Embracing the resolution of the 12th Party Congress, especially in defense and military tasks as well as Resolution 28 of the eighth session of the 11th Party Central Committee on “National protection strategy in the current context”, the CMC, and the Ministry of National Defense have directed functional agencies to closely coordinate with ministries, central and local departments to build the whole people's defense status, the whole people's defense posture closely associated with strong people’s security posture, to build firm defensive areas in key localities.
The CMC and the Ministry of National Defense have also paid due attention to defense and military potentials while promoting defense external affairs.
Under their sound leadership, the integrated quality and combat strengths of the Vietnam People’s Army and militia and self-defense forces have been improved, making important contribution to foiling hostile forces’ “peaceful evolution” plots, riots and subversion and to defend firmly the national sovereignty over seas, islands and border as well as to meet the requirements of national protection in the new situation.
At the conference, delegates analyzed, evaluated and forecast development in in the region and the rest of the world while making clear traditional and non-traditional security challenges and dangers and impacts of Industry 4.0 on the national protection cause in the current situation.
Based on the above analyses, assessments and anticipation, the CMC mapped out policies and defined missions and solutions to continue to bring into full play the combined strength in building strong whole people's defense status, whole people's defense posture in combination with firm whole people’s security posture.
Other future missions included concentrating on building strong defense-military potentials; raising the awareness of, promoting political and ideological education for and building political stance among cadres and troops; embracing and effectively implementing the fourth Resolution of the 12th Party Central Committee on enhancing the building and revamping the Party organization, preventing degradation of thought, politics, morals, lifestyles and symbols of “self-evolution” and “self-transformation”; giving proposals to the Party and State leadership on breakthrough solutions related to art of war, military science and technology, military social sciences and humanities; building a revolutionary, regular, elite and gradually modernized army; and building the army and militia and self-defense forces as key and reliable forces of the Party, State and people, who are ready to defeat any forms of aggressive war in any circumstances.
Translated by Mai Huong