Hanoi (VNA) – The sixth plenum of the 13th Party Central Committee wrapped up in Hanoi on October 9 after seven days ofsitting, with all items on its agenda completed.

In his closing remarks, Party General Secretary NguyenPhu Trong emphasised the need to maintain vigilance against COVID-19 in thetime ahead, keep macro-economic stability, control inflation and ensuremajor economic balances, especially in finance and budget, as the world economyand situation are expected to develop complicatedly and unexpectedly.

He ordered stepping up economic restructuring in tandemwith renewing growth model, strengthening the national economy’s self-reliance, resilienceand adaptation, and promoting and creating new development impulses for both shortand long terms.

The Party leader also urged greater efforts inadministrative reforms and the implementation of the socio-economic recoveryand development, and national target programmes.

He said it is necessary to improve personnel quality,intensify the application and development of science-technology, digitaltransformation, green transformation and innovation, ensure social security, stepup the communication work, enhance the fight against corruption and othernegative phenomena, consolidate national defence and security, and integratemore intensively and extensively into the world.

The committee agreed on the need to issue and roll outthe national master plan for 2021-2023 with a vision towards 2050, consideringthis a very important political task.

In this regard, the Party chief said the planning workshould focus on forming a national infrastructure framework, particularly infrastructurein transport, urban areas, energy, digital transformation, environmentalprotection, irrigation, natural disaster prevention and control, and climatechange response.

He noted that potential and advantages of thecountry as well as each region and locality should be fully tapped to serve the nation's industrialisationand modernisation, and digital transformation would be a new, breakthroughmethod to shorten the process.

The committee also reached high consensus on theissuance of a resolution on continuing to build and perfect the rule-of-lawsocialist State in the new period.

The leader pointed out major tasks like furtherreforming the organisation of the National Assembly, the administrative sector,courts and judicial agencies, and promoting people’s role and their right tomastery, among others.

The participants consented to issue a resolution on continuingto revamp the Party’s leadership in the new situation, which, the General Secretary said, mustbe conducted cautiously, with a strong determination and great efforts.

At the sixth plenum, the Party Central Committee decided to relieve Vice Chairman of theParty Central Committee’s Economic Commission Nguyen Thanh Phong, President ofthe Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences Bui Nhat Quang, and Secretary of theParty Committee of the Central Agencies’ Bloc Huynh Tan Viet from theirpositions as members of the 13th Party Central Committee.

It also expelled Secretary of the Hai Duong provincialParty Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Council Pham Xuan Thangfrom the Party./.