Hanoi (VNA) – In 2022, thePolitburo for the first time issued six resolutions on socio-economicdevelopment and defence - security safeguarding for six regions, believed to bea necessary and judicious move to opဣtimise each region’s potential and promotenational development.

The 13th National PartyCongress devised the socio-economic development strategy for 2030, with avision to 2045, which targets that by 2030, Vietnam will have become adeveloping country with modern industry and upper-middle income, and by 2045 adeveloped and high-income country. The strategy also identified anorientation for the development of regions – fully capitalising on each region’sadvantages on infrastructure, natural conditions, geo-economic and geo-politicalpositions, and human resources, along with enhancing connectivity within eachregion and among different regions so as to promote their participation inglobal value chains and create new development spaces. The six regions are the northern midland and mountainousregion, the Mekong Delta, the Central Highlands, the southeastern region, thenorthern and coastal central region, and the Red River Delta. Each region has its owncharacteristics, potential, advantages as well as difficulties and challenges. Tobring into play their potential and advantages and the whole country’s, aside fromcommon development policies, it is also necessary to issue specific andappropriate ones for each region. Developing regions is a consistent guideline of the Party to fully tap intopotential and advantages of regions and localities nationwide to servesocio-economic development, ensure defence and security safeguarding, andimprove people’s material and spiritual life. As soon as the resolutions werereleased, the Politburo and the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat heldconferences to disseminate the documents among the ministries, sectors, and localities, and launch the implementation. Addressing those events, PartyGeneral Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong stressed the resolutions’ importance, notingthe first and foremost task of thoroughly grasping and effectively implementingthem in order to translate guidelines, directions, and policies intoreality. He also emphasised that in additionto being fully aware of the resolutions’ purposes, significance, requests, andcontent, it is important to guarantee high consensus across the whole country,the entire regions, localities in each region, and authorities from central tolocal levels; understand that this is the responsibility of the entirepolitical system, not only of the six regions or their localities; be properlyaware of and deal with the relationship between regional and nationaldevelopment; and promote the consensus on the importance of the regions andregional connectivity. Given this, the building, issuance, and implementation of the six resolutionsare believed to hold great necessity for realising the goals set in theresolution of the 13th National Party Congress, including turningVietnam into a developing country with modern industry and upper-middle income by2030 and a developed and high-income country by 2045./.