Vietnam on the way of renovation and development
Young people are a big labour force of society and important resources for industrialization and modernization. The 7th Plenum of the Central Committee of the Party (10th Tenure) issued the resolution No 25 dated 25 July, 2008 on “Upholding Party’s leadership over young people in the period of national industrialization and modernization.”
In the spirit of the resolutions of the 11th Party Congress, the Socio-economic Development Strategy for 2011-2020 puts forth 11 groups of orientation including: “Harmonious and sustainable development of regions, and building of urban and new rural areas”.
A cross-cutting policy of our Party and State over the past years has been to strengthen the leading role of the State economy to ensure the socialist-oriented development of the country.
Years of renovation have resulted in important changes in social structure of Viet Nam. A new social stratum of businessmen has emerged and become stronger. They have increased in number with higher quality and have been operating in many different sectors. They have gradually played a higher role in the socio-political system and have made great contribution to the renovation.
Economic development achieved along with poverty reduction is one of the proud successes of Viet Nam during the stage of renovation. With high determination and creative initiatives, the Party, State and people have made encouraging successes in these two areas.
On February 2, 2000, the Government promulgated the Decree 03/2000/ND-CP on farm economy. After ten years of implementation, it is time to review and complete policies that were mapped out by the Decree to further develop the farm economy in the future.
The year 2010 is the final year to implement the 5 year Socio-economic Development Plan2006-2010. The 2010 Socio-economic Development Plan was implemented in the context of Vietnam having to face many difficulties and challenges stemming from unfavourable impacts of the financial crisis, natural disasters and epidemic diseases. However, thanks to the endeavours of the political and administrative system, the business community as well as the whole society, Vietnam has achieved the majority of targets in accordance with the Resolution of the National Assembly.
The relationship between economic growth and social development in Vietnam is under recent attention. The concerns of this paper are about the characteristics of the economic growth in Vietnam, the differentiation in living standards and some consequences of the economic growth and market mechanism that contribute to this differentiation.
Over the past years, particularly in 2006-2010 period, at especially difficult communes, there are about 20 policy groups applied with about 30 national target programs and projects carried out aiming at poverty reduction through infrastructure development, production promotion and improvement of people’s life. Hence, the socio-economic situation at these communes witnessed considerable progress.