'Even if it is sensitive and complicated, we must innovate and rearrange the apparatus'

(Baonghean.vn)- Comrade Ho Phuc Hop - Member of the Standing Committee,Head of Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Departmentdiscussed with Nghe An Newspaper some issues of public concern regarding the Resolutions of the 6th Central Conference, term XII.

Pv:The 6th Central Conference (12th tenure) issued resolutions that received much public attention. Could you tell us the position and main content of the 6th Central Resolutions?

Comrade Ho Phuc Hop:The 6th Central Conference (12th tenure) issued 4 resolutions addressing important and sensitive issues that directly impact the lives of the people, the contingent of cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers nationwide, and are of interest to the whole society. These 4 resolutions include:

Resolution No. 18-NQ/TW "Some issues on continuing to innovate and reorganize the apparatus of the political system to be streamlined, effective and efficient", tentatively called Resolution 18. Resolution 18 especially emphasizes the significance and importance of continuing to innovate and reorganize the apparatus of the political system and requires that in the coming time, the entire political system must proactively and actively participate, considering innovation and reorganization of the apparatus of the political system to be streamlined, effective and efficient as a fundamental and urgent task, of primary importance.

The inter-sectoral working group of Nghe An province inspected the implementation of Directive 26CT-TW and Directive 17CT-TU at the People's Committee of Luu Son commune, Do Luong district. Photo: Hoai Thu

Resolution No. 19-NQ/TW onContinue to innovate the organization and management system, improve the quality and efficiency of public service units.. This Resolution emphasizes the necessity and urgency of continuing to innovate the organizational and management system, improving the quality and efficiency of public service units. The State must take care to ensure the provision of basic and essential public service services; improve access to public service services for all classes of people on the basis of increasing investment from the State budget, while strongly mobilizing social resources to serve the people.

Resolution No. 20-NQ/TW on strengthening the work of protecting, caring for and improving people's health in the new situation, the Central Committee believes that it is necessary to focus on prioritizing investment from the budget and have appropriate mechanisms and policies to mobilize and effectively use all social resources to develop healthcare and services related to protecting, caring for and improving people's health.

Resolution No. 21-NQ/TW on population work in the new situation, the Central Committee clearly stated that it is necessary to continue shifting the focus of population policy from family planning to population and development; paying comprehensive attention to all aspects of population size, structure, distribution, especially population quality and placing it in an organic relationship with socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security.

Comrade Ho Phuc Hop - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department spoke about improving the effectiveness of some areas at the meeting of the Provincial Party Committee's Standing Committee. Photo: Document

Pv:All four resolutions mentioned above have received much attention and expectation from cadres and party members, especially Resolution 18. Could you tell us why the Central Committee issued this resolution?

Comrade Ho Phuc Hop:There are many reasons for issuing Resolution 18, of which the following four main reasons stand out:

Firstly, due to the requirements of the new situation and tasks. The cause of economic innovation has gone into depth, so it is inevitable to innovate politically, creating synchronization between economic innovation and political innovation. Along with that, the world situation is changing rapidly and complicatedly, the impact of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 is posing the requirement for the apparatus to be streamlined and effective.

Second, the Resolution of the 12th Party Congress outlined 6 key tasks for the 2015-2020 term, including the task of "Building a streamlined, effective and efficient organizational structure for the entire political system". The entire term's agenda devoted the 6th Central Conference to discussing and issuing a resolution to implement this key task.

Third, it stems from the current situation of the organizational apparatus. After more than 30 years of renovation, in addition to the achievements, the organizational apparatus of the political system still has many limitations, inadequacies, is very cumbersome, and has many ineffective intermediate levels. To overcome this situation, this time the 6th Central Conference demonstrated high political determination with Resolution 18.

Fourth, due to the requirement to balance the budget, including the requirement to reduce regular expenditures, because regular expenditures are currently mainly spent on the organization of the apparatus, such as in 2016, 65% of the budget was spent on the apparatus. In 2016, budget revenue was estimated at 1,039 trillion VND, equal to 102.4% of the estimate, and budget expenditures were up to 1,293 trillion VND, equivalent to 106.3% of the estimate. Meanwhile, regular expenditures have maintained over 70% of the state budget expenditures since 2011. This is a limitation of the Vietnamese economy.

At the 4th Session of the 14th National Assembly, there were delegates who expressed concern that “with a cumbersome organizational structure, even if the budget is as big as Thach Sanh’s rice pot, it will not be enough”. Former General Secretary Le Kha Phieu, when answering the press, also said that the apparatus must be innovated and rearranged, “there is no way back”.

Panorama of the 6th Central Conference (12th tenure). Photo VOV.VN

Pv:Can you clarify the general goal of continuing to innovate and reorganize the political system?

Comrade Ho Phuc Hop:The Party Central Committee clearly identified the common goal of innovation and reorganization of the political system apparatus as making the political system suitable and operating effectively with the socialist-oriented market economic institution, on that basis, strengthening the leadership role of the Party, the management capacity of the State, promoting the people's mastery, streamlining the payroll, and improving the service quality of the contingent of cadres, civil servants, and public employees.

Resolution 18 determines that the implementation roadmap will be carried out in two phases, from now until 2021, mainly focusing on solving internal problems of each agency, unit, and locality; reducing unreasonable focal points, reducing the number of deputy and intermediate levels; overcoming overlap in functions; piloting a number of organizational models.

A mandatory task is to reduce the number of staff by 10% compared to 2015. The second phase from 2021 to 2030 is to perfect the overall model of the political system with a clear, scientific, and reasonable division of functions and tasks at each level, each organization, and department, taking into account specific factors of the region and locality; reduce administrative units at the district, commune, village, and residential group levels according to standards.

PV:Could you tell us about the plan to study and implement Resolution 6 of the Central Committee (term XII) in Nghe An?

Comrade Ho Phuc Hop:To implement the study and dissemination of the resolutions of the 6th Central Conference (term XII), the Provincial Party Standing Committee issued Plan No. 105/KHTU dated November 30, 2017 on studying, disseminating and implementing the resolutions of the 6th Central Conference (term XII) of the Party. Currently, the entire Party Committee is implementing the study and dissemination plan to create unity within the Party and consensus among the people to implement the resolutions.

Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh quickly informed reporters of the results of the 6th Central Conference (term XII). Photo: Archive.

In the near future, the Provincial Party Committee will issue an Action Program to implement the 6th Central Resolutions, especially for Resolution No. 18, the Politburo issued Plan No. 07, dated November 27, 2017, on implementing the 6th Central Conference Resolution.

On that basis, Nghe An Provincial Party Committee has drafted the Provincial Party Committee's implementation plan, which is currently seeking opinions from relevant levels and sectors for promulgation. There are projects, each of which will clearly stipulate the content, solutions, roadmap, and steps assigned to the presiding and coordinating agencies for the period from now to 2021 and to 2030 at the provincial, district, and grassroots levels.

The implementation of the contents of Resolution 6 of the Central Committee takes time, but I believe it will bring about positive results and changes.

Pv:Thanks comrade!

Perform:Ngo Kien