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General Secretary Tô Lâm delivered a speech at a morning conference summarizing and emphasizing four key Politburo resolutions as “four pillars” to build a unified strategy and action framework for Vietnam’s development in the new era. He stressed that Vietnam faces intertwined internal and external challenges, requiring comprehensive, synchronized, and profound reform across:

  • institutions
  • economic structure and growth model
  • organizational arrangements

paired with high political resolve to “think big, act big,” and implement major changes rather than follow the old path.

The Four Pillars: Four Politburo Resolutions

1) Resolution 68: Developing the private economy (as a key driving force)

The speech frames private economic development as the most important driving force of the national economy in a socialist-oriented market economy.

Key emphasis includes:

  • Reform must not deny the role of state-owned enterprises; it should clarify how the economy becomes a three-legged foundation (state + collective + private) for an independent, self-reliant, and well-integrated economy.
  • Resolution 68 marks a major strategic shift—from merely acknowledging the private sector to protecting, encouraging, promoting, and enabling it to “lead” development.
  • It is presented as both:
    • an economic requirement (strengthening competitiveness and adaptability)
    • and a political imperative (building stronger foundations for national self-reliance).

2) Resolution 57: Science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation

The core aim is to achieve a real breakthrough, treating science–technology–innovation as the foundation and primary driving force for industrialization and modernization.

Four main tasks are highlighted:

  1. Raise societal awareness—especially among businesses and lawmaking/enforcement agencies—about the role of science, innovation, and digital transformation.
  2. Break old thinking and remove barriers, encouraging bold innovation and responsibility.
  3. Strengthen political will and unify policy approaches across the system so science/innovation is treated as the main driver.
  4. Improve institutions by removing legal and administrative obstacles, creating conditions for research and application, and making institutions a national competitive advantage.

3) Resolution 66: Comprehensive reform of lawmaking and law implementation

The resolution is described as a call to fundamentally reform institutions, ensuring laws are:

  • synchronous
  • feasible
  • transparent
  • stable
  • grounded in real development practice
  • highly predictive (leading rather than reactive)

Core emphasis includes:

  • eliminating overlapping/conflicting regulations that create barriers
  • shifting from a management mindset to a service mindset
  • making lawmaking “one step ahead” for predictability and fit with fast-changing realities
  • strict, fair, and substantive enforcement
  • linking digital transformation to transparency, convenience, and benefit maximization for citizens and businesses
  • clearer decentralization with accountability
  • removing “request-and-grant” mechanisms and vested privileges

4) Resolution 59: Proactive international integration (in the new situation)

Resolution 59 is described as a groundbreaking decision and a historical turning point in international integration.

Integration is framed as not only opening for exchange, but as a comprehensive proactive undertaking requiring:

  • resolve
  • strong character

The approach:

  • international integration is a national task under Party leadership
  • unified State management
  • with people and businesses at the center as creative subjects

Vietnam should be more proactive and decisive while remaining:

  • steadfast
  • independent
  • self-reliant
  • flexible in foreign policy strategy/tactics

Interdependence Among the Four Resolutions (“Four Pillars” Logic)

The speech argues the resolutions reinforce one another:

  • If the institutional framework lacks transparency (Resolution 66), the private sector (Resolution 68) cannot develop effectively.
  • If innovation is not a true breakthrough (Resolution 57), the private economy weakens and international integration becomes limited (Resolution 59).
  • A practical concern is also noted: although Vietnam has signed many FTAs and investment protection agreements, many businesses may not clearly benefit from them—implying gaps in how integration translates into real private-sector gains. Therefore, institutional reform and innovation ecosystems are portrayed as prerequisites for effective integration.

Implementation Push and Urgent Tasks (2025 and the Next Five Years)

Beyond setting a five-year direction, General Secretary Tô Lâm urged the political system to implement eight key tasks in 2025, including:

  1. Quickly finalize action plans/programs for implementing all four resolutions with clear objectives, roadmaps, assignments, and monitoring indicators.
  2. Urgently review and amend/repeal inadequate legal regulations, prioritizing property rights, freedom of business, innovation, and international integration; also study/enact a dedicated law on private economy development.
  3. Launch major programs on science–technology, innovation, creativity, and digital transformation.
  4. Negotiate and implement new-generation FTAs, especially an effective FTA with the United States, turning commitments into real growth.
  5. Break through improvements in the investment and business environment.
  6. Strengthen leadership/coordination structures for implementation, including steering committees at central and provincial levels, with inspection/supervision.
  7. Prioritize training and developing human resources to execute the resolutions.
  8. Strengthen communication to build broad social consensus.

Wider Context and Leadership Confirmation

The video notes that since May 2024 (the 10th Central Committee meeting of the 13th Party Congress), Party leadership and Secretariat efforts have aimed to remove bottlenecks and reorganize the political system apparatus to be more streamlined and efficient.

It frames these changes as a “true revolution” in the new era, calling for unified political resolve across:

  • the entire Party
  • the people
  • and the armed forces

to turn aspirations into practical strength.

Presenters / Contributors

  • General Secretary Tô Lâm
  • Nguyễn Trọng Nghĩa (Politburo member; Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party; Head of the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department)

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