[Podcast] Shaping a Comprehensive, Sustainable Development Strategy for the Country

1 August, 2024

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, a leader with profound influence, has shaped a comprehensive and sustainable development strategy for Vietnam’s socialist construction cause in the current context; concurrently, creating a strong driving force for the nation’s progress. One important and outstanding contribution that the General Secretary left behind is the cause of innovation and development of education–training and science–technology, along with socio-economic development policies for the country.

Orienting education as “the top national policy”Education-training and science-technology play an important role for a country, serving as the foundation towards improving the quality of human resources and promoting innovation, making a decisive contribution to sustainable development and global competitiveness enhancement. Education-training and science-technology help Vietnamese people improve knowledge, skills and creative thinking in addition to life quality in a socialist-oriented market economy. With that strategic vision, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has oriented education as a “top national policy” and identified this as a key task of the entire political system.

On November 4, 2013, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong signed and promulgated the Resolution of the 8^th Conference of the 11^th Central Executive Committee on fundamental and comprehensive innovation of education and training to meet public needs concerning industrialization and modernization under the conditions of a socialist-oriented market economy and international integration (Resolution No. 29-NQ/TW). The resolution marked a new development in the Party’s strategic thinking for the development of education and training; demonstrating vision, determination and strategic direction for education, vision for sustainable development of the country in both the immediate- and long-term. After 10 years of implementing this Resolution, our country’s education and training has made strong progress and achieved important achievements, greatly contributing to improving people’ knowledge, developing human resources, fostering talents; making an important contribution to the country’s socio-economic development and international integration process.

In addition to the awareness that “The investment in science-technology as well as education-training refers to the investment for development”, on October 31, 2012, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong signed and promulgated the Resolution of the 6^th Conference, Central Executive Committee Term XI on developing science and technology with the purpose of serving the cause of industrialization and modernization in the conditions of a socialist-oriented market economy and international integration (Resolution No. 20-NQ/TW). This Resolution not only creates a legal and strategic framework for science and technology development but also promotes the application of these advances into practice, contributing to improving Vietnam’s competitiveness and international integration, in which, Vietnam is being in the context of a socialist-oriented market economy.

Breakthrough strategies for socio-economic development

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, with the vision of the future, has proposed breakthrough strategies and policies with long-term orientation for the country’s sustainable development. According to the General Secretary, national development not only focuses on economic growth but also must be associated with environmental protection, ensuring social justice and improving life quality for all classes of people. The General Secretary also promoted the improvement of socialist-oriented market economic institutions, encouraging creativity, autonomy and strong international integration.

Under the leadership of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, at the 5^th Conference, the 12^th Party Central Committee issued Resolution No. 10-NQ/TW, dated June 3, 2017, on private economic development become an important driving force of the socialist-oriented market economy. This resolution is considered a breakthrough in thinking, creating a basis for the private economy to develop healthily and effectively, truly becoming an important entity of the economy. Realizing the need to promote policies to develop the country’s infrastructure, the General Secretary and the 12^th Party Central Committee developed and issued Resolution No. 11-NQ/TW, dated June 3, 2019. 2017 on “Improving socialist-oriented market economic institutions”, focusing on economic institutional reform and investment attraction. These contributions not only mean a guideline for the Party and State’s policies in the fields of education-training and science-technology but also promote the comprehensive development of our society.

Author: Prof. Dr. Nguyen Dong Phong – The Party Committe Secretary cum. Chairman of UEH Council (University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City).

The original paper was published on Sài Gòn Giải Phóng Newspaper – Online Version at LINK.

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