The Communist Parties of Vietnam and Cuba held the second theory seminarin Cuba’s capital Havana on November 10, with a focus on the parties’role in updating socio-economic models in Cuba and the Doi Moi(renovation) in Vietnam.
Opening the event, thehead of the Cuban delegation Valdes Mesa, Politburo member and VicePresident of the State Council, emphasised the seminar’s significance asan opportunity for the two parties to share theoretical and practicalviewpoints with a view to enhancing the parties’ role in perfectingsocialism in each country.
The Cuban official notedthat the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC) has made economic developmentits key goal since the party’s sixth congress in 2011. The congressadopted Social and Economic Guidelines, laying the foundation for aroadmap on updating the socialist socio-economic development model.
He added that the CPC’s first national conference in January 2012 alsofocused on making objective assessments of Party work and defining theparty’s goals in the spirit of reform, willing to make any necessarychange to meet the requirement of the new situation in the cause ofsocialism building.
On the basis of the guidelinesand in this spirit, the CPC has led the country to embark on the road ofmodernizing the national socio-economic model along the set directionof protecting and developing prosperous and sustainable socialism inCuba, affirming social ownership of basic means of production whilerecognizing the role of non-State forms of management, Valdes Mesa said.
He reported that Cuba has entered a new stage inimplementing the Social and Economic Guidelines with more complicatedand greater policies, but all steps will be made in a cautious andsteady manner to ensure discipline and prevent any gaps that can resultin mistakes and a deviation from the set goals.
Headded that the Council of Ministers has also adopted a long-termsocio-economic development plan with a strategic vision to 2030 with thegoal of mobilizing all resources for the sustainable development of thenational economy.
Meanwhile, the head of the Vietnamese delegation Tran Quoc Vuong, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Office Chief of the Party CentralCommittee, presented an overview of the nearly 30 years of the Doi Moicause in Vietnam, which was initiated by the Communist Party of Vietnamat its 6th National Congress in 1986. He stressed that Vietnam hasreaped historical achievements in socialism building and nationaldefence, rising above socio-economic crisis and the under-developedstatus and pushing ahead with industrialisation and modernization inparallel with developing the knowledge-based economy.
He went on to say that at the same time, socialist democracy has beenpromoted and expanded; the national great unity has been strengthenedand enhanced; the building of a strong Party, a law-governed State andthe political system has been promoted; national independence,sovereignty, unification and territorial integrity as well as thesocialist system have been firmly protected; external relations havebeen increasingly expanded and deepened, thus elevating Vietnam’sposition and prestige in the international arena.
The Vietnamese party official stated that those achievements havecreated important prerequisites for the country to continue with its DoiMoi policy and enjoy further development in the time ahead, whiletestifying to the correctness of the Party’s policy and the fact thatthe path to socialism chosen by Vietnam suits the country’s conditionsand the trend of the era.
The two delegations areexpected to deliver more reports and exchange opinions on a range ofissues important to Cuba’s efforts to update its economic model andVietnam’s Doi Moi cause.-VNA
Opening the event, thehead of the Cuban delegation Valdes Mesa, Politburo member and VicePresident of the State Council, emphasised the seminar’s significance asan opportunity for the two parties to share theoretical and practicalviewpoints with a view to enhancing the parties’ role in perfectingsocialism in each country.
The Cuban official notedthat the Communist Party of Cuba (CPC) has made economic developmentits key goal since the party’s sixth congress in 2011. The congressadopted Social and Economic Guidelines, laying the foundation for aroadmap on updating the socialist socio-economic development model.
He added that the CPC’s first national conference in January 2012 alsofocused on making objective assessments of Party work and defining theparty’s goals in the spirit of reform, willing to make any necessarychange to meet the requirement of the new situation in the cause ofsocialism building.
On the basis of the guidelinesand in this spirit, the CPC has led the country to embark on the road ofmodernizing the national socio-economic model along the set directionof protecting and developing prosperous and sustainable socialism inCuba, affirming social ownership of basic means of production whilerecognizing the role of non-State forms of management, Valdes Mesa said.
He reported that Cuba has entered a new stage inimplementing the Social and Economic Guidelines with more complicatedand greater policies, but all steps will be made in a cautious andsteady manner to ensure discipline and prevent any gaps that can resultin mistakes and a deviation from the set goals.
Headded that the Council of Ministers has also adopted a long-termsocio-economic development plan with a strategic vision to 2030 with thegoal of mobilizing all resources for the sustainable development of thenational economy.
Meanwhile, the head of the Vietnamese delegation Tran Quoc Vuong, Secretary of the Party Central Committee and Office Chief of the Party CentralCommittee, presented an overview of the nearly 30 years of the Doi Moicause in Vietnam, which was initiated by the Communist Party of Vietnamat its 6th National Congress in 1986. He stressed that Vietnam hasreaped historical achievements in socialism building and nationaldefence, rising above socio-economic crisis and the under-developedstatus and pushing ahead with industrialisation and modernization inparallel with developing the knowledge-based economy.
He went on to say that at the same time, socialist democracy has beenpromoted and expanded; the national great unity has been strengthenedand enhanced; the building of a strong Party, a law-governed State andthe political system has been promoted; national independence,sovereignty, unification and territorial integrity as well as thesocialist system have been firmly protected; external relations havebeen increasingly expanded and deepened, thus elevating Vietnam’sposition and prestige in the international arena.
The Vietnamese party official stated that those achievements havecreated important prerequisites for the country to continue with its DoiMoi policy and enjoy further development in the time ahead, whiletestifying to the correctness of the Party’s policy and the fact thatthe path to socialism chosen by Vietnam suits the country’s conditionsand the trend of the era.
The two delegations areexpected to deliver more reports and exchange opinions on a range ofissues important to Cuba’s efforts to update its economic model andVietnam’s Doi Moi cause.-VNA
