The Central Theoretical Council: the 2016-2021 term review conference

 Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong speaking at the conference (photo: Vietnam News Agency)

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong speaking at the conference (photo: Vietnam News Agency)

On April 17, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong attended the Central Theoretical Council’s conference on the 2016-2021 term review and orientations for the coming period.

The conference report highlighted the outstanding achievements of the Central Theoretical Council. The Council has provided advisory reports to the Central Party Committee and the Politburo on promulgation of important resolutions and conclusions on a number important issues such as building and completing the institutions on the socialist-oriented market economy; developing the partnership between the state, market, and society; orientations for development of the private sector; building and completing the organization and apparatus of the political system and personnel work.

Concerning the political theory research program for the 2016 – 2020 period, the Central Theoretical Council has contributed theoretical and practical inputs to the development of resolutions and directives of the Central Party Committee, the Politburo, and the Secretariat.

The Central Theoretical Council has completed a review of the 30 years of implementing the Platform of the national construction during the transition to socialism (supplemented and developed in 2011) with a focus on the last 10 year- implementation from both theoretical and practical perspectives. It has refined the theoretical foundations of renovation, theoretical issues of the socialism and the Vietnam’s road to socialism in the new period.

Speaking at the conference, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong highly appreciated the outstanding achievements of the Central Theoretical Council in the past five years, especially its responsibility and activeness in the development of documents of the 13th National Party Congress.

Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong emphasized one of the key tasks of the Central Theoretical Council was to answer the important question: “What are the objectives of Vietnam’s theoretical development in realization of the country’s development goals by 2025, 2030, and 2045 stated in the document of the 13th National Congress?”

According to Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, it is necessary to essentially complete the theoretical system for the transformation by 2025; further complete the ideological foundation of the Party by 2030; develop a complete, scientific and modern theoretical system on socialism and Vietnam’s path to socialism by 2045.

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