We need a political system where real power belongs to the people, by the people and serves the interests of the people.

What is socialism and how to move towards socialism? That is what we always ponder, think, research, and choose to gradually perfect our guidelines, viewpoints, and implementation, so that it both follows the general rules and is suitable to the specific conditions of Vietnam.

Socialism and the path to socialism in Vietnamis a very basic and important theoretical and practical topic, with very broad, rich and complex content, with many different approaches, requiring very elaborate and serious research, summarizing the practice in a profound and scientific way. Within the scope of this article, I would like to mention only a few aspects from the practical perspective of Vietnam. And also only focus on answering a few questions: What is socialism? Why did Vietnam choose the path of socialism? How and by what means to gradually build socialism in Vietnam? What is the significance of the practice of innovation and the move towards socialism in Vietnam in recent times and what problems does it raise?

As we know, socialism is often understood in three capacities: socialism is adoctrine; socialism is amovement; socialism is aregime. Each of these qualities has many different manifestations, depending on the worldview and level of development in each specific historical period. The socialism mentioned here is scientific socialism based on Marxist-Leninist doctrine in today's era. So we mustshapewhat socialism is, andorientationHow to move towards socialism in accordance with the specific circumstances and characteristics in Vietnam?

In the past, when the Soviet Union and the world socialist system still existed, the issue of moving towards socialism in Vietnam seemed to be unquestionable, it was tacitly considered to have been affirmed. But since the collapse of the socialist model in the Soviet Union and many Eastern European countries, the world revolution fell into recession, the issue of moving towards socialism was raised again and became the focus of all discussions, even fierce debates. Anti-communist forces and political opportunists were delighted and joyful, taking advantage of the opportunity to distort and sabotage. In the revolutionary ranks, there were also pessimists, wavering people, doubting the correctness and science of socialism, attributing the cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union and some Eastern European socialist countries to the mistakes of Marxism-Leninism and the choice of the path of building socialism. From there, they thought that we had chosen the wrong path, and needed to take another path. Some people even join in with hostile, attacking, and disparaging rhetoric against socialism, and one-sidedly praising capitalism. Some people even repent for the time when they believed in Marxism-Leninism and the socialist path! Is that really the case? Is it true that capitalism, even in old capitalist countries, is still developing well today? Has Vietnam chosen the wrong path?

We acknowledge that capitalism has never been as global as it is today and has also achieved many great achievements, especially in the field of liberating and developing productive forces, developing science and technology. Many developed capitalist countries, on the basis of high economic conditions and as a result of the struggle of the working class and working people, have taken adjustment measures, forming many more progressive social welfare regimes than before. Since the mid-1970s and especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union, in order to adapt to new conditions, world capitalism has made great efforts to self-adjust, promoting "neoliberal" policies on a global scale; and thanks to that, there is still potential for development. However, capitalism still cannot overcome its inherent fundamental contradictions. Crises continue to occur. Especially in 2008 - 2009 We have witnessed the financial crisis and economic recession that started in the United States, quickly spreading to other capitalist centers and affecting most countries in the world. Western states and bourgeois governments have pumped huge amounts of money to rescue transnational economic corporations, industrial complexes, finance, banking, and stock markets, but without much success. And today, we are witnessing a multifaceted crisis, both medical, social, political, and economic, taking place under the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The economic recession has exposed the truth of social injustices in capitalist societies: the lives of the majority of the working population have seriously declined, unemployment has increased; the gap between rich and poor is widening, exacerbating conflicts between ethnic groups. The "bad development" situations and "anti-development" paradoxes have spread from the economic and financial fields to the social fields, causing social conflicts to explode, and in many places, the economic situation has become a political situation with waves of protests and strikes, shaking the entire system. The truth is that the free market of capitalism itself cannot help solve the difficulties, and in many cases has caused serious damage to poor countries; deepening the contradictions betweenlaborandcapitalglobal. That fact also bankrupts economic theories or development models that have long been considered fashionable, praised by many bourgeois politicians, and considered optimal and reasonable by their experts.

Along with the economic and financial crisis, the energy and food crises, the depletion of natural resources, the degradation of the ecological environment, etc. are posing enormous challenges to the existence and development of humanity. These are the consequences of a socio-economic development process that takes profit as the ultimate goal, considers the possession of wealth and increasing material consumption as the measure of civilization, and takes personal interests as the pillar of society. These are also the essential characteristics of the capitalist mode of production and consumption. The ongoing crises once again demonstrate theunsustainable economically, socially and ecologicallyAccording to many analysts, the current crises cannot be completely resolved within the framework of the capitalist regime.

The social protest movements that have exploded strongly in many developed capitalist countries in recent times have further exposed the truth about the nature of capitalist political institutions. The reality is that democratic institutions following the formula of "liberal democracy" that the West has tried to promote and impose on the whole world do not guarantee that power truly belongs to the people, by the people and for the people - the most essential element of democracy. That system of power still mainly belongs to the wealthy minority and serves the interests of large capitalist corporations. A very small part, even only 1% of the population, but holds the majority of wealth, means of production, controls up to 3/4 of financial resources, knowledge and major mass media and thus dominates the whole society. This is the underlying cause leading to the "99 against 1" movement that took place in the US in early 2011 and quickly spread to many capitalist countries. The propagandaequal rightsbut not accompanied byequal conditions for implementationThose rights have led to democracy remaining only in form, empty and without substance. In political life, once the power of money dominates, the power of the people will be overwhelmed. Therefore, in developed capitalist countries, elections called "free" and "democratic" can change the government but cannot change the ruling forces; behind the multi-party system in reality is still the tyranny of capitalist corporations.

We need a society in which development is truly for the people, not for profit that exploits and tramples on human dignity. We need economic development that goes hand in hand with social progress and justice, not an increase in the gap between rich and poor and social inequality. We need a society of compassion, solidarity, mutual support, and progressive, humane values, not unfair competition, "big fish swallowing small fish" for the selfish interests of a few individuals and groups. We need sustainable development, in harmony with nature to ensure a healthy living environment for present and future generations, not for the exploitation, appropriation of resources, unlimited material consumption, and environmental destruction. And we need a political system in which power truly belongs to the people, by the people, and serves the interests of the people, not just a wealthy minority.Perhaps those beautiful wishes are the true values ​​of socialism and also the goal and path that President Ho Chi Minh, our Party and our people have chosen and are steadfastly and persistently pursuing.

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As we all know, the Vietnamese people have gone through a long, difficult, and arduous revolutionary struggle to fight against colonial and imperialist domination and invasion to protect the country's national independence and sacred sovereignty, for the freedom and happiness of the people in the spirit of"Nothing is more precious than Independence and Freedom".

National independence associated with socialism is the fundamental and consistent line of the Vietnamese revolution and is also the core point in the ideological legacy of President Ho Chi Minh. With his rich practical experience combined with the revolutionary and scientific theory of Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh came to the profound conclusion that,Only socialism and communism can thoroughly solve the problem of national independence, and can bring true freedom, prosperity and happiness to all people and all nations.

Right from its inception and throughout the revolutionary struggle, the Communist Party of Vietnam has always affirmed: socialism is the goal and ideal of the Communist Party and the Vietnamese people; advancing to socialism is an objective requirement, the inevitable path of the Vietnamese revolution. In 1930, in its Political Platform, the Communist Party of Vietnam advocated: "Carry out the people's national democratic revolution led by the working class, advance to socialism, skipping the capitalist stage". In the late 20th century, although in the world real socialism had largely collapsed, the system of socialist countries no longer existed, the socialist movement fell into a period of crisis, recession, and encountered many difficulties, the Communist Party of Vietnam continued to affirm:"Our Party and people are determined to build Vietnam on the socialist path on the foundation of Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh thought."At the 11th National Congress of the Party (January 2011) inPlatform for national construction during the transition period to socialism(supplemented and developed in 2011), we once again affirm:"Moving towards socialism is the aspiration of our people, the right choice of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President Ho Chi Minh, in line with the development trend of history."

However,What is socialism and how to get to socialism?That is what we always worry about, think about, research, and choose to gradually perfect our policies, viewpoints, and implementation organization, so that it both follows general rules and is suitable for the specific conditions of Vietnam.

During the years of carrying out the renovation process, from summarizing practices and studying theories, the Communist Party of Vietnam has gradually gained a more correct and profound understanding of socialism and the transitional period to socialism; gradually overcoming some previous simplistic notions such as: identifying the ultimate goal of socialism with the tasks of the immediate period; emphasizing one-sidedly the relations of production and the egalitarian distribution regime, not fully seeing the requirements for developing productive forces in the transitional period, not acknowledging the existence of economic sectors; identifying the market economy with capitalism; identifying the rule of law state with the bourgeois state...

Up to now, although there are still some issues that need further research, we have Forming general awareness:The socialist society that the Vietnamese people are striving to build is a society of rich people, strong country, democracy, fairness, and civilization; owned by the people; with a highly developed economy, based on modern productive forces and appropriate progressive production relations; with an advanced culture, imbued with national identity; people have a prosperous, free, and happy life, with conditions for comprehensive development; ethnic groups in the Vietnamese community are equal, united, respect, and help each other to develop together; there is a socialist rule-of-law state of the people, by the people, for the people, led by the Communist Party; and there are friendly and cooperative relations with countries around the world.

To achieve that goal, we must: Promote industrialization and modernization of the country in conjunction with the development of a knowledge-based economy; Develop a socialist-oriented market economy; Build an advanced culture imbued with national identity, build people, improve people's lives, and achieve social progress and justice; Ensure national defense and security, social order and safety; Implement a foreign policy of independence, autonomy, multilateralization, diversification, peace, friendship, cooperation and development, proactively and actively integrate internationally; Build socialist democracy, promote the will and strength of great national unity, combined with the strength of the times; Build a socialist rule-of-law state of the people, by the people, for the people; Build a clean and strong Party and political system in all aspects.

The more we go into practical guidance, the more our Party realizes that the transition to socialismis a long-term, extremely difficult and complex career,because it must create profound qualitative changes in all areas of social life. Vietnam moved towards socialism from a backward agricultural country, bypassing the capitalist regime, with very low productive forces, and experienced decades of war, with very serious consequences; hostile forces constantly sought to sabotage, so it became even more difficult and complicated.necessarily go through a long transition periodwith many steps, many forms of economic and social organization intertwined, there is a struggle between the old and the new. Speaking of ignoring the capitalist regimeis to ignore the oppressive, unjust, exploitative capitalist regime; to ignore bad habits, inappropriate political institutions and regimeswith the socialist regime, not ignoring the achievements and civilized values ​​that humanity has achieved during the period of capitalist development. Of course, the inheritance of these achievements must be selective from a scientific and developmental perspective.

Putting forward the concept of developing a socialist-oriented market economy isa very fundamental and creative theoretical breakthrough of our Party,is an important theoretical achievement after 35 years of implementing the renovation policy, originating from Vietnam's reality and selectively absorbing the world's experience. According to our perception, the socialist-oriented market economy is a modern market economy, internationally integrated, operating fully and synchronously according to the laws of the market economy, under the management of the socialist rule of law state, led by the Communist Party of Vietnam; ensuring socialist orientation, aiming at the goal of a rich people, a strong country, a fair, democratic and civilized society. Thatis a new type of market economyin the history of the development of the market economy; a type of economic organization that both follows the laws of the market economy and is based on and guided and governed by the principles and nature of socialism, expressed in all three aspects:Ownership, management and distributionThis is not a capitalist market economy and is not yet a full socialist market economy (because our country is still in the transition period).

In a socialist-oriented market economy, there are many forms of ownership and many economic sectors. Economic sectors operating under the law are all important components of the economy, equal before the law, developing together in the long term, cooperating and competing healthily. In which, the state economy plays a leading role; the collective economy and cooperative economy are constantly consolidated and developed; the private economy is an important driving force of the economy; the economy with foreign investment capital is encouraged to develop in accordance with the strategy and planning for socio-economic development. The distribution relationship ensures fairness and creates momentum for development; implementing a distribution regime mainly based on labor results, economic efficiency, and at the same time according to the level of capital contribution and other resources and distributing through the social security and social welfare system. The State manages the economy by law, strategy, planning, plans, policies and material forces to orient, regulate and promote socio-economic development.

A basic characteristic, an important attributeof socialist orientation in market economy in Vietnam is tolinking economy with society, unifying economic policy with social policy, economic growth goes hand in hand with implementing social progress and equity in every step, every policy and throughout the development process.That means: not waiting until the economy reaches a high level of development before implementing social progress and equity, and certainly not "sacrificing" social progress and equity to pursue mere economic growth. On the contrary,Every economic policy must aim at the goal of social development; every social policy must aim to create a driving force for economic development; encouraging legal enrichment must go hand in hand with sustainable poverty reduction and care for those with meritorious services and those in difficult circumstances.This is a principled requirement to ensure healthy, sustainable, socialist-oriented development.

We considerCulture is the spiritual foundation of society, the endogenous strength, the driving force for national development and national defense; determining cultural development in sync and harmony with economic growth and social progress and equity.is a fundamental orientation of the process of building socialism in Vietnam. The culture we build is an advanced culture, imbued with national identity, a culture unified in diversity, based on progressive and humanistic values; Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh thought play a leading role in the spiritual life of society,Inherit and promote the fine traditional values ​​of all ethnic groups in the country, absorb the achievements and quintessence of human culture, strive to build a civilized and healthy society for the true interests and dignity of human beings,with increasingly high levels of knowledge, ethics, physical strength, lifestyle and aesthetics. We determine: People hold a central position in development strategy;Cultural development and human development are both the goal and the driving force of innovation; education and training and science and technology development are the top national policies; environmental protection is one of the vital issues and the criteria for sustainable development; building happy and progressive families is the healthy and solid cell of society, and implementing gender equality.is the criterion of progress and civilization.

Socialist society is a society that strives for progressive, humane values.based on the common interests of the whole society in harmony with the legitimate interests of people, qualitatively different from societies that compete to appropriate private interests between individuals and groups,Therefore, it is necessary and possible to build social consensus instead of social opposition and antagonism. In the socialist political regime, the relationship between the Party, the State and the people is a relationship between subjects who are unified in goals and interests; all Party guidelines, policies, laws and activities of the Stateall for the benefit of the people, taking the happiness of the people as the goal to strive for. The political model and general operating mechanism areThe Party leads, the State manages and the people are the masters.. Democracy is the essence of the socialist regime, both the goal and the driving force of the socialist construction; building socialist democracy, ensuring that real power belongs to the people is an important, long-term task of the Vietnamese revolution. We advocate the continuous promotion of democracy, building a socialist rule-of-law state that is truly of the people, by the people and for the people, on the basis of the alliance between workers, farmers and intellectuals led by the Communist Party of Vietnam. The state represents the people's right to mastery, and at the same time organizes the implementation of the Party's guidelines; there are mechanisms for the people to exercise their right to direct mastery and representative democracy in all areas of social life, and participate in social management. We recognize that the socialist rule-of-law statein essenceThe difference between the rule of law and the bourgeois rule of law state is that: the rule of law under capitalism is essentially a tool to protect and serve the interests of the bourgeoisie, while the rule of law under socialism is a tool to express and implement the people's right to mastery, to ensure and protect the interests of the vast majority of the people. Through law enforcement, the State ensures the conditions for the people to be the subjects of political power, exercising dictatorship over all actions that harm the interests of the Fatherland and the people. At the same time, we determine: Great national unity is the source of strength and a decisive factor in ensuring the sustainable victory of the revolutionary cause in Vietnam; constantly promoting equality and solidarity among ethnic groups and religions.

Deeply aware that the leadership of the Communist Party is the decisive factor for the victory of the renovation process and ensuring the country's development in the right socialist direction, wePay special attention to the work of Party building and rectification, considering this a key task of vital significance to the Party and the socialist regime.. The Communist Party of Vietnam is the vanguard of the Vietnamese working class; the Party was born, exists and develops for the benefit of the working class, the working people and the entire nation. When the Party holds power and leads the entire nation, it is recognized by the entire people as its leading vanguard and therefore the Party is the vanguard of the working class, at the same time the vanguard of the working people and the entire Vietnamese nation. Saying so does not mean to downplay the class nature of the Party, but rather to demonstrate a deeper and more complete awareness of the class nature of the Party, because the working class is a class whose interests are unified with the interests of the working people and the entire nation. Our Party persistently takes Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought as the ideological foundation and compass for revolutionary action, and takes democratic centralism as the basic organizational principle. The Party leads by its platform, strategy, policy orientations and major guidelines; through propaganda, persuasion, mobilization, organization, inspection, supervision and exemplary actions of party members; unified leadership of personnel work. Aware of the dangers to the ruling party of corruption, bureaucracy, degeneration, etc., especially in the conditions of a market economy, the Communist Party of Vietnam sets out the requirement to constantly innovate, self-rectify, fight against opportunism, individualism, corruption, bureaucracy, waste, degeneration, etc. within the Party and in the entire political system.

The renovation process, including the development of a socialist-oriented market economy, has truly brought about great and very positive changes. for the country over the past 35 years.

Before Doi Moi (1986), Vietnam was a poor country that was heavily devastated by war, leaving behind enormous consequences in terms of people, property and the ecological environment. To give just one example, up to now, there are still millions of people suffering from serious illnesses and hundreds of thousands of children with birth defects due to the effects of Agent Orange/dioxin used by the US military during the war in Vietnam. According to experts, it will take more than 100 years for Vietnam to be able to clear all the bombs and mines left over from the war. After the war, the US and the West imposed an economic embargo on Vietnam for nearly 20 years. The regional and international situation also became complicated, causing many disadvantages for us. Food and essential goods were extremely scarce, people's lives were extremely difficult, about 3/4 of the population lived below the poverty line.

Thanks to the implementation of the renovation policy, the economy began to develop and has grown continuously at a relatively high rate over the past 35 years with an average growth rate of about 7% per year. The GDP scale has been constantly expanding, reaching 342.7 billion USD in 2020, becoming the fourth largest economy in ASEAN. Per capita income has increased about 17 times, to 3,512 USD; Vietnam has left the group of low-income countries since 2008. From a country with chronic food shortages, Vietnam has not only ensured food security but also become a leading exporter of rice and many other agricultural products in the world. Industry has developed quite rapidly, the proportion of industry and services has continuously increased and currently accounts for about 85% of GDP. Total import and export turnover has increased sharply, reaching over 540 billion USD in 2020, of which export turnover reached over 280 billion USD. Foreign exchange reserves increased sharply, reaching 100 billion USD in 2020. Foreign investment increased rapidly, registering nearly 395 billion USD by the end of the year.2020. Regarding the economic structure in terms of ownership relations, Vietnam's current gross domestic product includes about 27% from the state economy, 4% from the collective economy, 30% from the household economy, 10% from the domestic private economy and 20% from the foreign-invested sector.

Currently the population of Vietnam is more than97million people, including 54 ethnic groups, of which more than 60% live in rural areas. Economic development has helped the country escape the socio-economic crisis of the 1980s and significantly improve people's lives. The average poverty rate has decreased by about 1.5% each year; from 58% in 1993 to 5.8% in 2016 according to the Government's poverty standards and below 3%. 2020 according to the multidimensional poverty standard (higher criteria than before). To date, more than 60% of communes have met the new rural standards; most rural communes have car roads to the center, have national grid electricity, primary and secondary schools, health stations and telephones. While there are not yet conditions to ensure free education for everyone at all levels, Vietnam has focused on completing the eradication of illiteracy, universalizing primary education by 2000 and universalizing secondary education by 2010; the number of university and college students has increased nearly 17 times in the past 35 years. Currently, 95% of adults in Vietnam can read and write. While it has not been possible to ensure the provision of free health care services to all people, Vietnam has focused on strengthening preventive health care, preventing and fighting epidemics, and supporting people in difficult circumstances. Many previously common diseases have been successfully controlled. The poor, children under 6 years old and the elderly are provided with free health insurance. The rate of malnutrition in children and the rate of infant mortality have decreased by nearly 3 times. The average life expectancy of the population has increased from 62 years in 1992 to 62 years in 1993.1990up to 73.7 years old2020. Thanks to the economic development, we have had the conditions to better care for those who have contributed to the country, support Vietnamese Heroic Mothers, and care for the graves of martyrs who sacrificed for the Fatherland. Cultural life has also improved significantly; cultural activities are rich and diverse. Currently, about 70% of Vietnam's population uses the Internet, making it one of the countries with the highest rate of information technology development in the world. The United Nations has recognized Vietnam as one of the leading countries in realizing the Millennium Development Goals. In 2019, Vietnam's human development index (HDI) reached 0.704, belonging to the group of countries with high HDI in the world, especially compared to countries with the same level of development.

Thus, it can be said that the implementation of the renovation policy has brought about clear, profound and positive changes in Vietnam: the economy has developed, the productive forces have been strengthened; poverty has been rapidly and continuously reduced; people's lives have been improved, many social problems have been solved; politics and society have been stable, national defense and security have been ensured; foreign affairs and international integration have been increasingly expanded; the nation's position and power have been enhanced; people's trust in the Party's leadership has been consolidated. Summarizing 20 years of renovation, the 10th Party Congress (2006) stated that the renovation cause has achieved "great achievements of historical significance". In fact, in many aspects, the Vietnamese people today have better living conditions than in any previous period. That is one of the reasons why the renovation initiated and led by the Communist Party of Vietnam has been supported, responded to and actively strived for by all Vietnamese people. The achievements of renovation in Vietnam have proven that,Socialist-oriented development not only has positive economic effects but also solves social problems much better than capitalist countries with the same level of economic development.The special results and achievements of Vietnam in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global economic recession that began in early 2020 have been recognized and highly appreciated by the people and international friends, demonstrating the superiority of the socialist regime in our country. Recently, the 13th National Congress of the Party once again affirmed and emphasized: "After 35 years of carrying out the renovation process, 30 years of implementing the Platform for national construction in the transitional period to socialism, the theory of the renovation path, socialism and the path to socialism in our country has been increasingly perfected and gradually realized. We have achieved great achievements of historical significance, developing more strongly and comprehensively than in the years before the renovation. With all modesty, we can still say that:Our country has never had the foundation, potential, position and international prestige as it does today.. Those achievements are the crystallization of creativity, the result of a process of persistent and continuous efforts over many terms of our entire Party, people and army; continuing to affirm that our path to socialism is correct, in accordance with objective laws, with Vietnam's reality and the development trend of the times; our Party's innovation policy is correct and creative; the Party's leadership is the leading factor deciding all victories of the Vietnamese revolution. The Party's political platform continues to be the ideological and theoretical flag that firmly guides our nation to continue to comprehensively and synchronously promote the innovation process; is the foundation for our Party to perfect the policy of building and defending the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland in the new period" (Documents of the 13th National Congress of Delegates, vol. I, National Political Publishing House Truth, Hanoi, 2021, pp. 25 - 26).

Besides the achievements, the positive aspects are fundamental, we also have many shortcomings, limitations and are facing new challenges in the process of national development.

Economically, growth quality and competitiveness are still low and unsustainable; infrastructure is not synchronous; efficiency and capacity of many enterprises, including state-owned enterprises, are still limited; the environment is polluted in many places; market management and regulation still have many shortcomings. Meanwhile, competition is becoming increasingly fierce in the process of globalization and international integration.

In terms of society, the gap between rich and poor is increasing; the quality of education, health care and many other public services are still limited; culture and social ethics are deteriorating; crime and social evils are becoming more complicated. In particular, corruption, waste, degradation in political ideology, ethics and lifestyle still occur among a number of cadres and party members. Meanwhile, hostile and evil forces are always looking for every means to interfere, sabotage, cause instability, and carry out the plot of "peaceful evolution" to eliminate socialism in Vietnam.

Our Party recognizes that Vietnam is currently in the process of building and transitioning to socialism. During the transition period, socialist factors are formed, established and developed, intertwined and competing with non-socialist factors, including capitalist factors in a number of areas. This intertwining and competition is even more complex and fierce in the conditions of a market mechanism, openness and international integration. Besides the positive achievements, there will always be negative aspects and challenges that need to be considered soberly and handled promptly and effectively. It is a very fierce and arduous struggle, requiring a new vision, new courage and new creativity. Moving forward in the direction of socialism is a process of constantly consolidating, enhancing and promoting socialist factors so that those factors increasingly dominate, overwhelm and win. Success or failure depends first of all on the correctness of the Party's policies, political mettle, leadership capacity and fighting strength.

Currently, we are continuing to promote innovation in the growth model, restructuring the economy towards focusing more on quality and increasing sustainability with the following breakthroughs: Completing the synchronous development institutions, first of all the institutions for developing a socialist-oriented market economy; developing human resources, first of all high-quality human resources; building a synchronous and modern infrastructure in both economy and society (Documents of the 13th National Congress, volume 2, pages 337 - 338). In terms of society, we continue to promote sustainable poverty reduction, improve the quality of healthcare, education and other public services, and further improve the cultural life of the people. The entire Party, the entire people and the entire army are making great efforts to study and follow Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle with the determination to prevent and push back the degradation of political ideology, morality and lifestyle of a number of cadres and Party members, first of all leaders and managers at all levels, and to better implement the principles of Party building and organization, in order to make the Party organization and the State apparatus increasingly clean and strong, maintain the revolutionary nature, and enhance the leadership capacity and fighting strength of the Party.

Both theory and practice show that building socialism is creating a qualitatively new type of society, which is by no means simple or easy.This is a great creative career, full of challenges and difficulties, a self-conscious, continuous, long-term career that cannot be rushed.Therefore, in addition to determining the right policies and guidelines, ensuring the leadership role of the Party, it is necessary to strongly promote the creative role, support and active participation of the people. The people accept, support and enthusiastically participate in implementing the Party's policies because they see that the policies meet their requirements and aspirations. People's strength is the profound source of victory and development.

On the other hand, the Party's leadership and power, while determining political directions and making decisions, cannot only start from the realities of its own country and people, but must also study and refer to experiences from the realities of the world and the times. In today's globalized world, the development of each nation and people cannot be isolated from the impacts of the world and the times, of current events and its situation. Therefore, we must proactively and actively integrate internationally, implement a foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, peace, cooperation and development, multilateralize and diversify international relations on the basis of respecting independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, non-interference in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit.

And the most important thing ismust always be steadfast and firm on the ideological foundation of Marxism-Leninism - the scientific and revolutionary doctrine of the working class and working masses.The scientific and radical revolutionary nature of Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh Thought are sustainable values ​​that have been pursued and implemented by revolutionaries. They will continue to develop and have vitality in revolutionary practice as well as in the practice of scientific development. WeWe need to selectively absorb and supplement the latest achievements in ideology and science in a critical and creative spirit so that our doctrines and ideologies are always fresh and always infused with new vitality.carrying the breath of the times, not falling into stiffness, stagnation, and backwardness compared to life.