Tuong Duong district builds a democratic working style, 'practice goes hand in hand with words'

Build a "walk the walk" style

Yen Tinh Commune is a difficult area, with many urgent and prominent environmental hotspots. Up to now, this locality has ended the illegal exploitation of forests and minerals; the commune has achieved the criteria of "clean from drugs"; the quality of education has been gradually improved, there are no more dropouts. Yen Tinh Commune is becoming a top locality among the 7 communes in the inner area and ranked 5th in the whole Tuong Duong district. The poverty rate has decreased by an average of 6 - 7% per year. In 2024, the Party Committee of the commune was classified by the Tuong Duong District Party Committee as "Excellently completing its tasks".

According to comrade Quang Van Dang - Secretary of the Party Committee of Yen Tinh commune, this result was achieved thanks to the change in working style and method. That is, being close to the people, closely following the grassroots to think and act in accordance with reality. When implementing any work, the Party Committee and the government conduct surveys, grasp the practical situation to propose plans, measures, and solutions that are close, correct, and clear about the content of the work, and the responsibilities of each agency, organization and each individual who really participates.

Many works in Yen Tinh commune have the support of cadres, civil servants and party members. Cadres and people have leveled mountains and forests, opened roads to production areas; built concrete roads, lighting systems, built houses for households with especially difficult economic circumstances, transported raw materials, leveled the ground, dug foundations, built and roofed houses; accompanied people in overcoming difficulties to access capital sources for economic development, hunger eradication and poverty reduction...

In particular, through the assignment of “party members to take charge of households”, cadres and party members have closely contributed to changing people’s awareness, thinking and actions, especially in implementing the Party and State’s policies and guidelines; building livelihood models, especially for disadvantaged families to ensure effectiveness; implementing a new cultural lifestyle; preventing violations of the law; encouraging children to go to school, etc.

Thanks to that, people have become aware of taking control of their lives, gradually overcoming the mentality of waiting and relying on others. The commune has mobilized support resources to build houses for people, with 409 houses in 3 years (2023 - 2025); planted nearly 10 hectares of tea trees, creating a 3-star OCOP product "Yen Tinh Tea"; supported many households to raise bamboo rats, ducks, black pigs... to develop the economy.

Yen Tinh commune has the second largest acacia growing area in Tuong Duong district (after Tam Quang commune); the largest livestock herd in the district, each household raises an average of 4-5 buffaloes and cows. Yen Tinh commune's children are conscious of studying and finding jobs. Typically, in Pa Khom village, 32/58 families have members working abroad.

In Luong Minh commune, in the process of leadership, direction and administration, the Party Committee and the government also promote the exemplary role and "practice goes hand in hand" of cadres and civil servants. Comrade Vi Hong Vi - Secretary of the Party Committee of Luong Minh commune affirmed: All effective work and movements in the locality start from "practice goes hand in hand" of cadres and party members to spread. From attending meetings with people, to vaccinating livestock; opening roads to production areas; donating land, clearing traffic safety corridors, building roads; bringing high-yield cassava into production... cadres and party members all go first, do first and propagate and mobilize people to do the same.

The situation of cadres and civil servants “waiting” for instructions from superiors to do something in Luong Minh commune has been overcome. Cadres and civil servants, especially leaders, stay close to the grassroots, go to villages and people every week to propagate, mobilize, and “hold hands and show people how to do things”. The causes of difficulties are determined to gradually remove the bottlenecks there.

The change in the cadres and civil servants, especially key cadres, has created a shift in the people's awareness of progress. Many people in Luong Minh commune have proactively borrowed capital from banks and relatives to implement economic models, such as: raising fish in cages, raising bamboo rats, raising black pigs, raising goats for breeding..., without waiting for support.

People have also proactively contributed to investing in school infrastructure for their children; sending their children to vocational training and finding jobs. Thanks to that, the average income per capita in Luong Minh commune has increased by about 10 million VND compared to the beginning of the term and each year the number of poor households has decreased by 70-80.

Identify the breakthrough

Implementing the "Studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle", Tuong Duong district has associated it with implementing the Party's Resolutions on Party building and rectification. The motto of action from the district to the commune is "saying goes hand in hand with doing", innovating working style and manner, contributing to the completion of political tasks of each collective and individual, especially, resolving "bottlenecks", weaknesses and outstanding issues.

The ideology of waiting and relying on others was identified by the Tuong Duong District Party Committee as a weak link, a bottleneck, and a hindrance to development. Therefore, right from the beginning of the 2020 - 2025 term, the Tuong Duong District Party Committee issued Project No. 07 on eliminating conservative, waiting and relying on others among cadres, party members and the masses. To eliminate this ideology, the "breakthrough" of "breakthrough" chosen by Tuong Duong District is to build a team of key cadres, especially leaders at all levels, who must innovate, dare to think, and dare to do.

Tuong Duong District Party Committee has also increased the rotation of district cadres to communes, combining the rotation of cadres from localities with good movements to localities with weak movements in order to change their working style and proactive, scientific, and creative ways, associated with promoting "Studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality, and lifestyle". The focus is on building a democratic working style, close to the people, close to the grassroots, "saying goes hand in hand with doing".

Along with that, Tuong Duong District Party Committee directed Party organizations to promote the spirit of "self-reflection, self-correction" in Party activities in performing assigned duties and tasks along with the targets and tasks set forth by the Resolutions of Party Congresses at all levels. From there, clearly define the exemplary responsibility of cadres and Party members, especially leaders; identify the contents of "Studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle" and regulations on setting an example as "building", the implementation of Resolution 4 of the Central Committee as "fighting".

Tuong Duong district has also created and maintained many spreading models. The most prominent is the model of "Smart Mass Mobilization" in the fields of socio-economics, security - defense, and building the political system. According to comrade Lu Van May - Standing Deputy Secretary of Tuong Duong District Party Committee, through building models, it has contributed to innovating the methods and ways of leadership and direction of organizations in the political system to be more closely, specifically, and effectively, while at the same time, overcoming the mentality of waiting and relying on the people".

In addition, the model of assigning Party members to take charge of households in 134/146 Party grassroots organizations has also created a change in the style of being close to the people, understanding the people and respecting the people among cadres and Party members. People are supported and helped comprehensively to rise up to take control of their lives, overcoming the mentality of waiting and relying on others.

The Standing Deputy Secretary of the Tuong Duong District Party Committee added: The key is to build a team of cadres and party members with a working style close to the people and serving the people better; promoting the will of self-reliance, self-improvement, having the desire for development, always seeking innovation, creativity, daring to think, daring to do, daring to take responsibility for the common development of the locality.