Assign more specific targets in building cultural life in residential areas

Comrade Le Minh Thong - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee directed the conference; attending were representatives of sectors and members of the Steering Committee.

Members of the Steering Committee of the Movement "All people unite to build a cultural life" and the Provincial Steering Committee for Family Work attended the meeting. Photo: Thanh Nga

The whole province has 662,002 families and 4,025 cultural residential areas.

In 2017, the whole province had 662,002/793,361 families recognized as cultural families, reaching 83.4%, 4,025/5,888 cultural residential areas, reaching 68.3%.

Thanks to the good implementation of the movement "All people unite to build a cultural life", the programs of socio-economic development; hunger eradication and poverty reduction, new rural construction; building the Fund for the Poor; the movement of all people participating in crime prevention and social evils have been actively participated by all people and achieved many remarkable results.

The flower street landscape was built by the Women's Union in the villages and hamlets of Quynh Hau - Quynh Luu commune.

Up to now, the whole province has supported more than 22 billion VND for the Fund for the Poor, reaching 122% of the plan, of which the district-level fund is more than 20 billion VND, and the provincial-level fund is more than 1.9 billion VND.

Besides, the mass sports movement and high-performance sports continued to achieve many results, with 32.7% of people regularly practicing sports, 22.2% of households practicing sports; Nghe An participated in 63 national and international competitions, winning 303 medals of all kinds.

Family work and domestic violence prevention have been added to rural conventions and covenants, associated with promoting and improving the quality of the movement to build cultural families.

The management of festivals, weddings and funerals is carried out in detail and strictly by authorities at all levels; most of them are in accordance with customs and family circumstances.

Should the two steering committees be merged?

The members of the steering committee attending the conference agreed that, in addition to the achieved results, there is still a situation where Party committees, authorities, and Fatherland Front Committees at all levels in some localities still lack specificity and depth in directing the implementation of the movement "All people unite to build a cultural life"; propaganda work is not good, so people's awareness and participation in the movement are still limited...

At the conference, religious members reflected that superstition still appears at festivals. In the photo: The annual Hoang Muoi Temple Festival attracts a large number of visitors from all over the world. Photo courtesy

Maintaining and promoting the recognized title for residential areas has not yet met requirements, many localities violate the criteria for having a third child, environmental sanitation, social evils...

Cultural and sports facilities in some religious areas are still lacking and degraded, affecting the organization of cultural activities in residential areas. Detecting and reporting on domestic violence cases is still difficult because many localities have not really taken action to handle it.

The representative of the Women's Union said: "The report on family work needs to have direction activities and tasks of members; the implementation of tasks in the entire political system. According to the report at the conference, the criteria for family work activities are not clearly stated."

Many opinions said that the limitations in movements to build cultural life and family work have been mentioned many times in meetings but have not been overcome and want members of the steering committee to dissect and analyze the causes.

Regarding this issue, comrade Nguyen Ba Hao - Deputy Director of the Department of Information and Communications expressed his opinion that propaganda work on the media needs to be promoted, especially the replication of good models in the movement to build cultural life, civilized urban areas, new rural areas; the spirit of mutual love; building happy and prosperous families. Therefore, in each meeting, the Steering Committee needs to develop specific goals and criteria for all levels, sectors and localities to deploy to residential areas.

Agreeing with this opinion, many members of the steering committee proposed to strengthen inspection and control of the activities of the district-level steering committee, not to conduct periodic inspections but to conduct surprise inspections... It is necessary to clarify the criteria for building a civilized urban area, from building a cultural life, or a civilized lifestyle, to have specific evaluation criteria.

Many opinions say that building cultural life and family work often go together, so these two committees should be merged to strengthen the force for directing, inspecting and guiding implementation.

Comrade Le Minh Thong gave a speech at the conference. Photo: Thanh Nga

Speaking at the conference, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Minh Thong affirmed: In order to effectively implement the targets mentioned in the report, the two steering committees need to promote propaganda, communication, persuasion, and raise awareness of cadres, party members, and people about the role and importance of the movement of the entire people uniting to build a cultural life associated with building new rural areas and civilized urban areas; and family work.

The Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that the two committees should not be merged, because each committee has its own characteristics. Therefore, in the near future, the Steering Committee for Family Affairs needs to improve inspection and supervision; proactively coordinate with media agencies in promoting family models in the new era; find some typical models to replicate and assign targets to each locality in building cultural life in residential areas.