Major contents of Party's Resolution on innovation of Viet Nam's development model

Below are the major tasks and solutions to innovate Viet Nam's development model:

1. On institutions, national governance, and improvement of the political system

- Enhance the leadership capacity, governing capability, and fighting strength of the Party, focusing on leadership capacity in strategic planning, institutional building, implementation, self-rectification, and self-renewal.

Party building and rectification, along with organizational and personnel work constitute the core elements of national governance.

Comprehensively innovate personnel work, taking cadre evaluation as a breakthrough step with work efficiency as the primary measure; encourage and protect dynamic, creative cadres who dare to think, dare to act, and dare to take responsibility for the common good; establish an inter-linked mechanism in recruitment, attraction, and utilization of high-quality experts and human resources between the public and private sectors.

- Fundamentally innovate the drafting and implementation of Party resolutions and conclusions, ensuring consistence from policy to action and from objectives to results. Clearly define tasks, roadmaps, resources, deliverables, and responsibilities.

Innovate governance mechanisms based on objectives, outputs, and development impacts; uphold the primary responsibility of heads of agencies and organizations; strengthen inspection, supervision, and control of power; resolutely prevent and combat corruption, wastefulness, negative phenomena, bureaucracy, inertia, and evasion of responsibility.

- Perfect the socialist law-governed State of the people, by the people, and for the people, led by the Communist Party of Viet Nam; shift from sector- and field-based administrative management to harmonious and effective integration with ecosystem-based development governance; from control to enabling development.

Transform the relationship among the State, the market, and society toward a model where the State regulates, guides, directs, creates new markets and sectors, and builds national strategic capabilities in science, technology, innovation, data, new energy, and strategic competitive fields.

The market plays a decisive role in mobilizing, allocating, and efficiently utilizing resources; the society participates, supervises, provides feedback, builds consensus, and exercises the people's right to mastery. The State focuses on formulating and perfecting institutions, planning, standards, technical regulations, and managing outputs; lawmaking must closely mirror practical realities, "standing firmly on the practical soil of Viet Nam," selectively absorbing the refined values of humanity, ensuring systematic coherence, seizing every opportunity, clearing the path, and unlocking all resources to turn institutions and laws into a competitive advantage, a solid foundation, and a powerful driving force for development, creating room to promote double-digit economic growth.

- Formulate laws that are clear, feasible, transparent, synchronous, unified, stable, easy to implement, flexible, and rapidly adaptable to new development demands, approaching advanced international standards and practices while conforming to national realities.

End the mindset of "banning what cannot be managed"; shift decisively from "pre-inspection" to "smart post-inspection" and management based on results and output efficiency.

Effectively guarantee and protect property rights, assets, and freedom of business. Improve the business investment environment, striving to join the leading group in ASEAN and approaching the standards of developed economies regarding business investment environment and innovation.

- Complete the normative legal document framework on controlled testing mechanisms (sandboxes) across various sectors; encourage ministries, sectors, and localities to issue appropriate sandbox mechanisms; ensure consistency in awareness and implementation of risk-tolerance mechanisms in scientific research, technology, and innovation.

Promote rational decentralization and delegation of power to qualified localities; permit controlled pilot testing of new business models, new governance mechanisms, and special, superior policies.

Complete the legal framework on artificial intelligence and digital technology; protect personal data and human rights in the digital environment.

- Develop digital government, shared data, and digital platforms to monitor the implementation of resolutions, strategies, planning, public investment, and development targets; focus on inspecting results, impacts, and heads' responsibilities; ensure every task has a clear assignee, clear workload, clear authority, clear resources, clear timeline, and clear deliverables.

Build a national governance indicator framework according to international practices.

- Organize a streamlined, efficient, effective, and operational political system apparatus on the principle that each task is assigned to a single focal agency; complete and operate effectively the two-tier local government model; accelerate decentralization and delegation of power; build grassroots-level administrative units with sufficient capacity, authority, and resources; leverage the role of the Viet Nam Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations in gathering, mobilizing, supervising, and providing social feedback; promote democracy and the people's right to mastery. Pilot, review, and replicate the socialist commune and ward model in certain localities.

2. On the economy

- Establish a new growth model driven by productivity, science, technology, innovation, digital transformation, green transition, and high-quality human resources; modernize traditional growth drivers; strongly foster new growth drivers from high-tech industries, high-value services, smart agriculture, digital economy, data economy, green economy, new economic models, and high value-added sectors.

- Reorganize the national development space toward a multi-layered, multi-polar structure, synchronously linking land - sea - maritime domains - underground space - digital space, and new development spaces; shift from administrative-boundary-based development to functional development based on potentials, advantages, resource-environmental conditions, regional linkages, and sectoral linkages; align with ensuring national strategic autonomy and enhancing the resilience of regions, growth poles, economic centers, and key supply chains.

- Develop Viet Nam into a nation strong in and enriched by the sea, boasting top regional competitiveness in marine industries. Transform maritime space into a strategic development area and a long-term growth driver; formulate and execute strategies utilizing marine space, coast-bound economic corridors, and oceans as primary development axes, radiating into midland, mountainous, and border regions. Develop a modern, green, digital, autonomous, and dual-use maritime industry.

- Develop the low-altitude economy into an important, highly competitive techno-economic sector. Efficiently exploit and utilize outer space; establish a space economy ecosystem; master core technical infrastructure, satellite technology, and spatial data. Strongly develop underground space in major urban centers, growth poles, financial, commercial, and logistics centers, and public transportation hubs.

- Develop production factor markets—especially capital, land, science, technology, data, and high-quality labor—in a synchronous, modern, transparent, and interconnected direction.

Fully establish property rights over research outcomes, promoting the circulation, transaction, and commercialization of technology, knowledge, and intellectual property assets; establish and develop derivative commodity trading markets.

Deeply reform the financial system; raise national credit ratings and upgrade the stock market status; expand and diversify long-term capital channels for infrastructure, key projects, innovation, green transition, social housing, and tech enterprises; develop green finance, climate finance, and agricultural insurance; establish an international financial center with special, superior mechanisms to serve as a hub for mobilizing, allocating, and leading resources, piloting institutional mechanisms, fostering innovation, and connecting global finance.

- Fundamentally innovate the mechanisms for mobilizing, allocating, and utilizing national resources; shift from an allocation mindset to an enabling mindset that maximizes resource efficiency; take development efficiency and impact as measures; ensure the principle of comprehensive economic accounting in the allocation, management, and use of all social resources; implement allocation according to strategic priorities and high-productivity, high-value-added, high-spillover sectors; utilize public investment to lead and activate private investment; unblock and transform stagnant resources into development drivers. Innovate distribution relations toward efficiency, fairness, and inclusiveness.

- Rapidly develop new and modern production forces; turn science, technology, and innovation into direct productive forces and primary growth drivers.

Treat data as a new production mean and strategic resource; ensure transparency and controlled management of public sector data; establish mechanisms allowing intellectual property rights to serve as capital contribution, credit guarantee, and commercial exploitation assets.

Develop artificial intelligence into an intelligence infrastructure and a high-quality productive force; synchronously and effectively implement the National AI Transformation Strategy; prioritize national computing infrastructure, Vietnamese Large Language Models (LLMs), shared platforms, and digital citizen platforms.

- Formulate and execute a new-generation industrialization and modernization strategy; place emphasis on tech capability building; prioritize key sectors like semiconductors, AI, advanced materials, quantum, biotechnology, advanced processing- manufacturing, green industries, and energy industries; develop materials industry into a core, foundational sector; prioritize supporting industries linked with higher localization rates.

Develop ecological, smart, high-tech, circular, high-value-added, and low-emission agriculture along value chains, tied to building civilized rural areas and professional farmers.

Develop a modern, high-quality services sector, prioritizing high-value-added services linked to upgrading industry, agriculture, and urban center.

Invest in and develop tourism into a spearhead economic sector; establish regionally and internationally competitive service hubs; develop the healthcare economy into an important, high-value-added sector.

- Develop an enterprise ecosystem structured in multi-tiered, mutually supportive links with tailored, targeted, and objective-driven support policies.

Focus on developing leading enterprises, supply chain heads, and highly competitive industrial ecosystems coupled with enhancing the capacity, quality, and performance of Vietnamese enterprises; strengthen state ordering and task-assignment mechanisms; establish breakthrough mechanisms to promote linkages among large enterprises, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), innovative startups, cooperatives, research institutes, universities, and innovation centers.

Develop state-owned enterprises to truly play a leading role in ensuring macroeconomic stability, major balances, strategic direction, and leading the economy.

Develop the private sector into one of the most important growth drivers; consolidate and develop the collective and cooperative economy; transform household businesses into dynamic and sustainable production and business units; selectively attract foreign direct investment (FDI) tied to technology transfer, production capacity enhancement, and integration/spillover effects with the domestic economic sector.

- Develop synchronous, modern, smart, green strategic infrastructure with multi-layered, multi-modal connectivity; prioritize high-speed transport infrastructure, seaports, airports, energy, smart cities, underground space, marine space, climate change adaptation infrastructure, and infrastructure for mountainous and extremely disadvantaged areas.

Integrate physical infrastructure with digital infrastructure in transport, energy, industry, logistics, agriculture, education, healthcare, and public services.

Build digital, data, computing capacity, and AI infrastructure as national strategic infrastructure; leverage the role of the National Data Center; develop large-scale data centers, high-performance computing infrastructure, shared national digital platforms, national open data, and centers of excellence in AI, semiconductors, and quantum computing.

Develop a modern, multi-modal logistics system effectively connecting seaports, border gates, airports, railways, expressways, industrial zones, and economic corridors.

- Restructure the national innovation ecosystem around enterprises, with the State playing an enabling, guiding, and risk-sharing role; nurture national champion enterprises in tech fields, foundational industries, and strategic markets.

Make long-term investments in basic research and key national laboratories; encourage enterprise investment in research and development (R&D), intellectual property, and core technology; support technology capacity building for SMEs and startups.

- Strongly innovate the integration of research, application, transfer, and commercialization of research outcomes; grant autonomy to research organizations while safeguarding the legitimate interests of scientists; synchronously develop testing, technology transfer, intellectual property, and financial platforms to rapidly introduce research outcomes into production and business, forming commercial products, enterprises, and new economic sectors. Synchronously institutionalize the State - Enterprise - Research Institute/University linkage mechanism.

- Accelerate urbanization and develop urban areas into major growth drivers; build growth poles, innovation hubs, and green, smart urban centers with international competitiveness; strengthen effective regional and inter-sectoral links; restructure development space alongside the formation of economic corridors, financial centers, and logistics hubs.

3. On social development

Build a disciplined, safe, civilized, harmonious, dynamic, adaptable, and resilient society against fluctuations. Deploy modern, proactive social management methods based on data, science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation.

Establish a proactive, comprehensive, inclusive, modern, and sustainable human security framework; build early detection, warning, and handling systems for risks to social stability and safety; develop conciliation, dialogue, and legal aid institutions at the grassroots level. Formulate and implement comprehensive social assessment criteria, index sets on social happiness, quality of life, social trust, and human security assurance.

- Build a modern, multi-layered, sustainable, inclusive, flexible, and highly adaptable social security system; treat social security investments as investments in development; better protect vulnerable groups; construct risk management systems and a digital map for social security.

Narrow development gaps across regions, urban and rural areas, and lowlands and highlands; pay special attention to deep-lying, remote, mountainous, border, island, ethnic minority areas, and vulnerable groups.

- Shift the healthcare system model from disease treatment to disease prevention and comprehensive healthcare, ensuring all citizens receive managed, cared-for, and improved health services; achieve universal health insurance coverage and progressively waive hospital fees according to a roadmap; ensure self-sufficiency in vaccines, pharmaceutical supplies, and medical equipment for epidemic prevention, control, diagnosis, and treatment.

- Innovate human resource development governance and modernize the labor market. Build a unified national-to-local forecasting, planning, and human resource development governance framework linked with socio-economic, sectoral, regional, and local development strategies.

Modernize the labor market based on digital data and AI; complete national databases on labor, employment, and vocational skills, synchronously connecting databases; comprehensively digitize and develop public employment services into labor market coordination hubs; encourage private employment service development and public-private partnership mechanisms in service delivery; ensure equal access to sustainable employment opportunities, leaving no one behind.

4. On culture and human development

- Build an advanced Vietnamese culture rich in national identity; synchronously deploy the systems of national values, cultural values, family values, as well as human standards, and social standards from central to grassroots levels; link cultural institution building with practicing, spreading, and deeply embedding these value systems in social life; make a culture of respect for the law and social discipline core values.

Harmoniously balance conservation and development; strongly develop cultural industries and the creative economy; establish mechanisms and policies to develop master artisans; boost cultural exports; assetize cultural values and build a cultural intellectual property market; construct digital culture and defend national digital cultural sovereignty.

- Build an open, interconnected, equitable, adaptable, and learner-centered education system. Innovate education and training toward pragmatic learning, career readiness, creative capacity, critical thinking, digital skills, and an entrepreneurial spirit meeting market demands.

Develop higher education into the core of national intellectual capacity; build world-class research universities and centers of excellence in science and technology. Comprehensively innovate vocational education tied to enterprise needs; expand dual training, workplace training, retraining, and upskilling models; promote post-secondary vocational training models; build a vocational skill development ecosystem and a national vocational skills framework.

Establish skill forecasting systems, retraining programs, career transition support, and worker protection frameworks during digital and green transitions. Innovate general education toward developing personal qualities, competencies, scientific thinking, digital skills, self-learning abilities, and adaptability. Build a learning society and lifelong learning mechanisms; accelerate digital literacy and knowledge enrichment for farmers.

- Develop high-quality human resources with an emphasis on digital skills, practical capacity, creative capacity, and lifelong learning capabilities. Formulate and implement a National Strategy on Talent Attraction and Utilization featuring special, superior, and internationally competitive mechanisms and policies, especially in basic sciences, AI, semiconductors, quantum, data science, and strategic/emerging technologies; attract overseas Vietnamese intellectuals, experts, scientists, and international talents.

- Fundamentally shift the mindset from managing population size and structure to developing national demographic capital, treating population as a strategic resource for long-term growth; improve population quality, linking population policy with human resource development, social security, and the labor market. Proactively draft strategies and population policies adaptable to population aging; strongly develop the "silver economy" along with ecosystems, products, and services for the elderly.

5. On eco-environment

Treat natural resource and environmental governance as a pillar of sustainable development linked to ensuring energy security, water security, food security, climate change adaptation, and economic resilience.

Build an ecological culture and promote a green lifestyle in harmony with nature. Complete environmental protection and climate change response institutions toward an enabling framework that leads green transition, developing within ecological boundaries and environmental carrying capacities; effectively utilize economic instruments in environmental management. Achieve the net-zero emissions goal by 2050 following an appropriate roadmap; promote circular economy, low-carbon economy, and green transition across sectors, backed by support mechanisms for production regions.

- Fully develop and operate the carbon credit market; apply carbon credit pricing, Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) mechanisms, and green public procurement; expand green credit, green bonds, and green capital markets; perfect environmental tax/fee systems and carbon taxes according to international practices; strongly decentralize powers to major urban centers to collect environmental fees, issue green bonds, and establish low-emission zones.

- Build a modern, data-driven natural resource and environmental governance platform linked with inter-sectoral and inter-regional coordination mechanisms; strengthen management, efficient exploitation, and conservation of resources; preserve nature and biodiversity, restoring environments and ecosystems; construct ecological corridors and biodiversity protection networks; progressively integrate natural capital accounting into national statistical systems; expand automated, real-time monitoring; integrate resource-environmental protection and climate adaptation requirements into planning, budget allocation, and investment decisions.

- Proactively prevent and strictly control pollution sources; promptly resolve environmental issues to improve citizens' living environments. Proactively and effectively adapt to climate change and mitigate disaster risks; prioritize investments in climate-resilient infrastructure and urban centers.

Innovate disaster/epidemic prevention and climate adaptation work, shifting from passive response to proactive risk governance, and from handling consequences to early, far-reaching prevention; boost the application of science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation.

- Develop the environmental industry into a strategic economic sector; establish controlled testing mechanisms (sandboxes) for green and climate technologies; encourage eco-industrial parks and traceable recycling systems; proactively handle natural disasters, sea-level rise, land degradation, biodiversity loss, and environmental pollution.

6. On national defense and security

- Synchronously complete national defense and security institutions and legal frameworks matching the requirements of national development model innovation, adapting to new forms of warfare and new strategic spaces. Build a strong, modern all-people national defense and an all-people defense posture linked seamlessly with the people's security posture; connect the digital defense posture and digital security posture with a firm "people's heart" posture.

Build a revolutionary, regular, seasoned, and modern People's Army and People's Public Security; step up investments and prioritize modernizing naval, air, cyber, electronic warfare, unmanned, robotic, and specialized operational forces in security, intelligence, science, technology, and specialized engineering fields.

- Accelerate breakthroughs in developing a proactive, self-reliant, strategically autonomous, dual-use, and modern defense and security industry, with appropriate participation from the domestic private sector. Prioritize AI, semiconductors, advanced materials, satellites, unmanned vehicles, robotics, cybersecurity, quantum technology, and electronic warfare; step by step master the design and manufacture of high-tech weaponry.

Formulate and synchronously develop dual-use defense-economic zones, industrial clusters, national security industrial complexes, and defense/security innovation centers; build a network of defense and security enterprises capable of mastering strategic technologies and leading spearhead sectors; develop dual-use infrastructure integrating defense, security, and civilian needs. Establish mechanisms for ordering, testing, commercializing, and controlled exporting of dual-use products; encourage overseas investment in defense and security industries.

- Ensure strategic autonomy in technology and data; construct defense data infrastructure and interconnected digital command and control systems; establish strategic forecasting mechanisms, inter-agency security coordination, and national security risk mapping.

- Comprehensively develop national security assurance capacities. Formulate and synchronously execute the National Security Strategy; firmly safeguard national security, regime security, human security, economic security, cultural-ideological security, energy security, food security, water security, cybersecurity, tech security, financial security, and security in emerging domains (outer space, low-altitude, underground, sea, and ocean...); prepare proactive scenarios and plans for handling new forms of security violations and crisis situations, as well as framework scenarios for non-traditional security threats.

- Build a synchronous, multi-tiered security posture across domains; proactively detect, effectively respond to, and push back all traditional and non-traditional security challenges. Establish periodic national resilience testing mechanisms; establish security risk assessment mechanisms for major strategies, large projects, major digital platforms, foreign direct investments in sensitive sectors, and high-impact emerging technologies; build tracking and early warning systems for supply chain and tech risks.

Formulate and refine a national strategic framework on human security; enhance citizen protection against non-traditional and cyber threats. Focus on effectively combating crimes, building an orderly, disciplined, safe, civilized, harmonious, and progressive society.

7. On foreign affairs and international integration

- Build a comprehensive, modern, professional diplomatic sector; remain steadfast in pursuing the foreign policy of independence, self-reliance, multilateralization, and diversification; safeguard national interests to the highest degree based on international law; leverage the combined strength of Party diplomacy, State diplomacy, and people-to-people diplomacy; deepen relationships with partners, especially comprehensive strategic partners, strategic partners, and key partners; devise solutions to intertwine strategic interests with major powers; persistently resolve border, territorial, and maritime sovereignty issues through peaceful means on the basis of international law.

- Take economic diplomacy as a central task; synchronously and effectively conduct tech, digital, cultural, environmental, and climate diplomacy; leverage head-of-state diplomacy in building political trust; link high-level diplomatic activities with investment attraction and technology transfer; maximize the role of overseas diplomatic missions in promoting scientific and technological cooperation and attracting talent.

- Elevate multilateral diplomacy; play a core role in regional and global mechanisms; participate in shaping new international standards regarding the digital economy, AI, green finance, cybersecurity, and supply chains; promote defense and security diplomacy to protect the Fatherland early and from afar through peaceful means.

- Enhance foreign affairs and international integration capabilities of local governments and enterprises. Leverage the roles of the Viet Nam Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations, and the overseas Vietnamese community in people-to-people diplomacy, knowledge diplomacy, tech, and digital diplomacy.

- Diversify partners, markets, supply chains, and technology ecosystems; proactively manage risks of strategic dependency; apply special mechanisms to attract multinational corporations, research organizations, and international talent to participate in science and technology programs in Viet Nam; strongly mobilize the resources and role of the overseas Vietnamese community./.