Speaking on behalf of the Hanoi Party Committee at the 14th National Party Congress on January 21, Standing Vice Secretary Nguyen Van Phong said Hanoi’s development experience shows that its biggest bottlenecks lie not only in resources but also in leadership approaches and implementation capacity.

Decisive action, immediate execution, effective results, thorough follow-through

The Hanoi Party Committee's presentation carried the theme "Renewing leadership methods of the Hanoi Party Committee to meet development requirements in the new era and help shape the nation's future."

Expressing strong agreement with the Political Report and the documents submitted by the 13th Party Central Committee, Phong said the Hanoi Party Committee has 132 subordinate Party committees, including 126 ward- and commune-level committees, with nearly 500,000 Party members, the largest number nationwide.

During the 2020–2025 term, amid many challenges, especially the Covid-19 pandemic, the Hanoi Party Committee focused on renewing leadership methods and achieved comprehensive and breakthrough results.

The capital's economy recovered strongly, with average growth of 6.57%. In 2025, growth reached 8.16%, with an economic scale of about US$63.5 billion.

Budget revenue reached a remarkable VND711 trillion ($27 billion), while average income approached VND180 million ($6,850) per person per year. Living standards continued to improve and Hanoi led the country in social security and welfare.

Hanoi is implementing central resolutions and the resolution of the 18th Hanoi Party Congress, while advancing special institutional frameworks for the capital, including proposals to replace Politburo Resolution No. 15, amend the Capital Law and build a master plan with a 100-year vision to create stronger momentum for fast and sustainable development.

At the same time, the city is decisively addressing five major bottlenecks: traffic congestion, urban order, flooding, environmental pollution and food safety, while accelerating decentralization of authority, tasks, administrative procedures and resources in association with digital transformation.

Hanoi has defined a new development model targeting double-digit growth, with science, technology, innovation, digital transformation and high-quality human resources as the core drivers.

The leadership, direction and management style of the Hanoi Party Committee has become more decisive, action-oriented, effective and persistent.

Administrative discipline has strengthened, with task accountability based on the "six clear principles": clear responsibility, clear tasks, clear timelines, clear authority, clear outputs and clear accountability.

The Hanoi Party Committee has led in a focused and comprehensive manner, confronting difficult issues directly and resolving long-standing bottlenecks, while ensuring leadership based on discipline, progress control, measurable effectiveness and verifiable results.

According to Phong, key lessons include unity, decisiveness, closeness to reality and especially the spirit of the "six dares": daring to think, speak, act, take responsibility, innovate and confront difficulties. Leaders, especially those at the top, must be ready to take the lead in handling major, difficult and unprecedented tasks.

This approach has inspired positive change in public service ethics and work styles among officials and Party members, strengthened public trust and enhanced the Hanoi Party Committee's political credibility, laying an important foundation for the capital's next breakthrough.

Five strategic orientations for capital development

Phong recalled President Ho Chi Minh's words that "the entire country looks to the capital and the world watches the capital", requiring Hanoi to maintain order, security and comprehensive well-being. This teaching demands Hanoi remain exemplary and worthy of national trust.

Facing the demands of a new development era, Hanoi cannot continue with traditional urban thinking centered on fragmented administration and scattered resources or hesitation between preservation and development.

The city seeks development that both removes bottlenecks and achieves breakthroughs, while answering the strategic question raised by General Secretary To Lam: how Hanoi will shape its identity and development model to preserve the spirit of Thang Long while becoming a creative, green, smart, globally connected megacity.

Hanoi has defined five strategic orientations:

First, develop based on innovation, with science, technology and digital transformation as primary growth drivers.

Second, reorganize urban space toward a multi-center, multi-polar, multi-layer, green, harmonious model that adapts to climate change and improves living quality.

Third, leverage culture as soft power, preserve and promote millennia-old traditions and place Hanoians at the center alongside Thang Long–Hanoi culture to create distinctive advantages.

Fourth, strengthen global connectivity and build Hanoi into an international city attracting talent, capital and global knowledge.

Fifth, enhance the city's leading role so that Hanoi's models deliver not only efficiency but also pioneering, replicable value for national review.

One model, four commitments

Standing Vice Secretary Phong emphasized that managing a megacity requires shifting from administrative command to a modern leadership model: a digital Party Committee, a development-oriented government, pioneering enterprises and a socially consensual society.

In this model:

(1) A digital Party Committee leads through strategic vision, data, discipline, example and accountability, with resolutions focused on measurable results and timely adjustment.

(2) An enabling government shifts from control to service and development creation, placing people and businesses at the center and using quality of life and global competitiveness as benchmarks.

(3) Businesses lead innovation, apply science and technology responsibly, uphold ethics and play a direct role in building a modern and happy capital.

(4) Social consensus ensures people participate, supervise, provide feedback and fairly benefit from development and rising well-being.

To realize this model, Hanoi will comprehensively renew leadership pillars:

First, issue concise, focused resolutions with clear metrics and supervision roadmaps as action commitments to the people.

Second, streamline and professionalize the apparatus and personnel, using public satisfaction and work outcomes as evaluation standards.

Third, build a digital Party Committee and accelerate comprehensive digital transformation, making data the foundation for leadership, direction and oversight.

Fourth, renew ideological and public outreach work adapted to digital spaces, proactively shaping opinion and consensus through modern political communication.

Fifth, reform inspection and supervision by shifting from post-checks to prevention and early warning based on data, ensuring strict power control while supporting development.

The Standing Vice Secretary stressed that renewing leadership methods aims not only to govern better but to create a sustainable future for the capital and contribute to national development, a special political responsibility entrusted by the Party and the people.

At the 14^th National Party Congress, the Hanoi Party Committee made four commitments:

First, Hanoi will lead in renewing Party leadership methods in the new era as a central and ongoing political task.

Second, Hanoi will serve as a controlled testing ground for new models in governance, institutions, organization, digital transformation and innovation for national review.

Third, Hanoi will assume the highest political responsibility for outcomes and resolutely overcome avoidance, fear of mistakes and responsibility shifting.

Fourth, Hanoi will strive to become a model of a modern, clean, action-oriented ruling Party that creates development, worthy of its role as the nation's political and administrative center.

With a thousand-year tradition and strong renewal aspirations, the capital's Party, government and people will unite, innovate, lead by example and act decisively alongside the nation toward a prosperous and happy new era, Standing Vice Secretary Phong affirmed.