'Party member management still has problems!'

In preparation for the 13th Congress of the Party Committee of the Central Agencies, term 2020-2025 (taking place from October 27 to October 29), VOV reporter interviewed Central Party Committee member, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Central Agencies Son Minh Thang about the outstanding results in Party building work in the term 2015-2020 as well as the key tasks in the coming term of the Party Committee of the Central Agencies.

Secretary of the Party Committee of the Central Agencies Bloc - Son Minh Thang. Photo: Trong Phu

PV: Could you please introduce a few features of the Party Committee of the Central Agencies?

Mr. Son Minh Thang:In the history of the Party Committees directly under the Central Committee, under the leadership of the Central Executive Committee, directly and regularly led by the Politburo and the Secretariat, the Party Committee of the Central Agencies Bloc holds a special position.

The predecessor is the Central Party Cell, founded, led, educated and trained by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President Ho Chi Minh, from 6 Party cells with a few dozen Party members in the beginning, to date it has grown and become a Party Committee directly under the Party Central Committee, including 61 affiliated Party Committees with nearly 6,000 Party cells and more than 82,000 Party members.

First of all, the Party organizations of the Party Bloc are located in the strategic advisory and macro-level management agencies of the Party, the State, the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations, the country's basic scientific research institutes, press and publishing agencies, and key personnel training facilities.

The most important thing that makes the Party Committee of the Central Agencies Bloc unique is that a large number of Party members of the Party Committee of the Bloc hold positions that directly affect the country's livelihood.

According to President Ho Chi Minh's revolutionary views, regarding the Central agencies: "The thoughts and actions of each comrade are very relevant to the whole country. If one person is negligent, one negligent act can ruin a big thing, one mistake can lead to a huge mistake."

PV: What are the outstanding results of the 2015-2020 term of the Party Committee of the Central Agencies Bloc, sir?

Mr. Son Minh Thang:In recent years, especially in the 2015-2020 term, the outstanding success in implementing the leadership function of the Party Committee of the Bloc's affiliated Party organizations has been one of the important conditions determining the quality and effectiveness of strengthening the building of a clean and strong Party; promoting the strength of the entire nation and socialist democracy; comprehensively and synchronously promoting the innovation process; firmly defending the Fatherland, striving to soon turn our country into a basically modern industrialized country, in the spirit of the 12th National Party Congress.

The first highlight is that the implementation of Resolution XII of the Party Committee of the Central Agencies Bloc in favorable conditions is fundamental. At the same time, new difficulties and challenges have appeared, but up to now, the Party Committee of the Bloc has achieved 5/6 of the set targets.

Second, the leadership method has been innovated in depth. Third, the Party Committee of the Central Agencies has strengthened the Party building work, determined the focus and key points to be ideological work, the issue of improving the quality of Party cells. Since then, many Party organizations and Party members have appeared with outstanding achievements in work, many good models, and effective ways of performing tasks.

Fourthly, the Party Committee has strengthened and continuously innovated inspection work with the motto of broad supervision and focused inspection, along with the decisive resolution of existing problems and difficulties. Fifthly, the Party Committee has done a good job of mass mobilization work, considering this a core issue to improve public ethics and enhance the responsibility and diligence of cadres and civil servants.

Sixth, we have focused on implementing the Central Resolution 4 (term XI, XII) on strengthening Party building and rectification, identifying this as a continuous task, associated with the implementation of Directive No. 05-CT/TW of the Politburo on promoting studying and following the example, ideology and morality of Ho Chi Minh.

PV: Besides the achieved results, what limitations does the Party Committee of the Bloc still have that need to be overcome in the coming time?

Mr. Son Minh Thang:The Party Committee of the Bloc found that the implementation of the Central Resolution 4 (term XI, XII) and Directive No. 05-CT/TW of the Politburo, in conjunction with regulations on exemplary responsibility, had achieved initial results, but there was still a number of cadres and party members who had degraded in ideology, politics, ethics, lifestyle, "self-evolution", "self-transformation", and some cadres had violated to the extent that they had to be subject to Party disciplinary action and criminal prosecution, including high-ranking cadres at the Central level.

Recently, some high-ranking officials have committed violations to the extent that they must be criminally prosecuted.

Party member management workThere are also issues that need to be learned from; the quality of life and the quality of party members in this place and that place are still low. There are still policies here and there that are not popular and far from reality.

PV: Could you please tell us what are the key tasks and breakthroughs of the Party Committee of the Bloc in the next term?

Mr. Son Minh Thang:The biggest goal that the Party Committee sets is to strive to build truly clean and strong Party organizations, promoting the spirit of solidarity, democracy, innovation and creativity.

Cadres and Party members must dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility, for the common good; uphold revolutionary ethics, exemplary responsibility, and be determined to build and rectify a clean and strong Party Bloc.

The Party Committee of the Bloc strives to fulfill its political mission as a strategic advisory body. To achieve that common goal, each Party organization strives to achieve the goal that the Party committee and Party organization must be the center of solidarity, the political nucleus and the solid and reliable support of the Party, the State and socio-political organizations. We have determined to focus on 6 key task groups and 3 breakthroughs.

Seriously and effectively implementing this goal is the responsibility of the entire Party Committee, cadres, party members, civil servants... in central agencies, with the core being the grassroots organizations of the Party Committee of the Bloc, contributing significantly to the successful implementation of the cause of promoting innovation, for the goal of "Rich people, strong country, democracy, fairness, civilization".

PV: Yes, thank you.