General Secretary Trong (right) addressing the session

The steering committee on reviewing theoretical and practical issues across three decades of doi moi (renewal) convened its first session in Hanoi on September 25.

Speaking at the event, Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong, who heads up the steering committee, underscored the significance of the exercise, saying that the work will yield a thorough understanding of the 1986-2016 renewal process, with a focus on the 2006-2016 period.

During the session, the committee surveyed the general situation and recent changes in the region and the world, as well as their impacts on Vietnam, before giving predictions for the future.

It discussed the development of the country’s socialist-oriented market economy and the enhancement of national industrialisation and modernisation.

It also focused on social issues, national defence, international integration, the Party and State’s policy of external relations, the political system and Party-building work.

(Source: VNA)