Theory and Reality

On self-criticism and criticism in Party’s discipline and control

Self-criticism and criticism have been implemented in all aspects of Party building including control and discipline. The article clarifies the three areas:

Implementation of the Party’s policies to expand relations with ruling parties

The 11th Congress of the Communist Party of Viet Nam (January 2011) confirmed: “to develop relations with communist, workers’, leftist, ruling and other parties on the basis of safeguarding national interest, independence, sovereignty for peace, friendship, cooperation and development”. This shows that beside expanding relations with communist, workers’ and leftist parties, establishing relation with ruling parties is one of the important priorities in foreign policies of the Communist Party of Viet Nam.

Party’s awareness on socialism in Viet Nam from the Platform of 1930 to the Platform on national construction in the period of transition to socialism (revised and supplemented in 2011)

Leading the renovation process for more that 25 years, the Communist Party of Viet Nam has unceasingly supplemented and developed policies. It mapped out the Platform on national construction in the period of transition to socialism at the 7th Party Congress (June 1991) which was revised and supplemented at the 11th Party Congress (January 2011). This has improved people awareness on socialism and the path to socialism on following areas:

Current cultural security in Viet Nam

Cultural security has been one of the urgent issues in the context of profound globalization. While cultural globalization has brought about opportunities and advantages, it has posed problems to national cultural security.

Restructuring commercial banking system in Viet Nam at this period

Restructuring commercial banking system is one of the fundamental solutions to restructure the economy of the country at present.

Developing transport infrastructure in Viet Nam

In recent years, Viet Nam’s transport infrastructure has been upgraded with expansion of road system, reduced railway and waterway travel time, increased cargo throughput in sea port and higher number of passengers and cargo transport at airports. Especially, local transport system has greatly contributed to economic transition, poverty reduction and rural modernization.

Women in leadership and management in Viet Nam

Women’s in leadership and management has been an issue of higher concern in the world in the 21st century. Since the Party was established in 1930, and all through the revolutionary process, woman empowerment has received much attention from the Party and State. In the years of renovation, the concern was demonstrated by the Decree 37-CT/TW on 16 May, 1994 of the Party Central Committee Secretariat on “Some issues in the work of woman cadres in the new situation” and the Resolution 11-NQ/TW on 24 July 2007 of the Party Political Bureau on “The work on woman in the period of industrialization and modernization”.

Renovation of salary policy in the period of 2011-2012

Policies on salary have affected tens of millions of paid laborers. Well-developed salary policies are driving forces for well social and human development. This was one of the issues discussed at the 11th National Congress of the Communist Party of Viet Nam.

On policies of agriculture and rural development in the industrialization process

Many arguments and approaches relevant to agriculture and rural development have been applied in Vietnam, and they had strong impacts to policy making on these issues. While encouraging the process of industrialization and modernization, Vietnam also applied the strategies of this process to the way the country solves its agriculture and rural development problems.

Promoting sustainable growth and improving Vietnam economy’s competitiveness

It is widely known that with average annual GDP growth rate of 7.45%, 1991-2009 was really a period of magnificent economic growth in Vietnam. 2009 GDP (in 1994 price) was approximately 3.7 and 1.76 times higher than that of 1991 and 2001, respectively. GDP per capita in real terms in 2010 was about USD1,200, which put Vietnam in the group of low middle income countries; the poverty rate reduced rapidly from 58% in 1993 to 26% in 2000 and below 10% in 2010. The development gap between Vietnam and other regional economies has narrowed significantly. For example, Thailand’s GDP per capita in PPP terms in 1995 was 4.4 times higher than that of Vietnam, which has reduced to 2.5 times in 2008. Similarly, the gap with Singapore has reduced from 27 to 18 times, with Indonesia – from 2.3 to 1.4, and with South Korea from 13 to 10.4 times.

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