Party Building

Lesson 2: Changing thinking and doing

Reporter team • DNUM_CDZAIZCACE 10:29

The implementation of Project No. 07-DA/HU in the poor district of 30a Tuong Duong is identified as one of the three breakthroughs to "build the will and aspiration to rise up" among the people towards the goal of "taking Tuong Duong out of poverty and developing sustainably". The project has breathed "new air" to create a vibrant emulation movement throughout the entire political system.

Reporter team• August 22, 2024

We (PV) went to the border commune of Tam Hop (Tuong Duong) in late summer, but the heat was softened by the green of the rice fields, elephant grass fields, pineapple hills, red turmeric gardens, bo bo, high-yield cassava, 7-leaf 1-flower ginseng...

Visiting the farm of Mr. Xong Nhia Ly (60 years old), residing in Pha Lom village in Cha Lat stream, from afar you can hear the cheerful jingling sound of bells hanging from the necks of buffaloes and cows returning to the mountain.

Putting down the basket of elephant grass on his shoulder, this "millionaire farmer" happily said that his farm currently has more than 20 buffaloes and cows, a herd of nearly ten goats, 60 poultry, 1 hectare of red turmeric, 1 hectare of cassava, 2 ponds for raising grass carp, tilapia..., giving an average income of about 100 million VND/year.

“When starting to build the farm in 2022, my family encountered many difficulties, but with the help of the Border Guard and local authorities in pulling electric wires, supporting livestock, training in science and technology... I was determined to escape poverty,” Mr. Xong Nhia Ly shared.

Now his sons also follow their father to work on the farm, no one has to leave their hometown to work far away.

In the Mong Pha Lom village, people also expressed their admiration for the example of "old age, high ambition" of Mr. Xong Ba Co (62 years old), with the model of planting 150 ornamental peach trees, raising 12 cows, adding 8 sao of wet rice fields, 6 sao of red turmeric...

Talking about his determination to escape poverty, Mr. Xong Ba Co confided: “I am Uncle Ho’s soldier, the head of the Veterans Association of the village, I have to “match my words with my actions” so that the members and people will believe and listen! If I continue to be poor, how can I propagate for everyone to do business to escape poverty!”

Talking to us, the Party Secretary of Pha Lom Xong Ba Giay village excitedly said: “Previously, people did not know how to develop household economy, but now with the Party Committee and the government persistently “holding hands and showing them how to do things”, orienting the development of suitable plants and animals, the villagers have made many changes in their thinking and way of doing things. Although life is still difficult, it has improved a lot. Currently, the village has achieved 11/13 new rural criteria.

Tam Hop is a border commune with 4 ethnic groups: Mong, Thai, Tay Poong and Kinh living together, the people's lives are still difficult. Determining that only when the spirit of self-reliance, daring to think, daring to do of the people is raised, can poverty be reduced sustainably, the Party Committee of Tam Hop commune issued Resolution No. 21 on eliminating the mentality of waiting, relying on others and directing the entire political system to focus on doing a good job of propaganda, raising awareness for the people, in which, it is required to enhance the pioneering and exemplary role of cadres and party members.

Mr. Nguyen Phi Thanh - Chairman of Tam Hop Commune People's Committee shared: First of all, we focus on changing the working style of commune-level officials and civil servants. At the same time, we establish working groups directly in charge of villages and hamlets to implement poverty reduction criteria and build new rural areas.

Thanks to that, the whole commune has many models of "smart mass mobilization" in economic development that bring high efficiency such as models: Growing 7-leaf 1-flower ginseng, growing bo bo under the forest canopy, growing red turmeric; especially, the model of protecting aquatic resources (fresh fish) deployed in 5/5 villages has been studied and replicated by many localities inside and outside the district... Up to now, Tam Hop commune has achieved 9/19 new rural criteria, recognized as a drug-free commune.

In Luong Minh commune, to put Project 07 of Tuong Duong District Party Committee on "eliminating conservative, expectant, and dependent thinking among cadres, party members, and the masses" into practice, the commune Party Committee requires each Party Committee member to choose a model suitable for each village and hamlet; combine "skillful mass mobilization" with propaganda and mobilization to promote the role of the people as the main subjects in participating in building new rural areas.

Thanks to that, people in the villages have actively contributed money to buy sand and gravel, given up their working days, voluntarily cut down trees, dismantled fences, and donated land to expand rural roads. Along with that, the movement to build roads to production areas has also received enthusiastic response from the people.

At the end of 2023, the people of La village, Luong Minh commune, worked together to build and expand the production road to Khe La with a total length of 4.2 km. Mr. Lo Van Hien - Head of La village said: Along with mobilized machinery, the people contributed working days to complete the road within 5 months.

In the past, because of the long transportation distance and difficult travel, the agricultural products produced by the people were often forced to lower their prices by traders. Now, the transportation time is shortened, the products are sold at higher prices, and everyone is excited!

Mr. Vi Hong Duong - Secretary of the Party Committee of Luong Minh Commune said: Before Project 07 of the District Party Committee, when mentioning Luong Minh Commune, people only thought of poverty and drug hotspots. However, now, with the active participation of cadres, the change in awareness and actions of the people, the face of the commune has changed a lot, most clearly the people have understood their responsibilities and rights in building new rural areas and proactively contributed their efforts and contributions with the village and hamlet to build public works, open roads to the production area.

Thanks to that, in the past 3 years, the commune has 7 villages achieving 7-10 criteria, 2 villages achieving 10-13 criteria.

Currently, the entire political system is focusing on building and bringing Xop Mat village to the new rural finish line. Up to now, the village has achieved 14/15 criteria...

Tam Quang commune is the first unit to reach the new rural finish line in Tuong Duong district, but that does not mean that the local Party committee, government and people are satisfied.

When there was Project No. 07 of the District Party Committee on eliminating the mentality of waiting and relying on others, the Commune Party Committee proactively developed Plan No. 67 to implement and continue building advanced new rural areas. In addition to promoting propaganda work associated with launching emulation movements on setting examples, saying and doing, overcoming the mentality of waiting and relying on others, building the will of self-reliance and self-strengthening among Party members and people.

The Party Committee and the government of Tam Quang commune also implemented programs and plans that were close to the actual situation in the locality. In particular, they promoted the strengths of forestry planting.

Currently, the whole commune has 687 hectares of bamboo, 1,300 hectares of acacia, of which 266 hectares are newly planted. Besides afforestation, Tam Quang commune people promote buffalo, cow and poultry farming, expanding the area of ​​aquaculture ponds to 13.6 hectares.

Tam Quang commune also focuses on directing people not to leave fields fallow; to fully exploit the area of ​​hills, flat land, alluvial land along rivers and streams to produce vegetables and other crops with high economic value suitable to the land, soil and easy to circulate in the market.

Mr. Ho Xuan Tuyen - Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Tam Quang commune said: The change in implementing Project No. 07-DA/HU is not only reflected in thinking but also in action, especially the exemplary behavior of cadres from communes and hamlets that has spread to the people.

Many villages and hamlets have invested in building their own infrastructure: building stadiums, installing solar power systems; laying drainage systems; repairing cultural houses... creating a breakthrough in building advanced new rural areas.

Currently, Tam Quang commune basically meets 11/19 advanced new rural criteria; average income per capita increased from 43.2 million VND to 48.1 million VND; the poverty rate decreased from 228 households (11.3%) to 195 households (9.6%).

According to the assessment of the leaders of Tuong Duong District Party Committee, Project 07-DA/HU has the continuation, inheritance, development and expansion of Project 07-DA/TU in 2014 of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee as well as a number of important tasks set out in previous congresses of the district that have not been thoroughly resolved. Thereby, it aims to create changes from awareness, thinking to practical actions of cadres and party members, especially leaders at all levels.

Accordingly, the district requires each grassroots Party organization to issue a plan to implement the project in accordance with the actual situation. In particular, it is necessary to strengthen the effective implementation of setting an example, requiring each Party member to be associated with the household responsibility model to eliminate the mentality of waiting and relying on others; taking the implementation results as one of the bases for evaluating the quality of Party members and grassroots Party organizations annually.

To put the project into practice, first of all, the district focuses on innovating and improving personnel work; strengthening the arrangement and assignment of officials and civil servants according to job positions; continuing to implement the policy of arranging commune-level Party secretaries who are not local people.

The Standing Committee of the District Party Committee, the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee, and the Executive Committee of the District Party Committee strictly implement the regulations of the Party Committee with the motto of strengthening "orientation towards the grassroots" to promptly resolve difficulties, obstacles and problems arising in localities.

In the economic field, the district promotes the program of hunger eradication and poverty reduction, improves the quality of vocational training, promotes creativity among cadres, party members and people to contribute ideas to build new rural areas; builds and consolidates the infrastructure system to change the face of mountainous areas, especially in terms of transportation, focuses on developing production, eco-tourism, community tourism, to improve the material and spiritual life of the people.

Up to now, the rate of villages in Tuong Duong district with national grid electricity has reached 100%; forest coverage rate has reached 79.26%; average income per capita is estimated at 36.02 million VND/year; the poverty rate has decreased from 34.03% to 29.51%. In particular, the fact that Tuong Duong district is one of the few 30a districts in the country with a commune that has met the new rural standards early clearly reflects the determination of the entire political system and the solidarity and unanimity of the people.

Mr. Nguyen Huu Hien - Vice Chairman of Tuong Duong District People's Committee said: With the goal of soon becoming the leading district in building new rural areas in the mountainous areas of the province, Tuong Duong district promotes propaganda work with the viewpoint of "escape poverty from awareness".

At the same time, clearly define the tasks of all levels and sectors; which criteria and projects the district will do; which criteria and projects the commune will do; which criteria and jobs the people will do; which jobs the State and the people will do together with the motto "Easy criteria first, difficult criteria later". Therefore, localities such as Thach Giam, Tam Quang, Tam Thai, Tam Dinh, Xa Luong all reached the new rural finish line on schedule.

To overcome the mentality of waiting and relying on the State's policies and guidelines, "rather suffer than work hard" that still exists among the people, in addition to synchronously implementing support policies according to the Resolution of the National Assembly, the Government invests in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the period of 2021 - 2030, Tuong Duong district has directed departments and branches to research, review and supplement a number of mechanisms and policies that are no longer suitable, from "free" to "conditional" support; focusing on supporting product output, helping to connect product consumption channels, building product brands. At the same time, review, research and clearly analyze the causes of poverty of poor and near-poor households to develop specific and appropriate support mechanisms and policies to help people rise up and escape poverty sustainably.

The district also directed the entire political system to focus on building “smart mass mobilization” models to create momentum and emulation movements in all fields. Currently, the district maintains 129 economic models of all kinds; 69 models of culture - society, security and order.

In some localities, more and more households in disadvantaged areas have proactively escaped from “waiting and relying on others” and voluntarily applied to be removed from poverty status. This means that they are no longer entitled to preferential policies, but people consider it a challenge to strive, rise up on their own, and give that support to families in more difficult circumstances. In 2022, the entire Tuong Duong district had 50 households applying to escape poverty, and in 2023, this number increased to over 200.

Mr. Lu Van May - Standing Deputy Secretary of Tuong Duong District Party Committee added: "The recent applications for poverty alleviation in the district prove that Project 07-DA/HU is a correct and necessary policy and has initially changed people's awareness, aroused their will to be self-reliant, their belief and their desire to overcome poverty...".

(To be continued)