[1] The party plays a leading role in establishing the foundations and principles of communism, mapping strategies for economic development, setting growth targets, and launching reforms.
[1] The next two congresses, held in March 1982 and December 1986, respectively, reiterated this long-term communist objective and approved the five-year plans designed to guide the development of the Vietnamese economy at each specific stage of the revolution.
[1] It also gave priority to reconstruction and new construction while attempting to develop agricultural resources, to integrate the North and the South, and to proceed with communization.
[1] Vietnam was incapable, however, of undertaking such an ambitious program on its own and solicited financial support for its Second Five-Year Plan from Western nations, international organizations, and communist allies.
[1] To address these problems, at its Fifth National Party Congress held in March 1982, the VCP approved resolutions on "orientations, tasks and objectives of economic and social development for 1981-85 and the 1980s".
[1] The policies arrived at called for the temporary retention of private capitalist activities in order to spur economic growth and the completion, more or less, of a communist transformation in the South by the mid-1980s.
[1] The plan's highest priority, however, was to develop agriculture by integrating the collective and individual sectors into an overall system emphasizing intensive cultivation and crop specialization and by employing science and technology.
[1] Late in 1983, a number of import-export firms that had been created in Ho Chi Minh City to spur the development of the export market were integrated into a single enterprise regulated by the state.
[1] By the end of 1985, Hanoi reported that 72 percent of the total number of peasant households in the South were enrolled in some form of cooperative organization.
[1] Despite the plan's emphasis on agricultural development, the industrial sector received a larger share of state investment during the first two years.
[1] Acting to disperse economic decision making, the plenum resolved to grant production autonomy at the factory and individual farm levels.
[1] The government created a new dong in September 1985, and set maximum quotas for the amount permitted to be exchanged in bank notes.
[1] The Seventh Five-Year Plan's stated purpose was to accelerate economic growth and to bring about a higher quality of life for the people of Vietnam.
[3] The Eighth Five-Year Plan contained targets split into 3 high-level categories: Economic, Social, and Environmental as well as a list of 15 "Major tasks and solutions.