The Resolution of the 11^th Military Party Congress (hereafter the Resolution for short) for the 2020-2025 tenure is of utmost importance to the Military’s new development period. Thus, party committees within the Army Corps 3’s Party Organisation have been focusing their leadership on thoroughly grasping and executing this Resolution.

As a main unit stationed in the strategic area of Central Highlands, the Army Corps 3 has concentrated its leadership and direction on drastically, synchronously, comprehensively realising the goals and targets set by the Resolutions of the 10^th Military Party Congress and the Corps’ 9^th Party Congress. It is worth noting that it has directed its offices and units to strictly maintain the combat readiness order, proactively grasp, evaluate and correctly anticipate the situation, and opportunely give advice to the Central Military Commission (CMC) and the Ministry of National Defence (MND) on effectively dealing with issues relating to political security and social order and safety, thereby avoiding passivity in any circumstance and raising the Corps’ combat readiness capacity and manoeuvrability. Under the guidelines on “achieving a breakthrough in the training quality” and ensuring “three-substantive” training¹, the Corps has focused on renewing the work of training management and operation, adhering to the training motto of “basics, practicality, and thorough grasp,” and providing practical, tasks-based training courses in accordance with each group of troops and its materiel. Significance has been attached to combining training with military standard order building, discipline management, safety assurance, and the building of comprehensively strong, “exemplary, typical” offices and units. The work of political education and ideological management has been carried out frequently with a lot of new models and creative approaches to the studying and following of Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, ethics and lifestyle. In this regard, emphasis has been placed on establishing moral standards of the Corps’ cadres and soldiers, namely “Steadfastness, Responsibility, Democracy, Discipline, Unity, Exemplification, Thrifty, and Self-Reliance,” which has helped bolster the Corps’ tradition in the new period.

A joint exercise by the Corps

Furthermore, the Corps has adopted various measures to build a politically, ideologically, morally, organisationally strong Party Organisation and create a strong consensus within its affiliates and Party Organisation. Due attention has been paid to reviewing, issuing, supplementing, and stringently implementing the work and leadership regulations. At the same time, the Corps has proactively, effectively prevented and fought against wrong, hostile viewpoints, the “peaceful evolution” strategy, “self-evolution” and “self-transformation” to defend the Party’s ideological foundation within itself.

According to the Resolution of the 11^th Military Party Congress, the Military’s force adjustments will have been basically completed by 2025. The Military will have been made revolutionary, regular, seasoned, and gradually modern, with a number of modern services, corps, and forces by 2030. The whole Military will be modernised from 2030. Being stationed at the forefront of the hostile forces’ sabotage scheme and confronted with social negative practices and the COVID-19 pandemic, the Corps has implemented various measures to fulfil the above-mentioned goal.

First of all, it has directed its affiliates to introduce the Resolution to all cadres, party members, and the masses. Immediately after the 11^th Military Party Congress, under the guidance from higher echelons, the Corps has required its offices and units to hold briefings on the results of the Congress for all staff members, opportunely design propagation documents, and assign party committee members to introduce the Resolution. Studying and introducing the Resolution have been included in party committees’ resolutions and commanders’ work plans. The Corps’ Party Committee has demanded that all cadres, party members and the masses be fully aware of the importance of studying the Resolution as an objective requirement and a criterion for assessing their qualities, capabilities and task performance in 2021. Heads of party committees have been asked to be responsible for the programmes, contents, and results of studying the Resolution and include the contents of the Resolution in the action plan for the resolution of their party organisation’s congress. Focuses of the study of the Resolution have been placed on the military-defence guidelines, goals, and tasks and the building of the Military Party Organisation between 2020 and 2025. Greater importance has been attached to clarifying the building of a politically strong Military as the basis for raising the entire Military’s synergy and combat power, the realisation of the three breakthroughs in the Military’s organisational structure, training, military standard order building, discipline management, and military administrative reform as well as the Military’s core role in constructing the all-people national defence and the posture of all-people national defence associated with the posture of people’s security. As a result, in a short time only, the Corps has introduced the Resolution to over 15,000 cadres and soldiers with the participation of all party committee members and key cadres, while gradually raising the awareness and political responsibility of cadres, party members and the masses.

To translate the Resolution into life, the Corps’ Party Committee has concentrated on improving all-level party committees and organisations’ leadership capacity. It has directed offices and units to concretise the Resolution into their action programmes, their supervision and inspection plans, and their work and leadership regulations. Up to now, all party committees within the Corps’ Party Organisation have completed their action programmes and their work and leadership regulations for the whole tenure. Meanwhile, the Corps’ Party Committee has asked its affiliated party committees to raise the quality of building and executing their resolutions and improve their capacity to grasp and realise the Resolutions of the 11^th Military Party Congress and the Corps’ 10^th Party Congress in accordance with their task. At the same time, they have been required to set up leadership breakthroughs in each year and for the whole tenure. In this regard, great value has been attached to realising “one focus and three breakthroughs²,” building a pure, strong Party Organisation and a comprehensively strong, “exemplary, typical,” compact Corps, and enhancing the Corps’ synergy and combat readiness capacity to meet the task requirements.

Reality has proved that the leadership role of a party committee is promoted when its secretary, members, and key cadres have sufficient qualities and capabilities in introducing and performing their assigned task. Thus, the Corps has implemented a breakthrough in raising the quality of its cadres together with both long-term and short-term strategies. In the long term, the Corps would concentrate on building a contingent of cadres with specific criteria relating to political zeal, morality, discipline, and professional competence as well as with the proper structure and high quality. In the short term, the Corps would deal with the quantity of its cadres, adjust its organisational structure, and enhance the quality of its cadres on a par with their task requirements, while aligning the building of party committee members with that of key cadres at all levels. In the process, due attention has been paid to maintaining the regulations and procedures for the personnel work to ensure democracy, justice, openness, and objectivity. Evaluations of cadres have been carried out closely, practically as the basis for training and using them according to the task requirements. The Corps’ cadres at all levels have continued renewing their working method and style in a close, focalised, scientific, drastic, and effective fashion, keeping a close relationship with soldiers, maintaining democracy, unity and discipline, matching their words with action, and setting good examples for their subordinates to follow. In addition, the Corps has resolutely fought against and strictly handled bureaucracy, formal democracy, arbitrariness, paternalism, militarism, “credit-driven disease,” and violations of democracy. 

The Corps has attached great value to encouraging the synergy, knowledge, and responsibility of organisations and forces in grasping and implementing the Resolutions of the 11^th Military Party Congress and all-level Party Congresses. It has promoted the role of political cadres and offices, especially the inspection and organisation commissions in counselling units to develop their action programmes and plans for the Resolution. Grounded on their function and task, mass organisations, Soldiers’ Councils, offices, and units within the Corps have adopted various measures to achieve a positive change in the awareness and action of their members. More importantly, the Corps has well conducted the work of political education and ideological orientation to raise troops’ responsibility, consolidate their faith, and build up their political zeal and determination so that they would proactively overcome difficulties, dare to think, dare to do, persistently deal with issues arising from reality, and successfully realise the Resolution.

Competent offices within the Corps have enhanced the work of inspecting and counselling the execution of the Resolution. Advocating that “supervision must be expanded, while inspection must be focalised,” the Corps has focused on inspecting and supervising its key cadres and party organisations’ leadership over the performance of units’ political task and the Party building in line with the implementation of the 12^th Party Central Committee’s Resolution No.4, the 12^th Politburo’s Directive 05-CT/TW, and the Campaign entitled “promoting tradition, devoting talent, deserving to be Uncle Ho’s soldiers” in the new period. Also, the Corps has promoted the role of party committee members and key cadres at all levels in rectifying weaknesses pointed out after inspections and supervisions.

With those above-mentioned measures, the Resolutions of the 11^th Military Party Congress and all-level Party Congresses have been gradually translated into life as the basis for building a comprehensively strong, “exemplary, typical” Corps and making it capable of fulfilling all assigned tasks.

Maj. Gen. NGUYEN VAN THE, Commissar of the Army Corps 3
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1. Three-substantive training: 1. Substantive teaching. 2. Substantive learning. 3. Substantive examination and evaluation.

3. One focus: building comprehensively strong offices and units. Three breakthroughs: 1. Raising the quality of cadres. 2. Improving the quality of combat training and political education. 3. Enhancing the quality of military standard order building, discipline management, safety assurance, and administrative reform.