresidents Tran Duc Luong, Nguyen Minh Triet, Truong Tan Sang, former NationalAssembly Chairman Nguyen Van An; and former Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung.

In his opening speech, Politburo member and Secretary of themunicipal Party Committee Nguyen Thien Nhan said in over one year implementingthe Politburo’s Directive No.35-CT/TW, the municipal Party Organisation  has successfully directed the holding of the congressesat 2,091 grassroots-level Party organisations and 63 others at the district,communal and above levels.

Draft documents and personnel plan submitted to the 11th Congress were devised in a serious, responsible and scientific manner in linewith the Politburo’s Directive No.35.

He said over the past five years, the municipal PartyOrganisation, authorities and people have upheld revolutionary tradition andstrived to realise the Resolution adopted at the 10th Congress ofthe municipal Party Organisation and that by the 12th National PartyCongress, fulfilled 11 out of the 14 targets in the Resolution by the 10th Congress of the municipal Party Organisation, four of them have been surpassed.

Thanks to its high labour productivity, the city made up morethan 22 percent of the country’s economy and achieved a growth of 7.7 percentduring 2016-2019. It was the largest contributor to the State budget,accounting for 27 percent of the total budget revenue. The rate between itsbudget spending and revenue was also the lowest in the country.

Infrastructure planning, management and development alongwith urban services reaped practical results. Socio-culture, health care,education-training, and science-technology continued progressing. The citysuccessfully combated COVID-19 pandemic with various effective models.

Party and administration building work recorded meaningfulresults. The city took the lead in collecting public feedback to build a strongand transparent Party and administration, and prevent moral degradation andcorruption.

Over the past two years, the city has collected 8,778feedback, 8,660 of them have been dealt with, or 98.66 percent. As many as 328Party members and 378 officials and cadres violating Party regulations andState laws have been disciplined.

In the past three years, the city devised projects to submitto the Politburo, Government and National Assembly, thus creating a new drivingforce for development.

Nhan urged the Congress to uphold the sense ofresponsibility, democracy and brainpower to offer opinions on important draftdocuments before submitting them to the 13th National PartyCongress; and review achievements, weaknesses and shortcomings, towardsdeciding on orientations and goals to continue developing the city during the2020-2030 period and towards 2045.

He also called for electing moral and talented officialswith political mettle, brainpower and capability to the Ho Chi Minh City PartyCommittee, 11th tenure.

On the occasion, Vice Secretary of the municipal PartyCommittee and Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong alsodelivered a draft Political Report.

Later, delegates looked into documents of the 11th Congress of the municipal Party Organisation and others for submission to the13th National Party Congress.

On October 17, the Congress will elect and announce theexecutive committee of the 11th municipal Party Organisation, and adelegation to the 13th National Party Congress.

The Congress will last till October 18./.