On the morning of 23/12, General Secretary To Lam delivered the closing speech at the 15th Central Committee Meeting of the 13th tenure. He noted that after two days of urgent work, the Central Committee had completed its agenda "with high unity and quality." He thanked Central Committee members for their "dedication, democratic spirit, frankness, honesty, revolutionary zeal, and scientific approach, demonstrating the responsibility of a Party member to the Party, the people, and the nation."

According to the General Secretary, the Central Committee unanimously approved the Party's personnel report for the 14th National Party Congress. It also voted with high concentration to approve the personnel nominations for the 14th Central Committee, as well as nominations for the Politburo, Secretariat, and key Party and State leaders for the 2026-2031 term. These nominations will be submitted to the 14th National Party Congress for consideration, decision, and election in accordance with Party statutes and regulations.

General Secretary To Lam delivered the closing speech at the 15th Central Committee Meeting of the 13th tenure on the morning of 23/12. Photo: TTXVN

Concurrently, the Central Committee thoroughly discussed preparations for the successful organization of the 14th National Party Congress. This included: the Congress's working regulations and the Party's election regulations; a report on the Party's inspection and supervision work during the 13th tenure. The Committee also approved the provisional lists for the Presidium, Secretariat, Delegate Credential Verification Committee, and Vote Counting Committee of the 14th Congress. The Central Committee concurred with the proposals and reports presented by the Politburo and Secretariat at the 15th Central Committee Meeting. The Politburo was tasked with continuing to finalize preparations to ensure the successful organization of the 14th National Party Congress.

"On behalf of the comrades nominated for the Central Committee and future leadership positions for the 14th Congress to consider and decide, we thank the Central Committee, Politburo, and Secretariat for entrusting us with this responsibility. We will continue to unite and work with a spirit of responsibility and high efficiency, meeting the trust of the Party and the people," General Secretary To Lam stated, declaring the 15th Central Committee Meeting of the 13th tenure closed.

Central Committee, Politburo, and Secretariat united

The General Secretary reported that the Central Committee unanimously affirmed the Communist Party of Vietnam's nearly 100-year history of leading the Vietnamese revolution, which has achieved great, historically significant accomplishments. The Central Committee expressed gratitude for the support, consensus, and feedback from Party members, officials, soldiers, and the people regarding the Party's policies, guidelines, and resolutions.

The Central Committee recognized that throughout the 13th National Party Congress tenure, the global and regional contexts evolved rapidly with many uncertainties, creating numerous difficulties and challenges for the nation. Epidemics, natural disasters, storms, floods, climate change, along with geopolitical, geo-economic challenges, and other socio-economic issues, occurred frequently.

Despite these challenges, the Party Central Committee, Politburo, and Secretariat remained united, steadfast, self-reliant, and creative, demonstrating determination and significant effort. They issued many contemporary and breakthrough strategic policies and decisions, guiding the nation to achieve all goals, targets, requirements, programs, and plans set forth by the 13th Congress, thereby creating new potential, new momentum, and new development space for the country in a new era.

"Under any circumstances, the nation's strategic autonomy, self-reliance, and self-improvement must be maintained," the General Secretary emphasized.

Delegates attended the closing session of the 15th Central Committee Meeting of the 13th tenure on the morning of 23/12. Photo: TTXVN

Three strategic breakthroughs

The Party leader stated that at the meeting, the Central Committee engaged in lively and thorough discussions, unanimously approving the Draft Report of the 13th Central Committee on the documents to be submitted to the 14th Congress, particularly the Political Report and the Action Program for implementing the 14th Party Congress Resolution.

The Central Committee identified that in the new phase, focus must be placed on implementing three strategic breakthroughs:: first, development institutions; promoting decentralization and delegation of authority; driving breakthroughs in science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation; developing new production capacities, business models, and methods.

The second breakthrough involves focusing on structural transformation and improving human resource quality; developing high-quality, highly skilled human resources, and valuing talent; strongly reforming personnel work, supporting dynamic, creative officials who are bold in thought and action, take responsibility, and prioritize the common good.

The final breakthrough is to continue comprehensively perfecting and strongly advancing the development of socio-economic infrastructure, especially transportation, technology, and energy infrastructure.

The Central Committee also called for focusing on six key tasks: building a clean and strong Party and political system; comprehensively perfecting development institutions; developing a socialist-oriented market economy, while enhancing the efficiency of the state economic sector and fostering private economic development; innovating the growth model, restructuring the economy, promoting industrialization and modernization, and driving breakthroughs in science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation; developing human resources and promoting cultural values; strengthening national defense, security, and foreign relations, and building a revolutionary, regular, elite, and modern People's Army and People's Public Security force.

Vu Tuan