Special-use work, the core of the core
On the morning of November 5, the 14th Conference of the 13th Party Central Committee solemnly opened in Hanoi. General Secretary To Lam chaired and delivered the opening speech at the Conference.
In his opening speech, General Secretary To Lam mentioned the content of the preparation, selection, and introduction of personnel to participate in the Politburo and the 14th Party Secretariat.
General Secretary To Lam said that at the 13th Central Conference, based on the proposal of the Politburo, the 13th Party Central Committee voted unanimously, focused on introducing personnel for the 14th Party Central Committee (excluding Politburo members, Secretariat members eligible for re-election and special cases) to basically ensure the structure, quantity, standards, conditions, areas, and fields of work according to the 14th Party Congress Personnel Work orientation, Election Regulations within the Party and the operation plan of the 14th Party Congress Personnel Subcommittee.
This is an extremely important basis and experience for us to continue to inherit and promote in the work of preparing, selecting, and introducing personnel to participate in the Politburo, the Secretariat, and key leadership personnel of the 14th Party and State, term 2026-2031.
At this Conference, the Central Executive Committee will give opinions on the number of Politburo members, Secretariat members for the 14th Congress term and select personnel to introduce to participate in the Politburo and Secretariat for the 14th tenure.
The General Secretary emphasized that this is a particularly important task, the core of the core because everything is decided by humans. Selecting personnel to the Party's top leadership to lead the implementation of very high and very drastic goals of national development in the new period must be more careful, certain, cautious and accurate.
The General Secretary noted that in addition to the selection criteria according to regulations for Central Committee members that we set out at the recent 12th and 13th Central conferences, the selection of personnel to participate in the Politburo and the Secretariat of the 14th tenure needs to emphasize a number of important requirements in line with the new revolutionary period of our Party and our country.
Introduce the most deserving people
According to the General Secretary, in the context of rapid international change and fierce strategic competition, the global supply chain is always fluctuating, domestically requiring simultaneous digital transformation, green transformation, growth model transformation... to maintain sustainable double-digit growth for many years to achieve the two 100-year goals set by our Party and the people, the leadership role of the Party here is especially important.
Therefore, the responsibility of "choosing the right person for the right job", especially senior personnel and leaders of the country, is a prerequisite for making vision and aspiration a result.
We must select and introduce the most deserving people among those who deserve to join the Politburo and the Secretariat. Those comrades must have political courage, honest ethics and set an example, putting national and ethnic interests and people's interests above all; must have a sharp strategic vision and organizational capacity to unlock bottlenecks, unlock resources, and gather strength.
More importantly, there must be the ability to organize implementation: design clear and specific goals, establish personal responsibility, measure with data, and make decisions "to the end" with high public service discipline. In the digital age, indispensable criteria are digital capacity and data thinking, in-depth understanding of the digital economy, green economy, circular economy, risk management and the ability to coordinate between sectors - inter-regional - inter-level.
Leaders need the ability to mobilize social resources, design public-private partnerships, create market trust; the ability to integrate internationally, in foreign languages and in dialogue culture to expand development space. In particular, it is necessary to promote and value the quality, efficiency, and dedication of cadres, prioritize cadres with works, plans, and projects that have a clear impact; have the ability to handle situations in crises (disasters, epidemics, finance, non-traditional security); be decisive but know how to listen to criticism, rely on the people, and for the people.
The person selected is introduced as the person most suitable for the development goals in the new period, with high reliability, endurance under pressure, reform will, converting resources into motivation, turning potential into double-digit economic growth rate for the country to reach 2 100-year targets.
"In short, in addition to the general standards that comrades have thoroughly grasped and are stated in the Party's regulations, in the selection and introduction of personnel to participate in the Politburo and the Secretariat of the 14th tenure, comrades are especially interested in 5 "plus points", which are (1) Having a national strategic vision, being able to maintain the country's autonomy; (2) Having leadership and command capacity at the national level; (3) Having political prestige and integrity at the symbolic level for everyone to follow and learn from; (4) Having the ability to implement the Resolution into measurable results and results; (5) Having enough endurance, both mentally and physically, to endure the pressure and intensity of work in the 14th term and possibly in the following terms" - General Secretary Tam Lam emphasized.
