Expressing deep gratitude to generations of National Assembly deputies through the ages

(laichau.gov.vn) On behalf of the Party and State leaders, General Secretary To Lam expressed his deep gratitude to generations of National Assembly deputies through the years. At the same time, he acknowledged and commended the efforts of the National Assembly, its agencies, delegations, and each National Assembly deputy over the past time.

On behalf of the Party and State leaders, General Secretary To Lam expressed deep gratitude to generations of National Assembly deputies through the periods.

On the morning of August 27, at the National Convention Center, General Secretary To Lam met with National Assembly deputies of all periods. With special affection and attention for the National Assembly, this is the first time in history that the head of our Party has chaired a meeting with generations of National Assembly deputies to express gratitude to those who have devoted and made important contributions to the glorious journey of nearly 80 years of the Vietnamese National Assembly.

The meeting was held to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution (August 19, 1945 - August 19, 2025), the 80th anniversary of National Day (September 2, 1945 - September 2, 2025) and towards the 80th anniversary of the first General Election to elect the Vietnamese National Assembly (January 6, 1946 - January 9, 2026).

Attending the meeting were: former General Secretary Nong Duc Manh; President Luong Cuong; Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh; former Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung; National Assembly Chairman Tran Thanh Man; former National Assembly Chairmen Nguyen Sinh Hung and Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan; Standing member of the Secretariat Tran Cam Tu and comrades of the Politburo , Party Central Committee Secretariat, former Politburo members, former Party Central Committee Secretaries, Party Central Committee members, former Party Central Committee members... and more than 2,000 National Assembly deputies of different periods.

This meeting is an opportunity to pay tribute to generations of National Assembly deputies, review glorious traditions, share valuable experiences, spread the desire for innovation, and join hands to build an increasingly democratic, professional, and modern National Assembly for a rich, powerful, and prosperous Vietnam, firmly entering a new era of the nation.

The National Assembly always accompanies the nation

On behalf of the Party and State leaders, General Secretary To Lam respectfully sent to the revolutionary veterans, exemplary predecessors, and National Assembly deputies of all periods... his warmest greetings and deepest gratitude; emphasizing that looking back 80 years, the development path of the Vietnamese National Assembly is a steadfast, creative, and constantly innovative journey. Since the historic General Election on January 6, 1946, the first democratic election in the history of our country, the National Assembly has resolved on the most important issues of the country: approving the Constitution, establishing the legal foundation for an independent state; deciding on major guidelines and policies; supremely supervising the activities of the state apparatus; and, through parliamentary diplomacy, contributing to raising the country's position in the international arena.

The National Assembly always accompanies the nation, is where important decisions based on the will and aspirations of the people are democratically discussed, carefully approved, and resolutely implemented.

General Secretary To Lam stated: Today, we honor the National Assembly not only as the highest state power institution, but first of all as a common House of people's representatives, who have shouldered the heavy but noble responsibility: listening to the people, speaking for the people, protecting the legitimate interests of the people. Each law, each resolution bears the mark of sweat, effort, and collective intelligence of many generations of representatives; it is the crystallization of grassroots trips living with the people, breathing with the people, multi-day discussion sessions, and carefully considered words to ensure both constitutionality and legality, and feasibility, efficiency, conciseness, and clarity.

Leaders and former leaders of the Party and State attended the meeting.

"In the hall today, with the presence of more than 2,200 delegates, there are many white-haired heads, warm eyes with a future light, they are uncles, brothers and sisters, former National Assembly delegates from the 2nd and 3rd terms to the present, the veteran comrades are the "treasure" of the parliamentary memory, the "living library" of Vietnamese legislation. Every story you shared today, every note you left, every frank comment in a draft law, all are valuable and meaningful. We hope to listen more, learn more, and look at ourselves in your example more, so that the road ahead will be more solid and open," General Secretary To Lam said.

The operating machinery of organizations, agencies and units in the political system is synchronous and smooth.

At the meeting, General Secretary To Lam reported on a number of outstanding achievements as well as some orientations for the country's development in the coming time, especially striving to successfully implement the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress and preparing well to successfully organize the 14th National Party Congress, ensuring the successful implementation of the two 100-year goals set by the Party.

Specifically, first, regarding the organizational arrangement of the political system, reorganizing the country's administrative space for development, General Secretary To Lam said that since the 10th Central Conference of the 13th tenure (September 2024) up to now, the Central Executive Committee has handled a huge amount of work to resolutely and resolutely implement the Resolution of the 13th Party Congress, achieving the socio-economic development targets of the 2020-2025 term, especially the strong, drastic and scientific implementation of Resolution No. 18 dated October 25, 2017 of the 12th Party Central Executive Committee on continuing to innovate, reorganize the apparatus of the political system to be streamlined, operate effectively and efficiently and decide to organize a 3-level government including 2 levels at the local level with the restructuring of the development space of administrative boundaries at the Provincial, City and Commune, Ward and Special Zone levels.

Basically, after 2 months of operation, the operating machinery of organizations, agencies and units in the 3-level political system, especially the Commune level, operates synchronously and smoothly, basically meeting the people's requirements, serving the people better and more conveniently. The relationship between the Central, Provincial and Commune levels is gradually being perfected in a new administrative entity.

Second is to focus on rapid and sustainable development. The Politburo's issuance of four strategic resolutions demonstrates a long-term vision and determination to continue to innovate, integrate, and remove difficulties and barriers to develop the country. The Party, State, and Government direct the concentration of investment resources to develop synchronous and modern strategic infrastructure, prioritizing key transport infrastructure projects, airport systems, seaports, expressways, high-speed railways, and inter-regional and inter-provincial projects.

Third, regarding improving people's lives, General Secretary To Lam said that economic achievements can be summarized in some numbers such as: GDP scale from 346 billion USD in 2020, ranked 37th in the world, expected to increase to over 510 billion USD in 2025, 1.48 times higher than in 2020, ranked 32nd in the world and 4th in the ASEAN region; GDP per capita increased 1.4 times, increased from 3,552 USD to about 5,000 USD. Gross national income (GNI) per capita increased from 3,400 USD to about 4,750 USD in 2025, surpassing the low middle income level. This is a proud result in the extremely difficult context of the past 5 years.

In the first 6 months of 2025, the world and regional situation faced many challenges and obstacles, but the Party and Government still maintained the goal of completing at the highest level the targets and tasks of the socio-economic development plan for 2025, especially the GDP growth target of 8% or more in 2025. GDP growth in the first quarter of 2025 reached 6.93%; in the second quarter it reached 7.96%, and in the first 6 months it is estimated to reach 7.52%. Overall, our country's economy is growing steadily, but it is also necessary to have appropriate measures to ensure macroeconomic stability, financial and monetary stability; focus on investment in production and business... pay attention to, create conditions, and remove difficulties for the private economy to continue to develop.

Fourthly, regarding national defense-security-foreign affairs, General Secretary To Lam said that there has never been a period in which the Party and State have paid as much attention to investing in the development of national defense and security as they do now. Our people's armed forces are rapidly moving towards the goal of being regular, elite, and modern; capable of fighting and winning against all types of war; capable of maintaining political security and social order and safety, not letting the country fall into a passive, unexpected situation. National defense and security are currently an effective foreign relations channel to maintain peace, stability, and development for the country.

Both the Army and the Police have been reorganized in a lean, compact, and strong direction; the national defense and security posture has been arranged in accordance with the country's new development space; military art and security art have been raised to a level suitable to the current situation. Military and security forces, weapons, and equipment are capable of meeting the task of protecting the fatherland. Territorial sovereignty and national integrity are guaranteed and maintained; national defense and security strength is much stronger than before; the Army and the Police have mastered and produced many types of modern weapons and equipment.

Fifth, regarding the 14th National Congress of the Party, it is expected that the 14th National Congress of the Party will be held in the first quarter of 2026. Up to now, the Central Committee is actively preparing for the 14th Congress to become a historic Congress, creating a mark to bring our country into an era of prosperity and sustainable development, for a prosperous and happy life for the people.

The new point in the 14th Congress is that the 3 Congress documents including: Political Report, Socio-Economic Report, Party Building Report will be integrated into a comprehensive report called "Political Report" and the Congress will also approve the "Action Program" for the entire 14th Congress term. The documents submitted to the 14th Congress are being sent to Party Committees, Party Cells, all Party members and the masses for comments.

Regarding the personnel of the 14th Central Executive Committee, the Party's policy is to pay special attention to the quality of the 14th Central Committee members. There must be an appropriate number and structure to meet the requirements of comprehensive leadership, paying attention to strengthening the Party Central Committee members in important positions, areas and fields that are prioritized. The percentage of Party Central Committee members (including official and alternate members) is expected to be young cadres under 47 years old at around 10%; female cadres at around 10-12%; ethnic minority cadres at around 10-12%. The selected comrades must be truly exemplary, clean, dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility, dare to sacrifice personal interests for the common good, put the collective interests, the people's interests, and the national interests above all, be prestigious in the Party and trusted by the people...

General Secretary To Lam meets with National Assembly deputies of different periods

Continue to be a vivid embodiment of the socialist rule of law state

General Secretary To Lam emphasized: The 80th anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day September 2 is an opportunity to review the past and illuminate the future. From the aspiration for independence to the aspiration for power, from the truth "Nothing is more precious than independence and freedom" to the goal of striving for "a strong, prosperous, happy Vietnam, standing shoulder to shoulder with the world powers", we are on a journey that extends our aspirations. On that journey, the National Assembly must be one step ahead in terms of institutions; must dare to pave the way, dare to repair the way, dare to decide on difficult issues, new tasks, and unprecedented fields. In the context of fierce strategic competition, complex climate change, and breakthroughs in science and technology, we cannot "become late or return late". We must "go with the times", even "take shortcuts", "go ahead and pave the way" in specific fields. We must take science and technology, Vietnamese spirit and intelligence as the foundation, as a "breakthrough", and focus on developing open data; digital government, digital economy, digital society; renewable energy and energy-saving technology; semiconductor industry; biotechnology; smart logistics; green and circular agriculture; high-quality tourism; preventive medicine and universal health care.

"The Party, the State and the People always remember and appreciate the great contributions of you, comrades. I believe that, even though you have retired or changed jobs, you will continue to accompany, contribute your mind, ideas, and efforts to the National Assembly, the Party and the People, so that your intelligence, prestige and experience will be passed on to today's and future generations," General Secretary To Lam affirmed.

On this solemn occasion, once again, on behalf of the Party and State leaders, General Secretary To Lam expressed his deep gratitude to generations of National Assembly deputies through the years. Acknowledging and praising the efforts of the National Assembly, its agencies, delegations, and each National Assembly deputy over the past time. At the same time, he hoped and believed that, with its glorious tradition, steadfast political will, collective intelligence, aspiration for innovation, and spirit of serving the people, the Vietnamese National Assembly will continue to be worthy of the people's trust, a vivid embodiment of the socialist rule-of-law state, and an important driving force for the country's rapid and sustainable development.

Updated on August 27, 2025

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