Proposing breakthrough solutions in personnel work

Implementing the full-term working program, on March 3, in Hanoi, the Central Theoretical Council for the 2016-2021 term held its 5th session.

Comrades Pham Minh Chinh, Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Organization Commission; Nguyen Xuan Thang, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Director of the Ho Chi Minh National Academy of Politics, in charge of the Central Theoretical Council; Phung Huu Phu, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Central Theoretical Council chaired the meeting.

According to Xaydungdang.vn, the 5th Session of the Council focused on discussing the draft Advisory Report on building a team of cadres, especially a strategic-level team with sufficient qualities, capacity and prestige, equal to the task, contributing to the preparation of the Project to be submitted to the 7th Central Conference.

The entire program of the 12th Central Executive Committee determined: "Focusing on building a team of cadres, especially strategic-level cadres, with sufficient qualities, capacity and prestige, equal to the task" is the core content of one of the six key tasks.

Along with strengthening Party building and rectification and building a streamlined, effective and efficient organizational apparatus for the entire political system, innovation in this content will be the next step to achieve synchronization and completeness in Party building and the political system in the new situation.

During the meeting, the Council focused on discussing a number of key issues. Delegates said that, based on the summary of the implementation of Resolution 3 of the 8th Central Committee, with the achieved results, the remaining shortcomings, the "barriers", "bottlenecks", "knots" in the theoretical work on cadres and cadre building; from summarizing practices, analyzing theories to form a new, breakthrough thinking and theoretical system on cadre work in the new situation.

From the country's development practice, the importance and decisive significance of personnel work, it is necessary to correctly determine the scope of personnel work and build a team in the spirit of innovation; it is proposed that in addition to issuing a Resolution of the 7th Central Conference, it is necessary to build a Personnel Strategy in the new situation.

Council members also discussed and gave comments on key proposals and breakthroughs in the Project submitted to the 7th Central Conference; linking this content with Central Resolutions 4 and 6 (term XII) because innovation, reorganization of the apparatus, and institutional reform always go hand in hand with the arrangement and assignment of cadres.

Identifying the focus of this staff building work as strategic-level staff, the Council focused on discussing the concept, content, methods and mechanisms for building strategic-level staff; identifying the qualities and attributes required of this team, as well as recognizing and evaluating strategic-level staff.

Many delegates proposed breakthrough solutions to build a contingent of cadres, especially strategic-level cadres, with sufficient qualities, capacity, and prestige to match the tasks. In particular, focusing on solutions to improve the work of evaluating cadres, especially determining quantitative criteria to evaluate cadres, controlling power, motivating cadres, attracting talents; strengthening discipline, building public ethics and mechanisms for people to contribute to Party building and cadre work.

Concluding the meeting, comrade Nguyen Xuan Thang requested the Standing Committee of the Steering Council to seriously absorb the opinions of the delegates to complete and improve the quality of the advisory report, promptly submit it to the Politburo and the Secretariat, contributing effectively and promptly to the construction of the Project to be submitted to the upcoming 7th Central Conference./.