Bringing the Resolution of the 20th Provincial Party Congress into life:Focus on building a "lean, compact, strong" team of cadres

Breakthrough from the staff level

In the 2025 - 2030 term, the country will enter a new development phase with many intertwined opportunities and challenges. Industrialization and modernization are being promoted, associated with digital transformation, knowledge-based economic development and increasingly deep international integration. In particular, the arrangement of administrative units and the implementation of the 2-level local government model are posing very new and comprehensive requirements for personnel work.

In that context, the cadre team is the decisive factor for the victory of the revolutionary cause. Building a cadre team at all levels with qualities, capacity, prestige, and equal to the task is an urgent and long-term strategic orientation for the development of Nghe An.

In recent years, thoroughly grasping the Central Committee's viewpoints, especially Resolution No. 26-NQ/TW of the 12th Central Committee on building cadres at all levels (especially at the strategic level), Nghe An Provincial Party Committee has issued many resolutions, projects and regulations to concretize and synchronously implement cadre work. Thanks to that, many aspects of work have had positive changes.

Recruitment work is increasingly carried out strictly, openly, transparently, ensuring fair competition. In the past 5 years, the whole province has recruited 10,280 new civil servants and public employees (including 224 civil servants and 10,056 public employees).

The work of evaluating cadres has been gradually innovated in a scientific and objective direction, linked to the results of performing tasks, taking work efficiency and collective trust as the measure. The rate of cadres completing their tasks well each year reaches over 97%, of which the rate of completing their tasks excellently is guaranteed to be under 20% as prescribed.

The work of planning cadres is increasingly systematic, ensuring a reasonable structure. Training and fostering work is increasingly becoming more substantial. During the last term, 487,121 cadres, civil servants and public employees participated in training courses on political theory, professional expertise, state management and work skills.

The arrangement, transfer, rotation, and appointment of cadres are carried out proactively, with a roadmap, gradually overcoming the closed and local situation. In the period of 2020 - 2025, the whole province mobilized, transferred, arranged, appointed, re-appointed, designated, and approved 306 cadres; introduced 289 candidates; and gave opinions on the appointment, re-appointment, and planning of 261 comrades belonging to central agencies located in the area.

The cadre policy is taken care of regularly, contributing to motivating and encouraging cadres to work with peace of mind and stay with the locality for a long time. Internal political protection work is carried out closely, promptly detecting, examining, verifying and concluding issues related to cadres and party members.

Thanks to that, the cadres of the province are increasingly mature, most of them have strong political will, pure moral qualities, healthy lifestyles, closeness and closeness to the people. The level of political theory, expertise, professionalism, leadership, management and operation capacity has been significantly improved. Currently, 100% of provincial leaders and managers and 98.4% of cadres who are Party Committee members and key cadres at the commune level have university degrees or higher.

Synchronize tasks and solutions

However, besides the achieved results, the province's personnel work still reveals some limitations and inadequacies.

The evaluation of cadres has not really reflected the reality; in some places there is still a state of deference, avoidance, fear of collision, not closely linked to specific products and the trust of the people. The work of cadre planning sometimes does not ensure quality, lacks connectivity; the rate of young cadres, female cadres, and cadres from ethnic minorities appointed to leadership and management positions is still low.

Training and development have not really met the requirements of the new era; rotation and arrangement of young, capable and promising cadres are still slow, there is a lack of boldness in assigning tasks, and there are no conditions for young cadres to gain practical experience. The capacity of the cadre team is uneven, and a part is still limited in strategic thinking, leadership, management and socio-economic management. In particular, there are still cadres who have degraded political ideology, ethics and lifestyle, affecting the prestige of the Party organization and the people's trust.

To put the Resolution of the 20th Provincial Party Congress into practice and successfully deploy the 2-level government model, right from the beginning of the 2025-2030 term, it is necessary for the province to focus on synchronously and effectively implementing the following main tasks and solutions:

Strengthening propaganda and political and ideological education to raise the awareness of cadres and party members about the importance of the cadre team. The focus is on promoting the pioneering and exemplary role of cadres and party members, especially leaders. At the same time, tightening discipline and administrative discipline, combined with effective implementation of the Central Committee's documents on Party building and rectification, resolutely screening and removing unqualified party members from the Party.

Timely review, amend and supplement the system of documents on personnel work to create synchronization, unity, and suitability with the 2-level local government model and the new context. In particular, focus on promoting decentralization, delegation of authority, binding responsibilities and controlling power. It is necessary to more clearly define the standards for job titles and criteria for evaluating cadres in conjunction with completing the job position project. Pay attention to completing the cadre policy system to encourage cadres to be dedicated, wholehearted, and secure in their work, especially cadres at the commune level and in disadvantaged areas.

At the same time, innovate the work of cadres in a synchronous and interconnected direction, focusing on key stages: Conduct assessment and classification of cadres in a specific and scientific way, taking efficiency, work products and people's trust as the main measures. The assessment results must be closely linked to the planning, arrangement and use of cadres, attaching importance to the assessment of ethics, lifestyle and spirit of fighting against negativity.

Develop a long-term, feasible plan for training and developing staff, clarifying the development roadmap and training mechanism. The training plan must help staff quickly adapt to the new model, improve management and operational capacity, and at the same time, closely combine theoretical and practical training, focusing on skills in applying science and technology.

Promote rotation, mobilization, and arrangement of key cadres at the commune level in accordance with the 2-level government model, overcoming the closed and local situation. Pay attention to training and testing cadres through practical experience at the grassroots level, through increasing the number of cadres from provincial departments, branches, and sectors in communes and wards. The rotation process must ensure fairness, transparency, clear criteria, and timely support policies. Strictly implement the policy of arranging Party Committee secretaries who are not local people and heads who do not hold positions for more than 2 consecutive terms.

Strengthen regular and unscheduled inspections and supervision of personnel work; promptly and strictly handle organizations and individuals who violate regulations. Build and effectively operate a national database system on personnel to ensure synchronization, connectivity, and consistency throughout the entire political system.

With high political determination and synchronous solutions, Nghe An believes it will successfully build a "lean, compact, and strong" cadre team, putting the Resolution of the 20th Congress into practice, creating a solid foundation for the province's sustainable development.