Enhance the fighting capacity of grassroots party organizations

(Baonghean) - In the 2010-2015 term, the Tuong Duong District Party Committee determined to make a breakthrough based on consolidating and enhancing the strength of grassroots Party organizations. Thereby, creating changes in leadership and management at all levels and sectors, in which the economic sector stands out with a focus on building and developing economic models, promoting hunger eradication and poverty reduction.

Promote responsibility and synergy

As one of the districts selected as the pilot district to organize the grassroots Party Congress for the 2010-2015 term, Tuong Duong has made many outstanding marks in the work of building and consolidating the strength of the Party organization. In particular, perfecting the team of Party cell secretaries is considered a "key" policy, through 2 solutions: improving professional and technical capacity and enhancing responsibility and the role of focal point at the grassroots level.

To specify that orientation, the Party Committee of Tuong Duong district has issued 2 resolutions and developed 10 projects, of which 5 are for Party building work. Among the projects aimed at strengthening the strength of grassroots party organizations, there are 3 projects related to the issue of training, fostering and using party members working in agencies and organizations at all levels in general, especially focusing on the force of party cell secretaries in particular.

People in Phong village, Thach Giam commune (Tuong Duong) take care of clean vegetable garden.

Right from the beginning of the term, training courses on political awareness, document implementation and Party building guidance were organized at the grassroots level, with the trainees being Party cell secretaries and members of the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee and the Head of the Party Committee directly training. Summarizing the training process, in 2012, the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee decided to organize the "Excellent Party Cell Secretaries" contest at the district level. The contest was organized by base clusters, then the best candidates were selected to participate in the final contest held in September 2012. As a result, 1 First Prize, 2 Second Prizes, 3 Third Prizes and 5 Encouragement Prizes were awarded to Party cell secretaries of public service units and rural areas. With competitions such as eloquence, professional questions and answers, situation handling, etc., the contest was not only an opportunity to consolidate the knowledge and expertise of the team of Party cell secretaries but also created a healthy environment and playground; encouraged the exchange of leadership and Party building experiences; arouse emulation movements among party cells and honor and promote the role of the secretary.

In addition to focusing on improving professional capacity, the leadership role and the grassroots focal point of the Party cell secretary are also given attention and promoted. The comrades at the district and commune levels are assigned the task of setting up bases and being responsible for monitoring a specific area. At the same time, they directly participate in the regular activities of the village and agency branches: quarterly for the Standing Committee members and monthly for the Executive Committee members. This is a policy that is highly appreciated by the people and the grassroots Party members. For example, in the Hoa Tay block, Party cell secretary Luong Kham Nien said: "With 53 active Party members, the Hoa Tay block Party cell has the largest number of Party members under the Party Committee of Hoa Binh Town.

The presence of district and town Party Committee members is not only a source of encouragement and motivation for Party members to participate in building, but also shortens the gap between Party Committees and grassroots, between resolutions and policies and reality. On the one hand, timely direction and adjustment by Party Committees helps the implementation of Party resolutions and policies in the right direction. On the other hand, Party members can directly ask questions, propose thoughts and aspirations as well as reflect on issues and situations arising in the area. Thereby, improving the quality of Party cell activities, enhancing democracy, which is also the quality of Party organizations at the grassroots level.

Comrade Nguyen Dinh Hien - Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Hoa Binh Town affirmed that the grassroots Party cell activities with the presence of Party committee members have significantly improved the quality of activities in both form and content, while strengthening the connection between levels, enhancing the fighting strength of the Party organization: "Under the supervision of former District Party Secretary Luong Thanh Hai (now transferred to another job) and Comrade Tran Viet Dung - Member of the Executive Committee, Director of Agricultural Materials Joint Stock Company, have created positive changes in awareness and built trust among Party members and the masses.

For example, some households in Hoa Binh Town disagreed with the decision to change the water price. Thanks to timely feedback to the Party Committee through meetings with the Party cell, the Party Committee had a policy of directing and coordinating with relevant units to resolve the issue quickly and thoroughly. Up to now, the decision to announce the new water price has been made, and the people of the town are very excited and trust the leadership and attention of the Party Committee. Through this, the leading role of the Party cell secretary is also highlighted, because the secretary is responsible for orienting the topics and content of meetings and discussions, and arousing the spirit of constructive contributions of Party members in the Party cell. Playing a good role as a bridge between Party members and the Party Committee will bring trust and love from Party members and the masses for the Secretary.

Talking about the role of the grassroots Party cell secretary in Party building work, comrade Luong Thanh Hai - former Secretary of the Tuong Duong District Party Committee (2010 - February 2015) affirmed: "To consolidate and perfect the Party from the grassroots level, we consider the role of the Party cell secretary to be extremely important, as the key to decisively improving the fighting strength of the Party organization. Only when the secretary grasps the spirit of the Party's resolutions and policies can they propagate and disseminate them to Party members and the masses. Conversely, the Party cell secretary also has the task of conveying feedback from the grassroots to higher Party committees, thereby making adjustments and supplements so that the resolutions and policies are truly close to the practical situation and come into practice."

From a macro perspective, promoting democracy and practicality are two important pillars that form a solid foundation for the political system at all levels. Because, if democracy brings about close connection, on the basis of respecting the intelligence, responsibility and autonomy of each individual, then practicality is a mirror reflecting the meaning, value and necessity of each policy and leadership line. Starting from the Party cell secretary is the beginning of the root to create changes for the trunk and branches of the Party organization. From there, bringing about positive changes not only in the political system but also in the implementation of socio-economic development tasks.

People in Nhon Mai village (Nhon Mai commune - Tuong Duong) use machines to mill and husk rice.

Breakthrough from economic models

Tuong Duong is one of the 3 districts of 30a of the province, the socio-economic situation is still difficult. Therefore, building economic models, creating spillover is considered the key for the district to accelerate the pace of poverty reduction, improve people's lives. However, through the assessment at the beginning of the term of the District Party Congress 2010 - 2015, the building and development of economic models has not become a movement; the scale, quality and efficiency of some economic models are not commensurate with the available potential of the district, some models are effectively implemented but not widely replicated.

Faced with that situation, the Standing Committee of Tuong Duong District Party Committee issued Directive No. 19 on strengthening the leadership of Party committees at all levels in the construction and replication of economic models in 2012. Accordingly, Party committees at all levels must directly direct the summary of economic model construction work, and at the same time select the content to build and replicate economic models suitable for their localities; assign the responsibility of directing the construction and replication of economic models to Party committee members, mass organizations, specialized agencies at the district level, heads of departments and branches at the commune level to build at least 2-4 models/village each year. The District People's Council supplements and completes mechanisms and policies on economic model construction. In addition, the district actively integrates funding from Programs 135, 30a, agricultural - forestry - fishery extension... to build and deploy models. Therefore, after more than 3 years of implementation, Directive 19 has created a new breeze in building and developing economic models with the active participation of Party committees and local authorities.

We visited the model of applying science and technology to safe vegetable production supported by the Department of Science and Technology in Phong village, Thach Giam commune, with a scale of 2 hectares and 25 households participating. The model was implemented from the winter crop of 2012 and ended at the end of 2013. During this time, the project supported seeds, fertilizers, product output consulting, and safe vegetable growing techniques. The exciting thing is that when the project ended, people had mastered farming techniques and expanded the safe vegetable growing area to 3 hectares.

On the lush green vegetable field, Ms. Lo Thi Tam, head of the safe vegetable growing group, was happily harvesting onions and cabbages and said: “Participating in the model, I, like many other families, learned how to sow seeds, care for them, and fertilize them effectively and safely. On average, we only grow safe vegetables for 4 months each year, but the average income is about 16 million VND, while the investment cost is only about 2 million VND. Thanks to growing vegetables, my family has escaped poverty.” Like many families in the highlands of Tuong Duong, Ms. Tam and her sisters in the village used to work on the fields, go into the forest to pick bamboo shoots, and collect firewood, with very unstable income. However, after seeing the effectiveness of growing safe vegetables, they have mastered the techniques of growing and caring for vegetables and have gradually diversified the types of vegetables to avoid supplying one type of vegetable at the same time, which would cause a surplus of products. Currently, the area of ​​clean vegetable growing has been expanded to 3 hectares with 43 households participating in production. Ms. Tam said that 10 households in the village have escaped poverty thanks to participating in vegetable growing.

According to Ms. Nguyen Thi Binh, Head of the Agricultural Extension Station of Tuong Duong district, the advantage of the model is that it creates more jobs, brings high income to people, and at the same time provides safe vegetable products for the whole Tuong Duong district.

Saying goodbye to Phong village, we continued to visit the pig farming model of Ms. Lo Thi Ly's family in Tam Bong village, Tam Quang commune. In 2012, Ms. Ly attended a training course on pig farming techniques implemented by the Agricultural Extension Department. Thereby, she mastered the knowledge of breed selection, vaccination methods, and effective feeding methods for each growth period of pigs... That was the foundation for her to confidently borrow capital from the Social Policy Bank to invest in building and expanding the scale of pig farms to 90 meat pigs and black pigs as it is now. In addition, Ms. Ly's family also raises dozens of cows and goats.

“My family used to be poor, but the cadres encouraged us to implement the livestock model, so we boldly implemented it. Thanks to that, my family has escaped poverty, and our annual income is hundreds of millions of dong, so we have money to build a house,” Ms. Ly happily said, pointing to her newly built, spacious house.

Talking to us, Ms. Nguyen Thi Binh, Head of the Agricultural Extension Station of Tuong Duong district, added: “In order to build and replicate economic models, in recent years, the Agricultural Extension Station has focused on organizing short-term vocational training courses on pig farming for farmers. Each class is held for an average of about 3 months in the villages, to impart and provide practical guidance on techniques for building barns, selecting breeds, caring for, vaccinating and treating diseases. In addition, every year the Provincial Agricultural Extension Program supports 19 training courses on techniques for raising chickens, ducks, goats, cows, rice cultivation, and forestry; the Luxembourg project supports 40 training courses on techniques for raising chickens, fattening cattle, and preventing cold for farmers. After attending the classes, many farmers have built models with high economic efficiency.”

Ms. Lo Thi Ly in Tam Bong village, Tam Quang commune (far left) discusses pig care techniques with agricultural extension officers of Tuong Duong district.

With the participation of the entire political system and specialized sectors, in recent years, many new technical advances in varieties, fertilizers, and pesticides have been transferred; many models have been confirmed in production practices, helping farmers in Tuong Duong improve productivity, quality of agricultural products, and increase economic efficiency. At the same time, the district has made good use of preferential mechanisms and policies, investment support, and development incentives, such as: Program 30a, Program 135, New Rural Program, Project VIE/028, etc. to build and replicate economic models. Therefore, in 2014, Tuong Duong continued to maintain 207 economic development models from 2012 and 2013 and implemented 47 more economic models of various types. The total investment cost in 2014 reached more than 2.1 billion VND.

Discussing the effectiveness after more than 3 years of implementing Directive 19, Comrade Lo Thanh Hai, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Tuong Duong district said: "With many models that have proven effective in practice, the most obvious thing is that they have contributed to promoting hunger eradication and poverty reduction in Tuong Duong district. But the greater benefit is that the examples and effective economic models have contributed to changing awareness, people no longer have the mindset of waiting and relying on others but gradually changing their production habits. From there, creating a spreading force in economic development in localities. Currently, we are actively directing the implementation so that more and more people are aware of rising out of poverty, getting rich legitimately, and effectively exploiting the potential of the locality".

With the achieved results, entering the period of 2016 - 2020, Tuong Duong district has a policy of focusing on mobilizing and effectively using all resources for socio-economic development; enhancing the application of science and technology in production, economic development associated with the protection of natural resources and the environment; synchronously implementing social security policies. Covering all the tasks and goals set out above, we continue to focus on improving the leadership capacity of Party committees at all levels, coordinating with the executive functions of the government and monitoring and social criticism of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, mass organizations and people. In particular, the principle that has a great impact in the long run is still to promote the leading role of the Party cell secretary, which is to promote democracy and promote the combined strength in implementing the political tasks of all levels, sectors and the entire population. That is the sustainable foundation to create marks in other fields in the upcoming term of the District Party Congress.

Thuc Anh - Nhat Le