Issuing many strategic decisions, unprecedented in law-making work
* Minister, please tell us some outstanding results in implementing Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW in 2025? Have these results created a breakthrough institutional reform, Minister?
Immediately after Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW was issued, on May 18, 2025, the Politburo and the Secretariat organized a national conference to thoroughly grasp the content of the Resolution with the participation of more than 1.5 million officials and party members in direct and online form to 37,000 bridge points at the Central, provincial, district, commune, agency, and unit levels across the country. The National Assembly Party Committee issued Plan No. 28-KH/DUQH dated May 16, 2025 on implementing Resolution 66-NQ/TW. The Government issued Resolution No. 140/NQ-CP dated May 17, 2025 on the Government's Action Program to implement Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW of the Politburo, in which 49 tasks were identified with specific roadmaps and schedules. All 22 ministries, ministerial-level agencies, agencies under the Government, 34 provinces and cities directly under the Central Government have issued Programs or Plans to implement the Resolution, in which some ministries, branches, and localities have established Steering Committees to implement Resolution No. 66
Closely following the leadership and direction of the Party, the orientations in Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW, the National Assembly, the Government, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuracy, and relevant agencies have made efforts and responsibilities to innovate the thinking of law-making, closely coordinate and promptly institutionalize the Party's guidelines and policies, the strategic resolutions of the Politburo, create a complete legal corridor, meet the requirements of arranging and streamlining the organizational structure of the political system, building and operating the 2-level local government model, promoting decentralization and delegation of power, reforming administrative procedures, promptly removing difficulties and obstacles, and unlocking resources for national development. Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW is an important political basis for competent agencies to issue many strategic decisions, unprecedented in law-making, eliminating the mindset of "if you can't manage, then ban", bringing institutions from "bottleneck of bottlenecks" to a national competitive advantage.
The National Assembly, the Government, ministries, branches and localities have proactively and flexibly innovated operating methods, creatively implemented functions and tasks, and adapted to the actual situation to complete the large and massive legislative workload of the term. Notably, in 2025 alone, the Government submitted to the National Assembly for approval a Resolution amending and supplementing a number of articles of the 2013 Constitution; 99 laws and resolutions on legal regulations - a record number of projects, draft laws and resolutions; The Government has issued 377 decrees and resolutions on legal regulations; ministries and branches have drafted, submitted for promulgation or promulgated 1,404 documents under their authority - the most in the entire term; localities have issued 13,000 legal documents.
Law enforcement work is concerned with directing, closely following Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW, focusing on reviewing and removing legal bottlenecks, administrative procedure reform, especially in areas directly related to people's lives such as land, environment, health, education, science and technology, social security... The work of inspecting, handling, reviewing, consolidating, and systematizing legal normative documents is increasingly becoming more systematic and has fundamental changes. The mechanism of dialogue, reception and handling of reflections and recommendations of people and businesses has been focused on by ministries and sectors with outstanding results. Obstacles in the financial mechanism for law-making work have been removed...
It can be affirmed that Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW marks a strategic breakthrough in innovating the work of building and enforcing laws, truly a "call to action" for a profound institutional reform, contributing to perfecting the socialist rule-of-law state in a modern, effective, and efficient direction and taking people and businesses as the center. The implementation of the Resolution has had a comprehensive and strong impact on the work of perfecting institutions and laws of the entire political system from the Central to local levels, and has been agreed upon, welcomed and responded to by agencies and organizations in the political system, a large number of people, jurists, lawyers, and the business community. The results of implementing Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW have created clear changes with many breakthrough contents in the work of building and perfecting institutions and laws, meeting the requirements of national development.
* The achievements as the Minister just mentioned are very clear. But according to you, are there any limitations that need to be noted to make the breakthrough policies of Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW come into life, making institutions become a sustainable national competitive resource?
Besides the above results, the development of programs and action plans to implement Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW of the Politburo and Resolution No. 140/NQ-CP of the Government in some ministries, branches, and localities is still slow. The work of building and perfecting laws in some places has not been given due attention. There is still a situation of slow issuance of documents detailing the implementation of laws and ordinances.
- The current legal system still lacks an overall design to meet the requirements set out in the new situation, especially the requirements set out from socio-economic development, digital transformation, international integration and innovation of the national governance model.
In addition, the organization of law enforcement is still a weak stage. The dissemination, education of laws, and policy communication in some agencies and units are still formalistic, not flexible enough to closely follow issues of public concern or need to orient public opinion. The application of digital transformation in some agencies has not been synchronously invested, and the technology infrastructure and legal databases in some places are not yet complete, not convenient for searching and processing information...
Review and immediately institutionalize major viewpoints and policies in the Party Congress Document into law
* 2026 is the first year of implementing the Resolution of the 14th Party Congress and also a pivotal year in continuing to implement Resolution No. 66-NQ/TW. So what are the major priorities in 2026, Minister?
2026 is of particular importance in realizing the Party's resolutions. The top priority is to focus on leadership and direction to immediately review and institutionalize the major policies stated in the documents of the 14th National Congress and 09 strategic Resolutions of the Politburo, closely following the 2026 Work Program of the Central Steering Committee on perfecting institutions and laws. Focus on building the "Strategy for perfecting the legal system in the new era" towards the goal of perfecting the legal system with a rational, complete, democratic, fair, synchronous, unified, public, transparent, feasible, and stable structure. At the same time, as a basis for orienting the development of legislative orientations for the term and the annual legislative program to ensure proactiveness, flexibility and adaptation to the requirements of reality in the new era. In addition, in 2026, it is necessary to focus on amending and supplementing legal documents related to the organization of local government at 2 levels and handling documents adjusted by the Government's Resolutions, the Standing Committee of the National People's Committee, the National People's
Second, pay attention to and invest in legislative techniques and drafting documents in a professional, scientific, feasible, and effective direction. Accordingly, focus on building and completing the Handbook for drafting national laws, sets of standards, legislative technical guidelines and related projects, serving the training, fostering, and training of cadres working in law-making, towards the goal of standardizing processes, improving professional capacity, professional responsibility and professionalism of the contingent of law-making advisors.
Third, focus on perfecting the institution and effectively implementing document consolidation activities. Document consolidation needs to be strongly innovated in the direction that the consolidated document is the official basis for citing and applying the law; it is submitted to agencies and competent persons at the same time as amended and supplemented legal normative documents; simplifying consolidation techniques; supplementing regulations on the consolidation of legal normative documents of state agencies in localities and expanding the subjects of consolidated documents.
Fourth, continue to improve the national database on legal documents; develop a large data project on law; comprehensive digital transformation in law dissemination and education, applying artificial intelligence in legal interpretation. Develop and effectively operate the National Legal Portal in policy and legal information; interactive channels between the State and people, businesses in the digital environment; receive and process reflections and recommendations on legal normative documents, create a forum to contribute ideas on perfecting institutions in the digital environment.
* Thank you very much, Minister!
