Provincial Party Secretary Rotation: Eliminate closed, parochial thinking

As of October 29, 100% of provincial and municipal party committees directly under the Central Government and equivalent completed the organization of congresses for the 2020-2025 term. Overall, the congresses were successfully organized, most clearly demonstrated in the work of drafting documents and personnel work.

Notably, at the end of the Central Party Congress, 22 officials rotated and introduced by the Central Committee (not local people) were all elected with high votes of confidence.

Directly attending a number of congresses, Dr. Le Hai - Member of the Editorial Board, Head of the Electronic Communist Magazine, said that there are 3 basic reasons.

The firstThe policy of provincial-level secretaries not being local people, in accordance with the spirit of Resolution of the 7th Central Conference (12th tenure), has been agreed upon and supported by the majority of cadres and people, has been thoroughly grasped and permeated into political life, so it has been seriously and voluntarily implemented by the majority of Party committees, facilitating the arrangement of personnel from the Central level to rotate to localities.

MondayIn practice, in recent times, personnel transferred from the Central Government to the locality have made many good contributions and dedication to the locality. Cadres with strategic thinking, covering the macro level, when returning to the locality will make up for the limitations of the leadership of the provinces and cities. In particular, contributions through specific work, specific results of the transferred cadres have partly helped to gradually eliminate the closed, local thinking that used to be quite heavy.

Tuesday, most of the personnel selected by the Central Government to become key leaders of the provinces and cities are strategic-level cadres with high quality, exemplary and outstanding in capacity, qualities, and intelligence, selected strictly and objectively through many levels and many rounds. The transferred cadres themselves also determined that going to the locality is an honor associated with great responsibility, an opportunity to study, rub shoulders, and train through practice to mature, so they try their best, regardless of hardship, throw themselves into practice, work, and maintain ethical standards, so over time they are recognized and supported by the local Party Committee, cadres, party members, and people.

The practice of democracy within the Party is increasingly expanding.

Dr. Le Hai shared: The Party Committee for the 2020 - 2025 term especially values ​​quality, has a reasonable quantity and structure; is typical in intelligence, qualities, prestige, is clean, strong, has high leadership capacity and fighting spirit, meets the leadership requirements in the new situation, successfully implements the resolutions of Party Congresses at all levels and the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress. Personnel participating in the Party Committee are selected and screened through 5 strict steps, based on long-term, methodical planning (previous terms usually only 3 steps), at all levels, including with Central strategic-level cadres (for the first time we have a Central Party Executive Committee planning); are trained through source classes; evaluate cadres through specific results and products; promote the responsibility of those who introduce and nominate...".

According to Mr. Hai, due to such careful, responsible, and methodical preparation, the personnel work of the provincial and municipal party congresses this time was basically "smooth" and "smooth sailing", selecting worthy personnel, leaving no doubts or concerns among cadres, party members, and public opinion.

Affirming that, however, according to Dr. Le Hai, the key personnel issues in a few congresses did not go as planned, but there was nothing unusual. There is a stream of opinion that such results were due to the fact that the personnel work of that congress was not well prepared, and there were still "scars". But, looking from another perspective, that was a good sign, showing that democracy and democratic practice in the Party were increasingly expanding and becoming more substantial. Perhaps somewhere, the personnel preparation work was still based on the subjective will of some individuals, so it could not be completely accurate, but at the congress level, where the will of the majority of party members was concentrated, it was difficult to make mistakes. And thus, the congress demonstrated its highest decision-making power on important personnel issues.

"New generation situation"

One of the factors contributing to the success of the new term's reception work is the issue of rejuvenating the cadre team. The cadres of the 7X generation have made quite an impressive contribution to this new term. Preliminary statistics show that up to 43% of the Secretaries belong to the 7X generation, the ones that the Central Committee and the people expect will bring a new breeze to the leadership and management work in the new term.

Dr. Le Hai believes that this is also a common trend in society when many successful people belong to the 7X generation. Researchers call this the stage of the "new generation situation". This is a generation that is well-educated and trained, quickly adapts to the times, quickly adapts to science and technology, has creative thinking, innovation, decisiveness, dares to do, and knows how to do. Therefore, the 7X generation Secretaries are expected to bring new, breakthrough developments to the provinces, cities, and the country in the next stage of development.

Of course, absorbing and learning from the experiences and knowledge of previous generations is a very important asset for the 7X generation of key leaders to be more confident when holding important positions and making decisions on important issues. The 7X generation of leaders mostly did not experience war, but were mostly trained abroad. Therefore, training a strong political will, steadfast in the goal of national independence associated with socialism... is a very important requirement for this generation of leaders as well as for the next. However, "old bamboo shoots grow", "the next generation must overcome the previous generation", "the son is better than the father, then the family will be blessed", that is the law of development, only then will the country develop...

“I have great confidence and sympathy with the 7X generation leaders and expect them to be the new generation of leaders of the country, with both political courage and the courage, self-respect and intelligence of the Vietnamese people, confidently steering the country's ship out to sea and to the shore of prosperity,” Dr. Le Hai affirmed./.