Vietnam Party Chief Urges Swift Action to Turn 14th Congress Resolution into Tangible Results
Hanoi, The Gulf Observer: Tô Lâm, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Việtnam, has called for a consistent and resolute shift in mindset from rhetoric to action and from awareness to implementation, urging swift efforts to translate the Resolution of the Party’s 14th National Congress into concrete and measurable outcomes.
Addressing a national conference on Saturday convened to disseminate and implement the Congress Resolution, the Party leader stressed that Vietnam’s major achievements have always been associated with periods in which sound policies were carried out decisively and effectively.
Reflecting on 80 years of national development—particularly four decades of Đổi mới (Renewal)—he affirmed that the Party’s decision to pursue Renovation was historically significant and forward-looking, rooted in national realities and in the political resolve of a genuinely revolutionary Party committed to innovation for the benefit of the people and the nation.
He noted that the current task is not only to reaffirm the correctness of the Đổi mới path, but more importantly to advance stronger, more decisive and more comprehensive innovation in development thinking, growth models and, especially, implementation capacity. The most fundamental bottleneck today, he observed, lies not in policy direction but in the ability to translate policy into tangible development outcomes.
To meet the growing demands of national development in the new period, the General Secretary urged a firm shift from “talking more than doing” to concrete action, calling for an end to bureaucratic and formalistic practices and to situations where words are not matched by deeds.
He emphasized that every Party committee, organization, cadre and member—particularly those in leadership positions—must demonstrate a high sense of responsibility and take the lead in turning policies into reality. The Resolution of the 14th Congress, he said, sets strategic development goals for the new stage and requires stronger capacity to convert these goals into specific results that directly benefit the people.
In this context, the Party chief identified five decisive priorities for implementation: improving the capacity to institutionalize the Resolution into policies and laws; reforming implementation methods and strengthening enforcement discipline; taking development effectiveness and public satisfaction as the highest measures of success; building a contingent of capable cadres who dare to think, act and take responsibility for the common good; and linking Congress implementation with reforms in Party leadership methods and improvements in national governance efficiency.
He underlined that discipline and responsibility must come first in the new stage of development, noting that task allocation must be accompanied by clear mechanisms for inspection, evaluation and accountability. Organizational and personnel weaknesses, he warned, must not be allowed to slow national progress, stressing that time is a vital and non-renewable development resource.
The country’s future development, he concluded, will depend greatly on the sense of responsibility, political resolve and capacity for action of each Party committee, organization, cadre and member, especially leaders. Following the conference, he requested that Party committees, authorities, the Viet Nam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations promptly translate the Resolution into concrete action plans suited to their functions and practical conditions, identify immediate priorities and breakthrough tasks, and ensure that commitments are fulfilled with tangible results.
