Where there is inspection work, there is discipline established
On the morning of November 17, the Government Inspectorate held a ceremony to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Vietnam Inspectorate's Traditional Day (November 23, 1945 - November 23, 2025). General Secretary To Lam attended and gave a speech.
General Secretary To Lam affirmed that after 80 years of construction, development and growth, the Vietnam Inspectorate has joined the glorious historical journey of the country. In the resistance war against France and the US, despite the arduous war conditions, inspection organizations still operate, contributing to maintaining discipline and order, ensuring that all resistance and patriotic policies are implemented fairly and strictly.
In the period of innovation and integration, inspectors continue to be an important force to protect the integrity of the state apparatus, prevent, detect and handle violations, especially corruption, waste and negativity.
"It can be said that wherever there is inspection work, there discipline is established, trust is strengthened, and the law is upheld. That is the pride of 80 years of history - 80 years affirming the bravery, intelligence, dedication and enthusiasm of the inspection staff for the Party, State and People" - General Secretary To Lam said.
The General Secretary also stated that in recent times, the Inspectorate has been more proactive and drastic, advising the Party and State on many mechanisms, policies, and strategic solutions in the work of preventing and combating corruption, waste, and negativity; organizing many large-scale thematic inspections, focusing on areas prone to violations, contributing significantly to the work of Party building and rectification.
Changing the focus from " handling violations" to "early and remote prevention"
On this occasion, the General Secretary also issued a number of directives, orientations and key tasks for the Inspectorate in the coming period.
In particular, the General Secretary directed strong innovation in inspection thinking and methods. Inspection is not only to detect and handle violations, but also to prevent, create and promote development. Each inspection must aim at a dual goal: Early detection of violations to protect public assets, while creating conditions to remove difficulties and obstacles for organizations, businesses and people.
Preventing and combating corruption, waste and negativity is not only to handle violations, but also to clean up the investment environment, strengthen trust, promote economic development, ensure healthy and transparent competition.
Inspection work needs to shift the focus from " Handling violations" to "early and remote prevention", combining administrative inspection with thematic inspection, between on-site inspection and digital data analysis.
The inspectors must take a step forward, forecast and warn of risks early, not allowing small violations to accumulate into large violations. All inspection activities must be objective, fair, transparent, and comply with the motto: "No forbidden areas, no exceptions, but no extreme or formal".
Through the inspection results, it is necessary to promote the summary of practices, detect problems, recommend improving institutions, policies, and laws, detect and overcome "spaces" and " loopholes" in state management and law enforcement, creating a favorable environment for innovation, creativity and development.
Many lessons from practice have been proven: A correct, objective, and timely inspection conclusion can help save thousands of billions of VND, remove a series of institutional obstacles, contribute to improving the investment environment, and promote socio-economic development.
In addition, the General Secretary also directed to take care of Party building work, build a team of officials in the Inspectorate, truly honest, brave, intelligent, and resourceful.
Inspection officers must be people with "clear heart, strong intelligence, maturity, and right actions"; have the courage to protect what is right, fight against what is wrong, and dare to take responsibility for the common good, just as Uncle Ho taught: "Inciplinary officers are like an example for people to scrutiny, if the mirror is blurred, they cannot be scrutinized".
It is necessary to continue to improve the mechanism of encouraging and protecting cadres who dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility; promptly reward honest people, strictly discipline violators, to create a clean, democratic and united working environment.
