Addressing the conference, Politburo member and permanent member of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) Central Committee’s Secretariat Truong Tan Sang said that the Politburo (8^th tenure) on Feb. 18, 1998 issued Instruction No 30-CT/TW on the building and implementation of democratic regulations at grassroots level.

He emphasised the importance of the Politburo’s instruction which has received a positive response from all branches and levels and implemented effectively in various social activities.

The issuance and implementation of the instruction is a new progress in expanding democracy, bringing into full play people’s mastery in conformity with the requirements of national construction and defence in the new period of national industrialisation and modernisation and international integration, said the senior Party official.

The CPV Central Committee’s Secretary and head of the Central Steering Committee on the implementation of democratic regulations at grassroots level, Ha Thi Khiet, said that all branches and levels have recorded practical results in implementing the instruction over the past decade.

Almost all communes, wards, towns, States agencies and many businesses have built and issued regulations that clearly stipulate the content and forms of exercising democracy and bringing into play people’s mastery in all activities, she said.

Party Committees at all levels, State agencies, administrations, the Fatherland Front and mass organisations and Party members, officials and public employees have been very active in exercising democracy, Ms Khiet said.

She emphasised that the motto “people know, people discuss, people do and people check” has been reflected in difference fields at grassroots level and the mechanism “the Party guides, the State manages and people master” have proved effective.

The practice implementation of the instruction has helped promote socio-cultural and economic development, maintain security and order at grassroots level and increase the quality of Party organisations in the political system.

Trade unions in all administrative agencies, communes, wards and towns, and all companies and businesses are poised to effectively practise democratic regulations at grassroots level by the end of 2010.