An overview of the opening of the fourth session of the 13th Party Central Committee (Photo: VNA)

The fourth session of the 13th Party Central Committee will focus on sketching out policies, targets, tasks and solutions to strengthen Party building and rectification, stop and drive back the degradation in political ideology, morality and lifestyle as well as signs of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation" among members, stated Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong at the opening of the session on October 4.

In his opening remarks, the Party leader stressed that Party building and rectification has always been the key task of special importance and vital significance to the Party and regime.

The 13th National Party Congress set out a number of major tasks on the building of the Party and political system, affirming the determination to continue persistently and resolutely implementing the resolutions adopted by the fourth session of the 11th Party Central Committee and the fourth session of the 12th Party Central Committee regarding Party building and rectification, he said.

Party General Secretary Trong suggested the combination of Party building and rectification with the construction of the political system in line with the spirit of the 13th National Party Congress.

He underlined the need for active preventive measures as well as strict handling of the degradation in political ideology, morality and lifestyle as well as corruption and negative phenomena among Party members.

The Party chief said that during this session, the Party Central Committee will also give opinions on issues related to COVID-19 prevention and control, socio-economic development, finance-budget,and the time to make adjustments in salary reform in the context of complicated developments with more serious challenges and difficulties than expected.

He noted that 2021 is the first year the country implements the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, creating a new motivation and new encouragement for the successful implementation of the socio-economic development plan for the next five years and the strategy for socio-economic development in the 2021-2030 period with a vision to 2045.

All the issues on the agenda of this session are very important to the realisation of the 13th National Party Congress, including the implementation of the major tasks of boosting the socio-economic growth as well as Party building and rectification, he stated.

The session will last until October 7.

Party Central Committee finishes first working day of fourth session

The 13th Party Central Committee opened its fourth session in Hanoi on October 4 under the chair of Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong who delivered an opening remark.

In the morning, the committee's members observed a minute’s silence in commemoration of civilians, soldiers and officers who lost their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic before the plenary meeting started and was presided over by Politburo member, President Nguyen Xuan Phuc.

Politburo member, Permanent member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat Vo Van Thuong, on behalf of the Politburo, delivered a report on the agenda of the session.

Later, the Party Central Committee's members debated in groups reports on the implementation of the socio-economic development plan for 2021 and the draft socio-economic development plan for the next year.

They also reviewed the implementation of the State budget plan this year, the State budget estimate in 2022 and the financial and State budget plan from 2022 – 2024, and discussed the delay of the starting time for the implementation of salary policy reforms under Resolution No. 27-NQ/TW of the 7th plenum of the 12th Party Central Committee, the recent efforts in fighting COVID-19 and related policies, tasks and solutions for the coming time.

The Party Central Committee's members continued to work on these contents in groups in the afternoon of October 4.

Source: VNA