Vietnam: What is the overview of Resolution 44-NQ/TW on the Strategy to Safeguard the Fatherland in the New Situation?

What is the overview of Resolution 44-NQ/TW on the Strategy to Safeguard the Fatherland in the New Situation?

Recently, the Overview of Resolution 44-NQ/TW in 2023 Download on the Strategy to Safeguard the Fatherland in the New Situation has outlined several key contents of this Resolution.

To be specific, the content of Resolution 44-NQ/TW in 2023 comprises three parts:

- Part One: Results of implementing the 8th Central Resolution of Session XI and situation forecast.

- Part Two: Basic contents of the 8th Central Resolution of Session XIII on the Strategy to Safeguard the Fatherland in the New Situation.

- Part Three: Organization for implementation.

The Department of Natural Resources and Environment of Cao Bang Province has introduced Plan 1625/KH-STNMT in 2024 Download to implement Resolution 44-NQ/TW in 2023 of the 8th meeting of the XIII Central CPV Committee on the “Strategy to Safeguard the Fatherland in the New Situation”

The objectives for the implementation plan of Resolution 44-NQ/TW in 2023 for the Strategy to Safeguard the Fatherland in the New Situation until 2030 are as follows:

- General objective: Ensure the highest national interests based on firmly safeguarding independence, sovereignty, unity, and territorial integrity of the Fatherland; protect the Communist Party of Vietnam, the State, the People, socialist policies; safeguard revolutionary achievements, the renewal, industrialization, modernization; protect cultural foundations and the country's international reputation and status; protect national security, human security, economic security, cybersecurity; maintain political security, order, and social safety; strengthen and enhance a peaceful environment for national construction and development; contribute actively to maintaining regional and global peace.

Specific objectives:

- Continuously enhance the leadership capacity, ruling ability, and combat strength, setting an example in the Communist Party of Vietnam. Build a cadre team at all levels, especially strategic levels, who are dignified, ethical, competent, reputable, innovative in thinking, and have a strategic vision. Develop the Communist Party of Vietnam and a political system that operates effectively, efficiently, cleanly, comprehensively, and strongly, operating effectively and efficiently.

- Closely combine national strength with the strength of the era, promote socialist democracy, and the people’s ownership rights; enhance social consensus, consolidate and elevate the people's trust in the Communist Party of Vietnam, the State, and the political system; achieve progress and social equality; improve the material and spiritual lives of the people; strengthen unity within the Communist Party of Vietnam, serving as the nucleus to reinforce the great national unity, drive the renewal, construction, and defense of the Fatherland.

- Continually improve and synchronize the development framework, especially the socialist-oriented market economy framework. Restructure, enhance the quality, effectiveness, and competitiveness of the economy, innovate the growth model, strengthen digital transformation, industrialization, and modernization, and develop the country comprehensively, swiftly, and sustainably. Closely integrate economic, cultural, and social development with national defense and security assurance. Build a strong national industry; develop a proactive, self-reliant, dual-use, modern defense, and security industry, turning it into a spearhead of national industry.

- Strongly inspire patriotism, promote fines and cultural values, the resilient tradition of building and defending the country of the nation; absorb the quintessence of international cultures, create motivation for economic and social development and deep, substantive, effective international integration.

- Enhance defense and security resources, build a revolutionary, regular, elite, gradually modernized People’s Army, People’s Public Security, with some forces advancing directly to modernization, creating solid premises, striving by 2030 to build a revolutionary, regular, elite, modern People’s Army and People’s Public Security; resolutely, persistently defend the strong independence, sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity, sea, islands, airspace; maintain a peaceful, stable environment for national development.

Additionally, Resolution 44-NQ/TW in 2023 will have six duties and solutions as follows:

(1) Building and reorganizing the pure, strong Communist Party of Vietnam and political system; constructing a socialist rule-of-law state.

(2) Enhancing the strength of great national unity, socialist democracy, and people’s ownership rights in building and safeguarding the Fatherland.

(3) Building an independent, autonomous economy, promoting industrialization, modernization, and sustainable rapid national development; closely integrating economic, and social development with enhancing national defense and security.

(4) Building and promoting cultural values and the strength of the Vietnamese people in the cause of nation-building and defense.

(5) Enhancing defense and security, firmly defending the socialist Vietnamese Fatherland.

(6) Deploying dynamic, creative, effective foreign activities, proactively and positively integrating comprehensively, and deeply internationally.

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What are the duties of students in Vietnam in safeguarding the Fatherland today?

Under Article 44 of the Constitution 2013:

A citizen has the obligation to be loyal to the Fatherland.

High treason is the most serious crime.

According to Article 40 of the Law on Children 2016, the duties for students under 16 are specified as follows:

Children’s responsibilities towards hometown and nation

1. Love hometown and nation, love fellow-citizens, show a good sense of building and protecting the Fatherland; preserve the national character and promote national and local customs, practices, traditions and culture.

2. Comply with and abide by the laws; unite, cooperate and exchange with international friends and children in conformity with the children's age level and each period of development.

Therefore, some duties of students in safeguarding the Fatherland in particular, and Vietnamese citizens in general, currently include:

- Being loyal to the Fatherland, with socialist policies; performing well and right in the spirit: "Loyal to the country, filial to the people, completing any task, overcoming any difficulty, defeating any enemy."

- Being vigilance against division and distortion schemes of hostile forces; knowing how to criticize, and fight against attitudes and actions that undermine the state, cause division, disrupt national unity, threaten national security, and infringe the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Fatherland.

- Actively participating in local security and defense activities; engaging in gratitude and repaying activities… Male students shall take responsibility in registering for military service training upon reaching the age and be ready to fulfill the obligation to defend the Fatherland.

- Encouraging friends and relatives to perform well the duty of safeguarding the Fatherland.

Note: The information is for reference only!

What are the regulations on national defense and security education at the lower secondary level in Vietnam?

According to Article 3 of Circular 08/2024/TT-BGDDT on the integration of national defense and security education content in primary schools, lower secondary schools, and schools with multiple levels, for national defense and security education at the lower secondary level, it must integrate education and propaganda about the Communist Party of Vietnam's guidelines, State policies, and laws related to national defense and security:

- Integration in subjects and educational activities for each class, according to textbooks chosen by schools, suitable with the perception ability of students in each locality, focusing on subjects: Literature; Civic Education; History and Geography; Arts (Music, Fine Arts); Local education content; Experiential activities, career orientation.

- Common integrated themes from grade 6 to grade 9: educate the spirit of solidarity, and patriotism of the Vietnamese nation in building and defending the country through historical periods; protecting the sovereignty of the seas and islands; safeguarding sovereignty, territory, and national borders; citizen rights and responsibilities in the cause of nation-building and defense; introduce some historical events against foreign invaders; some contents about protecting personal information when participating in social networks; introduce some contents on social evil prevention for students; State religious policies.