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6th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam
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Event_Name | 6th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam |Image_Name = Flag of the Communist Party of Vietnam.svg |Imagesize = 250px |Image_Alt = CPV's flag |Image_Caption = The flag of the Communist Party of Vietnam |Thumb_Time = |Participants = 1,129 delegates (which includes the members of the 5th Central Committee) |Location = Ba Äình Hall |Date = 15â18 December 1986 (4 days) |Result = The election of the 6th Central Committee |URL = |
Background
The 8th plenum and reforms
The 8th plenum of the 5th Central Committee (10â17 June 1985){{mdash}}and its antecedents the 6th (3â10 July 1984) and the 7th (11â17 December 1984) plenums{{mdash}}instructed the party to direct a performance review of its organization, personnel and efficiency.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=345}} Lê Äức Thá», head of the Central Organizing Commission, said the party had become "a cumbersome and ponderous mechanism, only marginally efficient, marked by ill-defined responsibilities and poorly divided functions."{{sfn|Stern|1987|pp=345â346}} He further stated that confusion within the party over operational responsibilities between the central party leadership, mass organizations and the state, and between higher and lower party echelons had developed into a serious problem, and that a cynical collective mindset within the party had taken hold and manifested itself through corruption, inflexibility and dishonesty.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=346}}The plenum put forward three points to solve the problems alleged by Tho; (1) to get party cadres to focus on technical economic and management responsibilities, (2) cadres were to be organized and get specialized training in economic and administrative fields to reequip them with information on how to run an increasingly complex economy, and (3) engineer a shift in the internal balance of power.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=346}} In a Nhân Dân (The People) editorial, Lê Äức Thá» stressed the need to go beyond political slogans and remonstration to enhance the level of management skills of party cadres in party-level organizations.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=346}} Lê Äức Thá» wanted to change the party's role in the economy from that of implementer to one of supervisor.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=346}} The central leadership faced an obstacle; most party cadres had what the party leadership considered an outdated education from 20 to 30 years ago, while the party lacked young cadres.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=346}} To solve this problem, the central party leadership began talking about the need to introduce personnel planning, a retirement age, rotation of officials and tenure length for cadres and sensitive posts.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=346}}Early in the reform process, the CPV devolved some powers of the party secretaries to the district-level committees.{{sfn|Stern|1987|pp=346â347}} The party planned to decentralize some duties and responsibilities at departmental and sectoral levels while empowering ward-level party organs by strengthening their role in economic planning, market management and public security, and trying to improve the performance of the Control Commission and its lower-level bodies.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=347}} The party leadership tried to make the cumbersome bureaucracy efficient.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=347}}Economic reforms in 1985 led to rampant inflation, and the 9th plenum (mid-December 1985) forced the central leadership to reintroduce rationing in order to reduce the hardships for the poor, while in March 1985 the Council of Ministers legalized limited, small-scale, private enterprise in the handicraft and small industry sectors.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=347}} The CPV tried to introduce market rules into the soviet planned economy, while stressing the need to control the markets.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=348}} At this early stage, the party started a discussion on how much state control and economic planning were necessary.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=348}} On 8 April, the 5th Politburo issued the "Draft Resolution on guaranteeing autonomy to basic economic units", which decreed the implementation of the reform program agreed upon by the 8th plenum.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=349}} The resolution tried to solve several problems by streamlining the bureaucracy to make it more efficient.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=349}} However, while the party supported making state-owned enterprises more autonomous, they still sought the abolition of individual trade{{mdash}}that is trade not sanctioned by the state.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=349}} At this stage, the authorities did not seek to alter the duties and responsibilities of central state and party organs.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=350}}Preparations
Planning for the 6th National Congress began at the 19-day-long 10th plenum of the 5th Central Committee (19 May â 9 June 1986).{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=350}} Lê Duẩn, the General Secretary, gave the opening speech, where he reaffirmed the central party leadership's commitment to reform.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=350}} The 10th plenum unanimously approved the draft Political Report for the 6th National Congress.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=350}} Preparations for the Congress began with party congresses at the grass-root and provincial-levels,{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=350}} during which delegates were elected.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=350}}Preparation for the Congress began slowly.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=353}} According to a Central Organizing Commission conference, the lack of preparations were due to an unidentified number of party grassroots organs failing to prepare their personnel for the Congress, and superior echelons failing to inform lower-level echelons on the status of the Congress.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=353}} The 5th Secretariat announced the organizing of a Criticism/Self-criticism campaign on 11 March on all party levels to prepare for the Congress.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=353}} The campaign's main goals were to discipline party committees at the upcoming local party congresses; to assess the party's performance with an emphasis on economics since the 5th National Congress; to contribute to the future reorganization of the party and reassignment of personnel; and to ensure that the drafting of the Congress' resolutions were finished on time and to appoint new local executive committees in light of the requirements to implement reform.{{sfn|Stern|1987|pp=353â354}} The 5th Secretariat published a list of requirements for possible candidates for membership in local executive committees in mid-March 1986, these were;{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=354}}- (1) the ability of candidates to understand the economic and managerial skills articulated by the 8th plenum of the 5th Central Committee;{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=354}}
- (2) the need for young members within the party organization, with an emphasis on appointing officials to provincial-level executive committees in the age group 40â49, while officials aged 30â39 were to be appointed to district and grassroots executive committees;{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=354}}
- (3) to ensure geographical mobility and flexibility regarding personnel assignments.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=354}}
District and provincial congresses and conferences
The local congresses preceding the 6th National Congress were far more organized than those held before the 5th National Congress.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=355}} Unlike the previous Congress, the central party leadership issued instructions and training programs for party cadres on how to organize party congresses and conferences.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=355}} Certain party cadres were made responsible for tutoring the executive committee directly subordinate to them on the Central Committee's draft Political Report.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=355}} Local executive committees started convening conferences in early August to study the draft report.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=355}} These conferences acted as precursors to the village-, municipal-, ward- and enterprise-level Party committee congresses, which started convening in mid-August.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=355}} By early August, some grassroots-level party organs had begun the election of delegates to the 6th National Congress.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=355}} At least five provinces had completed preparations for the basic-level party congresses by September, in four of these the basic-level congresses ran until late September.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=355}}District-level congresses convened in some provinces in late August, while other provinces started convening them in late September.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=356}} According to the Vietnamese media, the district-level congresses mostly agreed on basic economic goals and several proposed amendments to the draft Political Report.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=356}} At the Binh Tri Thien Provincial Party Organization, 250 cadres reportedly made 3,000 suggestions, "including amendments to and revision of the Draft Political Report" and concrete policies which featured prominently in it.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=356}} The same occurred in the Standing Committee of the Há» Chà Minh City Party Committee, where leading cadres unanimously approved a program for action and proposed changes to the draft Political Report.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=356}} The Nha Trang Municipal Party Organization held a day-long conference discussing the Draft Political Report, which ended tepidly; the discussions were extended so that the delegates reached an unenthusiastic "identity of views" (what was discussed is unknown as the media did not state them).{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=356}} While other party conferences criticized the draft Political Report, several others expressed enthusiasm or unanimously supported it.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=356}} Because the National Assembly failed to issue a draft of the 4th Five-Year Plan, the district-level conferences were forced to discuss mostly local economic aims because they lacked national economic data.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=356}}The Cuu Long conference held between 6 and 10 October was the first provincial-level conference to be held.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=356}} By 22 October, 21 provinces had held provincial-level party conferences.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=356}} The central party leadership faced less criticism on the draft Political Report and socio-economic policies from the provincial-level conferences than by district-level conferences.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=356}} The provincial-level conferences criticized central policies less and were evasive about critical issues.{{sfn|Stern|1987|pp=356â357}} However, the provincial-level conferences were not completely dormant and scored some minor victories, such as reducing the average age needed to join an executive committee and they adopted a more flexible and efficient mode of planning and organization.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=357}} As during the district-level conferences, there were certain convocations which attracted attention; the An Giang Party Committee criticized past economic performance, while the Ha Son Binh Congress criticized the irrational management of provincial economic affairs.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=357}} While these committees criticized past policies or well-known deficiencies, none of them criticized the policies of the central party leadership.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=357}}General Secretary TrÆ°á»ng Chinh in a speech to the Há» Chà Minh City Party Organization admitted to "serious shortcomings and mistakes" by the central party leaders in economic leadership, and criticized the imposition of a superstructure on Vietnam's current conditions.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=357}} TrÆ°á»ng Chinh endorsed the program of the 8th plenum of the 5th Central Committee and "new economic concepts", but told the attendees that the 5th Politburo had undertaken a systematic assessment of economic policies, which included the continuation of a mixed economy, the acceptance of private ownership for the foreseeable future, the need to end bureaucratic centralism, and the need for decentralization in economic decision-making.{{sfn|Stern|1987|pp=357â358}} In his speech to the 4th Congress of the Há» Chà Minh City Party Organization, Nguyá» n VÄn Linh, a member of the 5th Politburo and 5th Secretariat, endorsed the platforms of 6th, 7th and 8th plenums of the 5th Central Committee while supporting the conclusion reached at the 10th plenum of the 5th Central Committee.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=358}} He emphasized several Politburo directives.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=358}} Phạm Hùng, the Minister of Interior, in his speech to the Cuu Long Provincial Congress said that the reintroduction of the market economy and the renewed acceptance of private ownership would not hurt Vietnam's socialist transformation.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=358}} To secure Vietnam's socialist credentials, the state would remain dominant to protect Vietnam from the uncontrolled free market.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=358}} The 11th plenum (17â25 November 1986), the last plenum before the 6th Congress, endorsed the platform for the congress.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=345}}The Congress
The 6th National Congress was convened on 15 December 1986 and lasted until 18 December.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=359}} The Congress reaffirmed its commitment to the reform program of the 8th plenum of the 5th Central Committee, and issued five points;{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=359}}- "concerted efforts to increase the production of food, consumer goods and exportable items";{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=359}}
- "continue the efforts to control small merchants and capitalists, while at the same time acknowledging the reality of supporting a mixed economy";{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=359}}
- "to regenerate the planning bureaucracy while making the economic management system more efficient by decentralizing authority and making room for more independent decision-making";{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=359}}
- "to clarify the powers and jurisdiction of the Council of Ministers, and the reorganization of state management apparatus to make it more efficient;{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=359}}
- "to improve party organizational capabilities, leadership and cadre training."{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=359}}
1st plenum of the 6th Central Committee
On 18 December at the end of the 6th National Congress, the delegates elected the 6th Central Committee,{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=360}} which contained eight more members than the 5th Central Committee, while alternate membership was increased by 13; the total membership of the new Central Committee was 173.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=360}} Immediately after the 8th National Congress on 18 December, the 6th Central Committee convened its 1st plenum to elect the composition of the 6th Politburo, the 6th Secretariat, the Control Commission and other central-level party organs.{{sfn|Stern|1987|p=360}}The 1st plenum of the 6th Central Committee brought an end to the protracted generational succession which had begun at the 4th National Congress in 1976.{{sfn|Thayer|1987|p=16}} On 17 December, the Congress' third day, the three top leaders{{mdash}}TrÆ°á»ng Chinh, Lê Äức Thá»{{mdash}}and head of government Phạm VÄn Äá»ng, announced that they would not seek membership of the 6th Politburo or the 6th Central Committee.{{sfn|Thayer|1987|p=13}} However, these three were appointed to the Advisory Council to the Central Committee.{{sfn|Thayer|1987|p=16}} This was not new; at the 5th National Congress six senior members of the 5th Politburo retired.{{sfn|Thayer|1987|p=16}} When asked by foreign journalists if the same pattern would continue, a party spokesman stated that it would continue at the 6th National Congress.{{sfn|Thayer|1987|p=16}} VÄn Tiến DÅ©ng, the Minister of National Defense, retired from the politburo but retained his seat in the 6th Central Committee.{{sfn|Thayer|1987|p=16}} The 1st plenum elected Nguyá» n VÄn Linh to succeed TrÆ°á»ng Chinh as party General Secretary.{{sfn|Thayer|1987|p=17}}References
{{reflist}}Bibliography
- JOURNAL, Stern, Lewis, 1987, The Vietnamese Communist Party in 1986: Party Reform Initiatives, the Scramble towards Economic Revitalization, and the Road to the Sixth National Congress, Southeast Asian Affairs, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 14, 1, 345â363, 10.1355/seaa87t, 27908584,
- JOURNAL, Thayer, Carlyle, June 1987, Vietnam's Sixth Party Congress: An Overview, Contemporary Southeast Asia, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 9, 1, 12â22, 10.1355/cs9-1b, 25797929,
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