Taking care of ideological education, building a youth force that is both "red and professional"

On the afternoon of July 18, the Provincial Youth Union Standing Committee held a conference to review the work of the Youth Union - Association and the youth movement in 2019. Attending the conference were comrade Hoang Dinh Tuan - Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Commission. Comrades Nguyen Thi Thom - Acting Secretary of the Provincial Youth Union and Chu Duc Thai - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Youth Union, Chairman of the Provincial Youth Union co-chaired the conference. Photo: Phuong Thuy

Many meaningful projects and works

In the first 6 months of 2019, the Youth Union and Youth Movement of Nghe An province achieved high and outstanding results, contributing to the successful completion of key targets of 2019.

Sticking to the theme of “Year of Youth Volunteers”, Youth Union chapters at all levels in the province have promoted the spirit of creativity among young people, implemented many good models and methods effectively such as: Mural Road; Turning black spots of environmental pollution into useful playgrounds for children and teenagers; Second Journey of Tires; Car wash to raise funds…

In recent times, the activities of the Union have promoted the pioneering and pioneering role of the youth in environmental protection through the implementation of the movements "Nghe An Youth join hands to build new rural areas" associated with "Volunteer Saturday", "Green Sunday" with many practical and effective works and projects.

Sticking to the theme of "Year of Youth Volunteers", all levels of the Youth Union in the province have promoted the spirit of creativity among the youth, many good models and methods have been implemented effectively. Photo: Document

Since the beginning of the year, 2 provincial-level youth projects, 24 district-level youth projects, more than 500 valuable grassroots youth projects and tasks have been implemented; 5 "Green Sunday" campaigns have been launched simultaneously, collecting more than 100 tons of waste, dredging 21 km of canals, cleaning 20 km of beaches, clearing 82 km of rural roads; and planting 126,520 new trees.

Creative youth movements are implemented synchronously and effectively, suitable for young people. The youth movement to protect the Fatherland is implemented in a variety of ways, such as propagating the Law on National Defense and Security through branch meetings.

The work towards the grassroots has been strengthened to promptly grasp the situation, ideological developments and aspirations of union members and youth, and at the same time share difficulties and obstacles from the grassroots to have better ways to help and overcome them. Notably, the program of meeting 480 commune Youth Union Secretaries was organized to contribute to encouraging the Youth Union movement in the whole province...

Improve the quality of activities of the Union and youth movement

At the Conference, delegates discussed the results of the Youth Union and youth movement in the past 6 months; frankly acknowledged the shortcomings and difficulties. In particular, among the targets set at the beginning of the year, the target of mobilizing union members and youths in the province to propose 25,000 ideas and initiatives that can be applied in practice has not been really effective and still has many limitations.

Advisory and coordination work with Party committees, authorities and sectors in some units is still limited, lacking initiative and creativity; Some projects are slow to be issued; some annual work targets have not been completed compared to the set schedule.;Propaganda work, grasping the ideological situation, and orienting public opinion among young people are sometimes not timely...

Delegates discussed existing problems in the work of the Youth Union and the youth movement. Photo: Phuong Thuy

Based on the assessment and analysis to clarify the shortcomings, limitations, difficulties and causes in the work of the Youth Union and the youth movement in the past time, the Provincial Youth Union has proposed 9 key tasks to be implemented in the coming time to effectively carry out the work of the Youth Union and the youth movement, contributing to the socio-economic development of the province.

Speaking at the conference, Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Commission Hoang Dinh Tuan highly appreciated the work of the Youth Union and Youth Movement in the first 6 months of 2019.

Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Commission Hoang Dinh Tuan highly appreciated the results of the Youth Union - Association work and youth movement in the first 6 months of 2019. Photo: Phuong Thuy

At the same time, the Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Commission suggested that in the coming time, all levels of the Youth Union in the province need to review the targets and plans from the beginning of the year to present, in order to proactively and successfully implement the set targets; take care of ideological education, build a youth force that is "both red and professional"; strengthen inspection and supervision work; gather and manage the force of union members and youth in rural areas, enterprises and industrial zones; do a good job of solidarity in the Youth Union at all levels, creating unity to complete assigned tasks...