Sustainable development in Vietnam

Sustainable development has emerged as a top concern of mankind. The issue is echoed at various international forums, in public documents, as well as in national policies and plans of action. In Vietnam, sustainable development is one of the fundamental elements of economic growth model reform and a primary goal of the national economy.

Viet Nam continues implementing national target programs on healthcare (*)

To materialize the Resolution of the eleventh Congress of the Communist Party of Viet Nam in the field of healthcare, over the past years, the Vietnamese healthcare branch has exerted efforts to implement its Program of Action in line with the Party’s resolution. The effective implementation of National Target Programmes is considered one of the focusses of the healthcare branch to contribute to improve the quality of life and accelerate socio-economic development.

Relationship between economic growth and social development based on the principle of progress and equality in Vietnam’s renovation process

Combining economic growth with social development based on the principle of progress and equality are two of the three pillars of rapid and sustainable development that many countries aspire to. However, this is a difficult problem that cannot be easily solved everywhere every time. To achieve these goals, a series of objective and subjective conditions are required. Many relationships need to be addressed, including the relationship between boosting economic growth and undertaking social progress and equality in a particular development model.

More sustainable hunger eradication and poverty reduction in Vietnam

Eliminating hunger, reducing poverty, and improving the living conditions of the poor is not just a major consistent social policy of the Vietnamese Party and State but it is also an important part and a strategic focus in Vietnam’s socio-economic development strategy. Over the years, the government, ministries and sectors have been keen on researching, reviewing, building and issuing mechanisms and policies on sustainable poverty reduction, regularly fine-tuned and adjusted mechanisms and policies embracing reality. As a result, the beneficiaries and funding for the poor have been expanded, meeting the aspirations of the poor... Programs and policies on poverty reduction have mobilized the power and the participation of the entire political system and society.

Human resource development in our country

Social criticism-a method to exercise democracy in Viet Nam

Social criticism means acts of analysis, argument and evaluation on scientifically and socially practical basis on appropriateness and correctness of policies and decisions of leadership and social management circle.

Promoting traditional cultural values of Vietnamese families

Traditional cultural values of Vietnamese families have been preserved, promoted and handed down from generation to generation during thousands of years of national history. These traditions are patriotism, love for homeland, love for family, fidelity, brotherhood, mutual assistance, good neighbourhood, humanism, ultruism, self-denial, gratitude, eagerness for learning, industruousness, diligence, undauntedness and steadfastness. It is these values that have created the idendity of Vietnamese cultural traditions. However, in the current international globalization, new cultural values of families have taken shape and several cultural traditional values of families are facing the threat of falling into oblivion.

Regarding freedom of expression and press

Freedom of expression and press is always a global issue. It not only concerns leaders of all nations but also a basic human right, a fundamental need in any country during the process of development, particularly in this era of the information explosion. However, in a specific political regime, the connotation of freedom of expression and press (and the wider media) is understood differently, due to different approaches and even the opposing political motivations of various interest groups.

Democratic thinking of Ho Chi Minh

According to perception of followers of Marxism-Leninism, democracy is power which belongs to people who create history. They make self-regulations and self-decisions of their destiny.

Achievements and constraints in theoretical and practical perception during the 20 year implementation of 1992 Constitution

Achievements in theoretical and practical perception during the 20 year implementation of 1992 Constitution, first and foremost, are conducive to the Party’s renovation policies. Without the socialist-oriented market economic policies, without recognition and promotion of human rights, without orientation to build the law-governed socialist state, we can not make such successes on the first stage of the renovation process.