Learning from Uncle Ho to help prevent ideological and moral degradation

Studying Ho Chi Minh's morality and style to contribute to the fight to prevent and repel ideological, political, moral, and lifestyle degradation, "self-evolution" and "self-transformation".

One year ago, on May 15, 2016, the Politburo issued Directive 05 on promoting the study and following of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle. The important goal of this Directive is to contribute to building a clean and strong Party in terms of politics, ideology, organization and morality, and to building a contingent of cadres, especially strategic-level cadres with sufficient capacity, qualities and equal to the task.

In an interview with VOV reporters after one year of implementing Directive 05 of the Politburo, Mr. Mai Van Ninh, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, said: The main content of the upcoming study session will focus on fighting and repelling the degradation of political ideology, morality, lifestyle, "self-evolution", and "self-transformation" within the Party to contribute to the implementation of Resolution 4 of the 12th Central Committee.

Mr. Mai Van Ninh -Permanent Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department.

PV:After one year of implementing Directive 05 of the Politburo, what results have we achieved in achieving the goal of building a clean and strong Party, and is the implementation of Directive 05 different from the implementation of Directive 03 before, sir?

Mr. Mai Van Ninh: The organization of research to thoroughly grasp Directive 05 and the basic contents of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style in the past year has been innovative, focusing on researching new issues, meeting new requirements. Cadres, party members and people have grasped the basic contents and great values ​​of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style. The form of organizing learning is richer than Directive 03 of the Politburo, that is, in addition to organizing direct learning, many Party organizations, provincial and municipal Party Committees have conducted online learning for cadres, party members and people.

Localities and units not only study Directive 05 separately but also closely combine it with the implementation to promote the political tasks of localities, agencies and units and resolve urgent and prominent issues in the localities. There are urgent and prominent issues that have lasted for many years, but in 2016 and the first months of 2017, many issues have been resolved effectively and have been recognized by the people.

Through practice, many collectives, individuals, Party committees, and exemplary government leaders have emerged who have innovated their working style in the direction of being closer to the people, matching words with actions, and being more practical. There have been initial innovations in rectifying the work of ceremonies, celebrations, meetings, groundbreaking, and construction of projects... in a more economical and effective direction, which has been highly supported by the people in many places.

The inspection and supervision work of the Party committees and organizations at higher levels has been focused on. The Politburo and the Secretariat have organized many inspection and supervision delegations to monitor the implementation of Resolution 4 of the Central Committee in conjunction with the implementation of Directive 05 of the Politburo and the lower-level Party committees and the lower-level Inspection Committees, and have organized many inspections. Through such inspections, the spirit, efforts, and creative ways of working of all levels, sectors, localities, and units have been promptly encouraged, corrected, and somewhat criticized, and difficulties and obstacles in the implementation of Directive 05 have been resolved.

The results achieved are that many Party committees, Party organizations, key leadership groups and heads of government committees, sectors, localities and units have been determined, persistent, closely and specifically, not afraid of difficulties, to come up with plans and resolutely direct the implementation, replicate advanced models, creating more positive changes compared to the implementation of Directive 03.

PV:To avoid formal learning, how has the specialized support unit implementing Directive 05 implemented the learning in order to make it practical and form self-awareness in each cadre, party member and people, sir?

Mr. Mai Van Ninh: Recently, when we went to the grassroots, we saw that an official or a party member had to develop three plans at the same time to organize the implementation of the Resolution of the 12th Party Congress, a plan to implement the Resolution of the 12th Central Committee, Session 4; and a plan to cultivate and train ethics, lifestyle and working style according to the spirit of Directive 05. This is cumbersome, formalistic and thus very difficult to check.

Therefore, we have instructed localities to integrate those three plans into a common plan, which includes content, requirements, specific tasks and specific, feasible solutions, and conditions to ensure implementation. This is less formal than before.

We persistently follow the policy of not studying Directive 05 separately but closely following the Resolution of the 12th Central Committee, especially the issues of identification, the issues of degradation in ideology, morality, lifestyle, "self-evolution", "self-transformation" that the Resolution has pointed out. At the same time, closely following the political task to both focus on building and rectifying a clean and strong Party, and focus on cultivating and training the morality and lifestyle of cadres, party members and the people.

We must promote economic tasks, improve people's lives and only then will people believe in us and cadres and party members will see the effectiveness of studying and following Uncle Ho. Studying and following Uncle Ho must be done voluntarily from the bottom of the heart, with the sincere heart of cadres, party members and people. Therefore, it is necessary to step up propaganda to raise awareness among cadres, party members and people.

Through sociological surveys, people have realized and realized that learning is not only listening to Uncle Ho but also following him and seeing this as a necessary task. However, this task requires perseverance, persistence and high determination, in which the exemplary role of the head of the Party Committee, the head of the government, the Fatherland Front and the organizations is emphasized, then the formality will certainly be reduced and the effectiveness will be increased.

PVSir, in the coming time, what key tasks need to be continued to be implemented to effectively implement Directive 05?

Mr. Mai Van Ninh: This year, the Secretariat has allowed the Central Propaganda Department to develop thematic courses for the entire 2017 term on studying Ho Chi Minh's morality and lifestyle to contribute to the fight to prevent and repel the degradation of ideology, politics, morality, lifestyle, "self-evolution" and "self-transformation" within the Party.

In 2018-2019, the study needs to continue to innovate both in content and form to be closer to each field, each industry, each region, each subject, including cadres and people. In which, the focus is on the young generation, rural youth, workers in industrial zones... these are the subjects where the study of the basic contents of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style is still limited. Therefore, next year, this content will continue to be implemented.

We also need to continue to foster and enhance the sense of responsibility and pioneering spirit of cadres, party members, and leaders to voluntarily study. The role of leaders is very important in studying and following Uncle Ho.

We need to strengthen inspection and supervision to promptly encourage good factors, but at the same time correct and remove difficulties and obstacles in the implementation process; Promote anti-corruption, especially urgent cases that the public is concerned about. From there, create trust for cadres, party members, and people, and this must be done at all levels. Superiors must set an example first to create excitement and strong belief, thereby creating great motivation for studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality, and style.

PV: Thank you sir./.

According to VOV