'Difficult' in creating party members in Thai Hoa town

(Baonghean) - TRecently, the discovery of sources and recruitment of more excellent and quality members into the Party in Thai Hoa town is facing many difficulties.

New party member admission ceremony at the Party Cell of Hung Tien Construction Design and Consulting Joint Stock Company located in Thai Hoa town. Photo: Thu Giang

According to the statistics compiled by the Organizing Committee of Thai Hoa Town Party Committee, there are currently 4,678 party members in the town, operating in 49 grassroots party organizations. In the past 5 years, the locality has always paid much attention and focused on the work of developing party members, promptly and quickly issuing plans for developing new party members each year for each grassroots party organization under its management to closely follow. Thanks to that, along with close supervision and close supervision, the number of new party members in Thai Hoa Town has always met and exceeded the set targets, attracting many quality factors to join the Party.

Number of new party members of Thai Hoa Town in the period 2012 - 2016. Graphics: Thu Giang

Since December 2016, the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee has issued a Decision on assigning a plan to develop new party members in 2017, with a total target of 126 new party members, assigned to 38 grassroots party organizations under its management based on a thorough survey of party members from the grassroots. Among them, the Party Cell of Hung Tien Construction Design Consulting Joint Stock Company, formerly a Party Cell of a company belonging to a former state-owned enterprise, currently has 25 party members and is assigned the target of developing 1 new party member in 2017. However, the Party Cell is striving to recruit 2 more party members, continuing to maintain the average threshold of 2-3 new party members/year in the period 2014-2016.

Deputy Secretary of the Party Cell of Hung Tien Construction Design Consulting Joint Stock Company, Pham Tuan Hung shared: “Party development work in the company's Party Cell has more advantages than in other units. That is thanks to the attention of the company's leaders and Party Cell, creating conditions and an environment for mass organizations to operate, from which it is easy to detect factors and create sources of Party members. Besides, due to the company's characteristics, labor fluctuations occur quite frequently, when one person transfers to another job, another person is accepted, so basically there is no shortage of Party members, even in the coming years."

However, the above-mentioned abundant source of party members is not common in Thai Hoa Town. The proof is that in 2017, there were 11 party committees and subordinate party cells that were not assigned party member development targets by the City Party Committee, because they had run out of party development training resources. And for some grassroots party organizations in the process of implementing the assigned plans and targets, they are holding many concerns in the face of difficulties arising from reality.

For example, Nghia My commune last year admitted 8 new party members, meeting the assigned target, but with the 2017 target being less (6 party members), it is not an easy problem for the commune Party Committee. Comrade Le Van Tuu - Secretary of Nghia My commune Party Committee frankly analyzed the local situation: "In recent years, the work of developing party members has been very difficult. The main source of objects to foster party sentiment is youth union members, most of whom join the army, work abroad, go to work far away,... There are cases of good personal background, high qualifications, wishing to join the Party, but not being present in the locality regularly, if admitted, they do not participate in Party activities regularly, we cannot admit, chasing quantity and forgetting quality".

Sharing the same difficulties as Nghia My commune, being a newly separated area with a small area and low population, although only assigned the target of 5 new party members in 2017, the Long Son Ward Party Committee is still trying its best to find effective ways to achieve the goal, recruiting the most outstanding and worthy masses into the Party. However, because the number of young people living and working in the ward is not large, the Ward Party Committee has identified the potential source of new party members from mass organizations, from which to orient propaganda towards these subjects.

Secretary of the Party Committee of Lo Van Loi Ward worried: “Some Party cells of Long Son Ward have encountered difficulties in developing Party members, for two consecutive years they have not been able to recruit new Party members, or the Party cells have many elderly and sick Party members, lacking successors. The process of mobilizing and persuading the masses to join the Party is also hindered, a part of them is affected by the market economy, does not really have ideals, correct awareness about Party admission. Therefore, in the coming time, the Party Committee of the Ward has determined to focus on widely propagating the work of developing Party members, raising awareness, emphasizing the responsibility of the head of the Party Committee. In addition, the Party Committee of the Ward will also pay more attention to organizing and building mass organizations, focusing on the core role of mass organizations in developing Party members”.

A training class for party candidates in Thai Hoa town. Photo: Thu Giang

Besides, there are still subjective reasons as Comrade Tran Tuan Dung - Deputy Head of the Organizing Committee of the City Party Committee pointed out: "Some communes and wards have not really been resolute and determined to involve the entire political system in the work of developing party members. Most of the masses are members of mass organizations, but some places have not yet promoted propaganda, education and training so that members can quickly awaken and join the ranks of the Party, leading to the effectiveness of party development work not being as expected, and the number of party members admitted is not much".

Compared to other districts, cities and towns, Thai Hoa Town has fewer grassroots party organizations, fewer communes and wards, and a smaller population, but has achieved certain results in the work of developing party members. Therefore, in order to continue to maintain and promote, each party committee and party cell under the Town Party Committee, in addition to making efforts to detect early "emerging" difficulties, needs to promptly find ways to overcome, handle, and quickly act so that the work of recruiting new party members ensures both quantity and quality.

Thu Giang