Press accompanies businesses in Party development work

Comrade Le Quoc Minh gave a speech directing the workshop.

In his opening speech at the workshop, comrade Le Quoc Minh stated that strengthening the Party's leadership over all sectors, especially in the business sector including the private economic sector, has become an urgent requirement, not only through guidelines, policies and institutions into laws and policies, but also including building party organizations and developing party members in enterprises. The Party's leadership contributes to orienting the removal of difficulties, creating a favorable, open and equal environment among economic sectors and types of enterprises, eliminating discrimination, gathering, arousing aspirations and mobilizing huge resources for national development.

Strengthening the Party's leadership to promptly adjust and correct shortcomings, limitations, and negatives, to improve the economy and organize the community in the business sector. The leadership role of the Party organization in businesses is extremely important, helping to orient the political ideology for businesses to operate stably and develop.

He emphasized that, identifying the important role of private enterprises in the socio-economic development of the country, from 1996 to present, our Party has issued many documents on Party building work in enterprises... In particular, the Document of the 13th National Congress of the Party affirmed: "Taking importance to the work of developing Party members, ensuring quantity and quality. Promoting the work of developing Party members among direct production workers, intellectuals and businessmen".

However, building Party organizations and developing Party members in enterprises is a new and difficult issue. We have to learn from experience while doing it, so there are still many limitations and shortcomings. There are even many contradictions, conflicts, and barriers that have not been thoroughly resolved, with many different opinions in both theory and practice.

The conference “Press accompanies enterprises in the work of developing the Party and Party bases in Vietnamese enterprises” aims to disseminate and clarify the theoretical and practical basis for developing the Party and Party bases in enterprises, the conditions of the socialist-oriented market economy in the new period, assess the current situation of developing the Party and Party bases in enterprises in Vietnam, point out the achievements and limitations, analyze the causes and some current issues. From there, propose some solutions to improve the quality of developing the Party and Party bases in enterprises in Vietnam.

At the workshop, many experiences and recommended solutions of Vietnamese enterprises to effectively participate in developing the Party and Party bases in enterprises were shared.

Affirming the principle of the Party's "Absolute, direct leadership in all aspects" at the Military Industry - Telecommunications Group (Viettel), comrade Dao Xuan Vu, Deputy General Director of the Group, said that Viettel does not operate under the model of a Board of Members but is under the direct, comprehensive leadership of the Group's Party Committee, and is the only state-owned enterprise to follow this mechanism. Currently, 100% of agencies and units have party organizations with the motto "wherever there are national defense and security tasks, production and business, there is the leadership of the party organization". The Party Committee has 567 party organizations, 8,620 party members; the leadership ratio is 20.8%. This ratio is very high compared to other enterprises. Party development work is always focused on with 450-500 party members/year.

Viettel is currently operating in 10 foreign markets on 3 continents, with a total of 417 Vietnamese staff. In the face of difficulties and practical requirements, Viettel's foreign market branches have maintained their operating principles and successfully completed their production and business tasks. However, due to differences in political and cultural institutions, political instability in some countries has significantly affected Viettel's political performance. Therefore, enhancing the economic diplomacy role of the Party and State, supporting businesses to expand their markets, and resolving difficulties and obstacles are solutions that need to be considered more thoroughly.

Comrade Ho Xuan Truong, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Central Enterprises Bloc, answered some questions from the press.

Leading the bank to the No. 1 position, becoming the listed enterprise with the largest capitalization in Vietnam, the Party Committee of the Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) has affirmed the comprehensive leadership role of the Party in the enterprise. Four valuable lessons were shared by the Standing Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Member of the Board of Directors Do Viet Hung, namely: ensuring the role and position of the Party organization in the enterprise, strictly implementing the policies of the Party and the State; taking people as the center, the goal and driving force for development; promoting Vietcombank's cultural values, arousing the desire to contribute of each cadre, party member and employee; pioneering the application of new technology; encouraging the spirit of innovation, daring to think, daring to do, daring to take responsibility. Continuously enhance the confidence, pride, sense of responsibility and dedication of cadres, party members and employees in the entire system, contributing to creating a foundational strength for Vietcombank to gradually and firmly integrate with the region and the world.

Giving a vivid example from the awareness to the action of a private business owner who is passionate about party work, Hero of Labor Nguyen Quang Mau, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Vietnam Ceramics Joint Stock Company, shared that from the early days of the Company's establishment, the Board of Directors unanimously proposed to establish a Party cell in the enterprise. The source of developing Party members all came from the Youth Union and Trade Union organizations, which held core positions in the enterprise. That was also the driving force to attract young workers to the Party organization, because they were aware that it was an organization of elite people.

From a Party Cell with 15 members, it has developed into two Party Committees, with 165 members (equivalent to 21.3% of the workforce), under the direct guidance of the Dong Trieu City Party Committee, Quang Ninh. In the process of Party development, the Board of Directors always creates all conditions, together with the Party Committee, orients human resource training, creates a favorable environment for workers to cultivate and strive; at the same time, creates a source of additional business leaders.

From the perspective of press agencies, directing the propaganda of Party building work in Hanoi, Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thanh Loi, Deputy Editor-in-Chief in charge of Hanoi Moi Newspaper, said that in order to develop the private economy, Party organizations must play an active role in guiding and creating favorable conditions for businesses to develop sustainably. The press actively participates by promptly discovering and praising private business owners who are Party members and have made many contributions to the development of businesses and localities. The press needs to become an effective "bridge" to convey the viewpoints, guidelines, and policies of the Party and State, the working methods of Party committees, and at the same time reflect difficulties in Party building work in businesses, especially in the non-state sector, for timely solutions.

The responsibility of official press agencies is to make cadres, party members and people of all walks of life deeply aware of the meaning and importance of Party development work and grassroots party organizations in enterprises. Thereby, helping grassroots party organizations in enterprises believe in the leadership of the Party; overcome difficulties and challenges to effectively implement development goals.

At the workshop, many concerns about the inconsistent model of party organization in enterprises, especially in large enterprises belonging to the Central Enterprise Bloc; about innovation in the content and leadership methods of grassroots party organizations; improving the quality of party cell activities in enterprises; solutions to improve political capacity, leadership capacity, skills and professional work of party members at the grassroots level... were also satisfactorily answered by the workshop chairmen and business representatives.

Concluding the workshop, comrade Le Quoc Minh suggested that in the coming time, press agencies need to continue to accompany Vietnamese enterprises to effectively promote the development of the Party and Party organizations as well as carry out socio-economic development tasks.

On the part of businesses, continue to share information accurately and promptly so that news agencies and newspapers can carry out their propaganda and orientation functions. At the same time, news agencies, newspapers and journalists nationwide need to step up the implementation of the code of ethics for journalists; minimize misleading information that affects the reputation of businesses.