The national conference to disseminate and implement four important resolutions of the Politburo
On the morning of September 16, the Politburo and the Secretariat held a national conference to disseminate and implement important resolutions of the Politburo on international integration, national energy security, breakthroughs in education and training development, and some breakthrough solutions to strengthen the protection, care and improvement of people's health. At the central bridge point, the conference drew the attendance of comrades: General Secretary To Lam; State President Luong Cuong; Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh; National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man; Standing member of the Secretariat Tran Cam Tu; leaders and former leaders of the Party and State; leaders of ministries, central departments and branches.
The conference was held in a combination of face-to-face and virtual forms.
The conference was organized both in the face-to-face and virtual forms in access to the connecting points at the departments, ministries, branches, central units, the Party Committees directly under the Central, the Provincial Party Committees, the City Party Committees and commune-level bridge points.
At the provincial bridge point the conference drew the attendance of comrades: Nguyen Huu Nghia, Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Tran Quoc Toan, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Tran Quoc Van, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Nguyen Khac Than, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Manh Hung, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee; comrades of the Standing Board of the Provincial Party Committee, leaders of the Provincial People's Council, the Provincial People's Committee, and the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee; comrades of the provincial leaders and former leaders; leaders of the provincial departments, agencies and branches.
Provincial leaders and delegates attend the conference at the provincial connecting point.
Delegates attend the conference at the provincial connecting point.
At the conference, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh presented topic 1 "The key and core contents of Resolution No. 71-NQ/TW dated August 22, 2025 of the Politburo on the breakthroughs in education and training development and the Action Program to implement Resolution No. 71-NQ/TW". The Resolution identifies education as the top national policy, deciding the future of the nation with six major guiding viewpoints: Promoting the tradition of studiousness, taking learners as the center, schools as the foundation, teachers as the driving force; linking learning with practice, linking school - society; developing vocational education and universities as the center of knowledge, innovation and creativity; making breakthroughs in thinking, institutions, policies; building an open, interconnected, equitable and modern education system.
The goal is to strive by 2030 for general education to reach an advanced level in the region, and universities and vocational education to meet national standards. By 2045, Vietnam will be among the top 20 countries in the world in education.
The Resolution sets out eight main groups of tasks and solutions: Institutional innovation, ensuring resources, improving the quality of education at all levels; developing the teaching staff; promoting digital transformation, applying artificial intelligence; strengthening international cooperation; expanding socialization; focusing on equity in access to education, especially in disadvantaged areas.
On September 15, 2025, the Government issued Resolution 281/NQ-CP promulgating the Action Program to implement Resolution 71-NQ/TW of the Politburo, identifying eight specific groups of tasks: Perfecting laws and policies on education; allocating and effectively using the budget; investing in facilities and schools; implementing national target programs; strong digital transformation; developing specific policies for teachers; strengthening supervision and responsibility of Party committees, authorities and leaders; mobilizing social resources and international cooperation. The Resolution 71-NQ/TW and the Government's Action Program demonstrate the determination to fundamentally and comprehensively innovate, create a breakthrough to bring Vietnamese education to the regional and world level.
Next, Deputy Prime Minister Le Thanh Long presented topic 2 "The core content of Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW dated September 8, 2025 of the Politburo on a number of breakthrough solutions, strengthening the protection, care and improvement of people's health and the Action Program to implement Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW". The Resolution affirms that caring for, protecting and improving people's health is a strategic task, demonstrating the humanity and superiority of the regime, associated with the requirements of rapid and sustainable development of the country.
The Resolution emphasizes the viewpoint: Health is the most valuable asset, the responsibility and right of each citizen and the entire political system; taking people as the center, disease prevention is better than cure; linking health development with scientific and technological advances, digital transformation, international integration; focusing on equity in access to health services, especially in remote areas, disadvantaged groups.
By 2030, Vietnam aims to build a modern, equitable, high-quality, and effective healthcare system that meets the needs of all people; the average life expectancy will reach about 76.5 years; and direct out-of-pocket spending will be reduced to less than 35%. By 2045, Vietnam's healthcare system will develop on par with advanced countries in Asia, aiming to meet international standards.
To achieve the above goals, Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW sets out eight key tasks and solutions: Perfecting healthcare institutions and policies; strengthening primary healthcare; improving the quality of medical examination and treatment; developing healthcare human resources; boosting the application of science, technology and digital transformation; developing the pharmaceutical industry and medical equipment; strengthening international cooperation; ensuring financial resources and innovating management mechanisms.
On September 15, 2025, the Government issued the Action Program to implement Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW, focusing on specific tasks: Amending and supplementing relevant laws; synchronously investing in grassroots health care and end-line hospitals; implementing the project to train and provide adequate remuneration for medical staff; developing a smart health system; mobilizing social resources, encouraging private investment; strengthening supervision and enhancing the responsibility of all levels and sectors.
Also at the conference, the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung presented topic 3 “The key and core contents of Resolution No. 59-NQ/TW dated January 24, 2025 of the Politburo on international integration in the new situation and the Action Program to implement Resolution No. 59-NQ/TW”. The Resolution identifies international integration as a strategic driving force, a regular, long-term task, of vital significance to the development and protection of the Fatherland. In particular, the guiding viewpoint emphasizes: To be proactive, comprehensive, synchronous, extensive, effective; take national and people interests as the highest; combine national strength with the strength of the times; promote the cultural identity and Vietnamese people; link economic integration with politics, national defense, security, science - technology, culture - society, education, health, environment.
The goal by 2030 aims to improve the quality and effectiveness of integration, build an independent, self-reliant economy associated with proactive, active deep integration; expand the market, increase the proportion of added value in exports; enhance Vietnam's international position and prestige. By the middle of the 21st century, strive to turn the country into a developed, high-income country with a socialist orientation.
The Resolution sets out major groups of tasks and solutions: Innovating thinking and integration methods; improving the effectiveness of economic integration; expanding integration in other fields; perfecting institutions and policies; improving the capacity to implement international commitments; strengthening supervision and inspection; promoting the role of all levels, sectors and localities.
On March 14, 2025, the Government issued Resolution 153/NQ-CP promulgating the Action Program to implement Resolution No. 59-NQ/TW. The Program is specified into the following tasks: Thoroughly grasping and widely disseminating the content of the resolution; promoting digital transformation in integration management and implementation; reviewing, adjusting and supplementing strategies, programs and plans in line with international commitments; strengthening inter-sectoral coordination, clearly assigning responsibilities; mobilizing social resources; enhancing the role and responsibility of leaders.
Comrade Nguyen Thanh Nghi, Head of the Central Policy and Strategy Commission, thoroughly grasped the topic 4 "The key and core contents of Resolution No. 70-NQ/TW dated August 20, 2025 of the Politburo on ensuring national energy security to 2030, with a vision to 2045 and the Action Program to implement Resolution No. 70-NQ/TW". This Resolution was issued in the context that after 5 years of implementing Resolution No. 55-NQ/TW of the Politburo, the energy sector has achieved a lot of results but still has limitations such as slow project progress, import dependence, unsynchronized infrastructure, and an insubstantial competitive market. The Resolution No. 70-NQ/TW affirms the view that energy security is a strategic task, closely linked to ensuring national defense - security, sustainable development, green energy transition, in line with international commitments. The State plays a creative and leading role; the private sector is an important driving force; synchronous development, diversified supply sources, prioritizing clean and renewable energy, improving energy efficiency, building modern and smart infrastructure.
The goal by 2030 is to ensure adequate, stable, high-quality, safe, and reasonably priced supply; save 8-10% of energy compared to demand; renewable energy ratio of 25-30% of primary supply; power source capacity of 183-236GW, power output of 560-624 billion kWh. With a vision to 2045, the energy industry will be modern, green, sustainable, with technology and governance levels on par with advanced countries in the region.
The key solutions of the Resolution include: Perfecting institutions, price mechanisms, energy planning; developing diverse supply sources, promoting renewable energy, new energy, gradually reducing coal power, researching nuclear power; using energy economically, eliminating outdated technology; investing in storage, transmission, and smart grid infrastructure; training high-quality human resources, promoting science, technology, and innovation; strongly mobilizing socialized capital, public-private partnership, and attracting foreign investment.
The action program to implement the Resolution focuses on reviewing and adjusting the VIII power plan, carrying out the national energy saving program, investing in synchronous infrastructure, developing renewable energy centers; and reforming the transparent and competitive electricity market, creating a foundation for firmly ensuring national energy security.
Speaking at the conference, General Secretary To Lam emphasized that these are important resolutions, of which Resolution No. 59-NQ/TW of the Politburo is one of the four pillar resolutions. These resolutions continue and strongly supplement the strategic "Quad Resolutions", creating a unified whole, a breakthrough to realize the two goals by 2045, the 100th founding anniversary of the country - building a strong, prosperous, everlasting and sustainable Vietnam...
In order for the resolutions to soon come into practice, the General Secretary requested that all Party committees at all levels, the political system and each cadre and party member thoroughly grasp and strictly implement the principles of "5 consistency, 3 publicity, 3 earliness and 5 clarity" in the process of the resolutions implementation.
Emphasizing a number of key orientations, tasks and solutions of each resolution, General Secretary To Lam called on the entire political system, Party committees at all levels, authorities, the Fatherland Front and organizations; the business community, diplomats, intellectuals, teachers, doctors, workers, farmers and youth nationwide to join hands and unite to realize the set goals and tasks, flexibly and creatively apply the Party's guiding viewpoints in each resolution in conjunction with the implementation of political tasks in each agency, unit, locality and each specific task. From there, turn aspirations into actions, turn actions into results, turn results into new beliefs and motivations...
