Introduction

Socialist News From Outside The Imperial Core

Curated By

Anto

Proletariat from the Global South

About this Collection

About this Collection

Among global marxist and even non marxist it is not a secret that western news are unreliable, doubly so when they are about global south nations where the news between allies and enemies are so bias to the point of it being comical, and it got even worse when it's about socialist countries because even western leftist news media often turns into state propagandist.

That is why I want to add news media from those nations that provide news with English language.

This is important not just to see the other side perspective, but also because these sites are in a way "shadow banned" you can open these sites everyday, but they won't come out on your google recommended news. This is despite a lot of news from these sites often gave a much needed boost of revolutionary optimism.

I will list 3 articles from each sites, but this are news site that you can open daily. So please do check them out.

Read this collection online: https://unlearn.capital/collections/socialist-news-outside-the-imperial-core

9 articles

This ebook is about 64 pages long.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

1. Economic and Social Transformations presented to Cuban Parliament

25 pages

https://en.granma.cu/cuba/2026-06-19/economic-and-social-transformations-presented-to-cuban-parliament

Granma

By Wennys Diaz Ballaga

Publication Date: June 19, 2026

Cuba's parliament debates major economic reforms, including expanding market mechanisms, foreign investment, and partial dollarization, while preserving socialism and social justice amid US sanctions and domestic challenges.

2. Reality demands urgent and necessary changes

18 pages

https://en.granma.cu/cuba/2026-06-18/reality-demands-urgent-and-necessary-changes

Granma

By Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez

Publication Date: June 18, 2026

Cuba's leader urges economic transformation under the US blockade, calling for wealth creation, legal certainty, and investment to sustain socialism.

3. The Communist Party of China is today an indispensable reference point in the process of building socialism

4 pages

https://en.granma.cu/mundo/2026-06-30/the-communist-party-of-china-is-today-an-indispensable-reference-point-in-the-process-of-building-socialism

Granma

By Emilio Lozada García

Publication Date: June 30, 2026

The Communist Party of China is an indispensable reference for building socialism, having grown from 50 founders in 1921 to over 100 million members, led China to become the world's second-largest economy through Reform and Opening Up, eradicated extreme poverty.

4. CAN GIO – A “GREEN LABORATORY” FOR ENERGY TRANSITION

4 pages

https://longform.vietnamplus.vn/can-gio-a-green-laboratory-for-energy-transition-1337.html

Vietnam Plus

Publication Date: July 1, 2026

Ho Chi Minh City's Can Gio coastal district is emerging as a green laboratory for Vietnam's energy transition, leveraging mangrove carbon sinks, solar, wind, and eco-tourism to pursue net-zero emissions by 2050.

5. Leaner organization, sharper governance create new growth drivers

4 pages

https://longform.vietnamplus.vn/leaner-organisation-sharper-governance-create-new-growth-drivers-1334.html

Vietnam Plus

Publication Date: July 1, 2026

Vietnam's localities harness the two-tier administrative model to reorganize development space, aiming to boost growth drivers through improved governance and performance criteria.

6. A long-term strategy for a healthier Vietnam

3 pages

https://longform.vietnamplus.vn/a-long-term-strategy-for-a-healthier-vietnam-1265.html

Vietnam Plus

Publication Date: July 1, 2026

Vietnam's Politburo Resolution 72 promotes physical exercise as a breakthrough for proactive health, aiming for universal health insurance, free check-ups, better grassroots healthcare, and healthier, longer lives by 2030.

7. China's Belt and Road Initiative paves way for common prosperity in Central Africa

4 pages

https://english.news.cn/20240317/3a0fd6fcb85b4f1ab73623aab77aeb38/c.html

Xinhuanet

By huaxia

Publication Date: March 17, 2024

Chinese Belt and Road projects finance ports, roads, water and energy infrastructure across Central Africa, spurring regional integration and prosperity.

8. China pursues significant scale of new urban jobs in next five years

1 page

https://english.news.cn/20260709/28f1b4eac36948838c832568e54ee17a/c.html

Xinhuanet

By huaxia

Publication Date: June 28, 2026

China releases a 2026-2030 workforce plan aiming to create substantial urban jobs, cap urban unemployment at 5.5%, and expand social security and vocational training.

9. Burkina Faso unveils five-year economic plan to boost sovereignty, industrialization

1 page

https://english.news.cn/20260509/15c7f4d75f6841779cee15a7ba1d2265/c.html

Xinhuanet

By huaxia

Publication Date: May 9, 2026

Burkina Faso's economy minister unveils a 2026-2030 national plan aimed at achieving productive sovereignty through industrialization, local processing, and national financing, moving away from raw material exports and foreign dependence.

Economic and Social Transformations presented to Cuban Parliament

Socialist News From Outside The Imperial Core — Economic and Social Transformations presented to Cuban Parliament

Economic and Social Transformations presented to Cuban Parliament

Article 1 of 9

Granma

By Wennys Diaz Ballaga

Originally published at https://en.granma.cu/cuba/2026-06-19/economic-and-social-transformations-presented-to-cuban-parliament

Publication Date: June 19, 2026

- Allow and encourage businesses (including private businesses) to make financial investments.

- Design financial instruments that allow for the capitalization of businesses without the participation of the state budget.

- Implement a National Program for the Valuation and Titling of State-Owned Enterprise Assets (appraisals) that:

*Conducts a national inventory of tangible and intangible assets of the state-owned enterprise system with market valuations.

*Issues enforceable ownership certificates that can serve as collateral for bank loans.

*Allow state-owned enterprises to monetize underutilized assets through long-term leasing to various economic actors and foreign investment.

- Design an efficient and competitive business system that generates revenue to support the services of social sector agencies.

- Establish procedures for bankruptcy, liquidation, and restructuring of assets with sustained losses in the state sector.

- Transform socialist state-owned enterprises into commercial companies with shares or equity interests:

*The State will define its shareholding in the sectors of the economy, guaranteeing its majority presence in strategic sectors.

*State-owned enterprises may purchase shares in other companies.
*Non-state management entities and individuals will also be able to purchase shares, according to a phased approach to be defined.

*This process will require classifying companies.

Non-state management entities

- Authorize the creation of non-agricultural micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and cooperatives pending approval on the

Economic Actors Platform.

- Reduce the requirements, procedures, and timeframes for the creation, conversion, and operation of non-state management entities, defining approval times.

- Allow the hiring of more than 100 employees. Entities with more than 100 employees will be classified as private companies.

- Allow an individual to own more than one private company.

- Expand the corporate structures under which private companies can be organized, including public limited companies.

- Allow the same individual to hold shares in more than one private company.

- Grant real rights (usufruct and surface rights) to private companies or cooperatives to enable them to make investments for the development of their productive or service activities.

- Authorize that cash foreign currency deposits from non-state actors be credited to bank accounts in the same currency, subject to a declaration of the lawful origin of the funds and withdrawal rights.

- Allow non-state management entities to develop other productive and service activities without abandoning their main activity.

- Reduce the list of prohibited activities for non-state economic actors.

- Improve the Economic Actors Platform and incorporate the use of Artificial Intelligence. Guarantee its transparency, traceability, and agility.

- Transform the institutional structure and the forms of ownership and management of the agricultural sector's productive base. Allow private companies to participate in agricultural activities.

- Develop an input market with the participation of all actors and with access to the foreign exchange market.

- Create a National Platform for Production Linkages that establishes the obligation for state-owned enterprises to publish their input and subcontracting needs, as well as the granting of tax incentives based on purchase levels from national producers.

AXIS 2: TRANSFORMATIONS IN OWNERSHIP RELATIONS. DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

The Head of Government indicated that, regarding the transformations in ownership relations and the differences between ownership and management, social ownership of the fundamental means of production is reaffirmed, and progress is being made toward non-state management of these means.

He added that among the new measures is the authorization for the purchase of shares and properties of state-owned enterprises by state and non-state legal entities, both national and foreign, as well as individuals, provided that the lawful origin of the funds is demonstrated.

He highlighted the creation of an Investment Program that incentivizes the participation of Cubans residing in the country and abroad in Cuban companies; in addition to recognizing the legitimate growth of the financial and material assets of legal and natural persons and guaranteeing the protection of labor and social rights without allowing indiscriminate exploitation of man by man.

AXIS 3: TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE ECONOMIC PLANNING SYSTEM

- Improve medium- and long-term planning, focusing on development design, prioritizing macroeconomic stability, reducing structural problems, and providing policy signals for all economic actors.

- Incorporate the economic, commercial, and service activities of non-state economic actors into the projections of the National Economic and Social Development Plan until 2030 and into the Provincial and Municipal Development Strategies.

- Transition to a financial planning model, where the State progressively relinquishes the physical distribution of resources, giving greater weight to market signals:

• State-owned enterprises will access inputs, foreign currency, and other resources for their production in a decentralized manner through market mechanisms.

• State orders will be executed through a contractual framework between supplying and demanding entities.

• The planning process must take into account the satisfaction of domestic market demands.

- Maintain the fundamental balances of the economy (agrifood, foreign exchange, energy, and the State budget), transforming them into instruments for diagnosing, anticipating, and correcting policies.

- Expand the limits for approving investments by decentralizing this authority to state-owned enterprises, commercial companies, or foreign investment entities, based on their financial capacity and access to resources.

AXIS 4: TRANSFORMATIONS AND RESIZING OF THE BUDGETED SECTOR

Marrero Cruz indicated that the proposals for economic transformation include a restructuring of the Central State Administration, which would involve a significant reduction in the number of ministries and budgeted agencies.

He explained that a legislative proposal is already circulating that contemplates the reorganization of state and governmental structures, with the aim of adapting them to the country's new economic conditions and making public administration more efficient.

This process, he said, would also directly impact provincial and municipal administrations, where a resizing of structures and workforces is planned.

AXIS 5: TRANSFORMATIONS IN MUNICIPAL AUTONOMY

Decentralize the following powers at the municipal level:

- Strategic planning.

- Territorial and urban planning.

- Food sovereignty and food and nutritional security.

- Community services.

- Promotion of local economic development:

• Diversify and strengthen its productive fabric, considering the participation of different economic actors, Cubans residing in the country and abroad, and including local production systems.

• Capacity to export and import, as well as generate and retain foreign currency for current and capital expenditures.

• Stimulate and manage foreign direct investment.

- Municipal administrative and human resources management.

- Local budgetary, financial, and tax management.

AXIS 6: ENERGY TRANSFORMATIONS

- Allow the participation of private and foreign capital in the import and marketing of fuels, including the retail network.

- Expand and restructure the management of the service station network, including mobile service stations:

*Require service stations managed by various economic actors to incorporate photovoltaic systems with energy storage to become independent of the National Electric System.

*Encourage the installation of solar charging stations to market electric vehicle charging services.

- Design financing lines, streamline requirements, and expand guarantees for granting loans to legal entities and individuals to incentivize the energy transition. Stimulate investment from the demand side.

- Allow state-owned enterprises to use foreign platforms to process payments for fuel purchases and sales.

- Apply a tax of up to 1% to the import of physical or financial fuel destined for operational inventories.

- Reduce the tax, by an amount equivalent to the investment made, for state and non-state economic actors who invest in renewable energy sources as part of their social responsibility in public service, social, or care centers, including public lighting.

AXIS 7: TRANSFORMATIONS TO INCENTIVIZE AGRICULTURAL RECOVERY

- Modify land management and use for all economic actors:

*Maintain the principle of land ownership by all the people.

*Grant the real right of usufruct over land to state, private, mixed, or natural legal entities that request it, for an indefinite period and for the amount of land specified in the submitted project, for all agricultural, forestry, and tobacco production, as well as for ecotourism and agritourism development projects.

*Authorize the state-owned enterprise that administers the socialist-owned land of all the people to grant usufruct rights to applicants through the corresponding contract, in compliance with current legal regulations.

*Authorize the granting of land in usufruct to Agricultural Production Cooperatives (CPA), once approved by the cooperative's General Assembly and in compliance with current legal regulations.

*Eliminate the requirement for usufructuaries to work directly and permanently on the land.

*Evaluate the definition of work collectives and propose the necessary structural transformations.

- Transform the cooperative management model:

*Authorize cooperatives to import and market fuels as inputs.

*Grant cooperatives the authority to conduct foreign trade directly, for the export of their products and the import of agricultural inputs and technologies.

*Allow cooperatives to directly manage external financing for exportable production, import substitution, and investments.

*Allow cooperatives to open bank accounts abroad and in Cuban banks, in both pesos and foreign currency.

*Make agricultural marketing more flexible. Recognize the market in price formation:

*Decentralize and empower state and non-state business entities, cooperatives, and producers to set prices for agricultural products.

*The contracting and negotiation of prices for agricultural products will be agreed upon between the producer and the buyer.

*Standardize the tax regime for all economic actors involved in the production, processing, and marketing of food.

*Create a National Price Information System for agricultural product markets, publishing reference prices on digital platforms.

*Design incentives for all economic actors to market agricultural inputs in both foreign currency and pesos and to have access to the foreign exchange market:

*Authorize all economic actors to directly market agricultural inputs and equipment in both foreign currency and pesos.

*Promote the creation of input markets in foreign currency, where domestic and foreign individuals and legal entities participate, through a simplified process.

*Approve a special tax regime for all economic actors participating in the input market, with incentives and bonuses for the import and sale of inputs in foreign currency.

*Establish banking procedures that guarantee the execution of foreign currency transactions for the sale of inputs to producers and payments to suppliers abroad, through the use of POS terminals for payments by magnetic card, bank transfer, cash, e-commerce, and other authorized payment methods.

-Increase financing for the primary production sector by expanding and decentralizing the Agricultural Development Fund and creating an Agricultural Development Bank:

*Decentralize the use of the Agricultural Development Fund to municipalities, tailored to the characteristics of their territories, upon presentation of projects that contribute to Development Strategies related to food production.

AXIS 8: SOCIAL TRANSFORMATIONS

- Digitize and make transparent the management of aid through the use of the SOBERANIA platform for real-time updates of the registry of individuals and families in vulnerable situations, thereby systematizing the different forms of assistance, their traceability, and governmental and public oversight.

- Establish that all economic actors (state and private – national and foreign), as part of their social responsibility at the community level, in the areas of finance, material resources, and services, participate directly in the following activities:

*Support pension payments through agreements with banks.

*Support the soup kitchens of the Family Support System and Community Food Centers.

*Support homes for children without parental care.

*Support nursing homes, maternity homes, senior centers, and other social centers.

*Establish differentiated pricing, discounts, free services, or solidarity quotas for people in vulnerable situations.

*Address cases of vulnerable situations identified by local governments.

*Support social and health transportation.

*Support public health institutions and educational centers.

*Contribute to community hygiene and sanitation in critical areas.

*Provide basic necessities to social institutions.

*Create monthly food baskets for vulnerable individuals and families.

*Offer employment, training, or apprenticeship opportunities to vulnerable individuals.

*Establish local emergency funds with private contributions.

*Designate private premises as collection and distribution points during emergencies.

*Support funeral services for low-income families.

*Promote fairs and community sales in vulnerable communities.

*Strengthen Social Work with a proactive and preventative approach by prioritizing its role within the municipality.

*Provide small-scale assets for the development of non-state activities to individuals experiencing multidimensional vulnerability, as a means to access employment and overcome this condition.

*Design educational, training, postgraduate, cultural, and other selected services that will serve as sources of income for the social sector.

- Design differentiated rates for childcare and daycare services based on family income.

- Design tax benefits for workshops employing people with disabilities to increase workers' income.

AXIS 9: TRANSFORMATION FROM PRODUCT SUBSIDIES TO PERSONAL SUBSIDIES

- Eliminate product subsidies and transform them into personal subsidies, implementing this in the following order:

*Products that are cross-cutting across the economy (fuels, electricity, freight and passenger transport, and water rates) that impact production and services, in order to pass on real costs to wholesale and retail prices.

*Other products.

- Create a Social Protection Fund, as a prerequisite for the transformations, using a portion of the savings from eliminating product subsidies.

AXIS 10: LABOR AND WAGE TRANSFORMATIONS

- Implement a comprehensive wage reform in the state-funded sector.

- Set the minimum wage annually and, correspondingly, the amount of social security benefits and pensions, as well as wage increases, based on inflation trends.

- Regarding the social security pension system, establish:

*The elimination of the upper limit on the scale established for social security contributions in the non-state sector.

*That individuals working simultaneously in the state and non-state sectors can enroll in and contribute to the corresponding pension schemes for each activity.

*That, of the 30 minimum years of service required by the contributory pension system, up to a maximum of 10 be considered if the person has dedicated them to family care.

-Eliminate the administrative approval requirement for technicians, healthcare professionals, researchers, teachers, professors, and public officials to hold multiple jobs.

-Establish incentives to retain the skilled workforce, with an emphasis on young people.

-Establish a monthly income equivalent to one minimum wage as a repayable stipend for young people between 18 and 30 years of age who are neither studying nor employed and who enroll in a training course. Funding will come from the social assistance budget or the business sector, as appropriate. The training period will be recognized as time of service rendered.

-Authorize employers, in agreement with the union, to negotiate reduced work schedules and corresponding payments for professional activities, which will be incorporated into the collective bargaining agreement.

- Establish for the business and budgeted sectors that employees of the entity itself may perform professional activities, construction maintenance, and similar tasks.

- Permit teleworking from abroad, at the employer's discretion.

- Include as a justified cause for suspension of social service, professional development abroad for personal reasons related to the professional profile, with the employer's consent.

- Directly empower entities to determine which employees will terminate their employment for economic, technological, and structural reasons, after evaluation by the governing body, in agreement with the union, and analysis in the assembly of members and workers:

*Workers in this situation receive monetary protection equivalent to a minimum of three and a maximum of six times the basic salary of the position they held, on a one-time basis.

- Establish protection equivalent to one month's remuneration for workers hired by self-employed workers (TCPs) in the event of temporary suspension or cancellation of their activity.

AXIS 11: TRANSFORMATIONS AND MODERNIZATION OF THE BANKING AND FINANCIAL SYSTEM

- Promote private capital participation in banking:

* Expansion of banking and non-banking financial institutions by private companies, cooperatives, and foreign investment with corporate and universal banking licenses.

* Private banks will operate under the supervision of the Central Bank of Cuba (BCC) under the same regulatory conditions as state-owned banks.

* The establishment of non-banking or non-financial support institutions for the banking sector, whether national or foreign, will be permitted for the granting of microloans.

- Eliminate restrictions on foreign currency payments between businesses with foreign capital and their national suppliers.

- Allow the opening of foreign currency accounts by legal entities and individuals without prior administrative authorization.

- Implement the regulatory framework for virtual assets and the use of financial technologies and expand their use for international and national collection and payment operations. Create financial entities for virtual assets.

- Update the interest rate system by adjusting it to current economic conditions (including sovereign bonds).

* Private banks will operate under the supervision of the BCC under equal regulatory conditions with state banks.

* The establishment of non-banking or non-financial financial institutions to support the private capital banking sector, national or foreign, will be permitted to grant microcredits.

- Implement the figure of last mile payment agent to formalize remittance flows through a private channel.

- Design other ways to capitalize banks, in addition to the resources of the State budget.

- Update the strategy with a new approach for the treatment of external debt, taking into account current conditions.

- Accelerate the automation process of banks and reduce the procedures associated with their services.

- Grant Transfermóvil a non-banking financial institution license.

- Complete the process of eliminating limits on bank transfers and withdrawals from natural and legal persons, national and foreign.

Exchange rate transformations

- Resize the official exchange and remittance market, with the participation of non-state economic actors, which includes granting licenses for private exchange house operations:

* Create a digital exchange market, in real time, with authorized agents.

* Implement a currency auction system.

- Carry out successive devaluations of the national currency to reduce exchange rate differences. Companies that do not support the devaluation will be liquidated.

* Incorporate cooperatives, diplomatic sector, state MSMEs and foreign investment that operate with non-state forms of management into segment II, guaranteeing that arbitration does not occur. State companies will compete freely for sales and in a controlled manner for purchases.

- Create state and private non-banking financial institutions that are dedicated to channeling financial flows, including remittances, through exchange operations.

- Establish single exchange windows for all economic actors that are decided.

- Expand the corporate purpose of non-banking financial institutions that offer the service for the administration of international cooperation funds.

AXIS 12: TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE TAX SYSTEM

- Improve consumption taxation, through the gradual implementation of the Value Added Tax (VAT). It will begin with certain production-consumption chains and will contemplate reduced tax rates on products in the basket of goods and services.

- Establish the electronic tax invoice with incentives that promote its assimilation by taxpayers.

- Apply a bonus to the sales and services tax based on the levels of banked sales.

- Reduce the fiscal burden of the business sector due to profits tax, with the aim of increasing its growth and investment capacities. Expand the tax base by eliminating special deductions that are not economically justified and reducing the risk of tax evasion.

* Establish a tax on gross income for companies that declare losses for more than two fiscal periods.

- Apply a reduced tax rate of the Profit Tax for the agricultural sector.

- Simplify the calculation and payment of the Profit Tax, eliminating the term of per capita profit, which implies applying the tax to CNA, CPA and UBPC partners.

- Design an accelerated depreciation regime for the acquisition of machinery, food production technologies and industrial processing, which favors the recovery of investments.

- Reduce the financial burden of entities, determined by the contribution of the return on state investment, conditioned for its use in development and capitalization.

- Apply tax incentives to state and non-state economic actors that finance investments in the social sector.

- Update the personal income tax, in accordance with the current inflationary scenario, through the following adjustments:

* Modify the progressive scale for the annual settlement and payment of the tax. Reduce the number of scales to homogenize the application of the tax.

* Increase the minimum tax-exempt threshold to the level of the country's average salary by the end of 2025.

- Reinstate the simplified tax regime for less complex activities, with an automatic adjustment system based on annual gross income levels, allowing the National Tax Administration Office to focus its oversight on larger taxpayers.

- Increase the fixed amounts of the following taxes:

* Land transportation tax based on vehicle type, value, fuel, and other factors.

* Vessel tax.

* Document tax.

* Environmental taxes.

* Fee for registering advertisements and commercial publicity.

- Design tariffs and incentives that promote domestic production processes and the import of raw materials, materials, technologies, and equipment for the use of renewable energy sources.

AXIS 13: TRANSFORMATIONS IN PRICING POLICY

- Decentralize the power to approve prices and tariffs to companies and territorial and local administrations.

- Eliminate price formation based on the cost-plus method and establish, for price formation, the market reference price or a correlation, defining its position in the value chain.

AXIS 14: TRANSFORMATIONS IN FOREIGN INVESTMENT

- Stimulate foreign investment participation in private and cooperative enterprises through the creation of joint ventures and international economic association agreements.

- Extend the limit for granting surface rights to 99 years and usufruct rights to more than 50 years for foreign investment.

- Allow businesses with foreign capital, in any form, to open bank accounts abroad without authorization. In all cases, the Central Bank of Cuba and the National Tax Administration Office must be notified.

- Allow real estate businesses to conduct sales and purchases of residential units.

- Eliminate the mandatory use of employment agencies for selecting and hiring personnel.

- Allow foreign investment to receive its income in foreign currency, operate flexibly in a partially dollarized economy, and access the foreign exchange market.

- Reduce documentation and processing times, and decentralize the approval of foreign investment, including the application of tacit approval. This will be applied to all permitting processes in the country related to issuing licenses for economic, financial, and commercial activities with a direct impact on the registry.

- Allow foreign investment in Old Havana and other heritage areas.

AXIS 15: TRANSFORMATIONS IN FOREIGN TRADE

- Promote exports of goods and services that, through the decentralization of export powers, differentiated incentives, and productive integration with foreign capital, increase the total value of exports to achieve a sustained trade surplus in goods and services.

- Apply the principle of negative nomenclature for companies engaged in foreign trade, including foreign investment.

- Allow private companies and cooperatives to directly conduct foreign trade activities, subject to prior authorization from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Foreign Investment.

- Approve the sale of trademarks and patents by institutions in the international market, subject to prior authorization.

AXIS 16: SCOPE OF PARTIAL DOLLARIZATION OF THE ECONOMY

- Expand the scope of partial dollarization of the economy to include intercompany and commercial transactions, in accordance with the current situation.

- Modify the current conception of closed self-financing schemes in foreign currency towards a scheme of contributions from foreign currency transactions.

AXIS 17: TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE TOURISM SECTOR

- Add the following to the existing business models (joint ventures and management contracts) for all tourism activities:

* Leases.

* Granting of usufruct rights for a fee.

* Concession of areas with assets or under development in different regions of the country, and the sale of real estate (approval on a case-by-case basis).

This applies to foreign investors, Cubans residing abroad, and those residing in Cuba.

- Include certain areas of the country in the Business Opportunities Portfolio as Economic Development Zones, where special regimes are established.

- Allow the application of all business models in the keys, heritage areas of Old Havana and Trinidad, as well as in all tourist destinations in the country where these models are beneficial for the sector and foreign investment is required for their development.

- Permit real estate development in all tourist areas of the country where this type of business is needed. Establish the possibility of developing real estate businesses in areas of Havana and other urban areas of the country linked to tourism.

- Allow joint ventures and leasing for the negotiation of tourist marinas.

- Approve tax and fiscal benefits for all economic actors for ecotourism projects and other specialized tourism models in order to attract foreign investment and diversify sustainable and responsible tourism development.

- Create an online corporate bank for the tourism sector with international ties that promotes virtual asset services.

- Update the car rental activity (currently exclusive to two companies in the country) to include other state-owned enterprises, foreign investment, and non-state management models.

- Update the incorporation of travel agencies to joint ventures, 100% foreign-owned companies, as well as non-state management models.

-Authorize private tour guides and sales agents, subject to prior authorization due to the high level of specialization required for this activity.

-Approve local destination managers capable of integrating all stakeholders and ensuring the success of the mixed governance model.

-Evaluate the implementation of a special tax—which does not currently exist—or contribution from all tourists visiting a designated tourist area or resort, and allocate the revenue to the area's sustainability, maintenance, and promotion.

-Promote Cuban brand franchises abroad as a way to generate revenue, for example: Casas Cuba, Casas del Habano, La Bodeguita del Medio, El Floridita, and Tropicana.

AXIS 18: TRANSFORMATIONS IN TRANSPORT

- Eliminate the restrictions on vehicle acquisition by various economic actors and individuals, as well as the established deadlines, promoting photovoltaic electric mobility.

- Authorize the direct, non-commercial importation of a 100% electric car by individuals. Provided it is accompanied by a charging station with a fully renewable energy source, it will be exempt from taxes and duties.

- Allow the direct commercial importation of electric vehicles (mopeds, motorcycles, and tricycles) for assembly and sale by authorized state and non-state legal entities. Provided it is accompanied by a charging station with a fully renewable energy source, it will be exempt from taxes.

AXIS 19: TRANSFORMATIONS IN COMMERCE, GASTRONOMY, AND SERVICES

- Modify the policy on state administrative management of commerce, gastronomy, and services, prioritizing non-state management models and foreign investment options.

- Reorganize wholesale trade, prioritizing the creation of supply markets with direct access for individuals and legal entities. Do not place limits on the actors who carry out this activity.

- Authorize the marketing and provision of services by foreign entities based in the country, including branches and representative offices.

- Create chains of stores, restaurants, and a network of light food establishments under recognized brands or others, expanding throughout the country.

- Invite light food franchises to invest in the country.

- To tender recreational parks, zoos, aquariums, protected areas, and lodging facilities to state-owned, foreign, private, and cooperative companies, establishing the conditions for their operation, including sales percentages in pesos and foreign currency.

- To formalize street vendors in various forms within communities, issue "street vendor" permits, and implement a simplified tax system.

- To stimulate wholesale and retail public procurement, using the public procurement budget and bank loans as working capital.

- To create an automated, digital, auditable, and public system for tendering premises and assets to all economic actors.

- To transition from the regulated basic food basket to controlled sales without subsidies within the retail network.

- To authorize individuals to import goods for commercial purposes, levying tariffs in foreign currency. This does not imply granting foreign trade powers.

AXIS 20: TRANSFORMATIONS IN INSURANCE POLICY

- Recognize the profitability of the financial resources mobilized in the insurance sector.

- Create life insurance as a complement to social security protections.

- Boost the marketing of foreign currency policies for transportation, travel, and medical expense risk coverage.

- Mandate civil liability insurance for vehicle drivers.

AXIS 21: DIGITAL TRANSFORMATIONS, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, AND THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

- Establish a national framework for mandatory interoperability, data governance, artificial intelligence, and territorial equity.

- Implement a competitive remuneration system that contributes to promoting the export of professional services in digital technologies and artificial intelligence.

- Allow foreign investment in expanding Etecsa's data center capabilities.

- Allow the private sector to provide data center services that do not host the country's critical infrastructure management platforms, equipment manufacturing, and the installation of mobile and fixed networks, triple-play services, data centers, cloud services, IP telephony, and contact centers.

- Establish a digital platform using artificial intelligence for the public procurement system and bidding processes, ensuring transparency, security, and including risk classification.

- Allow for the mixed management of postal infrastructure and last-mile logistics.

- Recognize data as the fifth factor of production (along with land, labor, capital, and entrepreneurship), which implies considering it a non-renewable economic resource with the capacity to generate wealth.

AXIS 22: TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE NATIONAL STATISTICAL SYSTEM

- Design a statistical system that adjusts to economic and social transformations.

- Complete the change of the base year of the National Accounts.

- Resume the construction of the producer price and foreign trade indices, maintaining the consumer price index, together with the products derived from the observed prices.

AXIS 23: TRANSFORMATIONS IN THE CONTROL AND INSPECTION MECHANISMS

- Create a working group, due to its importance and transversality, led by the Central Committee of the PCC and integrated by the ANPP, the Attorney General's Office of the Republic, the Comptroller General's Office of the Republic, the Supreme People's Court, the Council of Ministers (DAOLPP, DSPOD and Department of Crime Prevention), the MININT and the MINJUS, in order to analyze what is established regarding control and make proposals for transformations.

Preliminarily, it was identified that the implementation of the transformations impacts more than 148 provisions of the Cuban legal system:

■ 15 regulations to be repealed.

■ 22 rules to be completely modified.

■ 79 regulations to be partially modified.

■ More than 50 lower-ranking complementary regulations (resolutions).

Additionally, it will be necessary to develop 32 new higher-ranking regulations (10 laws, 14 decree-laws and 8 decrees).

The Prime Minister of Cuba, Manuel Marrero Cruz, affirmed that the proposals for economic and social transformations are developed in correspondence with the Government Program for 2026, considering that both strategies are complementary and respond to the objective conditions of the economy and the current sociodemographic dynamics.

As explained, 76% of these transformations fully correspond to the content of the program, while the rest expands it, integrating changes in the business fabric, greater openness to national and foreign private capital, modernization of the banking system, coherence between exchange, tax and price reforms, as well as territorial decentralization and the resizing of the central administration of the State.

Marrero Cruz stressed that these transformations do not imply renouncing the social responsibility of the State, but rather they incorporate a recognition of market mechanisms as instruments for the efficient allocation of resources.

Likewise, he pointed out that among the main challenges for implementation are the definition of an operational sequence and adequate schedule, the strengthening of institutional capacities, social protection, legal legitimation and citizen participation, in addition to the mitigation of geopolitical risks.

The Prime Minister indicated that during the execution of the process there will be contradictions to be resolved, including the impact of partial dollarization on the economic evaluation, the elimination of subsidies and their relationship with prices, as well as the decentralization of powers without sufficient municipal capacity and the liberalization of agricultural prices without a proportional increase in production.

In this sense, he stated that the implementation process will be flexible, with constant review, adoption of corrective actions and a learning system aimed at managers and managers.

Marrero Cruz also highlighted that the proposals seek to confront the current economic crisis through a window of structural transformation, the failure of which could generate irreversible consequences in the political and social order.

Finally, he reiterated that these measures do not constitute a deviation from the socialist project, but rather respond to the logic of its development, in a context in which Cuba continues the construction of socialism guided by the ideas of Fidel and Raúl.

IN THE VOICE OF THE DEPUTIES

Deputy Danhiz Díaz Pereira stated that among the main feelings raised by the analysis of the document on economic and social transformations are the defense of socialism and the will to build a more developed country, with full dignity for all citizens.

He considered that the proposals constitute an opportunity to move towards a model capable of guaranteeing quality education, better universities, better salaries for teachers and workers, as well as universal health with better institutions and availability of medicines.

Among his proposals, he proposed that in transformation 63, referring to the Sovereignty platform project, it be specified that it constitutes an additional way for the identification of vulnerable people and not the only one, taking into account that the Ministry of Labor and Social Security has other mechanisms for that purpose.

He positively valued the recognition of the social contribution that companies can make and considered that there should be a single business system in Cuba. He also suggested including people who perform care functions among the beneficiaries of employment, training and learning opportunities.

He also proposed that specific crises, which do not necessarily constitute emergency situations, be incorporated into the provisions on the authorization of private spaces as collection and distribution points.

Díaz Pereira commented, in relation to the creation of a social protection fund and the implementation of a comprehensive salary reform, that they are priorities that must be materialized before carrying out other transformations to avoid further impacts on the population.

Regarding the elimination of administrative prohibitions for the exercise of employment by professors and doctors, he suggested specifying the concept of civil servant for a better understanding of its scope.

He highlighted that more than 10 measures in the document explicitly include youth, in coherence with the policy approved for this sector.

Among the proposed complementary actions, he suggested creating a communication channel, possibly supported by artificial intelligence, to allow the public to clarify doubts about the transformations; reviewing personnel policy procedures to enhance the presence of top leaders in municipalities; and calling on the Ministries of Education and Higher Education to adapt curricula and programs of study to the new realities.

He also proposed completing a single, centralized, and digital national employment registry to facilitate the management of labor information.

The deputy emphasized the need to strengthen the management capacities of municipalities and pointed to positive experiences in Havana, where ministers and deputy ministers have directly supported local authorities in transferring management skills and competencies.

He expressed concern about the risks of corruption and influence peddling associated with the new measures, although he affirmed that the transformations should not be feared, but rather that control mechanisms and social protections should be strengthened. In this regard, he underscored the importance of preserving labor rights and continuing to improve existing guarantees.

Finally, he emphasized that communicating the transformations is a shared responsibility and affirmed that the 470 deputies, along with the various agencies and institutions, have a duty to explain the scope of the measures to the people. He stressed the need to pay special attention to Cuban youth and expressed confidence in the country's capacity to save the Homeland, the Revolution, and socialism.

Deputy Carlos Miguel Pérez Reyes stated that, despite the policy of maximum pressure exerted against Cuba, the country remains steadfast in defending the Homeland and its social and economic model. However, he affirmed that alongside the effects of the blockade, there are internal obstacles that must be eliminated and emphasized that several of the transformations presented have been proposed for years.

He underscored that change does not mean renouncing socialism, but rather defending the country's current conditions, and maintained that true social justice cannot exist in an economy that is not productive. In this regard, he supported the proposed reforms, which aim to grant greater autonomy to state-owned enterprises and open opportunities for all economic actors. He also emphasized the vision of a single Cuban business sector comprised of state, cooperative, private, and foreign entities.

During his remarks, he made several observations on the document under review. Regarding the reforms related to state ownership, non-state management, and the transfer of assets, he deemed it necessary to precisely define the concept of fundamental means of production and avoid vague statements about the gradual nature of the reforms.

He proposed revising point 32 to avoid contradictions between public ownership of the fundamental means of production and the expansion of non-state management models. He also suggested removing the word "private" from point 23 and clarifying that a single individual may hold equity and ownership interests in more than one company.

Regarding point 56, he called for clarification of the scope of the additional 1% contribution linked to fuel, considering that the accumulation of various taxes could increase the cost of a product that is highly sensitive for the population.

With respect to the tax system, he proposed that until the value-added tax and electronic invoicing are implemented, the sales and wholesale services tax be eliminated, arguing that it increases costs in the value chains.

In banking matters, he proposed explicitly including the Cuban private sector among the actors authorized to collect payments abroad, on equal terms with other economic entities.

The deputy identified five essential elements for the success of the transformations: public accountability regarding progress and challenges; swift implementation of the measures; active participation of economists, universities, businesses, local governments, and the population; support for those implementing the changes; and the need to subsidize people, not products, accompanying these actions with an increase in income.

He also called on the Cuban private sector to strengthen its social responsibility by supporting, to the best of its ability, retirees, family support systems, children's homes, senior citizen centers, daycare centers, and other vulnerable sectors. He argued that the contributions of this sector should be organized to become a concrete force at the service of the people.

In closing, he stated that the greatest risk is not in over-transforming, but in doing so only partially, and he called for moving forward together, with the people and for the people, in the production, transformations, and development of the country.

"As I have said on several occasions, this is truly applying the concept of Revolution," stated Deputy Emilio Interián Rodríguez, who acknowledged the work done in developing the proposals and called for swift action, without bureaucracy or fear, to implement the transformations and help overcome the complex situation facing the country.

Referring to the agricultural sector, he considered that the measures presented address many of the problems that have limited the growth of food production. He highlighted the transformations related to marketing, contracting, and price formation, noting that these must correspond to real costs to incentivize producers and recover affected sectors, including livestock.

He emphasized the importance of maintaining tax incentives for production and promoting the import of inputs and raw materials through tariff and tax policies that reduce costs and increase the competitiveness of domestic production. He cited pork production as an example, whose development, he said, can benefit from better use of available raw materials and the production of higher-quality products.

Interián Rodríguez described the transformations related to land use and ownership as revolutionary. He considered it necessary to expand access to idle land for producers with proven results and eliminate limitations that hinder the incorporation of new land into production.

He also called for a review of the outstanding debts owed to agricultural producers, considering that payment delays affect motivation and constitute an issue that requires attention.

The deputy emphasized that the new measures demand greater initiative from producers and the search for their own alternatives through production chains and other forms of management, in accordance with the guidelines aimed at increasing national production.

He stressed that the economic and social transformations respond to sovereign decisions of the country and assured that any future changes will continue to be carried out under the premise of preserving national independence and socialism.

As part of the debate, Deputy Laura Marian Bacallao Padrón praised innovative proposals such as 66 and 69, associated with the Social Transformations Axis, which require a responsible party for their implementation. She suggested considering the possibility of explaining the transformations to the population for greater understanding and to avoid misinterpretations.

Likewise, Deputy Francisco Ricardo Sagaró, from Santiago de Cuba, proposed incentivizing payments based on the achievement of indicators and salary differentials that encourage, among other things, the pursuit of higher education and performance-based pay.

On the other hand, Deputy Ailyn Febles asserted that these are transformations for all Cubans, not just a select few, measures that will allow, despite the blockade, "more Cuban-style socialism."

She acknowledged that all companies are national and that the functioning of the business system must be based on socialism, and she emphasized the importance of direct dialogue with the population regarding the significance of these measures.

Similarly, Ana Teresa Igarza maintained that the fundamental challenge of the transformations lies in their implementation and in preserving the Commander's founding vision and the achievements already attained.

She considered it the right time, given the transformations, to discuss the Business Law, considering the multitude of stakeholders involved, and she highlighted that the productive linkage platform is applicable to the entire business sector.

She proposed that micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) not be evaluated by the number of employees but by their revenue and profitability.

At another point, Deputy Leydis María Labrador commented on the legal safeguards for the proposals and transformations, noting that the Constitution supports the measures, and considered that, based on the political foundations of the Magna Carta, there is a way to ratify these proposals.

Deputy José Carlos del Toro Ríos, president of the National Association of Economists and Accountants of Cuba (ANEC), emphasized that the proposals presented are also the result of analyses and contributions made by Cuban economists. He indicated that the organization is committed to the process of communicating the transformations and to monitoring their implementation, in order to contribute to the identification and mitigation of risks. He also expressed his support for the transformations and reaffirmed the commitment to advance in defense of socialism, under the premise put forth by Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz: to change everything that must be changed to preserve what is essential.

Speaking at the debate, the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, stressed that the proposed economic and social transformations do not signify a renunciation of socialism, but rather a search for how to continue building it under the specific conditions of Cuba, a country that has faced the blockade imposed by the United States for decades.

He pointed out that this is Cuban socialism and explained that the proposals are the result of contributions from economists, the study of experiences in other socialist countries, and the extensive debate that has taken place in the country over the years.

He recalled that many of the measures were already included in the first version of the Guidelines and considered that, regardless of the current complex scenario, the country should move forward with these transformations.

"We have reached a moment of maturity, of reflection, characteristic of the debate that has taken place over all these years, which is telling us that we had to continue defending socialism, but building it with some transformations," he stated.

Díaz-Canel noted that, even in a more favorable economic context, it would have been necessary to undertake these changes, albeit under more comfortable circumstances. He added that the main challenge is to preserve and expand the social justice built by the Revolution, for which it is essential to have an economy capable of generating the necessary resources.

"We all talk about maintaining social justice, but the first thing we have to do is produce." “If we don’t produce, if we don’t generate wealth, if we don’t provide quality services that are inclusive and comprehensive, what kind of social justice are we going to defend?” he reflected.

The president affirmed that social justice requires a solid economic foundation and emphasized that the priority is to work, produce, and create wealth. “In such difficult conditions, there is only one way to do it right: by innovating,” he concluded.

Speaking at the close of the exchange, Political Bureau member and Prime Minister Manuel Marrero Cruz highlighted the depth of the analyses conducted both in the Political Bureau and in the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Party and in the extraordinary session of the National Assembly, and emphasized the enriching and transformative nature of the debate.

He stressed that the interventions of the deputies were not limited to supporting the proposals, but also incorporated concrete proposals that imply modifications and even new transformations. In that regard, he reported that the working group tasked with drafting the document will immediately begin a revision process to incorporate the proposals, opinions, and criteria contributed during the analysis, with the aim of creating a single document.

Marrero Cruz clarified that the proposed transformations constitute the "what" and that the next step is to develop the "how"; that is, the mechanisms for their implementation and a more precise definition of their scope. He noted that many of the proposals made by the deputies are precisely part of this implementation phase, where the measures must be finalized and expanded so that their results can be observed.

He acknowledged that this is an arduous and complex process, requiring rigorous management and coordination among various institutions. He explained that, by decision adopted at the highest level, the Government is responsible for directing and managing the entire implementation process; the National Assembly of People's Power and its president, Esteban Lazo Hernández, are responsible for providing legal support for the transformations; and to the member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Party, Roberto Morales Ojeda, personally assume the political assurance of the process.

The Prime Minister emphasized that the country's top leadership has assumed the responsibility of comprehensively guiding the process stemming from the proposed economic and social transformations.

José Amado Ricardo Guerra, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of the Council of Ministers, read a letter from Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, in which he expressed his support for the proposed economic and social transformations. In the message, the leader of the Revolution expressed his agreement with the presented measures and his conviction that they contribute to the goal of strengthening socialism and preserving the gains achieved in the complex circumstances facing the country.

Reality demands urgent and necessary changes

Socialist News From Outside The Imperial Core — Reality demands urgent and necessary changes

Reality demands urgent and necessary changes

Article 2 of 9

Granma

By Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez

Originally published at https://en.granma.cu/cuba/2026-06-18/reality-demands-urgent-and-necessary-changes

Publication Date: June 18, 2026

Comrades, members of the Party’s Central Committee;
Distinguished guests;
Compatriots:
This extraordinary plenary session is taking place at a decisive moment for Cuba. As proud heirs to the legacy of the Commander-in-Chief, we Cuban revolutionaries today face challenges of enormous magnitude that demand unity, ideological steadfastness, courage, boldness, and creative resilience.
We are guided by our leader, a prominent member of the vanguard of the Centennial Generation and a zealous guardian of the continuity of the socialist Revolution—which he played a decisive role in building from its foundations to the present day—Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, Hero of the Republic of Cuba, who has taught us every day the sacred value of unity.
The context is extraordinarily complex and challenging due to the relentless aggression of the intensified economic, commercial, and financial blockade imposed by the United States government and the criminal intent behind the hostile actions of the current administration: first, the inclusion of Cuba on the infamous and spurious list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism, and other equally false accusations that seek to discredit the government’s authority and administration, while depriving the country of any source of foreign exchange.
This blockade has been further intensified by the Executive Orders of January 29 and May 1st, which reinforce the genocidal energy blockade and, through secondary sanctions, internationalize the blockade, taking financial, energy, and investment persecution to extremes of maximum pressure.
At the same time, political and ideological subversion is intensifying through media disinformation on social media to undermine the Revolution’s credibility—among both Cubans and foreigners—fostering social disorientation in a national and international context marked by profound transformations in the socioeconomic structure and global geopolitics, as a consequence of the unlimited powers of a hegemonic imperialist policy that seeks to shatter multilateralism, fuels neo-fascist movements, and exacerbates global tensions, constantly threatening international peace and security and attempting to break the indispensable unity of leftist forces.
The silent genocide being waged against Cuba is causing immeasurable damage and terrible hardships in our daily lives as a people, while its perpetrators brazenly lie to the world by denying the energy blockade and claiming that we are blocking the entry of million-dollar donations—donations they tout extensively but have delivered hardly anything of what was promised.
Cuba is resisting heroically and creatively, but for far too long it has suffered a barbaric, undeserved, and unbearable punishment, to which is now added the threat of military aggression as a new weapon against our collective resistance.
Cuba faces a cruel blockade and real, daily financial persecution that drives up the cost of every drop of fuel, every medicine, every food item, every part, and every piece of technology the country needs.
Reality demands urgent and necessary changes. And when life for the people becomes so difficult, the primary duty of the Communist Party and the revolutionary government is not to explain the crisis better, but to change whatever needs to be changed to overcome it.
What is required is a comprehensive and agile economic agenda, executable in the short term, that combines macroeconomic stabilization, incentives to stimulate and promote productive openness, legal certainty, the attraction of investment, intensive use of technology, and targeted and effective social protection.
Let us recall that at the closing of the 11th Plenary Session, we stated that the postponement of the Congress did not preclude the possibility of making the necessary changes, modifications, and adjustments, taking into account the powers of Party and government structures—such as the Plenary Sessions of the Central Committee when it comes to resolutions adopted by Party congresses.
To this end, intensive work has been carried out, based on the informative report and debate from the ANEC Congress, the public consultation on the Economic and Social Program for 2026, the opinions of economists and experts, the debates and contributions made by the Economic Commission of the Party’s Central Committee, the Economic and Social Policy Guidelines approved and updated at the 6th, 7th, and 8th Party Congresses, the proposals of the 11th Plenary Session of the Central Committee, and the work carried out by the commissions that have been preparing the documents for the postponed 9th Party Congress—for reasons that are well known—regarding the update of the Conceptualization of the Economic and Social Model, the Guidelines, and the National Plan for Economic and Social Development through 2030.
In addition, a study has been conducted on the experiences of socialist construction in other countries, such as China and Vietnam, and artificial intelligence has also been utilized to further the search for references and evaluate the proposals in relation to our current laws and regulations.
We are facing the enormous challenge of continuing to advance the process of socialist construction, defending the Revolution and its achievements, and perfecting our society, under the conditions of a country subjected to the cruelest, most genocidal, and longest-lasting economic, financial, energy, and commercial blockade imposed by the world’s most powerful nation. And to overcome this, the legacy we have is that of our Commander-in-Chief, Fidel Castro Ruz (Applause).
No one in the history of humanity has ever faced the challenge of socialism under the conditions that this country, this nation, and this people are currently facing! We will undoubtedly overcome this challenge through unity, courage, popular participation, and full conviction in our ability to achieve victory.
The transformations we are proposing are intended to advance the defense of socialism, to support and expand social justice, and to create economic wealth and distribute it equitably. Without wealth, there is nothing to distribute; we would be speaking of social justice in the abstract. Social justice as conceived by the Revolution—with its humanistic mission to help the most disadvantaged, generally through free welfare programs and projects—does not cost the people anything, but it does cost the State. And to carry it out, to deepen it, to sustain it, and to maintain it, the State needs wealth—and we must produce that wealth ourselves. If there is no wealth, there is no social justice, and everything else is a fairy tale—everything else is a fairy tale! Either we produce under these conditions, create wealth, and then distribute it with social justice and equity—not egalitarianism. That is the challenge!
We need to unleash the productive forces, to have more production rather than more restrictions, because it has been proven that control without supply merely drives operations into the informal market.
Equality and integration among economic actors are necessary in accordance with the National Plan for Economic and Social Development through 2030 and the territorial and local development strategies involving state-owned enterprises, MSMEs, cooperatives, agricultural producers, foreign and Cuban investors, residents and non-residents alike: all must act and contribute to the country’s socioeconomic development under clear rules.
We must export and produce to attract and bring in foreign currency and make productive use of it. Every unit of foreign currency that enters the country must be channeled to finance production, imports, investment, wages, and infrastructure.
Legal certainty must be guaranteed: contracts, usufruct rights, leases, concessions, surface rights, and licenses must offer temporal stability and protection against arbitrary changes. Without legal certainty, no one will invest, and no one will take risks.
We must promote digitalization with traceability: electronic invoicing, digital payments, public registries, and interoperable data as a foundation for reducing tax evasion and corruption.
Social protection must be prioritized: replacing inefficient blanket subsidies with direct support for vulnerable people. We must always ensure that each action does not increase social inequalities; on the contrary, they should be gradually reduced until they disappear.
We must act with selective and intelligent openness: attracting technology, financing, markets, and external knowledge, while protecting strategic sectors through regulation, not through stagnation.
A gradual and experimental approach is necessary: reform should be implemented in phases and through verifiable pilot programs, maintaining government leadership and adjusting course based on evidence to address and minimize potential economic and social costs.
Also essential are political unity to ensure the consistency and credibility of the measures; clear and precise communication of the decisions to be implemented, to gain support for the transformations; and the adoption of compensatory mechanisms to mitigate economic and social impacts.
We must work with agility, consistency, and quality—and above all, with control. What has been approved must be implemented properly.
In this scenario, it is necessary to make progress on at least five fronts simultaneously:
Macroeconomic stabilization and the recovery of foreign revenue.
The transformation of the Economic and Social Model.
The stimulation and recovery of the agricultural sector.
The strengthening of accounting and cost management.
Anticipating and mitigating the social costs associated with the necessary transformations of the Economic and Social Model.
And these five aspects are very well developed in the report presented by ANEC at its last congress.
The Commander-in-Chief taught us that in times of crisis we could not give up on either development or critical thinking, that no obstacle is insurmountable, and that there is always an opportunity to grow. And along that path, the Army General showed us that it is possible, that it was possible, and that it will always be possible.
The people understand the causes of many of the difficulties we face, but they also need concrete answers, timely decisions, and results that are felt in their daily lives.
There are obstacles that do not come from outside or from blockades. There is sluggishness, bureaucracy, regulations that hold back those who want to produce, and decisions we have put off. What depends on us, we must change ourselves—and we must change it now.
We owe our homeland to the resistance, but today resistance alone is not enough. This time demands that we transform, produce more, remove more barriers, listen more, make better decisions, and be accountable.
What we intend to set in motion is an emergency economic and social agenda, comprising measures that are part of our Government Program and policies approved by the Party, along with decisions that can no longer wait. Some will not enjoy unanimous consensus, but they cannot be postponed. And each will have a specific person in charge, a defined deadline, a metric to measure its implementation, and public accountability to the nation.
What works will be expanded. What does not work will be corrected without delay. Anyone with a responsibility will have to be held accountable for it, and when someone cannot meet the demands of this moment, they must responsibly make way for someone who can do it better.
We will face this process as the challenge of the generations that today share the defense of the Homeland, the Revolution, and Socialism.
Regarding the Economic Management System, I want to emphasize that the most important point is that, if we adopt these transformations, central planning would not serve to manage the economy, but rather to create an appropriate institutional and regulatory environment so that enterprises and workers are encouraged to produce goods and provide quality services efficiently, as well as to introduce innovations into their management for these purposes.
And we must definitely ensure that the Plan is built from the ground up with the participation of workers.
We will continue restructuring the government apparatus, the state, the Party, and our institutions. We will integrate structures where necessary, review duplicated functions, reduce unnecessary steps, and continuously optimize the way the country is governed and served. These structures must be more dynamic, more proactive, and less bureaucratic.
One of the most important and urgent tasks is to boost the country’s development from the ground up, starting with the municipalities.
We cannot delay any further in empowering municipal governments and ensuring they have and exercise all possible authority to develop.
No economic change will be sufficient if socialist state-owned enterprises—which will remain the fundamental pillar of the economy—do not have the genuine capacity to manage, innovate, and be accountable for their results.
It is necessary to reform the management of state-owned enterprises based on real autonomy, economic and financial evaluation, the separation of state and business functions, and the application of the "comply or explain" principle to prevent regulations from becoming an obstacle when a more beneficial and demonstrable solution exists.
To that end, we will move forward in two directions: greater real autonomy for enterprises and more professional management of state assets through the National Institute of Business Assets, which is tasked with representing the owner of the means of production, evaluating results, demanding efficiency, and better separating the business function from the regulatory function of the ministries.
Autonomy does not mean a lack of control; it implies a framework of accountability. It means being able to make timely decisions, form better partnerships, invest more effectively, pay better wages, and be accountable for results to the people and to the State.
We need to strengthen state-owned enterprises, not replace them with administrative mechanisms that paralyze them. To this end, we must complete the separation between state and business functions, evaluate performance using economic and financial tools, and grant real autonomy to manage material, financial, and human resources—with subsequent oversight, transparency, and accountability.
There is no sovereignty with empty plates. The Cuban people’s food will be treated for what it is: a matter of national security.
And idle land in Cuba must be eliminated. Every piece of land that is currently overgrown with marabou—when it should be producing food—will require a clear solution: either it is put to productive use or it is handed over to those willing to do so.
We will expand the granting of land in usufruct to those who are willing and able to produce: producers, cooperatives, micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), and other forms of association—without ever renouncing national sovereignty or regressing to the dependent country we left behind with the Revolution.
We will recognize the right of those who work the land to invest in what they need to make it productive, and we will allow those who commit to real results to import seeds, fertilizer, parts, and equipment directly. But one principle must be clear: that land will continue to belong to the people; and if it does not produce, if it does not serve the country, if it does not fulfill its social function, it will have to pass into the hands of those who can indeed make it productive.
We cannot continue to demand that Cuban farmers produce more food with fewer tools and at prices below their costs; they must have effective mechanisms for direct access to foreign currency, such as selling to exporters—as is the case with tourism—or on the foreign exchange market.
We must make the land an opportunity rather than a burden; ensure that those who sow see the fruits of their labor; enable those who produce to live better lives; and provide those who invest in the countryside with security, support, and a future.
Cuba needs its farmers, their work, and their trust. When the Cuban countryside becomes a path to prosperity for those who work it, the country will be stronger, more just, and more sovereign.
With regard to foreign trade, exports, logistics, and value chains, we must authorize direct imports and exports for state-owned and non-state-owned enterprises—whether they are productive, export-oriented, or import-substituting—while maintaining technical and fiscal requirements but eliminating mandatory intermediation.
Regarding debt renegotiation, we must carry out a debt-for-assets swap process, focused primarily on exchanging national assets for debt, without permanently relinquishing ownership of those assets. Through this mechanism, we can secure financing and other benefits without losing ownership rights over the assets.
We must also explore other mechanisms, such as "debt-for-nature" or "debt-for-social-development" swaps, the issuance of bonds tied to the Sustainable Development Goals, and others.
We will comprehensively review the list of activities prohibited to the private sector, guided by a clear principle: to replace, whenever possible, prohibitions with responsible regulation. The country needs to establish legal pathways for these activities, with clear rules and appropriate controls.
We will also make the scope of the corporate purpose of MSMEs and other economic actors more flexible and significantly alleviate the bureaucratic burden currently faced by many entrepreneurs; furthermore, we must streamline the creation of economic partnerships between state and non-state management models.
Foreign investment is also trapped in a web of obstacles that hinder its necessary growth. We must not only tell foreign investors where to invest, but also allow them to take the initiative to invest in the economic sector of their choice, as well as to directly hire their workers without state intermediaries at all times.
We must authorize foreign direct investment in the national private sector, including MSMEs, with clear rules on ownership, repatriation, reinvestment, and dispute resolution.
We must facilitate investment models with different modalities and involving all stakeholders on the part of Cubans living in Cuba. And to Cubans living abroad who wish to invest, donate, import technology, open a market, or launch a project in their homeland, we will offer a clear, stable, and respectful framework, without them being viewed with suspicion for wanting to help their own people or contribute to the development of the land where they were born. To anyone who wants to build a future with Cuba, without seeking to impose anything on it, we say with our hearts on our sleeves: this is your home, and our door is open to you, because at this moment, this homeland cannot afford to lose a single good Cuban (Applause).
A power outage isn’t just a matter of megawatts or a generation shortfall. A power outage is the child who couldn’t study for a test, the food that went bad in the refrigerator, the elderly person who spends the night awake, restless, and sweltering. It’s the hospital operating at full capacity, the doctor’s office that can’t store medication, the worker who loses a day’s pay, and the business that has to close. That is why energy is not a technical issue; it is a human, economic, and national issue.
We will accelerate the integration of solar energy into the national economy, as we have been doing. To achieve this, we will facilitate the direct entry of foreign companies that supply panels, batteries, inverters, and related solutions, reducing the number of intermediaries that drive up costs for the population and for the country.
Import tariffs on solar technologies, storage systems, and energy-saving equipment have already been eliminated. Now we will also move forward with eliminating taxes on their sale and on services related to their installation and maintenance.
In addition, we will create credit and financing mechanisms so that these solutions are not accessible only to a few, but can gradually reach households, micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), medical clinics, educational centers, nursing homes, and other essential services for the population. And in this effort, our Cuban companies and technicians—both state-owned and private—will be at the center, installing, maintaining, repairing, integrating, and creating jobs. Cuban companies can specialize in the installation, integration, operation, and support of these technologies.
We will promote electric transportation powered by renewable energy sources. Any electric vehicle intended for public, private, or light-duty freight transport that demonstrates it operates entirely or primarily on solar energy will be eligible for special incentives, tariff exemptions, elimination of sales taxes, and facilitation of imports of chargers, batteries, parts, and related solutions.
We will also promote the installation of solar panels throughout the country with foreign, private, cooperative, and state investment, prioritizing urban routes, tourist hubs, productive zones, and essential services. Along with this, we will establish an expedited process for granting licenses for transportation operators, electric taxis, or associated mobility services, under clear rules, technical oversight, road safety standards, and transparent pricing.
The top priority, above all else, is the people who cannot wait for the economy to improve, because there are hardships that know no deadlines. True social justice is not built on artificial prices that eventually lead to shortages, long lines, low wages, and an illegal market.
Social justice is built on real foundations: incomes with purchasing power, direct protection for those who need it most, and a national economy capable of producing more. There are no shortcuts; these are not new ideas, but decisions that the country discussed and approved years ago. The mistake was not in proposing them, but in postponing them—and that period of delay must come to an end.
The basic food basket will be guaranteed to retirees, families with chronically ill children, and vulnerable populations. Targeted programs will be developed to promote social transformation in the poorest neighborhoods. The state-owned and private business sectors must be given a greater role and incentives to get involved in solving prioritized local problems, such as soup kitchens, sanitation, and shelters for children without family support, among others. These decisions will entail new, concrete tasks: delivering pension payments to retirees near their homes so they do not have to wait in line for hours under the sun; sponsoring soup kitchens, nursing homes, senior centers, and children’s centers; creating solidarity quotas and cost-based pricing for those who truly need it; and digitizing everything so that it is clear who contributes, who receives, and what results are achieved.
For years, we operated under a system of wage controls, price regulations, and a government that subsidized a huge portion of the country’s economic life. That formula had its rationale, its context, its results, and its time; but it no longer addresses the complex reality we face today. The prices families face have become far too disconnected from the income of workers and retirees, and we cannot continue to act as if that gap did not exist.
We will also open new avenues for secure access to medications.
Regarding fiscal, tax, monetary, and financial restructuring policies, we propose that the primary objective for reducing the fiscal deficit lies in increasing production—which is the basis for tax revenue—and cutting unnecessary budget expenditures. That is why we will also correct a policy that failed to deliver the expected results.
Price caps, in practice, failed to curb inflation. They often led to product shortages, a shift toward the black market, higher prices, lower tax revenue, and an impossible race between actual prices and administrative decisions that were always late or remained rigid in the face of changing economic realities, thereby limiting all those who wish to conduct their economic activities legally and transparently. For this reason, we will not continue to impose blanket price caps, as the Prime Minister explained. We must correct distortions in the tax system that currently drive up the costs of production chains and ultimately get passed on to the final price.
We will move toward a creditable value-added tax (VAT) progressively supported by electronic invoicing to avoid cascading taxation. But these decisions can only be implemented alongside more direct and effective social protection, with a shift from subsidizing products to subsidizing people, and with efforts to restore the purchasing power of wages and pensions. It is not a matter of leaving anyone to fend for themselves in the market; it is a matter of providing better protection, increasing production, regulating intelligently, and managing with realism.
We need a financial system that supports the economy, serves the needs of the various economic actors, reduces lines, facilitates payments, ensures transparency in transactions, and turns savings, credit, and investment into concrete tools for development.
We must thoroughly modernize the country’s banking and financial system. To do so, Cuba needs banks that are more agile, more digital, closer to the people, and more useful to those who produce, export, import, invest, or start businesses.
We will open up opportunities—under strict regulation—for private and foreign financial institutions; new mechanisms for credit, productive financing, the development of financial markets, and payment services, in which state, cooperative, and private actors can participate. The goal is to ensure that collecting a pension, receiving a remittance from abroad, paying for a service, applying for a loan, financing a harvest, purchasing equipment, or moving money to support production is not an obstacle course.
We will allow offshore accounts, foreign-currency payments between companies, and auditable international transactions for entities that import, export, or provide global services.
This is not about weakening the role of the state, but rather about expanding and modernizing the country’s capacity to finance production, support those who generate goods and services, regulate the flow of money, and provide better service to our people.
We will turn digital transformation, software, and artificial intelligence into cross-cutting tools to develop agriculture, the energy sector, healthcare, education, foreign trade, banking, e-commerce, logistics, tourism, and tax enforcement.
Specific proposals related to software, artificial intelligence, the knowledge economy, and the digital economy must be presented as cross-cutting infrastructure to boost national productivity. This is not merely about exporting software, but about digitizing payments, taxes, foreign trade, agriculture, healthcare, energy, logistics, government, and statistics.
With regard to tourism and the real estate sector, new business models must be implemented, with the participation of all economic actors. We must develop a productive, regulated real estate market that includes: leasing of idle state-owned properties; rental of buildings, commercial spaces, warehouses, offices, tourist facilities, workshops, and industrial spaces; concessions; rights of use for real estate; and transparent bidding processes open to state, private, cooperative, or mixed-ownership entities.
We have discussed fuel imports and all the opportunities that have been opened up to the private sector, but now the goal is to achieve this with reasonable, transparent, and non-exploitative profit margins.
As for vehicle imports, we must eliminate all import barriers, prioritize the import of electric vehicles, and, of course, develop solar panel manufacturing facilities.
I know there is concern—and rightly so—about the partial dollarization of the economy, inflation, and the lack of many products priced in local currency. We are not going to ignore this problem. The business models we are authorizing in foreign currency must directly and verifiably contribute to an increase in foreign exchange revenue that allows for the sustainability of offerings in local currency.
We must impose stricter requirements on the use of digital payment platforms. We must expand approvals for wholesale and retail trade, eliminating intermediaries, and, without a doubt, we must implement electronic invoicing.
We must eliminate wage barriers that prevent the retention of talent and a highly skilled workforce in the productive, export, technology, energy, and agro-industrial sectors, and allow for variable compensation in CUP and foreign currency linked to verifiable results in exports, import savings, increased productivity, innovation, energy availability, or foreign sales.
With regard to digital government, public data, and smart monitoring, we must implement mandatory and phased electronic invoicing for medium and large taxpayers; then move on to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and self-employed workers, using simple tools adapted to actual connectivity.
We must modernize the National Statistical System and the ONEI through digital data collection from companies and entities, publication via public service applications using artificial intelligence, and the protection of sensitive data.
We must use artificial intelligence to simplify procedures, process scanned documents, detect errors, validate files, authenticate documents, and reduce administrative burdens.
We must improve the quality of services provided to the public by designing new approaches to each issue.
And we must seriously address a problem that affects the daily lives of millions of Cubans: solid waste collection. We will launch local projects to improve the collection, treatment, and disposal of solid waste, in which—responsibly—those who place the greatest burden on the system must also contribute more to sustaining it.
But this solution will not be solely state-led; it will incorporate foreign investment into the non-state sector, the business system, communities, and creative initiatives that help restore cleanliness, order, and health to our cities and communities.
Comrades:
Cuba does not need further delays; it needs solutions. It is not a matter of creating more offices or holding more meetings, but of achieving concrete results.
To govern is to solve problems, remove obstacles, provide support, and ensure that decisions translate into real improvements; because creating in Cuba, investing in Cuba, working in Cuba, and staying in Cuba also depend on the country’s ability to blaze new trails, organize intelligently, and support those who want to contribute.
Alongside economic opportunities, we will also promote concrete spaces where young people can take action within their communities.
The Community Youth Network must be a pathway for young people to find places to receive training, find employment, serve their community, and turn an idea into a real project. This network must coordinate useful initiatives in neighborhoods: revitalizing public spaces, supporting vulnerable people, cultural and sports activities, training in trades and technologies, community communication, productive projects, local employment, and support for at-risk youth.
This is not about creating yet another structure or bringing young people together merely to receive guidance; it is about giving them skills, tools, knowledge, responsibilities, and real opportunities to transform the places where they live—because staying in Cuba must also mean having a place where they can be useful, grow, learn, lead, and build a future starting from their neighborhood, school, workplace, and municipality.
We know our country; we know where the obstacles lie, where corruption lurks, where there is excessive red tape, and where a sense of shame and dignity is lacking.
Every measure we announce will have designated leaders, deadlines, and performance indicators. We will report on what is progressing, what is not being met, and what needs to be corrected.
There will be matters that, to protect them from those who wish to sabotage them, we will have to handle with discretion. Martí has already taught us that some things must remain hidden in order to be achieved; but discretion will never be an excuse to hide anything from the people.
As a people, we are not going to come together merely to resist; we are going to come together to create, to produce, to decide, to hold others accountable, to prosper, and to transform, because what we are starting today is not something a government does— this is something we all do together—or it won’t be done at all: with the farmer who returns to the fields to plant, with the small and medium-sized business that dares to take risks, with the technician who installs the first solar panel, with the teacher, with the doctor, with the young person who decides to stay and invest in their homeland, with the Cuban living abroad who reaches out, with you, with me, with everyone.
We will not deny the problems; we will not defend bureaucracy; we will not close the door on talent; we will not abandon the vulnerable; and we will never allow the suffering of this people—caused by the perverse imperialist blockade—to be used against the sovereignty of our homeland (Applause).
Nothing will be impossible if we embrace the challenge as an opportunity and history as inspiration!
Céspedes, Agramonte, Maceo, Gómez, Martí, Mella, Villena, Guiteras, Che, Camilo, Almeida, Fidel, and Raúl—all our heroes—faced moments that were just as difficult, or even more so, for their time, than those faced today by the new revolutionary generation, and all emerged from those challenges with honor and glory—even those who fell in combat without living to see victory—because they bequeathed to us lessons in courage that endure to this day, as was demonstrated on January 3 of this year when 32 Cuban combatants fell while confronting elite troops vastly superior in numbers and resources.
No revolution has had it easy, and ours has had the audacity to survive six decades of a blockade, genocidal laws, hybrid warfare, and a series of unilateral coercive measures that no other nation has endured—nor could it endure—for so long.
On the centennial of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro’s birth and the 95th birthday of Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, the best tribute we can pay to the admirable work of our two historic leaders is to defend it and preserve its essence of social justice, amid the storm of predatory wars, threats of invasion, and processes of neocolonization that, like the Seven-League Giant, are sweeping across the sky, devouring worlds in these times.
We are all called to action, and together we will prevail.
Long live Free Cuba! (Shouts of: "Long live!")
Long live the heroic Cuban people! (Shouts of: "Long live!")
Long live the sovereignty of the Cuban nation! (Shouts of: "Long live!")
Socialism or Death!
Fatherland or Death!
We will prevail! (Shouts of: "We will prevail!")
(Applause.)

The Communist Party of China is today an indispensable reference point in the process of building socialism

Socialist News From Outside The Imperial Core — The Communist Party of China is today an indispensable reference point in the process of building socialism

The Communist Party of China is today an indispensable reference point in the process of building socialism

Article 3 of 9

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By Emilio Lozada García

Originally published at https://en.granma.cu/mundo/2026-06-30/the-communist-party-of-china-is-today-an-indispensable-reference-point-in-the-process-of-building-socialism

Publication Date: June 30, 2026

Comrade Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic; other leaders of the Party, the State, and the Government;
Comrade Hua Xin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to Cuba;
Distinguished guests:
We are honored to celebrate today the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March, two events of great historical significance for that fraternal people and for all humanity.
Faced with the difficult circumstances the Asian country was experiencing due to the military aggression of Western powers and the rise of counter-revolutionary forces, on July 1, 1921, a group of around 50 Chinese communists met in Shanghai to found what remains to this day their vanguard political organization. This event is even more significant because they were harassed by the police and had to conclude their First National Congress on a boat on a lake in the region.
Those 50 courageous communist militants have multiplied and today number more than 100 million, making them the largest Communist Party in the world today.
The Communist Party of China has achieved numerous accomplishments over the past 105 years.
In the history of their struggle, the heroic feat of the Great March by the Red Army stands out, between October 1934 and October 1936, which gave a new and definitive direction to the war, and which demonstrated what a people guided accurately by their Communist Party is capable of doing.
Then came the victory in the fight against Japanese militarism in September 1945 and the triumph of the October Revolution of 1949, where the Party played a decisive role.
The leadership exercised by the Chinese Communist Party for over seventy years in guiding the long and complex process of building socialism is unprecedented.
The Communist Party of China has been able to consolidate economic development for the benefit of the people. The Reform and Opening Up policy, after almost five decades of implementation, has allowed China to become the world's second-largest economy and has demonstrated the validity of socialism as a political system.
It has also been key in the process of national reunification, especially in the incorporation of Hong Kong and Macao in 1997 and 1999.
The theoretical and practical contributions of Chinese communists to Marxism-Leninism and the process of building socialism have been fundamental, both economically, politically, and ideologically. The top Chinese Party leaders, from Chairman Mao Zedong to the current General Secretary Xi Jinping, have played a vital role in advancing socialist thought in a once-poor country that, in less than a century, has achieved a high level of socioeconomic development and the eradication of extreme poverty.
In the international arena, Chinese communists have promoted peace, multilateralism, and the defense of international law and the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations. In recent years, the initiatives promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping, such as the Belt and Road Initiative, the Building a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind, and the initiatives on global security, development, civilization, and governance, have been particularly significant.
Comrades:
The Communist Party of Cuba and the Communist Party of China maintain an excellent relationship, based on trust, mutual respect, and the legacy of Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, and the top Chinese leaders throughout these years of coexistence of our Revolutions.
The ties between our two political organizations constitute the cornerstone of the bonds between our two countries.
The leading role of our communist parties contributes decisively to the implementation of the consensus reached by our top leaders, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez and Xi Jinping, since 2022.
The theoretical and practical exchange between our two parties has been consolidated over the past 15 years. Clear evidence of this includes the holding of theoretical seminars, the seventh of which took place in December 2025 in Beijing; the exchange of experiences among cadres at different levels on the construction of socialism; and party support for the development of economic projects of mutual interest in priority areas, both nationally and regionally.
In the international arena, both parties promote cooperation with political forces of the so-called Global South through the BRICS Political Parties Forum and other international party spaces. They foster unity and coordination among all communist parties at the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties.
Currently, the Communist Party of Cuba and the Communist Party of China are working toward building a bilateral Community of Shared Future.
We appreciate the firm and unwavering support of the Communist Party of China against the economic, commercial, and financial blockade and the energy embargo imposed by the United States government, as well as against the infamous accusation against Army General Raúl Castro Ruz.
The three statements by the spokesperson for the International Department of the Communist Party of China rejecting the two executive orders of January 29 and May 1, as well as other cruel blockade measures by the U.S. administration, have been particularly noteworthy.
The Communist Party of Cuba expresses its gratitude for the continued support and solidarity of the Communist Party of China, especially in the current circumstances of collective punishment and silent genocide against the Cuban people.
We reiterate, once again, the historic position of the Communist Party of Cuba in support of the "One China" principle and reaffirm that Taiwan is an inalienable part of that sister nation.
Comrades:
In 2007, on the anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution, Commander-in-Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, stated: "Eighty-six years have passed since the establishment of the Communist Party of China. Now China has become an example and a bastion of hope for other countries."
Nineteen years later, these words remain fully relevant. The Communist Party of China is today an indispensable reference point in the process of building socialism and has demonstrated that the socialist system is a viable alternative to the unbridled capitalism that the North is trying to impose on us. Its commitment to achieving a more just, democratic, and equitable international order reaffirms that a better world is possible.
Long live the brotherly Communist Party of China!
Long live the eternal friendship between our communist parties!
Always onward to victory!
Thank you very much.

CAN GIO – A “GREEN LABORATORY” FOR ENERGY TRANSITION

Socialist News From Outside The Imperial Core — CAN GIO – A “GREEN LABORATORY” FOR ENERGY TRANSITION

CAN GIO – A “GREEN LABORATORY” FOR ENERGY TRANSITION

Article 4 of 9

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Originally published at https://longform.vietnamplus.vn/can-gio-a-green-laboratory-for-energy-transition-1337.html

Publication Date: July 1, 2026

Ho Chi Minh City is entering a new phase of development with the ambition of becoming a green, modern and smart global metropolis, in line with the spirit of the Politburo's Resolution No. 09 on building and developing the city in a new era. In that strategy, Can Gio, the southern city’s only coastal gateway, is emerging as a new development space where the marine economy, renewable energy, ecological conservation and climate adaptation converge.

Once a coastal area facing significant infrastructure challenges, Can Gio is gradually transforming into a new maritime growth pole of the city. With its vast mangrove forests, solar-powered production models, plans for offshore wind energy and green transportation systems, Can Gio is increasingly being viewed by experts as a “green laboratory” for the country's emissions reduction efforts and its commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.

Towards "A green Can Gio"

Under the implementation plan for the “For a green Can Gio” action programme launched by the People's Committee of Can Gio commune, the locality aims to become a coastal area characterised by smart, environmentally friendly and green urban growth by 2030, while moving towards net-zero emissions.

Specific targets include ensuring that 100% of eligible public buildings are equipped with rooftop solar power systems, transitioning all public transport vehicles to clean energy, gradually establishing “Green Village” models, and exploring participation in carbon markets based on the carbon sequestration value of its mangrove ecosystems.

To achieve these goals, local authorities have identified several priority measures, including the development of green transportation, promotion of renewable energy use, reduction of plastic waste, enhancement of waste collection and treatment systems, expansion of green buildings, and strengthening public awareness of environmental protection.

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The commune’s unique advantages in mangrove ecosystems and marine space position it to become a coastal ecological urban area, a centre for the blue economy, eco-tourism and logistics in southern Ho Chi Minh City. The city is also studying low-emission zone models, promoting electric vehicles and green public transportation, and gradually reducing dependence on fossil fuels.

Ho Van Binh, Vice Chairman of the Can Gio People’s
Committee

From coastal potential to green development models

In addition to possessing the country’s largest mangrove ecosystem, Can Gio enjoys abundant sunlight, strong winds, and extensive marine areas, all favourable conditions for renewable energy development and a low-carbon economy.

Under Ho Chi Minh City’s development plans, the waters off Can Gio are being studied for large-scale wind power projects to supply electricity to the national grid and support the production of green hydrogen. At the same time, local authorities are exploring the expansion of solar power systems, energy-efficient lighting networks, and infrastructure for green transportation.

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Can Gio is working closely with relevant agencies to develop carbon credits from mangrove forests, establish carbon absorption databases, and promote green economic models linked to the commune’s distinctive ecosystem.

Ho Van Binh, Vice Chairman of the Can Gio People's Committee

One notable example is the rooftop solar power model adopted by shrimp-farming households, which helps reduce production costs, utilise renewable energy, and generate additional income selling surplus electricity to the grid.

In agriculture, nipa palm nectar production represents a transformation to green agriculture that enhances the economic value, contributes to mangrove ecosystem conservation, prevents erosion, and increases carbon dioxide absorption.

On a larger scale, the Vinhomes Green Paradise project is envisioned to operate using clean energy generated from offshore wind farms and solar power, reflecting the trend towards green urban development associated with carbon reduction.

At the same time, infrastructure projects such as the Can Gio Bridge, the Ben Thanh – Can Gio metro line, the expansion of Rung Sac Road, and waterway transport routes connecting coastal areas are gradually creating the foundation for green mobility, the marine economy, and eco-tourism development.

These initiatives demonstrate that Can Gio’s green transition is no longer merely a long-term aspiration but is steadily becoming a reality through the combined efforts of government authorities, businesses, and local communities.

From a “green lung” to a Net Zero urban model

According to experts, Can Gio’s greatest advantage lies not only in its wind and solar energy potential but also in its mangrove ecosystem, which has a remarkable capacity to absorb and store carbon.

Huynh Duc Hoan, head of Ho Chi Minh City’s Protective Forest Management Board, said the Can Gio mangrove forest has long been regarded as the “green lung” of the city and neighbouring provinces, while also serving as a vital resource for green economic development and climate change adaptation.

Meanwhile, Prof. Dr. Le Thanh Hai, Director of the Institute for Environment and Resources under the Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, believes that Can Gio is a testing ground for renewable energy and low-carbon urban development models in Vietnam.

In his view, the key to success lies in balancing economic growth, clean energy use, ecosystem conservation, and sustainable livelihoods for local communities.

In practice, the green transition is already visible across various sectors in Can Gio, from transportation and production to eco-tourism and public awareness of environmental protection. It also reflects the vision of Resolution No. 09, which identifies Ho Chi Minh City as a national pioneer in green growth, the circular economy, and sustainable development.

As evening falls over the southern coastal gateway of Ho Chi Minh City, vast stretches of mangrove forests continue to extend towards the horizon. From carbon-absorbing mangrove ecosystems and solar-powered shrimp farms to ongoing studies of offshore wind energy, Can Gio is steadily turning the southern metropolis’s green development ambitions into reality.

On Vietnam’s journey towards net-zero emissions, this coastal commune is not only preserving its role as the city’s “green lung” but also has the potential to become a model for energy transition and sustainable development across the country in the years ahead./.

Leaner organization, sharper governance create new growth drivers

Socialist News From Outside The Imperial Core — Leaner organization, sharper governance create new growth drivers

Leaner organization, sharper governance create new growth drivers

Article 5 of 9

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Originally published at https://longform.vietnamplus.vn/leaner-organisation-sharper-governance-create-new-growth-drivers-1334.html

Publication Date: July 1, 2026

Shifting from administrative management to governance and development facilitation

The implementation of the two-tier local administration model represents a governance reform rather than merely an organisational restructuring. Changes in administrative boundaries in the central and Central Highlands regions reflect a shift from an administrative territory-based management mindset to an approach focused on shaping economic development spaces.

Da Nang is no longer confined to a coastal urban area, Gia Lai is no longer defined solely as a highland province, and Lam Dong is also no longer identified only with Da Lat and high-tech agriculture. These localities are now operating as unified economic entities. The transformation goes beyond geographical scale, extending to the very nature of local development. Urban centres, raw material zones, industrial parks, seaports, logistics hubs, and economic corridors are being integrated into a unified development space.

Commenting on the merger of Da Nang and Quang Nam, Secretary of the Party Committee of the new Da Nang Le Ngoc Quang said the reform is not only about streamlining the administrative apparatus but also about better unlocking the locality’s potential, advantages, and resources in a new development phase.

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The formation of a larger development space requires new approaches to governance, management, and the implementation of tasks

Secretary of the Da Nang Party Committee Le Ngoc Quang

In practice, post-merger localities are now operating at significantly larger development scales than before. Da Nang is integrating urban space, industry, logistics, seaports, and the Chu Lai growth hub. Gia Lai has, for the first time, formed a direct linkage axis between the Central Highlands and the coastal areas. Lam Dong is bringing together strengths in high-tech agriculture, renewable energy, mining, tourism, and maritime economy. Meanwhile, Khanh Hoa continues to reinforce its role as a regional hub for maritime economy, logistics, and energy in the South Central Coast.

An important shift under the new model is the transition from development thinking based on administrative boundaries to an approach centred on integrated economic space. In Gia Lai, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Pham Anh Tuan instructed that wards and communes formerly belonging to Quy Nhon should be viewed as a unified development entity, mutually supportive and complementary, rather than operating in a fragmented manner. He stressed that grassroots authorities are responsible for administrative management, harnessing local potential, and expanding the development space to create new growth drivers.

These changes show that the success of the two-tier local administration model is measured not only by streamlined administrative structures, but also by the ability to reorganise development resources, create new growth poles, and enhance local competitiveness in the new context.

Streamlined apparatus and development-facilitating administration

Whereas the effectiveness of local administrations was previously measured largely by their ability to manage territories, process administrative procedures, and maintain apparatus operations, the focus is now shifting toward their capacity to implement development goals and deliver tangible results.

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The current requirement goes beyond merely restructuring administrative organisations. The priority now is to improve operational quality, strengthen public service performance, and enhance the capacity of local authorities to meet development demands in a rapidly changing
environment.

Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Dak Lak provincial Party Committee Cao Thi Hoa An

As greater authority is delegated to grassroots levels, the competence of public officials, the effectiveness of coordination among different levels of government, and the ability to apply digital technologies are becoming decisive factors in governance.

Against this backdrop, many localities have proposed the early development of a comprehensive set of criteria to assess the performance, effectiveness, and efficiency of administrations at all levels in line with the Government's requirements.

Such evaluation criteria should not be limited to measuring the number of agencies streamlined or staffing structures reorganised. Instead, they should focus on more substantive indicators, including the quality of public services, citizen and business satisfaction, the effectiveness of administrative procedures, progress in achieving socio-economic development targets, and the capacity for digital transformation.

More importantly, the true test after one year is not how administrative structures have been reorganised, but how localities operate the new system to optimise resources, restructure development space, and generate new growth drivers. This will ultimately serve as the most meaningful measure of the two-tier local administration model in the years ahead.

Experience over the past year has shown that as greater authority is delegated to grassroots levels, the capacity of public officials becomes a decisive factor in determining the effectiveness of the administrative apparatus. Even a streamlined system will struggle to deliver results if officials are unable to keep pace with new demands in governance, digital transformation, and the implementation of development objectives.

Da Nang continues to identify digital transformation as a key driver for enhancing urban governance and improving public services. Many other localities are also accelerating the development of digital government platforms, shared databases, and digital management systems to meet governance requirements in the new context.

Drawing on practical experience from local administrations, many experts and policymakers have called for the early establishment of a comprehensive set of indicators to assess the performance of administrations. Such indicators could be measured through factors including processing times for administrative procedures, levels of citizen and business satisfaction, progress in achieving development targets, digital transformation outcomes and the quality of coordination among different levels of administration.

Ultimately, the success of the two-tier local administration model will be measured by the pace of local development and the satisfaction of citizens. The past year has largely been a period of building the institutional framework. The next phase will require leaders at all levels to think big, act bold, and strive to tackle bottlenecks and emerging challenges in order to transform a streamlined administrative system into a genuine engine of growth for the country./.

A long-term strategy for a healthier Vietnam

Socialist News From Outside The Imperial Core — A long-term strategy for a healthier Vietnam

A long-term strategy for a healthier Vietnam

Article 6 of 9

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Originally published at https://longform.vietnamplus.vn/a-long-term-strategy-for-a-healthier-vietnam-1265.html

Publication Date: July 1, 2026

Resolution No. 72-NQ/TW of the Politburo underscores the pivotal role of physical exercise and sports as a breakthrough solution, shifting the mindset from “treatment” to “proactive health protection and improvement.” It is seen as a “golden key” to enhancing the physical fitness and health of the Vietnamese people, providing strong momentum for the widespread development of sports movements toward building a healthy, dynamic and sustainable nation.

Resolution No.72 sets ambitious targets for 2030

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Increasing the average height of children and adolescents aged 1–18 by at least 1.5 cm

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Raising life expectancy to 75.5 years, with at least 68 years lived in good health

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Reducing the burden of disease, better control health risk factors

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Ensuring that vaccination coverage under the national immunisation programme exceeds 95%

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Rising the proportion of people engaging in regular physical activity by 10%

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Implementing stronger measures to control risks such as alcohol consumption, tobacco use and environmental pollution

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Ensuring that all citizens have access to quality, comprehensive healthcare services

From 2026 onward, every citizen will be entitled to at least one free annual health check-ups or screening, and will have electronic health records to enable lifelong health management, gradually reducing medical costs.

By 2030, basic hospital fees will be waived under health insurance, in line with a defined roadmap.

All commune-level health stations will be upgraded in terms of infrastructure, equipment and personnel, with each facility expected to have at least four or five doctors by 2027. The rate of health insurance-covered examinations and treatments at grassroots health stations is targeted to exceed 20%.

Health insurance coverage is projected to surpass 95% of the population by 2026 and reach universal coverage by 2030, alongside the development of diverse health insurance schemes.

Looking ahead to 2045

Vietnam aims to ensure a high-quality living environment, with health indicators and essential healthcare coverage on par with developed countries in the region and the world.

Life expectancy is expected to exceed 80 years, with more than 71 years in good health, while the physical stature and fitness of Vietnamese youth will match those of countries with similar levels of development.

The healthcare system will be modern, equitable, efficient and sustainable, prioritising disease prevention and meeting increasingly diverse healthcare needs.

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The designation of April 7 – World Health Day – as “National Health Day” reinforces the importance of physical exercise as a long-term strategy to improve population health and the quality of human resources.

Breakthrough solutions for sports development

Resolution 72 not only provides strategic direction but also introduces practical measures to make sports more accessible. A key focus is on planning and improving the efficiency of public cultural and sports facilities. As spaces for physical activity, from parks and community centres to local playgrounds, become more accessible, exercise is expected to become an integral part of daily life.

The resolution also places strong emphasis on physical education in schools, integrating nutrition and exercise into curricula to build a solid foundation for young people from an early age. Coordination between the education and health sectors, along with expert guidance, is helping establish scientific and safe training practices suited to the Vietnamese population.

According to President of the Vietnam Society of Sports Medicine Dr. Nguyen Manh Thang, sports medicine plays a key role in optimising nutrition, recovery and health monitoring, while preventing injuries through proper training and risk assessment. For the general public, it offers guidance on safe exercise, reduces injury risks and improves overall health.

Toward a prosperous future

Implementing Resolution 72 is a concrete step toward realising the aspiration that “strong people make a prosperous nation.” Closer integration between preventive healthcare and sports is expected to ease pressure on the healthcare system, reduce costs for families and improve quality of life.

A vibrant grassroots sports movement will also help identify and nurture talent, while preserving traditional sports and folk games. Many young athletes are already being discovered through local competitions and advancing to provincial and national teams, contributing to Vietnam’s sporting achievements on the international stage.

While folk games are being revived and promoted, widespread grassroots sports movements also create opportunities to discover talents in traditional sports. In the photo: The unique water ball wrestling festival in Van village of Bac Ninh province. (Photo: VNA)

With strong commitment from authorities and active participation from the public, Resolution 72 is expected to create a nationwide momentum for healthier, more active lifestyles, contributing meaningfully to the country’s sustainable development./.

China's Belt and Road Initiative paves way for common prosperity in Central Africa

Socialist News From Outside The Imperial Core — China's Belt and Road Initiative paves way for common prosperity in Central Africa

China's Belt and Road Initiative paves way for common prosperity in Central Africa

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Xinhuanet

By huaxia

Originally published at https://english.news.cn/20240317/3a0fd6fcb85b4f1ab73623aab77aeb38/c.html

Publication Date: March 17, 2024

This photo taken on March 15, 2022 shows a view of the Kribi Deep Sea Port in Kribi, Cameroon. (Photo by Kepseu/Xinhua)

by Arison Tamfu, Wang Ze

YAOUNDE, March 16 (Xinhua) -- Central African leaders met Saturday in Bangui, the capital of the Central African Republic, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community (CEMAC), a regional bloc, in hopes of highlighting past achievements and defining a roadmap for strengthening regional integration, while focusing on economic challenges and growth opportunities.

When CEMAC was created in 1994, its members -- Cameroon, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo and Chad -- aimed to enhance economic development through regional integration. Saturday's event also offered the leaders an opportunity to consider how regional integration and development can be achieved under the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

Since its launch in 2013, the BRI has been welcomed by all CEMAC countries as a model for cooperation with China in infrastructure development and socioeconomic transformation, said Elvis Ngolle Ngolle, international relations expert and former cabinet member of the Cameroonian government.

"Once you arrive in the CEMAC sub-region, you will see plenty of Chinese company investment projects," said Ngolle.

ROADS TO PROSPERITY

Thanks in large part to Chinese investments and expertise, CEMAC states have been blessed with the construction of some major mega-infrastructure projects in the transport sector.

A good example is the Kribi Deep Sea Port, built by China Harbor Engineering Company Ltd (CHEC) in Cameroon's southern town of Kribi. While the new seaport, which is strategically positioned in the center of the Gulf of Guinea, has stimulated the country's economy, it has become a regional hub for the African Atlantic coast.

"With the coming of the Kribi port, Cameroon has once again placed herself as the port entry to the sub-region. This (the port) has added more value to certain industrial projects in Chad, the Central African Republic and Congo," said Alain Patrick Mpila Ayissi, manager of the Land Development and Environment Department of the Port Authority of Kribi.

Currently, CHEC is busy constructing the Kribi Deep Seaport Phase II. After the completion of the project, it is expected to become a large container transit port and comprehensive hub port in Central and West Africa.

As part of the project, CHEC also constructed the Kribi-Lolabe highway that will cater to the requirements of the port transportation and logistics and make a contribution to local prosperity just like the road linking Cameroon to Congo.

The Cameroon-Congo road, constructed by contractors including Sinohydro, a Chinese civil engineering construction company, stretches 1,600 km from Yaounde, the capital of Cameroon, to Brazzaville, the Congolese capital. It has been nicknamed the "road of regional integration" by authorities.

James Essomba, who has been selling merchandise in the border town of Ntam, Cameroon's East Region, said that the new road is a game changer.

"At first, it was difficult to get goods from Congo. Now, both countries that have long traded with others outside the sub-region are trading with each other. We have seen a remarkable increase in trade and profit," said the 65-year-old.

CLEAN WATER AND ENERGY

Laurence Wandji, 41, is a primary school teacher in Bafoussam, Cameroon's third-largest city. A big water tower stands just a few meters from Wandji's home. The tower was contracted to the Chinese construction company CGCOC Group. In 2014, CGCOC Group arrived and set out to construct a water treatment plant and related facilities that could produce 10,000 cubic meters of water daily in the city. It was part of a project to provide water to nine cities in Cameroon.

Currently, residents can enjoy a round-the-clock water supply thanks to the project.

"We can now take good showers even in dry season thanks to China," said Wandji. "We can easily manage our daily activities which require water. Children no longer trek long distances to fetch water."

China has emerged as a collaborator in furthering CEMAC energy generation goals too. The sub-region struggles with low energy generation and high tariff costs. Constructed by Sinohydro, Memve'ele Hydroelectric Power Station, a 211-megawatt hydroelectric power station in the Ntem Valley locality in Cameroon's South Region, could offer a sustainable solution.

"Once the dam is fully operational, the problem of electricity will be greatly reduced. It is also capable of supplying electricity to neighboring countries in CEMAC because of the strong flow of the river," said Augustine Mbah, an energy consultant.

FOOTBALL (SOCCER) UNITES

Every weekend, mammoth crowds gather at Limbe Omnisport Stadium and Bafoussam Omnisport Stadium in Cameroon to watch local league matches. Constructed by China Machinery Engineering Corporation, the stadiums have become a veritable unifier for young people in the sub-region.

"Those stadiums hosted very important matches when Cameroon hosted the Africa Cup of Nations and Under-17 Central African football tournament. They build links among youth from countries through football. They are extremely useful and we are grateful to China," said James Ndukong, a football analyst.

Critics, however, allege that China's BRI projects in the CEMAC zone are a "debt trap." Analysts insist China's investment is giving a much-needed boost to the economies of the countries otherwise largely ignored by Western investors.

"Unlike other countries, China is working to help Africa restore infrastructures that are essential for economic recovery. The projects also provide massive job opportunities for local residents," said Ngolle, the international relations expert and former cabinet member of the Cameroonian government.

Reacting to "debt trap" allegations, Cameroon's Prime Minister Joseph Dion Ngute said that Cameroon is a sovereign country conscious of its responsibilities and choices.

"We are not going to listen to all kinds of snide remarks by people who think they know better. We have a country we have to develop and that is our responsibility," said Ngute while visiting the construction site of a China-funded water plant in Yaounde, the Cameroonian capital.

Xu Huajiang, general manager of China Harbor Central Africa Division which designed and constructed some major projects in Cameroon including the Kribi Deep Seaport and Kribi-Lolabe Highway, said that globalization and regionalization have become a general trend of development and should be embraced by African countries.

"It is necessary to strengthen the 'hard connectivity' of infrastructure and 'soft connectivity' of system rules and promote the four-in-one interconnection of land, sea, sky, and network," Xu said. ■

This photo taken on March 15, 2022 shows a view of the Kribi Deep Sea Port in Kribi, Cameroon. (Photo by Kepseu/Xinhua)

This photo taken on March 16, 2022 shows a view of the Lobe drinking water treatment plant in the south region of Cameroon. (Photo by Kepseu/Xinhua)

This photo taken on March 26, 2016 shows a view at Limbe Omnisport Stadium in Cameroon. (Photo by Kepseu/Xinhua)

China pursues significant scale of new urban jobs in next five years

Socialist News From Outside The Imperial Core — China pursues significant scale of new urban jobs in next five years

China pursues significant scale of new urban jobs in next five years

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Xinhuanet

By huaxia

Originally published at https://english.news.cn/20260709/28f1b4eac36948838c832568e54ee17a/c.html

Publication Date: June 28, 2026

BEIJING, July 9 (Xinhua) -- China aims to create a considerable scale of urban jobs and keep the urban surveyed unemployment rate within 5.5 percent over the next five years, according to a human resources and social security development plan for the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030) unveiled on Thursday.

The plan, released by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, also outlines specific targets for reemployment, including helping 25 million unemployed urban workers find new jobs and providing employment assistance to 6.5 million people with difficulties finding work.

In terms of social security, the plan aims to keep the basic old-age insurance coverage rate above 95 percent.

It also targets the number of participants covered by unemployment insurance and work-related injury insurance, with occupational injury protection included, to reach 255 million and 345 million, respectively.

The scale of enterprise annuity funds or occupational pension funds is expected to exceed 9 trillion yuan (1.32 trillion U.S. dollars), the plan notes.

Regarding vocational training, the plan calls for providing more than 50 million subsidized vocational training opportunities, including 17.5 million training participations among rural migrant workers.

Other key targets include issuing professional qualification certificates to 14 million people, sustaining an annual recruitment of 35,000 postdoctoral researchers, and enrolling 90 percent of the population in the electronic social security card system by the end of the five-year period.

The plan also outlines measures for promoting high-quality and full employment, improving the salary and income distribution system, fostering harmonious labor relations, and comprehensively enhancing the quality and efficiency of public services. ■

Burkina Faso unveils five-year economic plan to boost sovereignty, industrialization

Socialist News From Outside The Imperial Core — Burkina Faso unveils five-year economic plan to boost sovereignty, industrialization

Burkina Faso unveils five-year economic plan to boost sovereignty, industrialization

Article 9 of 9

Xinhuanet

By huaxia

Originally published at https://english.news.cn/20260509/15c7f4d75f6841779cee15a7ba1d2265/c.html

Publication Date: May 9, 2026

OUAGADOUGOU, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Burkina Faso's Minister of Economy, Finance and Prospective Aboubacar Nacanabo on Friday presented a new five-year national development plan to the transitional Legislative Assembly, outlining a strategic shift toward "productive sovereignty" and industrialization.

The 2026-2030 roadmap aims to overhaul the country's economic structure by breaking away from a long-standing dependence on raw material exports and foreign financing.

Addressing the deputies, Nacanabo described the program as a declaration of economic sovereignty designed to foster a development model based on local production, processing, and financing.

The minister emphasized that the government is moving away from an "extroverted" economic model to focus on creating mass employment and adding value to national resources.

He noted that this paradigm shift represents one of the most significant structural reforms in the country's contemporary history, seeking to mobilize national productive forces to better serve the population.

To ensure effective execution, the government will adopt a program-based approach that integrates major structural projects and presidential initiatives. This strategy is expected to enhance coherence across sectors and improve efficiency in budgeting and evaluation.

Regarding financing, the plan will prioritize budget support and pooled funding mechanisms that align with national priorities and procedures, reinforcing local leadership over development aid.

The government's vision is to transform Burkina Faso into a resilient and prosperous nation by achieving food, energy, and technological independence. The ultimate goal is to ensure the country no longer "exports raw materials and imports poverty" but instead builds local wealth through industrialization, Nacanabo concluded. ■