Improving the quality of new party members in the Provincial Military Party Committee

The Chief of Military Region 4 Command and the Military Command of Nghe An province viewed the exhibition of maps and documents of Vietnam's Hoang Sa and Truong Sa archipelagos on Mat Island. Photo: Thu Giang

Improve the quality of new party members

Kim Van Trung, a Thai ethnic, is the Captain of the 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun squad, part of the Mixed Artillery Company, Battalion 32 stationed on Mat Island. Sticking with the unit, overcoming the difficulties of being stationed on the island, Trung has always shown himself to be an exemplary squad leader, grasping the contents of the learning and training process, and always ready to help and guide other young soldiers.

According to Captain Hoang Cong Hai - Deputy Political Commissar of Battalion 32, comrade Trung has always been active in training, enthusiastic, responsible in all tasks, trusted and highly appreciated by his superiors, and trusted by the masses. Thanks to his outstanding achievements, Kim Van Trung was proposed to be awarded the title of Advanced Soldier in 2018 and was one of the young faces honored to join the Party on December 22, 2018.

Admitted to the Party at the same time as Kim Van Trung was Lau Ba Tu, a Mong ethnic, currently working at the 85th Mixed Artillery Company. After 6 years of working on Mat Island, comrade Tu has made many efforts, actively strived, trained and cultivated, had many outstanding achievements, always completed assigned tasks well, and was annually awarded the title of Advanced Soldier, so the Party Cell of the Mixed Artillery Company proposed to the superiors to consider giving Lau Ba Tu the honor of being in the ranks of the Party.

Awarding Party admission decisions to soldiers with many achievements in combat operations. Photo: Thu Giang

These are 2 of the masses discovered, trained and admitted in the past time at the Party Committee of Battalion 32, Mat Island. Sharing about the Party development work at the unit, Major Hoang Truong Minh - Party Secretary, Political Commissar of Battalion 32 said that although in the process of creating sources, discovering and training excellent masses, there are still certain difficulties, such as the general level of cultural level of cadres and soldiers is still quite low, the island is far from the mainland so it takes more time to check the background, as well as affecting the psychological, emotional and work quality of cadres and soldiers...

"With the motto "the island is home, the ocean is homeland", we always encourage each other to overcome difficulties, strive to fulfill the target of recruiting 3-5 party members each year, focusing on the quality of new party members rather than chasing quantity".

Major Hoang Truong Minh - Party Secretary, Political Commissar of Battalion 32

One of the ways in which the Party Committees and Party cells under the Provincial Military Party Committee can recruit Party members to ensure strictness, not really "competing" in quantity but more in quality, is to add additional criteria in addition to the "rigid" standards stipulated in the Party Charter. Accordingly, non-commissioned officers and soldiers in the Party category, in addition to meeting the general standards, must also meet the criteria set by the Provincial Military Party Committee, which is to be awarded in the year with the form of Advanced Soldier or higher, to be officially admitted. Thanks to that, the quality of the new Party members has clearly changed, the most outstanding seeds have been selected in a worthy manner to contribute to increasing the strength and consolidating the leadership and direction role of Party organizations.

Officers and soldiers of Regiment 764 in training.

Close coordination with localities

In fact, a large number of soldiers who are party members admitted to units under the Provincial Military Command after being discharged from the army and returning to their place of residence have contributed to increasing both the quantity and quality of party members in localities. Therefore, it can be said that creating sources and developing the Party in party committees and branches under the Provincial Military Party Committee from a certain perspective is also contributing to creating quality party members for districts, cities and towns in the province. Therefore, in recent times, the Provincial Military Command has actively directed the Military Commands of districts, cities and towns to coordinate with localities to open training classes for Party members for young people about to join the army. Most recently, 21 classes were organized, training 1,371 young people out of a total of 3,200 new recruits enlisted in 2019.

Lieutenant Colonel Phan Dinh Quang - Party Secretary, Political Commissar of Regiment 764 - the main mobile unit of the Provincial Military Command, which admitted 10 Party members in 2018 alone, said: “Some comrades have attended local Party target classes, now joining the unit, the Party Committee continues to assign Party members to monitor and help, especially those soldiers from remote, isolated and special areas. Many comrades, after completing the new soldier training, had good motivation to strive, were on the list of Party admission monitors, were commended by the Regiment and joined the Party.

"It can be said that Party development work is of great significance, helping to strengthen the Party's leadership in carrying out the common tasks of the unit, while also helping to create a source of Party members for localities when soldiers return from demobilization."

Lieutenant Colonel Phan Dinh Quang - Party Secretary, Political Commissar of Regiment 764

New soldiers take oath. Photo: Trong Kien

In order to further deepen the Party development work, to continue to encourage, motivate and promote the sense of responsibility of soldiers who have fulfilled their duty after returning to their localities, and at the same time educate and encourage young people to join the army, the Provincial Military Command has advised the Provincial Military Service Council to direct the organization of rewards for soldiers who have fulfilled their duty and have been admitted to the Party during their active service at the military handover ceremony.

In the 2019 Military Handover Ceremony, all 21 districts, cities and towns organized to reward 231 soldiers who had successfully completed their service and returned. Localities with a large number of discharged soldiers receiving rewards include Nam Dan, Ky Son, Vinh City, Thanh Chuong... This is an approach that the Provincial Military Command is the pioneer in implementing, highly appreciated by Party committees, authorities at all levels and people in the province, and has just been reported to Military Region 4 to advise the Ministry of National Defense to replicate throughout the army.

The Nghe An Provincial Military Party Committee has 28 grassroots Party Committees and 1 grassroots Party cell. Every year, based on the actual situation of the Party Committees and affiliated Party cells, the Provincial Military Party Committee sets a target of admitting 15-20 outstanding people into the Party, including them in the Party building plan of the year. In the first 6 months of 2019 alone, the entire Provincial Military Party Committee has admitted 19 new Party members and is planning to organize more training courses for Party members in June and September.

A break for new soldiers at Regiment 764 after hours of hard training. Photo: Thu Giang