Improve the quality of party membership recruitment in Con Cuong

(Baonghean) - Identifying party member development as one of the top important tasks in party building, the Con Cuong District Party Committee is focusing on expanding the source of party admission and improving the quality of new party members, contributing to enhancing the fighting strength of party members and grassroots party organizations.

Service business area at Pha Lai dam, Mon Son commune (Con Cuong). Photo: Thu Giang

Con Cuong High School Party Cell is one of the grassroots party organizations that has been evaluated to have done well in developing party members in recent years, consistently achieving and exceeding the targets assigned by the District Party Committee.

Teacher Nguyen Van Hai - Deputy Secretary of the Party Cell, Vice Principal of the school shared: “Thanks to the close attention, in general, in recent years, the work of developing party members has encountered few difficulties, the Party Cell has regularly met the set targets but has not neglected quality. For example, in 2016, with the assigned target of 3-4 new party members, the Party Cell has admitted 4 cases. In 2017, by mid-year, we had recruited 6 subjects, including 4 students, 1 service officer and 1 teacher. These are all carefully selected individuals, especially the students have good academic achievements, won high prizes in the provincial excellent student competition and actively participated in youth movements. Every year, the Party Cell has an abundant and quality source of recruitment, filtering and nurturing young, outstanding people to join the Party ranks”.

However, among the total of 48 grassroots party organizations in Con Cuong district, the number of "smooth sailing" in party development work such as the Con Cuong High School Party Cell is only a minority, the rest mostly encounter many difficulties both objectively and subjectively in practice.

For example, at the Con Cuong Town Party Committee, according to statistics from the Party Committee Office, in 2015 the unit admitted 4 party members/target of 8-10 party members (ie only reaching 50% of the minimum threshold set), in 2016 it admitted 14 party members/target of 10 party members (reaching 140% of the plan) and in the first months of this year it admitted 3 more party members, compared to the target of 11-13 party members in 2017, it is still "short" at least 8 party members.

More notably, in recent years, the Party Committee of the town has recruited nearly 100% of its members from the youth union, but now this source has almost "dried up" because most of the youth are studying and working far away, very few stay at home and the quality is not guaranteed. Not to mention that a part of the youth currently lacks awareness, still has a cautious mentality, is afraid to join the Party, especially when witnessing some "bad apples" who are degraded Party members, causing the masses to lose some of their faith.

Instructing people at the one-stop department of the People's Committee of Con Cuong town. Photo: Thu Giang

After many days of struggling with this difficult problem, comrade Nguyen Cong Oanh - Secretary of the Town Party Committee has promoted the role of a leader, resolutely leading and directing to the grassroots with the viewpoint: "The obvious solution is to promote propaganda work, strengthen training, and raise awareness for the masses. At the same time, the Town Party Committee will assign the responsibility of propaganda to the Vietnam Fatherland Front and mass organizations, to promote propaganda, and make Party admission an evaluation indicator of the Party cell. In the near future, the town will focus on attracting resources from members of branches such as the Women's Union, Farmers' Association, Veterans' Association, etc., and at the same time propose to strengthen leadership and direction along the vertical lines, thereby helping the Party Committee in propaganda, raising awareness for cadres and members, creating a source of regular and quality admissions".

Meanwhile, in the border commune of Mon Son - home to more than 1,700 Thai ethnic households, 290 Dan Lai households and 155 Kinh households, new directions have emerged to promote the work of developing party members. If in 2015-2016, the commune Party Committee only recruited Thai ethnic people, then at the beginning of this year, it focused on expanding the target group, as evidenced by the fact that 9 Dan Lai people from Khe Bung, Co Phat and Cua Rao village Party cells were assigned and supported with travel and accommodation while attending the party target group class.

Sharing about the process of mobilizing and persuading the Dan Lai ethnic masses to raise their awareness, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the commune Vi Van Tu said: “Understanding the reason why the Dan Lai people are still hesitant about whether or not to learn Party sentiment, we have chosen to persistently analyze, persuade, and clearly show them the legitimate benefits of joining the Party, the responsibilities and contributions of Party members, and the leadership and direction of the Vietnamese revolution in recent times, “hitting” their awareness and strengthening their trust in the Party. This is also the direction of action in the coming time of Mon Son, aiming to prevent the villages where Dan Lai people live from falling into a state of “empty” Party cells, while ensuring that 4-5 Dan Lai Party members are regularly admitted each year”.

Representing the Party cell with 2 outstanding people being introduced to study, comrade Luong Thi Chinh - Secretary of the Party cell of Cua Rao village commented that the people who were able to study all showed their efforts and strived to be honored to join the Party, cared for economic development, actively participated in community activities, and were a potential source of successor cadres at the grassroots level if they were cared for and trained further.

The Party cell secretary of Cua Rao village, Mon Son commune, Con Cuong district mobilizes the masses to participate in the Party sympathy training class. Photo: Thu Giang

Based on the assessment of the implementation of party development work in the past time in the whole district, referring to the guiding viewpoint in the coming time, comrade Nguyen Dinh Hung - Secretary of Con Cuong District Party Committee emphasized: "The grassroots party organizations will diversify the source of recruitment, from considering the "main force" as the youth union members, now they will target many subjects, possibly members of other unions and socio-political organizations, focusing on propaganda and mobilization work to create abundant sources of recruitment for the locality.

Besides, we cannot pursue "quantity" while neglecting "quality". Con Cuong determined to constantly improve the quality of input for party candidate classes, to introduce the faces of the masses with enough virtue and talent, to join hands to build clean and strong party cells at the grassroots level, contributing to improving the fighting capacity of party members and grassroots party organizations, creating momentum for development.

Thu Giang