Decision No.716-TTg of September 30, 1996 of the Prime Minister ratifying the orientations of research and the list of the State-level social science and humanities research programs in the 1996-2000 five-year period.
The research on Vietnam�s path to socialism shall be conducted through the following 4 programs:
- Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh Thought and Vietnam�s path to socialism
- Orientations, objectives, process and solutions of national industrialization and modernization
- Establishment of production relations in accordance with the socialist orientations and changes in social stratification.
- Development of culture, training of people of a new type in the period of national industrialization and modernization. The corresponding social policies to bring into full play the human factor.
The research on the Party building in the new period shall be conducted through the program: "To enhance the Party leadership and raise its combativeness in the condition of the multi-sector economy and the socialist-oriented market mechanism,"
The research on the modern capitalism shall be conducted through the program: "Questions of modern capitalism."
There is also a special program entitled "Strategy to defend the Fatherland of the Socialist Vietnam during the period of national industrialization and modernization."-