Directing activities to the grassroots, improving the quality of branch activities

(Baonghean) - With the motto of focusing on the grassroots, one of the contents that is focused on and directed for implementation in the 2017 - 2022 term of the Nghe An Provincial Youth Union is that the union's work must focus on the grassroots, taking the grassroots as the center to promote and further improve the quality of activities.

The action theme for the 2017-2022 term is "Building a strong Youth Union; improving the effectiveness of education on revolutionary ideals, ethics, and cultural lifestyle; accompanying young people in studying, establishing themselves, and starting a business; being proactive and creative, contributing to building Nghe An into a socio-economic center of the North Central region".

In the coming term, the Youth Union at all levels will focus on innovating and improving the quality of the Union's propaganda and education work, paying attention to the use of electronic information pages and social networks; actively setting examples of good people and good deeds, replicating advanced models associated with promoting the study and following of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle.

In addition, the youth organizations will continue to orient, grasp public opinion information and raise the revolutionary vigilance of the youth against the plots of enticing, dividing and sabotaging the country by hostile forces. Strengthening the organization of dialogues and forums "Party with Youth - Youth with the Party" contributes to strengthening trust, defining goals and ideals, and adding strength to help young people realize their dreams and ambitions of youth.

Provincial Youth Union Secretary exchanges with youth union members of Dong Van commune (Tan Ky). Photo: Nga Thu

Accordingly, the topics and goals will be specified through many programs and tasks such as: Periodically organizing the commendation of "Advanced Youth following Uncle Ho's teachings", "5 Good Students", "3-Practice Students", "3-Good Students"; "Lighting up the dreams of Vietnamese youth", the "When I am 18" movement... maintaining and expanding effective legal education models such as "Friends helping friends", "Lighting up beliefs", "Youth Festival with traffic culture", "Green Sunday", "Volunteer Saturday", "Earth Hour", "Self-managed Youth Road", "Rapid Response Team to Ensure Traffic Safety along National Highway 1A", "Green Summer", "Warm Winter and Volunteer Spring", "Supporting to School", "Voluntary Blood Donation", "Red Sunday", "Bowl of Love Porridge", "Repaying Gratitude - Remembering the Source of Water"; "Creative Youth"...

In addition, supporting young people in learning, scientific research, and mastering technology continues to be an important content in the coming term. In addition to programs implemented in schools, the Youth Union at all levels focuses on directing, guiding, and supporting young people to improve their academic qualifications, professional expertise, integration capacity, creativity, and scientific research; proactively absorbing and applying scientific and technological achievements, the wave of the 4.0 industrial revolution in all areas of social life...;

Mobilize resources to effectively implement the "Youth Start-up" movement, organize competitions and awards for youth start-up ideas, continue to implement the development support plan, improve the effectiveness of youth economic development models, advise the Provincial People's Committee to approve the Project to support "Nghe An Youth Start-up in the period 2017 - 2022";

Innovate the content and form of implementing the movements of the Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneers Team in association with the needs of education and development in the new situation. Actively coordinate with departments, branches and organizations to effectively exploit resources for the care and education of teenagers and children. Advise the Provincial People's Committee to approve the Project "Building playgrounds for teenagers and children in special hamlets and villages in the period of 2017 - 2022"; Pay attention to coordinating and calling for the construction and renovation of cultural institutions for children in disadvantaged areas, ethnic minority children, border areas and islands.

Provincial Youth Union Secretary Pham Tuan Vinh attended the meeting with Youth Union Branch 4, Phuc Son Commune (Anh Son). Photo: Hoai Thu

However, to achieve the goals set for the coming term, the content that needs to be regularly focused on and implemented is to build a team of Youth Union cadres that meets the requirements in the new situation; promote the pioneering, exemplary, honest, responsible, and leadership role in the youth collective of Youth Union cadres at all levels.

Along with that, it is necessary to enhance self-criticism and criticism in each Youth Union organization to combat ideological, political, moral, lifestyle degradation, self-evolution, and self-transformation within the organization. Effectively carry out the work of planning, training, fostering, and rotating Youth Union cadres, especially fostering Youth Union cadres according to their positions; develop the Project "Training and fostering Youth Union, Association, and Young Pioneer cadres of Nghe An province for the period 2017 - 2022".

Along with training the team, the Youth Union's work must be oriented towards the grassroots, taking the grassroots as the center, the foundation of the strength of the Youth Union organization system. Pay attention to improving the quality of grassroots activities, building strong Youth Union branches; strengthen the orientation of the content of Youth Union branch activities, innovate the content and methods of Youth Union branch activities; regularly organize the whole Youth Union activity day; improve the quality of grassroots Youth Unions in residential areas.

Innovate the methods of mobilizing and gathering young people, widely attracting young people to professional and hobby associations as collective members of the Vietnam Youth Union. In particular, the Youth Union at all levels will pay special attention to gathering and building Youth Union organizations in ethnic minority areas, religious areas and Youth Union members in non-state enterprises.

The Provincial Youth Union Standing Committee also set a goal for the new term to promote the implementation of the Campaign "Youth Union members strive to become members of the Communist Party of Vietnam", especially paying attention to training outstanding union members who are direct production workers, students, rural youth, young intellectuals, ethnic minority youth, grassroots union cadres, etc.

From there, the Youth Union chapters at all levels actively advise Party committees and authorities at all levels to organize dialogues with youth union members, organize forums "Youth with the Party - Party with youth"; proactively introduce qualified, mature cadres to supplement Party committees, authorities and unions at all levels.

Youth volunteer organization organizes summer activities for children in Quy Hop district. Photo: Nga Thu

One of the other contents that receives special attention during the 2017-2022 term is international work and supporting youth in international integration. The Provincial Youth Union will direct and orient all levels of the Youth Union to focus on expanding and diversifying international friendship and cooperation; developing traditional friendship relations with Lao youth, especially in localities that share borders with Nghe An province.

Accordingly, the Youth Union at all levels needs to carry out specific activities such as organizing twinning activities, friendship exchanges, and learning experiences with youth from other countries; periodically organizing international volunteer activities in Laos; coordinating well in organizing international summer camps for Vietnamese youth abroad; strengthening information and external propaganda work to contribute to promoting the image of the youth and people of Nghe An and the homeland of President Ho Chi Minh to international friends.

To achieve the set goals, the 17th Congress of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of Nghe An province called on Nghe An youth to promote the traditions of the heroic Soviet homeland, grasp opportunities, strive to compete, study, work and be creative.

In addition, all levels of the Youth Union are determined to overcome limitations and weaknesses, overcome difficulties and challenges, and together with the Party Committee and people of the province, successfully implement Resolution 26-NQ/TW of the Politburo "On the direction and tasks for the development of Nghe An province until 2020" and the Resolution of the 18th Nghe An Provincial Party Congress, contributing to building Nghe An homeland to become increasingly prosperous, sustainable and civilized.

Hoai My