Top leader chairs nationwide anti-corruption review as Party tenure nears end

Party General Secretary To Lam, who is also head of the Central Steering Committee for Prevention and Control of Corruption, Wastefulness and Negative Phenomena, chaired a conference in Hanoi on December 11 to evaluate the country’s anti-corruption combat throughout the 13th National Party Congress’s term.

The event saw the presence of Politburo members, including State President Luong Cuong, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, and permanent member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat Tran Cam Tu, along with high-ranking officials from the Government, the National Assembly, the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the municipal and provincial Party Committees, among others.

Held in hybrid format, the conference linked more than 4,000 locations from ministries, agencies, military zones, armed forces units, cities, provinces, communes, districts and special administrative units nationwide, with over 190,000 delegates joining either in person or online.

Officials at the event (Photo: VNA)

Participants were also tasked with pinpointing existing shortcomings, weaknesses and their root causes, then proposing forecasts, strategic directions and concrete solutions to sustain momentum, contributing to a cleaner Party, State and political system, bolstering public trust in the Party, and supporting Vietnam’s push for breakthroughs in its new era of development.