Members of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam vote to adopt a resolution of their seventh plenary session (Photo: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The seventh plenary session of the 12th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) concluded in Hanoi onMay 12, completing all the agenda contents after six working days.
Prior to the closing session, members of the committee gave opinions onthree projects – the building of a contingent of senior officials, especiallyat strategic level with sufficient virtue, capacity and prestige on par withtheir assigned tasks in the new circumstance; the reform of wage policies; andthe renovation of social insurance policies.
They voted to adopt a resolution of the session, and three resolutionson the three projects.
Addressing the closing ceremony, CPV General Secretary Nguyen Phu Tronghighlighted the need of developing a contingent of officials, especiallystrategic officials meeting the requirements of the new period.
He asked for resolute and persistent direction over the implementationof eight key groups of solutions and tasks set forth at the session, focusingon ideological, moral and lifestyle education among Party members as well asyounger generations in association with the studying and following of late PresidentHo Chi Minh’s example.
It is necessary to renovate and improve the quality of personnel work,while paying more attention to developing strategic personnel, and promotingthe role of the community in the work, he said.
The Party leader said that a highlight of the resolution of the 12th CPV Central Committee’s seventh session is the requirement to seek a new performanceassessment method for officials, which is more objective and accurate, alongwith an effective mechanism to encourage them to overcome difficulties toimprove themselves, and measures to control power, prevent bribery for jobtitles, fight against individualism in personnel work.
He underscored the principle that all power must be controlled throughmechanisms, and authority must go with responsibility.
Meanwhile, it is vital to timely discover and handle violations of Partyregulations and State’s law, tackling the abuse of power to conduct wrongfulactivities in personnel work or abetting activities of bribery for job titles.Alongside, inaccurate decisions on personnel work must be strictly withdrawn,while organisations and individuals committing violations in the field must be handled,he said.
"We should strive to complete the institutionalization of theresolution and translate it into Party regulations and State’s law on personnelwork in the rest of the CPV Central Committee’s 12th tenure," theParty leader said.
"At the same time, it is a need to prepare personnel for the 13th Party Congress at all level, focusing on the building of personnel for theCentral Committee in the direction of improving the quality, quantity andstructure," he said, noting the proactive preparation of leading personnel ofthe Party, State, the Political Bureau and the Secretariat, who should standout in intellectual, virtues and lifestyle.
During the seventh plenary session, the Party Central Committee came upwith instructions, goals, tasks, policies and measures to continue speeding upsalary reform with many contents having breakthrough significance and highfeasibility.
For the public sector, it instructed the building of a new payrollsystem with one payroll based on position for those in the leadership in thepolitical system, another based on profession for those not in the leadership,and three others for the armed forces. Allowances must be rearranged towardstotal allowances accounting for a maximum 30 percent of total payroll. The headof a unit is allowed to use the allocated payroll and regular expenditure tohire experts and scientists with special talents and to use the bonus fund toaward the unit’s employees periodically based on their work performance.
For the enterprise sector, the Party Central Committee pointed to theneed to continue completing the policy on regional minimal monthly wages toprotect underprivileged workers. Enterprises, including the fully-owned Stateones, are empowered to decide their salary policies. For State-ownedenterprises, the State will regulate salary and salary of its capitalrepresentative will not include in salary of the executive board.
The Party CentralCommittee urged the building and perfection of the system of job positions soit will serve as a foundation for developing the payroll for job positions, jobtitles and leading positions.
It stressed the needto ratchet up the reform of social insurance policy to turn social insuranceinto a key pillar of the social security system, considering it an urgent andlong-term task.
To ensure the health of the social insurance fund in the long run, the PartyCentral Committee underscored the need to quickly supplement, revise and fixirrationalities in the retirement insurance mechanism. The retirement age wouldbe raised under a proper roadmap regarding its suitability to specific groupsand occupations. Gender equality must be ensured. Measures should be taken todeal with aging population and fast changes of the labor market and theintroduction of new labour forms under Industry 4.0.
At the sitting, the Party Central Committee spoke highly of the review ofleadership in 2017 made by the Political Bureau and the Secretariat, asking thePolitical Bureau and the Secretariat to make more drastic instructions for theproductive implementation of the set key tasks and visible, strong changes, soto consolidate the trust of cadres, Party members and people to the Party.
At the session, the Party Central Committee elected two supplementary membersof the Secretariat and considered punishments for some Party members.
"The seventhsession of the 12th Party Central Committee was a success," theParty chief said.
"The session’soutcomes reflected a sense of responsibility, unity, and high consensus amongthe Party Central Committee, which will contribute importantly to cementing andpromoting the achievements gained by the whole Party and people in the firsthalf of the 12th tenure, and creating a new impetus for thecomprehensive and synchronous reform, the building of a strong and pure Party,and the fast and sustainable development of the country," he said.-VNA
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