Strongly shift the mindset of "management" to "development creation", ending pushing and avoiding
On the morning of January 8, in Hanoi, the Government organized a conference to summarize the work in 2025 and deploy the work in 2026 of the Government and local authorities.
Speaking to direct the conference, General Secretary To Lam emphasized that the GDP growth target of 10% or more in 2026 is very challenging. Therefore, the next period requires fundamental innovation in development thinking, management methods and resource allocation, strong decentralization and delegation of power, with sufficiently deep, sufficiently strong, and sufficiently drastic reforms.
Regarding the direction, tasks, and key solutions in the coming time, the General Secretary proposed to focus on removing bottlenecks and inadequacies of the institution to unlock resources that are being congested; it is necessary to strongly and substantively shift from "management" thinking to "development creation", ensuring that each task has a focal point responsible, ending pushing and avoiding; if removal is slow, growth will be inhibited right from the beginning of the term.
Financial and monetary management is closely coordinated, flexible, and technocratic 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 power, review to cut procedures, create a greater decision-making and accountability space for officials and civil servants, and at the same time reduce compliance time and costs for people and businesses.
Absolutely give up the mindset of "if you can't manage, then ban", strictly protect property rights, freedom of business, absolutely not take advantage of inspections, examinations, and investigations to harass people and businesses...
Research the mechanism for dissolution with weak bank control, establishing new banks
The General Secretary requested to stabilize and sanitize key markets of the economy, fully respect the laws of the competitive market economy, the law of supply and demand, the law of prices...; thoroughly handle the weaknesses of credit institutions, the situation of cross-ownership, underground ownership, and lending relationships.
Research a controlled dissolution mechanism for weak banks, allowing the establishment of new banks and microfinance institutions, in order to improve the competitiveness, safety and diversity of the financial system.
In the coming period, it is necessary to place improving productivity, quality of human resources, science and technology and innovation at the center of the development strategy, considering this as a key condition to break through the middle income trap and maintain high and sustainable growth.
The General Secretary emphasized the requirement to ensure energy security, especially clean energy, absolutely not to run out of electricity; it is necessary to determine a roadmap for Vietnam to join the leading group of countries in terms of telecommunications infrastructure quality and 5G coverage.
The General Secretary requested to continue to arrange a streamlined, strong, efficient, effective, and efficient organizational structure; improve the responsibility of heads, tighten administrative discipline and order, end the situation of evasion and fear of responsibility; improve the mechanism for evaluating cadres, replacing cadres, and valuing cadres with good capacity.
Focus on improving the capacity of cadres and party members at the grassroots level, especially communes, wards, and special zones; 2026 should be taken as "year of improving the quality of grassroots cadres".
Have solutions to exploit wasted public assets, and handle redundant public headquarters after arrangement, thereby improving the proactiveness, autonomy, and management efficiency of the state apparatus.
The General Secretary noted that effectively implement breakthrough solutions on protecting, caring for and improving people's health in the spirit of Resolution 72 of the Politburo; strive to complete over 110,000 social housing units in 2026, and soon reach the target of 1 million units by 2028; complete 248 inter-level schools in border communes.
Accelerate the construction and completion of the national database on land and real estate, contributing to effective resource management and transparent market development; fundamentally treat environmental pollution, especially in large cities.
