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General Secretary, President To Lam
 

The scientific and technological revolution is the key
 

1. Immediately after gaining power, our Party deeply understood the importance of developing productive forces and gradually transforming and improving production relations.
 

This process takes place through many stages, reflecting the continuous movement and development of the Vietnamese Revolution.
 

The August Revolution in 1945 opened a new chapter in the history of the nation's development under the conditions of a newly independent country, which had to embark on a protracted resistance war.
 

Starting from a backward agricultural base, going through thousands of feudal and hundreds of colonial years, our Party has implemented the policy of "those who till the land own the land" to transfer land to farmers, abolish private ownership of means of production, and aim to transform the relations of production, laying the foundation for building a socialist mode of production.
 

During the period from 1954 to 1975, our country's revolution simultaneously carried out two strategic tasks: the socialist revolution in the North and the national democratic revolution in the South.
 

In the North, the construction of material-technical foundations of socialism is considered the focus, strengthening and perfecting the new production relations based on three pillars: the collective ownership regime, centralized planning management, and labor-based distribution [1], which has propelled the development of productive forces.

In 1975, our country achieved complete reunification, opening a new chapter in the construction of socialism.
 

The 4th Congress of the Party in 1976, based on the assessment of the major characteristics of the country, which is the transition from a popular economy to socialism, skipping the stage of capitalist development, has set the direction: firmly adhere to socialism, promote the collective ownership of the working people, and resolutely carry out three simultaneous revolutions: in production relations, science and technology, and cultural ideology [2].
 

In which, the scientific and technological revolution is the key, and promoting industrialization is the central task.


From 1979 to before the 6th Party Congress in 1986, our country has gone through serious crises, partly due to the lack of synchronization between the productive forces and the relations of production.
 

The production forces are not only hindered in the case of backward production relations, but also when the production relations have elements that go too far beyond the level of development of the production forces [3].


With that correct understanding, the 6th Party Congress has determined to comprehensively innovate, with economic innovation as the focus, transforming the economic structure, developing diverse economic components, innovating management mechanisms, abolishing bureaucracy, and gradually transitioning to a market-oriented socialist economy.
 

Resolution No. 10-NQ/TW dated April 5, 1988 of the Politburo marked a breakthrough in the renewal of production relations in agriculture by officially recognizing households as autonomous economic units and granting long-term land use rights to farmers, in line with the development requirements of the productive forces.


Just one year after the implementation of the Politburo's Resolution, Vietnam, once a food-deficient country, produced 21.5 million tons of rice and for the first time exported 1.2 million tons of rice.
 

Adjusting the production relations appropriately has created new impetus for the development of the productive forces, helping the country overcome the crisis and enter a comprehensive period of innovation and international integration.
 

General Secretary, President Tô Lâm Meets Overseas Vietnamese on August 23

 

Strong Investment in Infrastructure Development

 

In the 21st century, Vietnam has achieved significant achievements in economic and social development. The estimated average GDP growth rate for the period 2021-2025 is expected to reach 5.7-5.9% per year, ranking among the leading group in the region and the world; the scale of the economy is expected to increase by 1.45 times, reaching 500 billion USD by 2025.
 

Average per capita income increased significantly from $3,400 to about $4,650, placing Vietnam in the group of countries with high average incomes by 2025.


The macroeconomy is stable, inflation is controlled; flexible and effective management policies; increasing international position and reputation; maintaining high economic growth rate, significantly improving people's lives.
 

The labor force is projected to reach 53.2 million people by 2025, with a positive shift in structure; the agricultural labor force will decrease significantly, to 25.8%; the quality of the labor force will continue to improve, with 70% of the workforce receiving training.
 

High-quality human resources meet the requirements of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in key areas such as semiconductor industry, artificial intelligence, and information technology. They are focused on development, forming a workforce with digital thinking and increasingly advanced digital skills.

 

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), big data, and cloud computing are gradually becoming important production tools in many industries and fields. The infrastructure, especially digital infrastructure, is being heavily invested in for development.

The telecommunications network and broadband Internet cover the whole country, creating a foundation for digital economic and social development.
 

However, we also have to face new challenges. The process of globalization and international integration requires the urgent need to enhance the competitive capacity of the economy.
 

The fourth industrial revolution is happening strongly, the development of production tools in the digital economy is creating profound changes in the productive forces, leading to new contradictions with existing production relations; it both creates prerequisites and motivations for the formation of new methods of production in the future, and requires fundamental changes in the organization of production and social management.
 

The new production force is forming and developing strongly; however, the quality of the workforce still falls short of the country's development requirements in the new phase. Meanwhile, training and fostering to improve the quality of the workforce, especially high-tech workforce, remain significant challenges.
 

The production relations still have many shortcomings, not keeping up with the development of the productive forces.
 

The mechanism, policies, and laws are not truly synchronized, still overlapping, and have not created a truly favorable environment to attract resources from domestic and foreign investors as well as within the people; the enforcement of laws and policies is still a weak link.
 

The arrangement and completion of the streamlined state administrative apparatus, effective and efficient operation, reducing redundancy, reducing intermediate levels that are still problematic, a cumbersome and overlapping part between legislation and administration, not truly meeting the requirements of enhancing management effectiveness and efficiency.
 

Some sectors still hold the responsibilities of local authorities, leading to the existence of mechanisms for solicitation, favoritism, and the emergence of negative phenomena such as corruption. The streamlining of the organizational structure is associated with job positions, improving the quality and restructuring the civil servant and public employee workforce, which is still insufficient.


Administrative reform, digital transformation, and the construction of electronic government and digital government are still limited.
 

There still exist cumbersome and outdated administrative procedures, involving multiple steps, multiple offices, consuming a lot of time and effort of the people and businesses, easily giving rise to petty corruption and hindering development.

The connection and data sharing between the information systems of ministries, sectors, localities, and the national database are not smooth; many online public services have low quality and low user rates; the organization and operation of "one-stop" units at various levels in many places are not effective.
 

Based on the theoretical foundation of Marxism-Leninism, we clearly understand that in the relationship between the productive forces and the relations of production, the productive forces play a decisive role in the development of the relations of production. The relations of production must be constantly adjusted to be in line with the increasingly advanced level of the productive forces.
 

When the relations of production do not keep pace with the development of the productive forces, they become a hindrance, restraining the progressive development of the entire mode of production, thereby affecting the overall development of the country.

General Secretary and State President To Lam chaired the Politburo meeting to give opinions on important documents.
 

4 key tasks to transform the digital landscape.

 

We are facing the requirement for a revolution with strong and comprehensive reforms to adjust the production relations and create new motivation for development.

It is a digital transformation revolution, applying science and technology to restructure the production relations in line with the remarkable progress of the productive forces.
 

Digital transformation is not only the application of digital technology to economic and social activities, but also the process of establishing a new advanced and modern method of production - the "digital production method", in which the characteristic of the productive forces is the harmonious combination of humans and artificial intelligence.
 

Data becomes a resource, becoming an important production material; at the same time, production relations also undergo profound changes, especially in the form of ownership and distribution of production materials.
 

The changes in the relations of production will strongly impact the superstructure, opening up new methods in social management, creating new tools in state administration, fundamentally changing the way the state interacts with citizens, and between social classes.
 

The process of digital transformation needs to be comprehensive, synchronized, taking into account the dialectical relationship between the infrastructure and the superstructure, in order to build a socialist-oriented market economy, both harnessing the power of modern productive forces and ensuring the good nature of the socialist regime, suitable for the specific conditions of Vietnam in the new era.
 

To do so, the leaders of the Party, government, agencies, enterprises, and people must have full awareness, unity, responsibility, and determination to implement the digital transformation process; at the same time, it is necessary to focus on implementing some key tasks, as follows:
 

First, complete the institutional and legal system, firmly pursue the goal of building a socialist-oriented market economy, and constantly innovate to keep up with the development trends of the times.

Focus on building a legal framework for the digital economy, creating a foundation for Vietnam to seize opportunities from the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Implement strong mechanisms and policies to promote digital transformation in all economic and social sectors, encourage innovation, and protect intellectual property rights.
 

Regularly review and timely amend regulations that are no longer appropriate, creating space for new economic models such as the sharing economy, circular economy, artificial intelligence... ensuring that the legal framework does not become a barrier to development, while also ensuring national security and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of the people and businesses.
 

On Monday, unleash and maximize all social resources, accelerate modernization. Have appropriate mechanisms and policies to mobilize large resources from the people, businesses, and economic components; resources from land, assets in society that people are accumulating, turning these potentials into motivation, production materials, to produce more material wealth for society.
 

Create an open, transparent investment environment that strongly attracts capital from both domestic and foreign sources for the development of science, technology, and innovation. Maximize the human resources - the decisive factor in the innovation career.