Provincial Party Secretary: Personnel work must have both strategy and a dialectical view.

On the afternoon of January 16, the Provincial Party Committee's Organizing Committee held a conference to review the Party building work in 2018 and deploy tasks for 2019. Comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation attended and delivered a speech at the conference. Also attending was Comrade Vu Hong Khanh - Acting Director of Local Department I, Central Organizing Committee. Photo: Thanh Duy.

Reduce 9 career units

In 2018, closely following the Party's policies and resolutions, with the attention and guidance of the Central Organizing Committee; the direct and regular guidance of the Standing Committee, the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee and Party committees at all levels, the Organization sector advised on the implementation and completion of a large volume of key tasks and regular tasks according to the set program. Accordingly, the sector continued to advise on the implementation of the Central Resolution 4 (term XI, XII) on Party building and rectification in conjunction with Directive No. 05 - CT/TW of the Politburo (term XII) achieving many results, creating good public opinion among cadres, party members and people.

The organization sector has advised Party committees at all levels to deploy and direct many important contents in implementing the organization of the apparatus, streamlining the payroll and restructuring the team of cadres, civil servants and public employees.

The comrades chairing the Conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

Specifically, 21/21 district, city and town Party Committees have implemented the policy of the Head of the Propaganda Department concurrently being the Director of the Political Training Center; 4/21 units have piloted the Head of the Mass Mobilization Department concurrently being the Chairman of the Fatherland Front Committee at the district level; 430/480 commune-level units have implemented the model of a communal shared office; and 9 public service units have been reduced.

Regarding staff streamlining, from 2015 to present, Nghe An has reduced 6,643 positions, reaching 8.09%, of which civil servants reduced by 184 compared to 3,799 assigned in 2015, reaching 4.84%; public employees reduced by 6,459 compared to 62,253 assigned in 2015, reaching 10.37% (with 2,115 positions reduced according to Resolution 39 and 4,344 transferred to self-insurance of regular expenditure).

The work of building and consolidating grassroots party organizations and party members continues to receive attention. By the end of 2018, the province had 1,565 grassroots party organizations, including 818 grassroots party committees and 747 grassroots party cells; 5,244 party members were admitted, bringing the total number of party members in the province to 190,579;...

Be careful and consider carefully the options in merging administrative units.

Speaking at the conference, regarding the implementation of the Central Resolution 4 (term XI, XII) on Party building and rectification in conjunction with Directive No. 05-CT/TW of the Politburo (term XII), Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh assessed that this is an annual task and has made progress, first of all the responsibility of cadres at all levels and leaders.

Referring to the Resolution of the 6th Central Committee (12th tenure) on continuing to innovate and reorganize the political system, streamline and operate effectively and efficiently, Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh praised the Provincial Party Committee's Organizing Committee and localities for their methodical and serious implementation, with high will to attack, and the implementation so far has basically met the schedule.

Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh speaks at the conference. Photo: Thanh Duy

Regarding the implementation, the head of the Provincial Party Committee emphasized the Central Committee's viewpoint that the tasks that are under the authority of each level should be performed by that level. For tasks that are not under the authority, a project or proposal should be made, and the higher level is responsible for reviewing, responding, and guiding the implementation.

Specifically, the province has established 3 councils to appraise the projects and after being appraised by the councils, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee recently listened and had specific policies and viewpoints.

The Provincial Party Secretary pointed out: Any projects that have met all the conditions, that is, the Provincial Party Standing Committee has approved the policy and the professional councils have assessed that they meet the requirements, should be implemented with the spirit of doing it immediately while ensuring both certainty and quality.

"The final product, the new organization, the new apparatus after the reorganization will operate better, more effectively and must ensure the goal of streamlining the payroll", the Provincial Party Secretary emphasized and suggested that the implementation process must be associated with training, fostering, and testing of existing staff and if recruiting, must recruit quality staff.

Comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh presented the Prime Minister's Certificate of Merit to the Party Organization Department, Nghe An Provincial Party Committee's Organization Board and Comrade Le Thanh Chuong - Deputy Head of the Party Organization Department, Nghe An Provincial Party Committee's Organization Board. Photo: Thanh Duy

Referring to the content that is of great concern to localities, which is the merger of administrative units. Specifically, regarding the policy of merging hamlets, the Provincial Party Secretary suggested that it should be implemented immediately and move towards attaching a mechanism of allowance allocation.

For commune mergers, the assessment is more complicated, it needs to be carried out according to regulations, but must be very careful, carefully considering traditional cultural and historical factors.

In the immediate future, according to Resolution No. 37-NQ/TW of the Politburo on the arrangement of district and commune-level administrative units, from now until 2021, it is expected that the whole province will have 22 commune-level units that will be merged because they have not met 50% of the prescribed standards on natural area and population size. Regarding these units, the Provincial Party Secretary emphasized that each case will be considered, studied, and calculated specifically for each option.

Spending a lot of time analyzing and clarifying the requirements for personnel work, the Provincial Party Secretary emphasized the view that this work must be both strategic and comprehensive, and have a very dialectical view.

Awarding Certificates of Merit from the Provincial Party Committee's Organizing Committee to units. Photo: Thanh Duy

In particular, the Provincial Party Secretary emphasized that Party committees at all levels must properly implement Regulation 105-QD/TW of the Politburo on decentralization of cadre management and appointment and introduction of candidates.

In particular, to effectively implement this Regulation, the role of the Party Organization and Building sector is to prepare carefully and impartially to help the Executive Committee and the Standing Committee of the Party Committee correctly evaluate cadres in terms of capacity, quality, and prestige.

“The right choice creates consensus within the organization and within the community, thereby creating mutual support within the organization and among the masses with the appointed leaders,” said the Provincial Party Secretary.

In addition, the Provincial Party Secretary also requested to perform well the work of rotating and mobilizing cadres to both train and educate cadres and help the grassroots improve the quality of the political system.

Emphasizing that 2019 is the fourth year of implementing the Resolution of the Party Congresses at all levels, Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh requested to review and evaluate the resolutions and policies of higher levels and district levels. The Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee will prioritize the inspection of the implementation of the programs and projects of the congresses of localities and units; at the same time, there will be a directive from the Central Committee on the Party Congresses at all levels in the near future, and the subordinate Party Committees need to study it carefully for implementation.

Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Committee Ho Phuc Hop deployed a number of key contents in the Party building and organization work in 2019. Photo: Thanh Duy

At the conference, on behalf of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, Nguyen Dac Vinh, presented the Prime Minister's Certificate of Merit to the Party Organization Department, Nghe An Provincial Party Committee's Organization Board and to Mr. Le Thanh Chuong, Deputy Head of the Party Organization Department, Nghe An Provincial Party Committee's Organization Board. The Departments and Organization Boards of 6 subordinate Party Committees including Nam Dan, Con Cuong, Tan Ky, Cua Lo and the Provincial Agencies and Provincial Police received Certificates of Merit from the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Board for their outstanding achievements in 2018.