The Seventh National Party Congress 6/1991
Ha Noi, April 15 (VNA) -- Delegates to the Seventh National Party Congress gathered at the Ba Dinh Conference Hall, Ha Noi, from June 24-27, 1991 to outline the fundamental orientation of the transitional period to socialism through a strategy of ensuring stability and socio-economic development to 2000.
The Congress was held at a time when the international and domestic situation was undergoing complicated changes.
It drew 1,176 delegates representing more than 2 million Party members nationwide and delegations from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, the Cambodian People's Revolutionary Party, the Communist Party of Cuba and the Japanese Communist Party.
Comrade Nguyen Van Linh, on behalf of the Party Central Committee, delivered the political report to the Congress.
The Congress reviewed the implementation of the Resolution of the sixth Congress and outlined the orientation, aim and major tasks of the next five-year plan.
The Congress adopted the Platform which affirmed that Ho Chi Minh Thought and Marxism-Leninism were the ideological foundation and compass for the Party's activities and that Ho Chi Minh Thought was a creative application of Marxism-Leninism in Viet Nam's conditions.
The seventh Congress initially defined a model of socialist regime to be built by the Party and people as a society that
- Is mastered by the labouring people;
- Has a highly developed economy based on modern production forces and the regime of public ownership of the main means of production;
- Has an advanced culture imbued with the national identity;
- In which people are free from oppression, exploitation and injustice, work according to their ability and are entitled to results of their work, live a prosperous, free and happy life and enjoy conditions for individual development;
- In which all ethnic groups in the country enjoy equality, unite with and assist one another for common progress; and
- Which has friendly and cooperative relations with the people of all countries in the world.
The Congress adopted the revised Party Statute and elected a 146-member Party Central Committee.
The first session of the Party Central Committee elected a 13-member Political Bureau.
Comrade Do Muoi was elected Party General Secretary.
The Seventh Congress was a "Congress of intellect - renovation, democracy, discipline - solidarity".
The Party Central Committee's meetings from the seventh Congress to the eighth Congress were held on June 27, 1991; November 21-December 4, 1991; June 18-29, 1992; January 10-14, 1993; June 3-10, 1993; November 24-December 1, 1993; January 17-18, 1994; January 20-25, 1994 (the mid-term meeting reviewed the reality of renovation from the sixth Congress and affirmed that the Party world continue the renovation to boost socio-economic development and maintain political stability. The meeting added 20 more Party Central Committee members); July 25-30, 1994; January 16-23, 1995; and November 6-14, 1995.--VNA
