Provincial Party Secretary: Building, spreading and consolidating the trust of cadres, party members and people

On the morning of April 23, comrade Nguyen Duc Trung - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee chaired a working session of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee with the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission to listen to and give opinions on the results of implementing tasks in the past time and the direction of key tasks in the coming time.

Attending the meeting were comrades: Vo Thi Minh Sinh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairwoman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation; Pham Trong Hoang - Member of the Standing Committee, Chairman of the Provincial Party Committee's Inspection Committee; leaders of specialized agencies advising and assisting the Provincial Party Committee.

On the side of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department, there was comrade Ngoc Kim Nam - Standing Committee member, Head of the Department; along with Deputy Heads of the Department, and leaders of departments.

Proactive and timely in advising and directing implementation

The Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Committee was merged according to Decision No. 3262-QD/TU, dated February 12, 2025 of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee on merging the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Committee.

Immediately after the merger, the Board's leadership focused on consolidating and perfecting the organization, quickly stabilizing the apparatus, putting it into operation and operating effectively to carry out tasks; promulgating the 2025 work program, the Program of activities of Propaganda and Mass Mobilization...

The Board has performed well in advising on contents serving the leadership and direction of the Executive Committee, the Standing Committee, the Standing Provincial Party Committee and professional tasks in the following areas: Propaganda - Press - Publishing; Political theory, Party history, implementation of Directive 05; Science and education, culture - arts; Mass mobilization of state agencies, ethnic groups and religions; Unions, associations and Offices.

In particular, the Committee advised the Provincial Party Standing Committee to issue propaganda plans and organize the implementation of Resolutions, Conclusions, and Projects of the Central Committee; Propaganda plans for major holidays of the year; and propaganda of contents related to the arrangement of the apparatus, Party congresses at all levels, towards the 14th National Party Congress.

Information and propaganda work on the activities of provincial leaders, political, economic, cultural - social, defense - security, and foreign affairs tasks of the province on newspapers and social networks is timely and quite complete. Advise on the project to merge Nghe An Newspaper and Nghe An Radio - Television Station.

The Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission also advised the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee to organize a conference to disseminate the resolutions and conclusions of the Central Committee and the action programs and plans of the Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee to the grassroots in a timely manner.

The work of protecting the Party's ideological foundation, orienting public opinion, and combating the erroneous views of hostile forces has been advised, directed, and implemented promptly. Measures have been taken to promptly handle and remove false and toxic information, especially those related to personnel work, organizational arrangement, and internal political protection in the province.

Advise the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee to direct and deploy a number of tasks that need to be implemented immediately regarding ethnic and religious affairs in the coming time. Advise on the content of the meeting between the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations at the provincial level, and Party building committees.

At the meeting, leaders of departments under the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department reported and clarified results, difficulties, problems and proposed many contents.

The leaders of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department also proposed contents on timely providing information to the Department to orient public opinion, working headquarters, operating budget; recruiting and arranging staff.
ethnic minorities; ...

Leaders of Party committees and the Provincial Party Committee Office discussed the contents and requested the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department to closely coordinate with the Department of Ethnic Minorities and Religions in consulting and directing work; deploying new models when arranging commune-level administrative units and building a 2-level local government organization model; grasping the practical situation, innovating the document processing process...

Speaking at the meeting, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairwoman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee, Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation Vo Thi Minh Sinh requested the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission to add the task of propaganda work to prepare for the election of deputies to the National Assembly and People's Councils at all levels; and urge propaganda work to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the first General Election to elect the National Assembly of Vietnam.

Comrade Vo Thi Minh Sinh also suggested that the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department have solutions to pay attention to the reporting team; promote propaganda on social networks, especially on Zalo to strengthen public opinion orientation...

Propaganda and mass mobilization must be the core forces in building, spreading and consolidating trust.

Concluding the working session, Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Duc Trung affirmed that propaganda and mass mobilization work plays an important role, "being both the eyes and ears to grasp the situation and ideology, and also the bridge between the Party and the people". Before the merger, the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Committee performed well in advising the Provincial Party Committee to deploy tasks.

After the merger, although the time was very short, the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department initially inherited and promoted the achievements of the two previous departments to systematically and continuously deploy tasks; unite, be proactive, quickly stabilize work to operate smoothly and effectively, without work interruption, without leaving tasks, areas, and fields of work vacant.

Acknowledging and appreciating the results of the Board's activities in the past time, the Provincial Party Secretary emphasized that up to now, it can be affirmed that the merger of the two boards is a correct and appropriate policy of the Party Central Committee, because propaganda and mass mobilization work are more closely linked together.

Sharing the difficulties and obstacles that the Board is facing, Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Duc Trung said that in the general context with many difficulties, rapid, complicated, unpredictable developments, it has a great impact on all areas of the province, including propaganda and mass mobilization work.

Faced with that requirement, propaganda and mass mobilization work must play an important role, being "the eyes and ears that grasp the ideology, the bridge between the Party and the people, creating trust among the people in the Party's leadership".

The strength of the political system stems from the trust of cadres, party members and people. And propaganda and mass mobilization work must be the core force in building, spreading and consolidating trust. From that trust, it contributes to creating consensus, maintaining political stability, and creating conditions for achieving socio-economic development goals.

Emphasizing the tasks of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department, in the coming time, with the important position and role of propaganda and mass mobilization work, Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Duc Trung emphasized 3 general requirements.

Firstly, the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department needs to closely coordinate with specialized advisory agencies of the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations, party organizations, and agencies in the political system to proactively and promptly advise the Provincial Party Committee on handling related issues, in accordance with the new situation and new requirements. The agencies must also support and closely coordinate with the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department.

Second, the Board must enhance combativeness, persuasiveness, and practical effectiveness in each work content.

Third, closely link propaganda and mass mobilization work with the province's key tasks, especially Party building and building a strong political system.

Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Duc Trung also requested the Board to focus on promoting the spirit of solidarity, unity, and upholding principles in implementing work, especially the principle of democratic centralism. In particular, solidarity must be substantive, first of all solidarity within the leadership team, solidarity based on work requirements; democracy, listening, open-mindedness, and acceptance for the common work, for the common good, and for the development of the province.

In addition, the Committee needs to continue to thoroughly and fully grasp the functions, tasks, positions, and special roles of the Party's propaganda and mass mobilization work in the political system in the new context, new situation, new requirements, and new organization. In work, it is necessary to ensure the 5 clear principles: Clearly assign people, clearly assign tasks, clearly assign responsibilities, clearly assign time, and clearly assign results.

Continue to review regulations on functions and tasks, it is necessary to adjust them appropriately, most importantly to promote work efficiency; clearly assign focal points and tasks in the spirit of one task has only one focal point, one focal point does many tasks.

The Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department must constantly innovate in content, leadership methods, methods, and working style to ensure systematic, serious, creative, flexible implementation, suitable to characteristics and situations, meeting the realities and requirements set forth in the new context and situation.

Emphasizing more clearly the tasks of the Board in various fields, Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Duc Trung said that first of all, it is necessary to unify the ideology among the Board's cadres, party members, civil servants, and workers and within the province's propaganda and mass mobilization system.

In the propaganda task, this is a difficult task, to meet the requirements of having a deep and broad understanding of the new policies and guidelines of the Central and the province for implementation; innovating the forms and contents of propaganda to be more diverse, attractive, concise, easy to understand, and effective; paying attention to improving the quantity, quality, and capacity of the team of reporters, lecturers, and experts.

Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Duc Trung also requested the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission to pay attention to promoting the positive aspects and limiting the negative aspects of the press and social networks in the area; increase the application of technology in improving political theory and summarizing the Party's history.

Emphasizing that mass mobilization work is difficult, Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Duc Trung requested the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department to pay more attention to creating high consensus among the people; promoting the role of organizations to strengthen supervision and social criticism; promoting emulation movements associated with social security work; and replicating effective "Skilled Mass Mobilization" models.

At the same time, continue to strengthen the organizational apparatus and improve the quality of the staff doing propaganda and mass mobilization work. First of all, it is necessary to innovate thinking and working methods, meeting increasingly higher work requirements in the spirit of grasping firmly, understanding deeply, proactively and promptly advising the Provincial Party Committee.

The Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department must be a pioneer in implementing innovation, approaching new requirements, using new methods, and digital transformation in implementing tasks to improve work efficiency and enhance the effectiveness of leadership and direction of propaganda and mass mobilization work.

Continue to pay attention to the work of building the Party and mass organizations in the agency, first of all, building the Party organization in the Board, in the propaganda and mass mobilization system to ensure political, ideological and moral strength; build a team of cadres with a firm ideological stance, improve political capacity, improve professional qualifications to meet work requirements in the new situation. Proactively pay attention to motivating the spirit, working conditions, and remuneration for the team of cadres, civil servants, and employees doing propaganda and mass mobilization work.

At the meeting, Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Duc Trung also answered, discussed and assigned tasks to agencies and units in resolving recommendations and proposals of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission regarding office space, funding and staff.