RESOLUTION

OF THE POLITBURO ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF HO CHI MINH CITY IN THE NEW ERA

I- SITUATION

After more than 50 years of development since the day it was honored to bear the name of President Ho Chi Minh, and particularly over more than 3 years of implementing Resolution No. 31-NQ/TW of the 13th Politburo, Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has consistently maintained its role as a major center of economy, culture, science, technology, innovation, and international integration; it is Vietnam’s growth locomotive and an important development pole; the people's living standards have been raised; national defense, security, social order, and safety have been maintained; and Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) and political system development and rectification work has been intensified.

However, the City's development has not been commensurate with its potential, advantages, and the requirements set out; bottlenecks concerning legislation, infrastructure, resources, and urban governance have been slow to be removed; the quality of growth, labor productivity, and international competitiveness remain limited; and a number of social and environmental issues have not been effectively resolved.

In the new era of development, HCMC needs to promote its role as a special urban area to pioneer new paths in models of development, legislation, and modern governance methods, and to create a strong spillover effect, making an increasingly large contribution to the Vietnam’s rapid and sustainable development.

II- VIEWPOINTS AND OBJECTIVES

1. Viewpoints

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(2) Concentrating on perfecting synchronous, breakthrough, and superior legislation and policies, vigorously promoting thorough delegation and devolvement of powers, creating conditions to make the special urban area - HCMC a dynamic development symbol of Vietnam in the 21st century; a place where Vietnam’s development aspirations, global competitiveness, and spirit of innovation converge; affirming its role as a pioneer and a model; leading in legislation creation, development quality, and governance standards; being the locomotive leading growth, and an important pole of innovation and international integration for the whole country.

(3) Establishing a new development model; mobilizing combined strength, effectively utilize its potential, advantages, and strategic position to soon affirm itself as a strong economic-financial center, a culturally rich and humane center, and a developed center of science, technology, and innovation in the Southeast Asian and Asian region, with global competitiveness.  Closely combining socio-economic development with environmental protection, adaptation to climate change, and ensuring national defense, security, and external relations.

(4) Development a united, exemplary, clean, strong, comprehensive CPV Organization and political system with outstanding leadership capacity, innovation, public service discipline and fighting strength to fulfill the mission of developing HCMC. Developing cadres capable of fulfilling the tasks of the new era, possessing firm political ideology and character, impeccable moral qualities, high qualifications, dynamism, creativity, and the courage to think and act for the common good.

(5) Promoting the strength of the great national unity bloc within the City, and the role of the people as the subject in all decisions on the Ho Chi Minh City’s development. The people are the first to benefit from the fruits of the HCMC’s sustainable development; the people's satisfaction and prosperous, happy life are taken as the yardstick for measuring the effectiveness of leadership.

2. Objectives

By 2030: HCMC shall be a civilized, modern, dynamic, and creative urban center; a center of economy, culture, society, science, technology, innovation, logistics, and international integration, taking the lead in Vietnam’s industrialization and modernization drive, holding a prominent position in the Southeast Asian region.

By 2045: HCMC shall be a civilized, modern, dynamic, and creative urban center; a center of economy, culture, society, science, technology, and innovation of Asia, a globally attractive destination, with distinctively developed culture and society, a high quality of life, and deep and extensive international integration.

Looking toward the 100th anniversary of the liberation of the South and national reunification, in 2075: HCMC shall be a global, smart, modern, and comprehensively developed urban center, on par with the world's developed cities, with green and sustainable growth, a high quality of life, and strong adaptability to climate change.

3. Targets

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2031-2035 period: GRDP growth of at least 10%/year. By 2035, per capita GRDP shall reach at least USD 25.000. The digital economy shall account for around 60% of GRDP. The HDI shall continue to be maintained at a minimum of 0,9.

2036-2045 period: GRDP growth of at least 10%/year. By 2045, per capita GRDP shall reach at least USD 75.000. The HDI shall continue to be maintained at a minimum of 0,9. Connection of the urban railway system shall be completed. Net-zero emissions shall be achieved.

2046-2075 period: GRDP growth of at least 6%/year. By 2075, per capita GRDP shall reach at least USD 100.000. Indicators ensuring social equity, environmental protection, and the Human Development Index (HDI) shall exceed 0,9.

III- KEY TASKS AND SOLUTIONS

1. Developing a new growth model based on science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation, labor productivity, and competitiveness

- Developing the economy, society, environment, culture, regional connection, and modern urban governance on the foundation of the knowledge economy, digital transformation, an innovation ecosystem, and an entrepreneurial spirit. Promoting the leading role of the state economic sector, while developing the private sector as one of the most important driving forces. Taking the lead in digital transformation, green transformation, energy transformation, structural transformation, and improving the quality of human resources. Promoting the development of HCMC’s key economic sectors, including the digital economy, data economy, green economy, circular economy, marine economy, low-altitude economy, and silver economy. Strengthening and improving the quality of institute - university - enterprise linkages.

- Implementing a data strategy, focusing on creating and interconnecting data, and on data-based smart city governance, building data into a resource within HCMC's development model. Building and improving the capacity to master a strong system of scientific and technological research institutions, focusing on information technology, artificial intelligence, semiconductor microchips, biotechnology, clean energy technology, new materials technology, and technology for the marine economy and green economy. Developing innovation centers of national scale, vigorously promoting research and development activities, and prioritizing the attraction of investment projects with new, modern, and environmentally friendly technology. Adopting specific policies to attract investment and technology transfer, particularly core and source technologies, in key economic sectors, with hi-tech parks, concentrated digital technology zones, science-technology urban areas, research institutes, and universities serving as the core. Vigorously developing the science and technology market; attracting multinational corporations to establish research, innovation, development, transfer, and technology self-governance centers in HCMC. Vigorously reforming mechanisms for public asset procurement, commissioned training, and the management and operation of public assets in the field of science and technology; adopting incentive mechanisms for science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation activities. Forming common research, testing, and innovation infrastructure.

- Strongly developing the marine economy in a multi-sectoral, modern, and sustainable direction, focusing on seaports, logistics and international maritime services, petroleum, energy, high-quality sea and island tourism, and hi-tech aquaculture. Forming a national marine economic center, with maritime economy and logistics, petroleum-energy-renewable energy, tourism, and coastal urban areas developing in a sustainable direction, approaching international standards, and aiming to become the leading maritime economic hub of Vietnam.

- Forming regional- and international financial and logistics centers. Developing HCMC into a major service center of the country and the region, with high-end, modern service industries. Establishing and developing a free trade zone connecting inter-regional logistics centers, port clusters, international transshipment ports, and cargo airports. Developing and effectively operating a new-generation International Financial Center in HCMC, strengthening deep and extensive connections with international capital markets. Intensifying investment attraction for the development of world-class tourism, making HCMC a leading destination in Asia.

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2. Developing breakthrough, superior institutions for developing HCMC in the new era

- Developing and promulgating a Law on special urban area aimed at creating exceptional, superior legislation and a synchronous and appropriate legal framework, becoming a "breakthrough of breakthroughs," providing the most favorable conditions for HCMC to maximize its potential and strengths, and to mobilize all resources for rapid and sustainable development.

- Thoroughly delegating and devolve powers to the People's Council, the People's Committee of HCMC, and the President of the People's Committee of HCMC across various fields (except matters relating to national defense, security, external relations, and religion), strengthening the authority and responsibility of heads at all levels in conjunction with power-control mechanisms. HCMC shall proactively issue legislative documents on elaboration and guidance for implementing laws and resolutions of the National Assembly that differ from the regulations of the Government, ministries, and central authorities in certain fields, based on the delegation or in cases where competent state authorities have not yet issued legislative norms to address issues arising from the practical circumstances of HCMC. HCMC shall be given priority to choose and apply more favorable laws for fields specific to its locality.

- Continuing to implement breakthrough mechanisms and policies and prioritizing the allocation of medium-term and annual state budget resources (budget estimates and increase in realized revenue) so that HCMC proactively has sufficient financial resources to invest in the development of key infrastructure projects and to improve people's welfare.

- HCMC shall be proactive in piloting new mechanisms and policies, sandboxes, or applying mechanisms different from applicable laws; developing a common set of quality standards, and encouraging standards and technical regulations that are progressive and superior to national standards and those of other areas. HCMC shall prescribe the criteria, conditions, and procedures for permitting sandboxes of new technologies, processes, solutions, products, services, business models, and development models; establish mechanisms to protect participants in such sandboxes; and adopt incentive, support, and funding policies. Implementing controlled socialization of certain professional stages in the handling of administrative procedures for citizens, allowing the mobilization of qualified consulting organizations and public service providers to participate in implementation, ensuring shortened processing time, efficiency improvement, and no increase in payrolls and service costs prescribed by the competent authority, in a public, transparent manner, and ensuring the right of citizens and enterprises to choose.

3. Planning HCMC's development with a long-term, stable vision, adapted to climate change

- Formulating the master plan for HCMC with breakthrough thinking and a long-term 100-year vision, in order to maximize the promotion of its potential and advantages, create new, stable, and long-lasting development space and momentum, and enhance the climate change resilience capacity of HCMC and HCMC region. Planning the development space of HCMC according to a multi-polar, integrated, and connected approach, operating under a multi-center governance model, harmonizing economic, cultural, and social development, and harmonizing modern development with the preservation and retention of traditional values. Synchronously implementing development planning for various types of space: underground, green, riverine, marine, low-altitude, and high-altitude space. Planning shall be interconnected, linking areas including: HCMC center, riverside and coastal areas, and transit-oriented development (TOD) urban models. Implementing integrated sectoral planning linked with methods for creating land bank, urban finance, transport development, housing policy, water resource management, and flood control.

- Planning and developing a number of new urban areas as satellites of central urban region of HCMC in a modern, smart direction with a good ecological environment, maximum digitalization, and synchronous infrastructure, forming special administrative-economic divisions to expand the development space of HCMC and become model urban areas with a leading quality of life in Vietnam and the region.

- Creating a breakthrough in infrastructure systems, investing in the completion of the common urban technical system in accordance with the planning. Prioritizing investment to complete HCMC’s urban railway network, and developing infrastructure connecting seaports, airports, industrial zones, and free trade zones.  Prioritizing the implementation of investment projects to renovate and synchronously build a large-scale anti-flooding system to overcome the flooding situation caused by tidal surges in HCMC. HCMC shall proactively plan and develop synchronous, modern energy, renewable energy, and telecommunications infrastructure to meet development needs. Completing the construction of national highways and intra-regional and inter-regional connecting road systems in accordance with the planning; accelerating the pace of investment and construction of key national projects.

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- Prioritizing the allocation of resources to promote regional connections, forming a Regional Development Fund; take charge and cooperate in investing in the development of economic corridors and economic belts in accordance with the planning; forming the development space of the HCMC region, with a focus on organizing development space, developing value chains, transport connectivity, and environmental protection. Establishing a regional coordination mechanism based on the principles of shared development, shared benefits and responsibilities, with HCMC playing a leading and pivotal role, aiming to implement strategic breakthroughs for HCMC region, other areas, regions, and the entire country.

4. Mobilizing and efficiently using all resources for HCMC rapid and sustainable development

- Building mechanisms to strongly promote the private sector's participation in investment for production and business development.  Promoting the entrepreneurial spirit and entrepreneurial programs. Forming business groups with competitiveness, large scale, and national and regional stature. Enhancing the efficiency of state-owned enterprises with a focus on their pioneering and leading role in key sectors, participating in the restructuring of HCMC’s economy, and contributing to the innovation of growth models based on science, technology, innovation, and digital transformation.

- Intensify selective foreign investment attraction, prioritizing hi-tech projects, modern management, and projects with spillover effects and strong connections to the domestic economy. Developing supporting industries for business networking with FDI enterprises. Effectively implementing public-private partnerships in mobilizing social capital and investing in the development of industrial and service infrastructure.

- Building a mechanism for efficient management and use of land resources to create resources for development investment. HCMC has the right to mobilize capital to implement key projects (through issuing urban bonds, project bonds, borrowing from domestic and international financial institutions, etc.); decide special measures and policies other than those prescribed law to resolve obstacles to slow-moving projects and expedite their implementation to unlock and effectively use resources. Ho Chi Minh City shall proactively review, handle, and effectively utilize land and buildings managed by central agencies within its jurisdiction that are underutilized, wasteful, or used for purposes other than intended, prioritizing infrastructure development, social housing, and creating resources for investment and development.

- Investing in human resource development, especially high-quality human resources, to meet labor market demands and achieve international standards in priority fields. Attracting and valuing talent, promoting the development of new productive forces. Developing policies to leverage remittances in socio-economic development investment. Implementing policies to encourage FDI enterprises to use unreleased profits to continue investing in production and business development.

- Prioritizing the allocation of state budget resources and allowing the city to apply superior financial mechanisms to comprehensively mobilize other resources to meet HCMC's development objectives effectively. Ho Chi Minh City shall flexibly manage its budget to meet its development needs and balance development investment expenditures with recurrent expenditures. It also established specific mechanisms to effectively use financial reserves and invest in urban development.

5. Developing a special urban area that is civilized and modern, focusing on improving the quality of life for its citizens

- Developing HCMC into an international urban area, a global city based on a multi-polar, multi-center model, with smart and modern infrastructure and governance; serving as a coordinating center for the special urban governance model and the core of the Southeast metropolitan region.

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- Accelerating the implementation of the social housing development program. Quickly relocating houses along canals and waterways, and renovating old apartment buildings. Continuing the relocation of industrial facilities and universities from the inner city area according to the planning. Building advanced, model, and smart new rural areas linked to urbanization and the development of satellite urban areas.

- Prioritizing the application of modern technologies, new materials, green and renewable energy, and environmentally friendly technologies in the construction, design, operation, and maintenance of public transportation in HCMC. Focus investment on building and completing technical infrastructure projects, green transformation, ensuring control and treatment of wastewater, solid waste, dust, and emissions, expanding urban green spaces, and improving air quality and living conditions for residents.

- Investing in completing the water supply and drainage system, flood control; strictly managing the extraction and use of groundwater. Strengthening coastal dikes, tidal barriers, and riverside irrigation works to control floods, fundamentally addressing urban flooding, and proactively adapting to and mitigating the impacts of climate change and sea level rise. Preventing water resource depletion and ensure water security; protecting mangrove ecosystems, biosphere reserves, nature reserves, protective forests, and national parks within HCMC.

6. Comprehensively developing HCMC's culture and people to be civilized, modern, righteous, and worthy of the City bearing the name of Ho Chi Minh President

- Focusing on building an advanced culture imbued with national identity, ensuring human rights and the fundamental rights of citizens, and forming a system of national values and Vietnamese cultural and human values with HCMC's particular characteristics, such as: patriotism, resilience, solidarity, righteousness, dynamism, and creativity. Building, developing, and promoting the value of the "Ho Chi Minh Cultural Space" in the cultural and spiritual life of HCMC’s people. Building and promptly establishing socialist residential areas; piloting the development of socialist wards and communes

- Synchronously developing the system of cultural institutions from HCMC down to the grassroots level, raising people's level of cultural enjoyment. Focusing on preserving and promoting the value of tangible and intangible cultural heritage of works with distinctive historical, political, and cultural significance. Vigorously renovating urban cultural spaces, building a healthy, civilized, and modern cultural environment. Investing in building infrastructure and cultural and sports facilities that are comprehensive and on par with those of a special urban area. Issuing new policy to ensure resources for training and developing human resources in literature and art, especially traditional art forms.

- Promoting the development of the cultural industry to become a key economic sector. Developing a highly competitive market for cultural, sports, and tourism products and services, reaching regional and international levels. Harmoniously integrating high-performance sports with mass physical education and sports movements.

- Developing HCMC into a major center for education and training, developing high-quality human resources approaching international standards. Fundamentally and comprehensively reforming education, developing smart school and happy school models, and building a learning society. Focusing on the comprehensive development of physical, intellectual, and skill-based abilities, aiming to build an advanced education system in the Asian region before 2030. Having breakthrough mechanisms and policies to attract, train, nurture, and effectively use talent, experts, and scientists from both within and outside the country.

- Developing a modern, equitable, multi-tiered, specialized, and sustainable healthcare system. Ensuring free periodic health check-ups for all residents of HCMC. Improving the quality of healthcare for the people, developing preventive and primary healthcare; establishing mechanisms to support and reduce the cost of medical services for the poor and vulnerable. Implementing breakthrough mechanisms and policies to attract social investment into the health sector. Strongly applying science and technology in medical examinations and treatment; building electronic health records for each citizen, connecting and managing health data throughout the life cycle, aiming to become a modern healthcare center in the ASEAN region. Focusing on maternal and child healthcare; improving physical health, stature, longevity, and quality of life; proactively adapting to population aging.

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7. Ensuring national defense and security; enhancing the effectiveness of foreign relations and international integration

- Further researching, adjusting, and arranging the strategic position of the regional defense system, ensuring a comprehensive and solid defense posture, closely combining socio-economic development with national defense and security in accordance with the overall planning of the national defense posture; focusing on building strong political, economic, defense, and security potential.  Strengthening leadership and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of state management in national defense and security. Maintaining security and order in HCMC is a condition and foundation for development. Focusing on building a revolutionary, regular, elite, and modern army and police force. Developing projects with high dual-use capabilities; implementing breakthroughs in science, technology, and innovation in the defense and security industries, strategic products, and core technologies; paying attention to building forces participating in protecting security and order at the grassroots level; promoting the mobilization of industries ready to serve military, national defense, and security tasks.

- Building a solid people's security posture linked to the all-people national defense posture in each residential area, agency, and unit. Building the people's security system and the people's security posture in close combination with the all-people national defense posture, taking the all-people and comprehensive factor, together with the residential area, as the core for deploying forces, means, and measures to ensure security and order at the grassroots level. Strengthening close cooperation with neighboring provinces and cities in national defense and security tasks.

- Implement comprehensive social prevention solutions, improve the quality and effectiveness of the "all-people protect national security" movement, striving to achieve the goal of building a "drug-free" city by 2030 and maintaining it sustainably in the following years; leveraging the combined strength of the political system and the entire population in the prevention, fight against, suppression, and reduction of all types of crime, especially criminal, economic, environmental, drug-related, organized, transnational, and hi-tech crimes, ensuring security and safety for all citizens and tourists visiting HCMC.

- Improve the effectiveness of foreign relations and international integration; proactively seizing opportunities from new-generation trade agreements; consolidating traditional relationships and expanding cooperation with cities around the world. Strengthening people-to-people diplomacy and work related to overseas Vietnamese, creating a favorable international environment for development.

8. Developing a clean and strong CPV organization and political system in HCMC.

- Improving the leadership capacity and fighting strength of CPV organizations and Party members. Practicing democracy in conjunction with discipline and order. Effectively carrying out political and ideological work; vigorously promoting the study and emulation of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality, and lifestyle, protecting the CPV’s ideological foundation, and combating and refuting wrongful and hostile viewpoints. Improving the quality of civil servant affairs, standardizing procedures, and building a contingent of strategic and key cadres and leading and managerial officials, especially heads of units, who possess the qualities, capacity, and prestige commensurate with their tasks. Attending to the planning, training, and development of successor cadres, especially cadres with expertise in important fields. Creating a favorable environment and encouraging, protecting, and paying attention to attracting, "retaining," appropriately rewarding dynamic, creative cadres who dare to think and act for the common good.

- Improving the capacity for managing and assessing cadres through work results, effectively using cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers in HCMC’s political system; and at the same time, developing a salary, remuneration, and benefits mechanism for workers, experts, and talented individuals suitable to HCMC's development conditions. HCMC may proactively decide the total number of personnel, not exceeding 20% ​​of the number of civil servants and public employees allocated by the Central Government (for the period and annually), and balance and pay salaries from HCMC’s budget for the increased payrolls to focus on the following tasks: (i) Arrange and test new models for human resource development, develop a mechanism for attracting, training, and providing high-quality human resources (initially focusing on serving the public sector), and proactively screen cadres, ensuring both entry and exit, enabling the use of talented and highly qualified individuals. (ii) Implement practical solutions that effectively serve the needs of society and the people, elaborate and comprehensively realize the socialist model in HCMC, spreading and connecting it to other areas in the region. (iii) Develop an environment, conditions, and resources for modern socio-economic development towards a digital, green, and digitally transformed economy, ensuring the achievement of sustainable "double-digit" growth targets, truly becoming a leading engine of development and a growth pole guiding the Southern region and the whole country.

- Strengthening, resolutely and persistently carrying out the development and rectification of CPV and political system in all respects; combating against, preventing, and pushing back the degradation of political ideology, ethics, and lifestyle, and "self-evolution" and "self-transformation" within the ranks; vigorously promoting the prevention and combating against corruption, waste, and negative conduct; upholding the exemplary responsibility of heads at all levels; building grassroots organizations  of the CPV appropriate to the urban model. Improving the quality of grassroots organizations of the CPV and the quality of Party members, actively developing organizations of the CPV and Party members within enterprises and non-public service providers; regularly reviewing and screening, and resolutely expelling members no longer qualified from the CPV.

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- Renewing and raising awareness of, and improving the effectiveness of, mass mobilization in the new situation; effectively implementing ethnic and religious policies; focusing on promoting the people's right to self-governance, carrying out citizen reception tasks, and promptly resolving the legitimate aspirations of the people, implementing socialist democracy in order to create consensus and unity, contributing to consolidating the confidence of cadres, Party members, and the people in the CPV and the State.

IV. IMPLEMENTATION

Executive Committees of CPV Organizations, organizations of the CPV, and the political system of HCMC shall strictly and effectively implement the Resolution. They shall vigorously promoting social consensus, the leadership role of organizations of the CPV, and the participation of the entire political system and all strata of the people to promptly bring the Resolution into practice.

The Executive Committee of the CPV Organization of HCMC shall cooperate with Executive Committees of the National Assembly CPV Organization and the Government CPV Organization in leading and directing the formulation and issuance of the Law on special urban area and other specific and superior mechanisms and policies; and shall, at the same time, complete the related systems of planning and regulations on investment, finance, budget, and construction. The Executive Committee of the CPV Organization of HCMC shall cooperate with agencies, ministries, central and local authorities, especially local authorities in the Southern key economic region, in reviewing, adjusting, and supplementing related strategies, planning, plans, and development programs; and regularly monitoring, inspecting, and assessing implementation.

2. The Executive Committee of the National Assembly CPV Organization shall lead the issuance of the Law on special urban area, in order to complete a superior, stable legislation framework with a long-term vision, appropriate to HCMC’s position and role as Vietnam’s and the region's economic locomotive and major center of economy, finance, trade, science, and technology; making HCMC’s legislation and policies a regional and international competitive advantage.

3. The Executive Committee of the Government CPV Organization shall lead and direct the Government in submitting the Law on special urban area to the National Assembly, which shall provide for thorough and comprehensive delegation and devolvement of powers, ensuring that HCMC has sufficient powers and responsibilities to handle its affairs, meeting the requirements of rapid and sustainable development in the new period. The Executive Committee of the Government CPV Organization shall, periodically or when necessary, work with HCMC to review and evaluate the progress of implementing the Resolution.

4. The Executive Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front CPV Organization and central mass organizations shall strengthen leadership and guide member organizations, union members, and association members to comply with the CPV’s guidelines and policies and the State's laws, and participate in and contribute to the process of developing HCMC.

5. Central CPV committees, Party organizations, Executive Committee of the Ministry CPV Organization, central authorities, and central organizations; and Executive Committees of the provincial/municipal CPV Organizations nationwide shall organize study and thorough dissemination of the content of the Resolution; shall formulate and organize the implementation of action programs and plans with objectives, criteria, tasks, solutions, resources, inspection and oversight mechanisms, responsible agencies, and detailed roadmaps to concretize and institutionalize the Resolution within the scope of responsibility of their respective agencies, organizations, and administrative divisions; shall strengthen leadership to create unity in both awareness and action in implementing the Resolution; and shall regularly cooperate with and support HCMC in its process of development.

6. Executive Committees of the provincial/municipal CPV Organizations in the Southeast region, the Mekong Delta region, and the Southern key economic regions shall cooperate with HCMC in intensifying linkage and cooperation appropriate to local needs, creating unity and combined strength in economy, culture, society, national defense, and security for HCMC, for each administrative division, for the whole region, and for the country.

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8. The Office of the Central Committee of the CPV shall take charge and cooperate with relevant agencies in regularly monitoring, inspecting, and urging the implementation and organization of the Resolution; and shall cooperate with the Executive Committee of HCMC CPV Organization in periodically conducting preliminary and final reviews and reporting to the Politburo and the Secretariat.

ON THE BEHALF OF THE POLITBURO
GENERAL SECRETARY




To Lam