Party General Secretary Tô Lâm chairs a working session on reviewing 100 years of the Party’s leadership of the Vietnamese revolution on Wednesday. — VNA/VNS Photo

HÀ NỘI — Party General Secretary Tô Lâm on Wednesday stressed the need to lay firm theoretical and practical foundations for strategic decisions in a new stage of development towards 2045 and beyond, shaping the orientation for national development through 2130.

The Party chief made the statement while chairing a working session of the steering committee tasked with reviewing 100 years of the Communist Party of Việt Nam’s leadership of the Vietnamese revolution (1930–2030) and outlining development orientations for the next century (2030–2130), alongside a review of 40 years of implementing the Platform for national construction during the transition to socialism.

The meeting was attended by members of the editorial teams, scientists, experts and representatives of relevant agencies.

The session, the first since the steering committee’s establishment, underscored a spirit of urgency, seriousness and scientific rigour in undertaking what the General Secretary described as a major political task in a new phase of national development.

In his concluding remarks, General Secretary Lâm emphasised that commemorating a century under the leadership of the Communist Party of Việt Nam and four decades of implementing the national development platform should not be viewed merely as chronological milestones. Rather, they represent the span of a revolutionary journey marked by sacrifice, hardship, creativity and development.

Reviewing 100 years of Party leadership, he said, requires reassessing the full course of the nation’s modern history, from the struggle for national independence and reunification to the building and safeguarding of the socialist Fatherland, from a centrally planned mechanism to comprehensive renewal, and from a poor, underdeveloped country to one of growing international stature.

Meanwhile, the 40-year review of the Platform’s implementation must provide a scientific, comprehensive and objective evaluation of how the Party’s strategic orientations have been translated into practice during the transitional period. This process offers an opportunity to further clarify the development model, identify achievements and shortcomings, analyse underlying causes and draw lessons for the future.

The General Secretary called for the review to become a broad-based political undertaking involving the entire political system, from central agencies and mass organisations to local authorities nationwide.

He urged the steering committee to reassess task assignments to ensure clear responsibilities, avoid overlaps or omissions and align duties with members’ expertise. The committee, he stressed, must act as the central coordinating body, directing, supervising and overseeing the entire process.

The Party chief also highlighted the need to refine report outlines, develop unified methodological frameworks and establish a master plan with clearly defined timelines, not only by quarter but by month and, during critical phases, by week or day.

Calling for a scientific, modern and efficient working approach, he advocated greater use of information technology, the development of digital databases, enhanced academic exchange, disciplined information management and strict confidentiality.

The overarching principles must be seriousness, objectivity, comprehensiveness and innovation, combining organisational discipline with creative thinking, inheritance with development and retrospective assessment with forward-looking vision, the Party leader emphasised. — VNA/VNS