Full RESOLUTION of 14th National Party Congress

Below is the full translation of the Resolution of the 14th National Party Congress for reference:

The 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Viet Nam took place from January 19 to January 23, 2026 in Ha Noi. After discussing the documents submitted by the 13th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, the Congress:

RESOLVES:

I – Agree on the major contents of the aforesaid documents on evaluating the results of the implementation of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, the results summarizing theoretical and practical issues regarding 40 years of socialist-oriented Doi Moi (Renewal) policy in Viet Nam and 15 years of implementing the Party Charter (for the 2021-2025 period).

1. Results of implementing the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress

During the 13th tenure of the National Party Congress, the global landscape featured with many difficulties and challenges, many new and unprecedented issues emerged such as COVID-19 pandemic, global economic slowdown, geopolitical conflicts, and trade war; the 4th Industrial Revolution, particularly digital technology and artificial intelligence, has evolved rapidly, profoundly and comprehensively; such issues like climate change, traditional security, and non-traditional security have become increasingly complex.

Thanks to the will, aspiration for development, innovation mindset, high determination, and drastic actions, our entire Party, people and armed forces joined hearts and minds to successfully realize the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, our Party firmly led our country to gain important and comprehensive results, notably macro-economic stability, high growth, effective control of inflation, budget overspending and public debt, high trade surplus, and comprehensive development of the domestic market. Resources, especially the State's resources, have been effectively mobilized and utilized for development investment. Many backlogged projects, loss-making enterprises, and weak credit organizations have been completely resolved, with positive results achieved. Drastic, timely and effective measures were deployed to contain and push back the COVID-19 pandemic, such as "vaccine diplomacy", free nationwide vaccination campaign, and the pursuance of the "dual" goal of containing the pandemic while stimulating recovery and growth. National defense and security have been increasingly consolidated and enhanced; external relations and international integration have been elevated and achieved outstanding results. The building and rectification of the Party and the political system have achieved many important accomplishments, with outstanding and unprecedented breakthroughs. Particularly, a series of strategic policies have been promulgated and implemented drastically, comprehensively and effectively over the past two years to create foundation and momentum for accelerating growth. Law-making work has been innovated to remove institutional bottlenecks. The revolution to streamline and rearrange the apparatus of the political system has brought about breakthrough results, widely recognized by people and appreciated by the international community. During the past tenure, Viet Nam was a bright sport for political and security stability, and social safety and stability. Our Party has shown breakthroughs in mindset, vision and actions; innovated its leadership and governance model; proactively grasped and utilized opportunities, creating a solid foundation for the next development stage of the nation. The leadership and prestige of the Party have continued to improve and elevated, thus consolidating public confidence in the Party, the State and the socialist regime.

Beside the achievements, market institutions have slowly been improved; productivity, quality, effectiveness, resilience and competitiveness of the economy remain low. The combination of socio-economic development with ensuring national defense and security remains inadequate in certain areas. Flooding and environmental pollution have not been controlled effectively, and even become more acute, especially environmental pollution in large urban areas, industrial parks, industrial clusters. Culture has not truly become an endogenous resource and strength and a strong driving force for national development. Education and training have not really been innovated comprehensively, thus there remains many shortcomings. There are many bottlenecks in the mechanisms and policies for the development of science, technology and innovation. The implementation of the Party's Resolutions and the State's laws and policies has been innovated but this work has not kept pace with the country's requirement for breakthrough development. There are shortcomings in the personnel work, including cadre evaluation, power control, and strategic-level personnel management. Several organizations, agencies and units at communal level still encounter difficulties and confusion in performing newly assigned duties since the introduction of the two-tier local administration system. The Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations have yet performed well their functions of supervision, social criticism, and protection of people's legitimate rights and interests. People's right to mastery has yet been fully institutionalized, and in some cases, it is still violated. There remain limitations in building the law-governed socialist State. To some extent, the division of labor and coordination among State agencies in exercising legislative, executive and judicial powers remain unclear and lack cohesion; the effectiveness and efficiency of State power control are not high. The leadership role of some Party committees remains limited. Political and ideological education is sometimes not practical and lacks depth. Personnel work still has shortcomings, especially in performance evaluation of cadres; power control in personnel work is still limited in some aspects.

2. Regarding 40 years of Doi moi (Renewal)

The Renewal policy, initiated and led by our Party, is the historic choice and the process of comprehensive development of the Party's mindset, theoretical awareness, and leadership for national construction, development and protection; the great cause of historic and immense significance, opening up a new era for building Viet Nam's socialism. The great and historic achievements gained over the last 40 years of renewal result from the tireless and ceaseless efforts and the crystallization of the wisdom of our entire Party, people and armed forces, standing as the testament of the Party's right, creative and appropriate renewal policy in accordance with Viet Nam's real conditions and trends of the times. These achievements also prove that the Party's leadership, the great strength of the people, and the national solidarity block are the top decisive factors for all victories of the Vietnamese revolution, with people placed at the heart of the course of renewal, development and national protection. After 40 years of implementing the renewal policy, our Party concluded valuable lessons for our country's revolutionary cause in the next development stage.

II- Development vision and orientations

The world has undergone epochal transformations, creating diverse opportunities and challenges that are intertwined while our country is implementing strategic policies with many new issues and very high requirements, marking a historic turning point for Viet Nam to build and protect the Fatherland in the new era-the era of the nation's rise.

Against that backdrop, the entire Party, people and armed forces must promote the great national solidarity block, join hearts and minds to successfully realize the following key viewpoints, targets, orientations and tasks:

1. Guiding viewpoints

(1) Remain steadfast to and creatively apply and develop Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh's Thought, and the theory of the renewal policy; persistently pursue the goal of national independence and socialism; firmly promote comprehensive and synchronous reform; firmly adhere to the principles of the Party's organization and operation; maintain strategic autonomy, renew the development model, considering development as foundation for stability and stability as facilitator for fast and sustainable development, improve the lives and happiness of the people, and firmly protect the socialist Fatherland of Viet Nam.

(2) Early identify, seize all advantages and opportunities, overcome all difficulties and challenges to continue rapid and sustainable development; promote breakthrough development of science, technology, innovation, digital transformation, and proactive international integration, closely combine and synchronously implement the key tasks, in which socio-economic development and environmental protection is defined as the central task, Party building as the pivotal task, cultural and human development as the foundation; strengthen national defense and security while promoting external relations and international integration is defined as the key and regular task.

(3) Strongly foster the patriotic tradition, aspiration for development, solidarity spirit, self-reliance, self-confidence, self-strengthening, and national pride; promote cultural and human power as an indigenous resource and a powerful driving force for national development.

Accelerate the formulation and comprehensive improvement of institutions for rapid and sustainable national development, resolutely and promptly remove bottlenecks and obstacles, unleash and liberate productive forces and all resources, and promote all driving forces. Establish a new growth model, promote industrialization and modernization, with science, technology, innovation, and national digital transformation as the main driving forces; promote the leading role of the State economy, and develop the private economy as one of the most important driving forces; perfect development institutions in conjunction with the simultaneous implementation of digital transformation, green conversion, energy transition, structural transformation, and improvement of human resource quality; attract and utilize talent, and promote the development of new productive forces.

(4) Promote the strength, courage and intelligence of the Vietnamese people, the national solidarity block, and the people's support; combine national strength with the power of the times; proactively, resolutely and persistently fight to firmly safeguard national independence, sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity; protect the Fatherland early and from far; closely and harmoniously integrate economic, cultural, social development, environmental protection with consolidating national defense and security, improving the effectiveness of external affairs and international integration. Ensure that national interests at the highest level on the basis of the fundamental principles of international law and the United Nations Charter.

(5) Enhance the building and rectification of the Party and the political system to make them clean and comprehensive strong; strengthen solidarity and unity; ensure smooth, synchronous and effective operation of the new apparatus of the political system; improve the role, leadership and governance capacity, and strengthen the combat strength of the Party as well as the State's capacity to manage, administer and facilitate development; continuously improve the quality of cadres and Party members, ensuring they are truly exemplary in terms of political acumen, quality, competence, and prestige. Closely integrate the summation of practical experience and theoretical research with the formulation and implementation of the Party's guidelines and policies, and the State's laws and policies. Strengthen the close cohesion between the Party, the State and the people; strengthen power control, resolutely and consistently combat corruption, waste, bureaucracy, wrongdoings, "self-evolution", and "self-transformation" from within.

2. Development goals

Firmly maintain a peaceful and stable environment, fast and sustainable development, and firmly protect the Fatherland; comprehensively improve and elevate the life of the people; maintain strategic autonomy, self-strengthening, self-confidence, and advance strongly in the new era of the nation; successfully realize the goal to become a developing country with modern industry and high middle-income status by 2030; and realize the vision to become a developed, high-income country by 2045 for a peaceful, independent, democratic, prosperous, civilized, and happy Viet Nam advancing steadily towards socialism.

3. Major five-year development targets for 2026-2030

- Economic targets: Striving for annual GDP growth rate of at least 10% during the 2026-2030 period; for average GDP per capita of around US$8,500 by 2030; manufacturing and processing account for approximately 28% of GDP; digital economy accounts for about 30% of GDP. Total factor productivity (TFP) contribution reaches over 55%. Annual labor productivity increases by around 8.5% per year. Energy intensity per unit of GDP is expected to reduce by 1-1.5% per year. Urbanization rate increases to over 50%.

Total wealth accumulation reaches around 35-36% of GDP; final consumption rate reaches around 61-62%. Average total social investment reaches around 40% of GDP, with public investments accounting for 20-22%. State budget revenue mobilization rate reaches 18% of GDP during the 2026-2030; State budget overspending rate accounts for 5% of GDP.

- Social targets: Human development index (HDI) is expected to reach around 0.8; average life expectancy is expected to increase to 75.5 years, with healthy life expectancy reaching 68 years; agricultural workforce ratio is expected to reduce to below 20% of the total workforce; trained workforce rate is expected to account for 35-40%. Multidimensional poverty rate is expected to reduce by 1-1.5% per year. Striving to be among the world's top 40 happiest countries.

- Environmental targets: Forest coverage rate hovers around 42%; treatment and recycling rate of waste water discharged into river basins is projected to increase to around 65-70%; greenhouse gas emissions is expected to decrease by 8-9%; rate of production establishments meeting environmental standards is expected to reach 98-100%; total marine protected zones is projected to reach at least 6% of the country's total natural marine area.

4. Development orientations for 2026-2030

(1) Continue to strongly innovate mindset and promote the strategic breakthroughs, create a new development ecosystem, ensuring the principle of "development for stability and stability for development", ceaselessly improving people's living standard and happiness; focus on improving institutions comprehensively and synchronously for fast and sustainable development, in which political institutions are identified as vital, economic institutions as central, and other institutions as important.

(2) Establish a new growth model with an aim to further improve the productivity, quality, efficiency, added value and competitiveness of the economy; take science, technology, innovation and digital transformation as the main driving force; create new and high-quality productive forces and models, especially data economy, digital economy, green economy, circular economy; speed up digital transformation, green conversion, energy transition, structural transformation, and human resource development. Identify new growth drivers and renew traditional growth drivers based on science and technology. Formulate strong growth poles, key economic regions, and new-generation urban areas and special economic zones of regional and international significance. Strongly promote growth in tandem with maintaining macro-economic stability, controlling inflation, and ensuring the major balances of the economy. Accelerate industrialization, modernization, and urbanization. Well handle the relations between domestic production autonomy and engagement in global production network and global value chain.

(3) Build and develop an advanced Vietnamese culture, rich in national identity, and synchronous on the foundation of national values, cultural values, family values, and the standards of Vietnamese people. Comprehensively develop Vietnamese people in terms of morality, intellect, national consciousness, civic responsibility, respect for the rule of law, creativity, aesthetics, physical fitness, life skills, professional skills, and digital skills.

(4) Develop a modern national education system that is on par with the region and the world. Deeply and fully understand and consistently implement the viewpoint of considering education and training development as the top national policy, determining the future of the nation; education and training development is the undertaking of the Party, the State and the entire people. Effectively implement strategic policies in order to build a modern and fair national education system towards "standardization, modernization, democratization, socialization, and international integration". Comprehensively innovate and improve the legal system, mechanisms, and policies for education and training development. Improve the quality of human resource education and training, particularly high-quality for key and strategic fields and sectors. Promote learning society and life-long learning, develop diverse learning models and movements suitable for different groups and localities.

(5) Create breakthrough development of science, technology, innovation and digital transformation. Promptly and drastically innovate and improve mechanisms and policies in favor of the development of science, technology, and spearhead industries in accordance with the market principles and international standards and practices; improve mechanisms and policies that are superior and suitable to the specific characteristics of creative labor; decisively remove barriers and bottlenecks regarding management mechanisms, investment mechanisms, autonomy mechanisms for science and technology establishments that hindering the development of science, technology, innovation, spearhead industries; encourage enterprises to invest in and apply science and technology, especially new technologies, high technologies, and strategic technologies.

(6) Manage and develop the society in a sustainable manner; ensure social progress and fairness, take care of people's life. Improve the model, mechanisms, and policies for governing and developing a modern, comprehensive, inclusive, and sustainable society; combine economic growth with ensuring social progress and fairness, protecting the environment and natural resources, proactively adapting to climate change. Develop a rational social structure based on the system of social values and standards. Encourage creative models and approaches in governing and developing sustainable communities.

(7) Manage and effectively utilize natural resources, protect the environment, proactively adapt to climate change. Synchronize laws, mechanisms, policies and planning schemes for general management and use of natural resources, for environmental protection, and nature and biodiversity conservation; prevent biodiversity degradation, maintain ecological balance. Enhance supervision, examination, and inspection, and effectively handle violations in the field of natural resources and environment.

(8) Consolidate, enhance national defense and security; build the people's army and people's police that are revolutionary, regular, elite, and modern; firmly protect the socialist Fatherland of Viet Nam. Ensure and protect national interests at the highest level, resolutely and unwaveringly safeguard national independence, sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity of the Fatherland; protect the Party, the State, the socialist regime; protect the revolutionary, renewal, modernization and industrialization achievements; maintain and promote the national traditional cultural values, improve the nation's international standing; firmly protect national security, regime security, human security, economic security, data security, cyber-security, energy security, water resource security, and food security; strengthen all-people defense and proactive defense; prevent and push back, from early stage, factors that may undermine political stability from within; firmly maintain political security, social order and safety; firmly maintain and consolidate a peaceful and stable environment for national construction and development.

(9) Consistently pursue the foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, self-strengthening, peace, friendship, cooperation and development, diversification and multi-lateralization of external relations, being a responsible member of the international community; cultivate external relations in the new era commensurate with the nation's historical stature, cultural identity, and international standing. Promote synchronous and creative deployment of diplomatic activities and extensive, comprehensive and effective international integration. Safeguard and protect national interests at the highest level on the basis of the fundamental principles of international law and the United Nations Charter, and fair and mutually beneficial cooperation. Actively and proactively contribute to peace, friendship, cooperation and sustainable development in the spirit of being a trusted friend and partner, an active and responsible member of the international community; proactively and responsibly engage in handling common issues in the region and the world.

(10) Strongly promote the mastery role of the people, socialist democracy, people's strength, and the country's great solidarity block. Profoundly grasp the principle "the people are the root", the people are the masters and placed at the center of the course of renewal, construction and protection of the Fatherland. All guidelines and policies of the Party and State must truly stem from the demands, aspirations, legitimate rights and interests of the people; take the respect for, guarantee and protection of human rights, civil rights, happiness and satisfaction of the people as the benchmark and goal to strive for.

(11) Continue to promote the building and perfection of the law-governed socialist State of Viet Nam of the people, by the people, and for the people, under the leadership of the Communist Party of Viet Nam. This process is part of the overall goal of building and rectifying the Party and building a clean and strong political system; build a modern, efficient and effective national governance system; build a complete legal system and ensure strict enforcement; ensure and protect justice, human rights, and civil rights. Mull over comprehensive amendments to the 2013 Constitution in accordance with the country's reality and demand in the new development stage.

(12) Continue to accelerate the building and rectification of the Party to make the Party clean and comprehensively strong; improve the Party's leadership, governance and fighting capacity. Strengthen Party building, rectification, and self-innovation so that our Party truly embodies morality and civilization. Conduct the review of the Party's 100-year leadership of the Vietnamese revolution (1930-2030), shape orientations for the Party's leadership of national development over the next 100 years (2030-2130); conduct the review of 40-year implementation of the Platform for national development in the transition period to socialism. Innovate information, education and mass mobilization work, further tighten the close relationship between the Partyb and the people, and rely on the people to build the Party and the political system. Ensure efficient and effective operation while improving performance quality of agencies and organizations within the political system. Strengthen and consolidate grassroots Party organizations and improve the quality of Party members. Focus on building a contingent of cadres at all levels, especially strategic-level cadres and grassroots-level cadres, and leadership positions. Step up the Party's inspection, supervision and discipline work, especially enhancing regular supervision. Resolutely and persistently intensify the fight to prevent and push back corruption, waste, bureaucracy, and negative phenomena. Continue to vigorously innovate the Party's leadership and governance methods in the new period.

5. Key tasks for 14th tenure of the Party Congress

(1) Give priority to formulating synchronous institutions for development, particularly laws, mechanisms, and policies to promptly remove bottlenecks and barriers while promoting innovation to ensure the synchronization and harmony between growth and development, between socio-economic development-environmental protection and national defense-security and diplomacy.

(2) Continue to vigorously promote the building and rectification of the Party and the political system to make them clean and comprehensively strong; comprehensively innovate governance and improve the capacity of self-innovation and self-improvement to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the Party's leadership over the State and the society, especially in building a law-governed socialist State. Ensure synchronous and smooth operation of the newly-established model of political system, meeting the requirements of fast and sustainable national development. Continue to vigorously innovate personnel work to ensure its effectiveness and efficiency, especially in the assessment and evaluation of cadres. Build a contingent of cadres at all levels, ensuring that they are truly virtuous and talented, constantly renewing themselves and meeting the demands of their tasks. Strengthen control over power within the Party and the State; continue to vigorously step up the fight against corruption, waste, bureaucracy, and wrongdoings; consolidate people's trust and attachment to the Party, the State, and the socialist regime.

(3) Promote the development of a modern and internationally-integrated socialist-oriented market economy, under the leadership of the Party and the management of the State to meet the requirement for developing new productive forces; develop the State economic sector to ensure its leading role in safeguarding macro-economic stability and major balances, and guiding the economy, while private economic sector shall be developed to become a key driving force of the national economy; establish a new growth model, restructure the economy, promote industrialization and modernization, with science, technology, innovation and digital transformation serving as the main driver, while improving productivity, quality, efficiency, added values and competitiveness of the economy. Bolster the development of new productive forces and production models, with a focus on developing digital economy, green economy, circular economy, building a digital and environmentally friendly society.

(4) Focus on implementing strategic breakthroughs in science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation, creating foundations for the development of new and modern productive forces, giving priority to developing strategic technology industries, particularly, semiconductor chip and artificial intelligence; step up training and use of high-quality workforce, creating key incentives for improving productivity, quality, efficiency, added values, and competitiveness of products, enterprises and the economy as a whole.

(5) Develop human resource and culture to truly become the spiritual foundation, a source internal strength and a major driving force for fast and sustainable development. Build a modern national education system on par with that of the region and the world, with a focus on improving the quality of education and training, caring for people's health. Continue to innovate the way to manage the society and sustainable development; effectively implement social policies, ensuring security, welfare, safety, and well-being for the people, especially policy beneficiaries, vulnerable groups, and the workforce in the informal sector, in accordance with Viet Nam's conditions.

(6) Continue to build the military and police forces that are revolutionary, regular, elite, and modern to firmly protect independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the nation. Speed up synchronous, creative and effective implementation of the diplomatic work; elevate and promote the role of Party diplomacy, State diplomacy and people-to-people diplomacy in building a environment of peace, stability, friendship, and cooperation conducive to national development.

Key strategic breakthroughs of 14th tenure of National Party Congress

(1) Create a strong breakthrough in pro-development institutions, improve the capacity to formulate and organize the implementation of the Party's guidelines and the State's laws and policies in order to unlock and utilize all resources effectively; promote decentralization and delegation of authority and powers as well as autonomy of localities; promote breakthrough development of science, technology, innovation and digital transformation; ensure the State economy plays a leading role in the national economy while promoting the development of the private economy; build a new startup ecosystem; develop new productive forces and new business models.

(2) Focus on structural transformation and improve the quality of human resources, develop high-quality, highly skilled workforce; promote the recruitment and utilization of talents; encourage and protect dynamic and creative civil servants who dare to think, dare to act, dare to take responsibility for the common good. Strongly innovate personnel work, especially in assessment of civil servants. Build a contingent of cadres who undertake leadership and managerial roles at all levels of the political system, especially strategic-level and grassroots-level cadres who are truly exemplary, possess advanced thinking and governance capabilities that meet the requirements of the new organizational structure and breakthrough development imperative of the nation.

(3) Continue comprehensive and breakthrough development of socio-economic infrastructure, especially multimodal transport infrastructure, technological infrastructure for governance, infrastructure for digital transformation-green conversion-energy transition-climate change adaptation, and infrastructure for culture-education-sport.

III - The Congress approves the Political Report, the Report summarizing several theoretical and practical issues of 40 years of the Renewal process. The 14th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam shall finalize these Reports for official issuance.

IV - The Congress approves the Report on 15-year implementation of the Party Charter (2011-2025) and proposed orientations for amending and supplementing the Party Charter, submitted to the 14th National Party Congress by the 13th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam; agreeing not to amend and supplement the current Party Charter. The 14th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam shall direct the review of the implementation of the Party Charter right from the beginning of this tenure. The 14th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam shall conduct the review of implementation of the Party Charter right from the beginning of this term and propose amendments and supplements to the Party Charter as well as the Platform on national construction in transition period to socialism, then report to the 15th National Party Congress for consideration and approval on the occasion of the 100th founding anniversary of the Party; enhance inspection and supervision to ensure serious, united and effective implementation of the Party Charter.

V - The Congress approves the Report reviewing the performance of the 13th Central Committee of Communist Party of Viet Nam submitted to the 14th National Party Congress. The 14th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam shall collect comments at the 14th National Party Congress, promote strengths and overcome shortcomings to improve the quality and effectiveness of performance during this tenure.

VI - The Congress approves the results for election of 200 members to the 14th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, including 180 official members and 20 alternate members.

VII - The 14th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Viet Nam, Party Committees and Party organizations shall lead and successfully organize the implementation of the guidelines and policies of the 14th National Party Congress.

The National Party Congress calls on the entire Party, people, and armed forces to promote the sense of patriotism, the aspiration for development, and the strength of great national solidarity; combine domestic and foreign strengths; strongly innovate mindset while unifying will and actions; comprehensively and effectively implement the strategic policies; successfully implement the Resolution of the 14th National Party Congress for a peaceful, independent, democratic, strong, prosperous, civilized, and happy Viet Nam firmly moving forward to socialism./.