Exploiting the brainpower of Nghe An children far from home

(Baonghean) - Nghe An province is united; if we know how to connect with the central ministries and branches, and know how to exploit the brainpower of Nghe An children outside the province, Nghe An will develop sustainably.

Nghe An has 3 natural strengths that not every province has. First, the land is vast and fertile. For a long time, we have been saying that Nghe An's land is barren, which is not true. For example, comparing it with Israel and Taiwan, Nghe An's land is very good. With 16,480km², the area of ​​our province is almost equal to the area of ​​Israel and almost 9 times the area of ​​Singapore.

TH Milk Factory in Nghia Dan. Photo from the Internet

Regarding the land of Western Nghe An, in the French agricultural records, this area is called the “milk breast” of the Western part of the province. If we go abroad, we will clearly see that we are suffering from hunger and poverty on a land full of potential. I give an example of Israel with an area of ​​23,000 km2.², but only 10% of the land is arable, and their fruit output alone is equal to the whole of Vietnam; their potato output is 3 tons/1ha, cucumber and tomato 500 tons/ha, cow milk 12,000 liters/cow/year. If we compare productivity, we are only equal to 10% of Israel's output. Israel's agricultural land must be filtered with salt water from the sea to produce fresh water for irrigation, but they are still one of the countries with the world's leading agricultural production. Nghe An has a four-season climate, with many types of plants that only need rain to grow... very favorable, but there are still difficulties and poverty!

Second, Nghe An's nature is diverse and rich, with sea, islands, midlands, mountainous areas, borders...; as Prime Minister Pham Van Dong once said, Nghe An is a miniature of the whole country.

Third, Nghe An is a province that converges infrastructure that few other provinces have, including airports, seaports, railways, roads, waterways, airways... Whether going to the South or to the North, you pass through Nghe An.

The above three advantages show that nature is very favorable to Nghe An, creating favorable conditions for the province to develop.

Rubber forest in Nghia Dan. Photo archive

Regarding human strengths, Nghe An has 3 strengths: Nghe An is a homeland rich in cultural and revolutionary traditions. In particular, Nghe Tinh Vi Dam folk songs were recognized by UNESCO as a representative intangible heritage of humanity. Talking about Nghe An is talking about the homeland of revolution. Nghe An is known as the homeland of many famous people in many fields and throughout the ages. Notably, 3 reformers of the country are all in Nghe An: Nguyen Truong To, Ho Chi Minh and Phan Boi Chau. According to statistics, Nghe An has up to 109 people who were awarded the title of general (from major general to general).

Another distinct feature is that Nghe An is the hometown with the largest number of people living outside the province, successful and always looking back to their homeland. In many provinces in the country and in many countries in the world, there is an Nghe An Association, or in the Czech Republic there is an Nghe An village,... It can be said that there are thousands of Nghe An people outside the province and abroad who are successful and responsible and always looking back to their homeland.

Through the process of learning and researching, I have concluded as follows: Nghe An province has solidarity; if we know how to connect with the central ministries and branches, and know how to exploit the brainpower of Nghe An children outside the province, Nghe An will develop sustainably. We develop late because we have not exploited this factor. But the noteworthy thing here is that we must know how to exploit in the direction of "experts", not exploit in the style of rallies, clapping hands to disperse and that's it, everything goes back to normal. The important thing is what the province must do to invite and have the comments and contributions of Nghe An experts in various fields...

Regarding the character of Nghe An people, the first is honesty, which some say is uprightness; Nghe An people are thrifty and studious; many successful students come from Nghe An, accounting for 1/3 of the number of doctors and professors in the whole country. Then there is respect for principles, strong ties between villages, clans, and families.

However, besides that tradition, we must frankly acknowledge the obvious shortcomings in the general character of Nghe An people. That is, Nghe An people have very few right-wing people, but almost only left-wing people. We Nghe An people suffer but do not work hard, still have the mentality of rather suffering and being at ease than being happy and having a hard life. Most Nghe An people are creative but not bold; frugal to the point of being mean and making themselves suffer; frank to the point of being crude, brave to the point of being reckless, caring to the point of being interventionist; united to the point of being local, conservative to the point of being stubborn, the rich are arrogant, the poor are self-deprecating. These are the limitations we must change.

Besides, Nghe An is a locality with many ethnic groups living. Among them, the ethnic groups in Nghe An have the following characteristics: honesty, simple life, no foresight, realistic thinking, little abstract thinking, self-esteem, vulnerable, trust will do their best, if not trust will not cooperate, rather poor and leisurely than rich and hard-working, leisurely lifestyle, hesitation, delay, high national pride, strong national inferiority, less travel, afraid to read, hard to get out of the old, hard to get into the new. From those characteristics, we must understand to arrange cadres, to focus on reforming and developing mountainous areas. Nghe An's potential is concentrated in mountainous areas, if the mountainous areas are left like this forever, they will not be able to develop.

A corner of Cua Lo town. Photo from the Internet

Today's era is the era of science and technology with rapid development. Science and technology are both opening up the world and shrinking it, science and technology are making time longer and also shortening it. Science and technology glorify each person and transform each person, rapidly changing the order of nations in both spiritual and material culture; in such an era, if we still cling to conservative thinking, it will be very difficult to develop.

We are stepping up the implementation of Directive 05 of the Politburo on “Studying and following Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, morality and style”. Uncle Ho is a world-class cultural figure, the crystallization of the most exemplary Nghe An people’s culture. Studying Uncle Ho, we must learn his ideology and style in conjunction with promoting the core values ​​of Nghe An people. That requires us to know how to promote the good values ​​of Nghe An people’s character, but at the same time, we must know how to “renovate” the existing ideology and culture, the limitations of Nghe An people, so that we can develop in accordance with the times./.

Le Doan Hop

(Former member of the Party Central Committee, former Secretary of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee,

(Former Minister of Information and Communications)