Absolutely do not take advantage of inspections and investigations to harass people and businesses

Strongly shift the mindset of "management" to "creating development", stop pushing and avoiding

On the morning of January 8, in Hanoi, the Government held a conference to summarize the work in 2025 and deploy the work in 2026 of the Government and local governments.

Speaking at the conference, General Secretary To Lam emphasized that the GDP growth target of 10% or more in 2026 is very challenging. Therefore, the coming period requires fundamental innovation in development thinking, governance methods and resource allocation, strong decentralization and delegation of power, with reforms that are deep enough, strong enough, and drastic enough.

Regarding the direction, tasks, and key solutions in the coming time, the General Secretary suggested focusing on removing institutional bottlenecks and inadequacies to unblock the bottlenecked resources; need to strongly and substantially shift from the mindset of "management" to "creating development", ensuring that each task has a responsible focal point, stopping pushing and avoiding; if slow to remove, growth will be held back from the beginning of the term.

handle the budget - currency closely, flexibly, and strategically based on market principles, avoiding abuse of administrative measures.

The General Secretary requested to continue to strongly improve the investment and business environment; expand decentralization, delegation of authority, and review to reduce procedures, create greater decision-making space and responsibility for cadres and civil servants, while reducing time and compliance costs for people and businesses.

Resolutely abandon the mindset of "if you can't manage, then ban", strictly protect property rights, free business rights, absolutely do not take advantage of inspection, examination, investigation to harass people, businesses...

Research on the mechanism for dissolving with weak banking control, establishing a new bank

The General Secretary requested to stabilize and healthy the key markets of the economy, fully respect the laws of a competitive market economy, the laws of supply and demand, the laws of prices, etc.; thoroughly handle the weaknesses of credit institutions, cross-ownership, underlying ownership, and lending relationships.

Research on a mechanism for dissolving weak banks, allowing the establishment of new banks and microfinance institutions, to improve the competitiveness, safety and diversity of the financial system.

In the coming period, it is necessary to put improving productivity, quality of human resources, science and technology and innovation at the center of the development strategy, considering this a key condition to overcome the middle-income trap and maintain high and sustainable growth.

The General Secretary emphasized the need to ensure energy security, especially clean energy, absolutely without power shortages; it is necessary to determine a roadmap for Vietnam to join the leading country group in telecommunications infrastructure quality and 5G coverage.

The General Secretary requested to continue to streamline the apparatus to be streamlined, strong, efficient, effective and efficient; enhance the responsibility of leaders, tighten discipline and administrative discipline, end the situation of avoiding and fearing responsibility; perfect the mechanism for evaluating cadres, replacing cadres, and promoting cadres with good capacity.

Focus on improving the capacity of grassroots cadres and party members, especially communes, wards and special zones; should consider 2026 as the "year to improve the quality of grassroots cadres".

There are solutions to exploit wasteful public assets and handle redundant public offices after the reorganization, thereby improving the proactiveness, autonomy and governance efficiency of the state apparatus.

The General Secretary noted that effectively implementing breakthrough solutions on protecting, caring for and improving people's health in the spirit of Resolution 72 of the Politburo; striving to complete over 110,000 social housing units in 2026, reaching the target of 1 million units by 2028; completing 248 inter-level schools in border communes.

Accelerate the construction and completion of a national database on land and real estate, contributing to effective resource management and transparent market development; handling environmental pollution, especially in large cities.

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