Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong on April 22 required greater efforts to be made to help the Mekong Delta develop strongly in the near future.

Chairing a conference on the collective economy and cooperatives, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said the country had recorded important achievements after more than 35 years of "Doi moi" (Renewal). The conference, held on Tuesday, aimed to assess 20 years' of Resolution No. 13-NQ/TW on the collective economy, as well as 10 years' implementing the Law on Cooperatives.

The Prime Minister has recently issued a directive to further implement the XIth Party Central Committee’s Resolution No. 13-NQ/TW of January 16, 2012, on building a synchronous infrastructure system in order to basically turn Vietnam into a modernity-oriented industrial country by 2020.

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) promulgated on January 19, 2012, Resolution No. 13-NQ/TW on building a synchronous infrastructure system in order to basically turn Vietnam into a modernity-oriented industrial country by 2020. Below are excerpts of the Resolution.