The 11th plenum of the 12th Party Central Committee concludes in Hanoi on October 12 after six days of sitting (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) –🐬 The 11th plenum of the 12th Party Central Committee concludedin Hanoi on October 12 after six days of sitting, fulfilling all of its setworking agenda.

The Party Central Committee agreed to approve the 11th plenary meeting’sResolution.

In his closing speech, Party General Secretary and President Nguyen Phu Trongsaid at this plenum, the committee basically agreed with contents and issuespresented in draft reports.

The draft reports reflected the results of the 10-year implementation of thePlatform on national construction in the period of transition to socialism(revised and supplemented in 2011) or Platform 2011 for short, and thesocio-economic strategy for 2011-2020, he said.

The committee also reviewed the five-year implementation of the Resolution ofthe 12th National Party Congress and gave many important ideas on major issuesand matters, he added.

The Party Central Committee entrusted the Politburo to direct thesub-committees to urgently and seriously acquire the committee’s opinions, andcontinue completing draft documents to be submitted to all-level Partycongresses for feedback.

The sub-committees were requested to well organise the collecting of ideas ofall-level party congresses for perfecting the draft documents to be submittedto the Party Central Committee for approval in 2020 and then to the people forfeedback before the 13th National Party Congress begins.

The leader stressed that the objective assessment of the situation and reasonsof the achievements as well as shortcomings and limitations in the past time,and the correct forecast of the national situation and the development trend ofthe world in the coming time are conditions to define right orientations,objectives and tasks for national development during the 2021-2026 tenure.

The Party Central Committee underlinedthe need to uphold  achievements andlessons during the 12th tenure, while further strengthening the Party buildingand rectification work, and fighting bureaucracy,corruption, wastefulness in association with building a  rule-governed socialist state  and a strong and purepolitical system.

🔯 It is also crucial to improve the Party's leadership and ruling capacity, the effectivenessand efficiency of State management, as well as prevent and push back the degradationof political ideology, morality, and lifestyle in the Party and in society, thecommittee noted.

Attention shouldalso be paid to strictly implementing the principles of Party building and organization,and consolidating the people's belief in the Party and the State.

🥃 The Party Central Committee also emphasised the necessity to renew and improvethe quality of compiling, promulgation and implementation of Party resolutions,laws and policies of the State.

Regardingsocio-economic development and State budget for 2019-2020, the committee heldthat the country has recorded positive and comprehensive changes in all fields.

Positiveachievements in 2019 have created new momentum for the completion of the objectivesand tasks set for 2020 and for the 2016-2020 period, it said.

The committee also pointed out difficulties and challengesfacing the country in socio-economicdevelopment, especially factors can have negative impacts on macroeconomicstability, inflation control, and social security and order.

The committee asked for more efforts to successfully complete the objectivesand tasks set for 2019-2020.

At the meeting,after considering proposals by the Political Bureau, the Party CentralCommittee elected four more members of the Party Central Committee’s InspectionCommission in order to strengthen its power.

The PartyCentral Committee also considered and decided to expel Nguyen Bac Son, formermember of the 10th-tenure Party Central Committee and former deputy head of theParty Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education; and TruongMinh Tuan, member of the 12th-tenure Party Central Committee, deputy head ofthe Party Central Committee’s Commission for Information and Education, formerSecretary of the Party Civil Affairs Committee and former Minister ofInformation and Communications from the Party.

Since thebeginning of the 12th tenure, the Party Central Committee, thePolitical Bureau, the Secretariat and the Party Central Committee’s InspectionCommission disciplined more than 70 senior officials under the management ofthe Party Central Committee, including one Politburo member and four members ofthe 12th-tenure Party Central Committee, 14 former members of theParty Central Committee, one former deputy prime minister, five ministers andformer ministers, two secretaries of provincial party committees, five formersecretaries of provincial party committees and 17 generals.

The PoliticalBureau and the Secretariat of the Party Central Committee also imposeddisciplinary measures against seven party organisations, including the PartyCivil Affairs Committees of the Ministries of Trade and Industry; NaturalResources and Environment; Information and Communications; and Transport; and theStanding Boards of the Overseas Party Committee, the municipal Party Committeeof Da Nang city and the provincial Party Committee of Vinh Phuc province.

The top leaderstressed that 2020 is the final year to implement the 12th NationalParty Congress’s Resolution, the five-year socio-economic development plan2016-2020 and the ten-year socio-economic development strategy and hold partycongresses at all levels towards the 13th National Party Congress.

♓ He called oncompatriots, comrades and soldiers nationwide to join hands and uphold theachievements in 2019 and the tradition of solidarity and patriotism in order tosuccessfully implement resolutions of the Party and this meeting, thus creatinga new impulse for the accomplishment of the targets and tasks set by the 12th National Party Congress and preparing for the organisation of party congressesat all levels and the 13th National Party Congress./.