Ideological work creates consensus for the common development of Nghe An

No one is left out

Dien Cat Commune (Dien Chau) is a locality with two key projects, including the North-South Expressway passing through and upgrading, upgrading and expanding National Highway 7A, with hundreds of households affected by land and housing; in particular, there are two burial cemeteries that need to be relocated.

On the basis of proactively grasping the thoughts and public opinions of the people about the inadequacies of the regime, policies, support for site clearance and psychological obstacles when there are some graves that have not yet finished the "mourning" period, people do not want to move; Dien Cat Commune Party Committee established 2 working groups, headed by the Commune Party Committee Secretary and Deputy Party Committee Secretary, Chairman of the Commune People's Committee; cadres of the Fatherland Front and organizations, unions, commune civil servants, hamlet cadres as members to directly go to each household to propagate, explain and persuade.

In addition to the North-South Expressway Project that has been completed and put into use; up to this point, the National Highway 7A Upgrade and Expansion Project has completed the relocation of 21 graves and 88/108 households affected by residential land and housing have agreed on a plan for land recovery, compensation and site clearance, the remaining 20 households are continuing to be propagandized and mobilized.

Identifying the work of grasping and orienting public opinion as an important content and method to create unity and high consensus within the Party and the whole society, promoting the completion of local political tasks; in recent times, Dien Chau District Party Committee has systematically directed this work. The district has included the content of synthesizing public opinion and the people's situation in the meetings of the Standing Committee, Executive Committee and meetings of the Party Committee, district and grassroots authorities.

Comrade Chu Hong Phi - Head of the Propaganda Department of Dien Chau District Party Committee, said: Attaching the responsibility of grasping and synthesizing public opinion to the responsibility of advising on timely and correct solutions to issues of public concern and urgent issues arising among the people of each organization, locality and unit, in order to serve the general leadership of the district.

In particular, mobilizing the strength of the entire political system and the prestige of leaders at all levels, "leaders" in all areas of social life, and influential people in the social network community to propagate, fight, and refute wrong and hostile viewpoints, bad and toxic information on cyberspace to orient and create common consensus in awareness and ideology among cadres, party members, and people on issues of public opinion.

In Thai Hoa town, the Standing Committee of the Town Party Committee has issued a plan to implement Project No. 02 of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee; assigning the responsibility of the heads of Party committees and authorities in the work of grasping and orienting public opinion at each level, agency and unit; at the same time, selecting and assigning qualified and skilled cadres and civil servants to grasp and orient public opinion and participate in the team of social opinion collaborators at all levels, maintaining the reporting regime of the social opinion situation every Thursday from the team of social opinion collaborators.

The method of capturing, processing information and orienting public opinion, according to comrade Tran Khanh Son - Standing Deputy Secretary of Thai Hoa City Party Committee, is gradually being innovated, closely following the reality of social life, focusing on the grassroots, targeting each specific subject associated with events and political tasks of each locality and unit... Paying attention to direct dialogue with each group of subjects, thereby promptly providing complete and accurate information as well as proposing solutions for Party committees and authorities to make correct decisions to effectively resolve issues reflected by the people, contributing to strengthening people's trust in the leadership of the Party and the management and operation of authorities at all levels.

As a district with more than 94% of the population being ethnic minorities, Ky Son district focuses on grasping and orienting public opinion among ethnic minorities. Comrade Lu Quang Hung - Head of the Propaganda Department of Ky Son District Party Committee said: Being a border area, the terrain is complex and the people's awareness level is limited and uneven among regions and ethnic groups; this requires the Party committees and authorities from the district to the grassroots level to pay attention to grasping the people and the situation to lead and direct in a timely manner in implementing local political tasks, at the same time, limit and repel illegal proselytizing, early marriage, incestuous marriage, backward customs and practices...; promptly orient and refute fake news, distorted information, and false information of hostile forces.

To grasp and orient public opinion in a timely manner, the Ky Son District Party Committee promotes the role of village elders, village chiefs, clan leaders, and prestigious people among ethnic minorities; through a team of social opinion collaborators who are cadres, civil servants, and party members in the political system from the district to the grassroots level; through coordination with the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations to grasp the thoughts and public opinions of union members and association members. In addition to the system of traditional "henchmen"; with the characteristics of a large area and complex terrain, all levels in Ky Son district focus on directing the creation of public zalo and facebook pages and closed groups of organizations and individuals to promptly grasp and provide orientation information and official information more quickly, promptly, and effectively, with no one left out of this work.

Promote the initiative of all levels and sectors

Grasping and orienting public opinion is an important content in the Party's ideological work. The 13th National Party Congress determined: "Focus on grasping and orienting public opinion, ensuring ideological unity within the Party and high consensus in society".

As a large area with many difficult and complicated factors, Nghe An is in the acceleration stage for development; therefore, the Provincial Party Committee pays great attention to ideological work, grasping and orienting public opinion closely associated with the tasks of socio-economic development, national defense - security, and foreign affairs. The Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee issued Project No. 02, dated August 2, 2021 on improving the quality of grasping and orienting public opinion in the province, period 2021 - 2025.

After nearly 3 years of implementing Project No. 02, according to comrade Tran Quoc Khanh - Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department: The work of grasping and orienting public opinion across the province has many innovations in content and diverse forms of grasping, conveying and orienting information. All levels, sectors, the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations have closely followed the reality of social life, promptly reflected on urgent and prominent issues that have arisen to propose, reflect and advise the Party Committee and the government to resolve; considering this a regular task at each level, each sector, agency and unit in the political system.

Accordingly, many "hot" and sensitive issues, many pressing and prominent incidents in society have been grasped, public opinion has been oriented and handled promptly. Thanks to the quality and effectiveness of grasping and orienting public opinion, the province has basically stabilized in terms of security, politics, order and social safety, creating an environment for socio-economic development.

Besides, the work of grasping and orienting public opinion is currently posing difficulties and challenges, requiring all levels and organizations in the political system to continue to consider innovation to meet practical requirements.

According to Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department Tran Quoc Khanh: The current difficulty is the "pollution" of information on social networks that is "fast, abundant, noisy, mixed with real and fake". That affects the thinking and psychology of cadres, party members, and people. Meanwhile, to have official information and orient public opinion requires time to evaluate, leading to a lot of information about social opinion that is not oriented in a timely manner.

On the other hand, it must be frankly admitted that the staff in charge of public opinion work at all levels have not been trained in sociology, which more or less affects their capacity and working methods, lacks initiative, sensitivity in grasping information, and is sometimes passive, and forecasting is sometimes not timely. These are issues that need to be further studied to overcome and promote the initiative of all levels and sectors with the viewpoint that the level closest to the incident or problem that arises should proactively handle it or advise and propose to the competent authority to handle it promptly.