Hanoi (VNA) – The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) will strive tobuild a contingent of officials with competence, virtue and reputationbefitting their duties.

This determination was manifested in Resolution No.26-NQ/TW of theseventh plenary meeting of the 12th CPV Central Committee that wrapped up inHanoi on May 12 and was signed into effect by Party chief Nguyen Phu Trong onMay 19.

The resolution aims to build a contingent of officials, especially thoseat strategic level, who are capable of leading the country to become amodernity-oriented industrialised nation by 2030, with a vision to 2045 tobecome modern industrial nation, to realise the target of a wealthy people, astrong country, and an democratic, fair and civilised society.

The Resolution set specific goals for each period. By 2020, the Party will focus itsefforts on building an exhaustive mechanism towards checks-and-balances ofpower, exercise utmost efforts in “total eradication” of obtaining positions inthe Government and Party by illicit means such as nepotism and bribery, andprevent the “self-transformation” and “self-evolution” phenomena among Partymembers.

By 2030, the Party strives to build a professional and high-qualitycontingent of officials at all levels. Itsets at least 40-50 percent of strategic-level officials must be capable of workingin international environment besides conditions such as 15 percent of thecontingent being under 45 years old, or all must be “truly exemplary inpolitical ideology, virtuosity, qualifications, and reputation.”

Similarly, for the contingent of officials holding leader positions ofgeneral departments, departments at the central level, 20-25 percent must beunder 40 years and 50-60 percent capable of working in internationalenvironment.

For local government’s leaders and officials, 15-20 percent ofprovincial leaders must be under 40 years old, 25-35 percent capable of workingin international environment. 

The contingent of commune-level officials mustbe 100 percent university/college graduates and has received standardisedtraining on political thoughts, ideology, as well as their job’s skills andknowledge.

For the contingent of officials holding executive positions inState-owned enterprises, 70-80 percent of them must be capable of workinginternationally while upholding “Party’s ideology and the law-abiding spirit.”

The Party aims to have at least 11 scientists cum officials for every10,000 people.

The proportion of female deputies at theNational Assembly and People’s Councils at all levels is set to exceed 35percent.

In areas with considerable presence of ethnic minority population, theratio of the officials who are from local ethnic minority backgrounds mustreflect respective demographic ratio, according to the Party Resolution."

The Resolution also highlights the Party’s two main priorities and fivebreakthroughs.

The first priority is to continue implementingrobust and synchronous reforms, tightening disciplines and regulations whilecreating an environment conducive to innovation, creativity and commitmentstowards public service as well as developing mechanisms to protect officialswho dare to think and act outside-of-the-box and dare to take responsibilityfor the common goods.

The second priority is to focus on developing the contingent ofofficials holding key leadership positions, especially Party secretaries, withan eye set on decentralisation of power in order to engender autonomy andinnovation and prevent abuse of power.

The Party’s five breakthroughs include reforming official contingentassessment; maintaining a firm balance of power, filtering out and replacingunsuitable officials in a timely manner, putting an end to illicit bribery forpositions in addition to enforcing serious implementation of the Party’s orderthat local government-level Party secretaries must not be locals.

Simultaneously is implementing public servants’ salary and housingreforms to create strong motivations for officials to be fully committed totheir duties, and to craft policies and mechanism to enable a fair andcompetitive environment to draw in and make use of talents; and completingmechanisms to make sure that officials must maintain close ties with people andto promote the role of people in building a capable contingent ofofficials.-VNA