Comrade Ho Phuc Hop: Continue to be proactive and creative in advising on Party building and organization work.

PV:Dear comrade! In recent times, the Nghe An Party Organization and Construction Department has actively advised on the implementation of a large amount of work. Could you please tell us about some outstanding results?

Comrade Ho Phuc Hop:The field of Party building and organization since the beginning of the term has been set by our Party with many requirements and key tasks, aiming to build and rectify a clean and strong Party. Therefore, with the role of an advisory and assisting agency in this field, the Nghe An Party Building and Organization sector has been proactive, innovative and creative in advising, organizing and completing many important tasks.

Comrade Ho Phuc Hop and the provincial delegation inspected human resource training in Yen Thanh district. Photo: Mai Hoa

Notably, the sector has focused on advising on the arrangement of the apparatus and streamlining of staff in the spirit of Resolution 6 of the Central Committee (12th term). This is a content with a large amount of work, related to organization and people, so the Organization sector has proactively advised on many tasks and solutions both in the short and long term, with a specific roadmap in the spirit of not being perfectionist, not being hasty, being cautious, but being decisive, doing things with certainty and the results achieved after 2 years are quite positive.

The whole province has reduced 3 branches and 33 offices and departments under provincial-level departments, branches and sectors and district-level authorities; reduced 74 public service units; 23 public service units have switched to autonomous mechanisms, and the State has not allocated budget for 4,432 positions.

100% of district, city and town Party Committees have implemented the policy of the Head of the Propaganda Department being the Director of the Political Training Center; 8/21 district-level units have piloted the Head of the Mass Mobilization Department being the Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee. Regarding the payroll, the whole province has reduced 264 civil servant payrolls and 2,293 public employee payrolls.

Handing over the decision to assign the Head of the Propaganda Department to also be the Director of the Political Training Center in Con Cuong district. Photo: TG

The sector also proactively advised Party committees and authorities at all levels to seriously implement Resolution No. 37-NQ/TW of the Politburo and resolutions of the National Assembly and the Government on the arrangement of administrative units at district and commune levels and blocks, hamlets, villages and hamlets. Up to this point, Nghe An has completed the procedures and the Provincial People's Council has voted to pass the Resolution on the arrangement of administrative units at commune, block, hamlet, village and hamlet levels. Accordingly, after the arrangement, the whole province will reduce 20 administrative units at commune level and reduce 1,991 blocks, hamlets, villages and hamlets.

Regarding Party building work, in addition to continuing to advise on the effective implementation of Resolution 4 of the Central Committee (term XI, XII), Directive No. 05-CT/TW of the Politburo and regulations on exemplary responsibility of cadres and party members; the entire sector continues to take good care of the work of building and consolidating strong grassroots party organizations, focusing on developing party organizations and party members in special areas, in private enterprises and foreign-invested enterprises.

A new feature recently is the serious implementation of the assignment of secretaries, deputy secretaries, members of the Standing Committee and Party Committee members at all levels to participate in Party cell activities in residential areas; at the same time, the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee has established 5 groups to conduct in-depth research on types of Party cells in the province, on that basis to advise the Party Committee to issue a specialized resolution on continuing to improve the quality of Party cell activities in the coming time.

The assignment of the Secretaries, Deputy Secretaries, members of the Standing Committee and Party Committee members at all levels to participate has improved the quality of Party cell activities in residential areas. In the photo: Party cell activities in block 15, Ha Huy Tap ward, Vinh city. Illustration photo: Thanh Le

In parallel with the above-mentioned key tasks, the whole industry continues to advise on the implementation of all stages of personnel work to ensure compliance with procedures, regulations, democracy and objectivity. In particular, along with continuing to advise on the arrangement, transfer and rotation of young and promising officials to localities and bases for training and fostering long-term successor officials. In 2019 and recent years, the industry has proactively advised on the implementation of the work of reviewing and supplementing the planning of leaders and managers at all levels, in conjunction with opening training and fostering classes for officials according to title and job position standards; continuing to advise on the effective implementation of the arrangement of Party secretaries and a number of other positions that are not local people in accordance with the direction of the Central Government.

The rate of arrangement of Party secretaries and some other positions that are not local people in Nghe An province.

PV:According to you, what are the difficulties, obstacles and limitations in the current Party building and organization work?

Comrade Ho Phuc Hop:The work of Party organization and building is a difficult and complicated task, because it involves organizations and people; especially when we are focusing on reorganizing the apparatus and streamlining the payroll, which has affected the thoughts, feelings, work, and income of the cadres and non-professional workers in the communes and hamlets. Therefore, the arrangement of redundant cadres after the reorganization, combined with the solution of satisfactory policies for those who quit their jobs, is a problem that the Party Organization and Building sector continues to worry about in order to advise the Party Committee and the government to resolve promptly.

On the other hand, although in the past time, we have implemented many solutions to improve the leadership capacity and fighting strength of the Party organization; however, the reality is still raising concerns and limitations, requiring the continued implementation of both short-term and long-term solutions. The quality of Party cell activities in general has not met the requirements, and is still formal; some Party committees have not seriously and regularly assigned Party committee members and Standing Committee members to participate in Party cell activities in residential areas according to regulations.

Leaders of the Thanh Chuong District Party Committee's Organizing Committee work with the grassroots on reviewing and screening party members. Photo: Mai Hoa

The quality and quantity of party membership admissions in some localities are still low, and it is forecasted that it will be difficult to meet the 2019 target. Up to now, the whole province has only admitted 3,114 party members, reaching 54.6% of the plan of 5,600 - 5,800 party members/year. Party membership management in some places is not strict, especially the management of party members working far away and the transfer of party activities for retired cadres and civil servants to the locality.

The work of evaluating cadres has long been considered a weak link, so in addition to continuing to advise on innovation in methods of evaluating and classifying party organizations and cadres and party members, in the coming time, the Party Organization and Building sector will continue to strengthen the work of inspecting and supervising cadres through assigning cadres and experts of the Organization Department to monitor the sector and grassroots.

PV:Could you share what are the requirements and key tasks of the Party building organization sector in Nghe An in the coming time?

Comrade Ho Phuc Hop:First of all, focus on advising, directing and guiding party congresses at all levels, towards the 13th National Party Congress; focus on advising on evaluating cadres by term; review and supplement planning associated with training and rotation of cadres to prepare a step in terms of personnel with sufficient qualities, prestige and capacity for party congresses at all levels for the 2020-2025 term. Along with that, guide party committees at all levels to organize party congresses in the spirit of Directive 35-CT/TW, dated May 30, 2019 of the Politburo and the Notice of the Provincial Party Standing Committee; focusing on advising on the strict implementation of Conclusion No. 55-KL/TW, dated August 15, 2019 of the Secretariat on continuing to rectify personnel work to well prepare personnel for party congresses at all levels and the 13th National Party Congress and Regulation No. 205-QD/TW, dated September 23, 2019 of the Politburo on controlling power in personnel work and combating the abuse of power and positions.

Tan Ky district officials return to the base in Tan An commune. Photo: Mai Hoa

The Party Organization and Building Sector will also continue to advise on the implementation of Resolution 4 of the Central Committee (term XI, XII), Directive No. 05-CT/TW of the Politburo; associated with the implementation of regulations on the exemplary responsibility of cadres and party members, first of all the exemplary responsibility of leaders and key leaders at all levels; considering this a regular task in the work of Party building and rectification.

Another key content of the sector is to focus on advising on building and consolidating a strong political system; implementing quality assessment and classification work for party organizations and party members. Continuing to advise on the timely and effective implementation of the goals and targets of Project No. 09-DA/TU, dated April 18, 2018 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee on reorganizing the apparatus, streamlining the payroll and restructuring the team of cadres, civil servants and public employees to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the political system in the spirit of the Resolutions of the 6th Central Conference (12th term).

To ensure the completion of the assigned workload, the Party Organization and Building sector is determined to continue to innovate working style and manner; promote administrative reform, apply information technology; improve the quality of the staff doing Party organization and building work, to meet increasingly high task requirements.

PV:Thank you very much, comrade!