Listen to people, speak so people understand, make people believe
(Baonghean) - During the past term, Nghe An has achieved and exceeded many targets for economic - political - social development, people's lives have been gradually improved, national defense and security have been maintained. Along with the efforts in leadership and direction of Party committees and authorities at all levels, creativity in mass mobilization work in each locality and each Party organization is considered the key to success.
Highlights in mass mobilization work
In many models of "smart mass mobilization" at all levels in recent years, the most prominent is the participation of forces participating in the work of mobilizing land clearance to complete social security projects and key national projects in the area. Typically, the project of upgrading and expanding National Highway 1A was carried out from the end of 2013 to the end of 2014. In order for the project to be completed on schedule, the Provincial Party Committee directly directed and requested the entire political system to participate in coordinating and mobilizing so that people could correctly and promptly understand the compensation regimes as well as the urgency of quickly handing over the land. The difficulty in the work of site clearance is that the route passes through the province with a length of 73.8 km with many residential areas, with a large number of affected households. Each local Party committee and government has considered site clearance as the number one political priority and the work of propaganda, mobilization, and grasping the people's thoughts and aspirations as the top factor.
In practice, some places still have problems and difficulties in land acquisition and clearance work, people are upset because their compensation requirements are not met, and in many places the government is really in a bind, with no solution. In that situation, the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Committee issued Official Dispatch 597-CV/DVTU on strengthening the mobilization of people for land acquisition and clearance to upgrade National Highway 1A, directing and guiding the organization of mobilization for the Mass Mobilization Committees of districts where National Highway 1A passes through. With the motto of solving difficulties wherever there are, the Mass Mobilization Committee requires localities to send cadres who are prestigious, capable, and courageous to participate in the working group to mobilize people to hand over land; at the same time, do a good job of mass mobilization in land allocation mobilization. Timely reflect problems arising in the process of organizing mobilization, detect and propose handling of subjects who deliberately oppose the State's policies, spread information causing insecurity and disorder among the people.
Through the efforts of resolving hot spots in places where households still have questions about compensation policies, to resolving long-standing consequences due to illegal land settlement from before 1996 in some places such as Quynh Luu, Nghi Loc, the matter has gradually been resolved. There were points that seemed to be deadlocked, but through persistent advocacy, persuasion, and reasonableness, combined with the advocacy methods implemented from easy to difficult, from far to near, from common to individual, localities have handed over the land on time. Nghe An has been praised by the Government for completing the land clearance project on schedule on the key National Highway 1A.
The mass mobilization work in implementing the site clearance of key national projects also includes the success in the propaganda and mobilization work to get 8 households to hand over the site after 4 years of stagnation by the Quy Hop District Site Clearance Board under the Ban Mong Reservoir Project. The project has a very important task of conquering natural disasters by reducing floods for the downstream of Hieu and Ca rivers, contributing to protecting the safety of people's property and lives during the rainy season and producing electricity with a capacity of 42MW to connect to the national grid. 8 households refused to hand over the site because they did not fully understand the policies, guidelines and propaganda methods of the mass mobilization staff. Realizing the importance of changing the way of campaigning, Ms. Tran Minh Sinh, Secretary of the District Party Committee, who was then Chairman of the District People's Committee, directed: "It is necessary to make people understand and believe, credibility is the most important, if you promise to resolve the policy, you must resolve it on time, and more importantly, if the previous propaganda officer does not make the people understand, another officer who is more fluent and more courageous will replace him".
After 2 weeks of intensive work, on May 31, 2015, 8 households in Cong hamlet and Trong Canh hamlet handed over the site so that the N1 canal project belonging to the cluster of key points and the Ban Mong Reservoir could resume construction. This was not only the joy of the Party Committee and the government of Quy Hop district but also of the local people. The success in mobilizing and propagating people to hand over the site thanks to mass mobilization work also includes the project of constructing the province's D4 road through Nghi Thiet commune (Nghi Loc). It is known that the D4 road has 2.1 km passing through Nghi Thiet commune. Of which, the last 500m of the road is related to 149 households in Dong hamlet and Moi hamlet of this locality. By September 3, the Nghi Loc district People's Committee and the Nghi Thiet commune Party Committee and People's Committee had successfully persuaded the remaining 4 households to hand over the site to the construction unit.
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| Installing clean water system to Nam Cat commune. Photo: Mai Hoa |
The highlight of the mass mobilization work in localities is the emulation movement of "skillful mass mobilization", this movement has been replicated in many localities associated with the construction of new rural areas. The Mass Mobilization Committee has advised on the development of Project 06 - DA/TU dated April 1, 2014 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee on the emulation movement of "skillful mass mobilization" at the provincial and district levels and has been put into effective operation. A typical example is the model of "skillful mass mobilization" in Dien Yen commune (Dien Chau) in the movement to build new rural areas, from a locality that was not selected as a pilot, with only 9 initial criteria, but after only 9 months of launching, the determination in directing and mobilizing resources from the people, children working far from home and businesses located in the commune has completed the 6 most difficult criteria to receive the title of commune meeting new rural standards in November 2014.
Or like Minh Hop commune (Quy Hop), which has mobilized people to develop household farm and garden economy, improve people's lives, and increase local budget revenue. If in 2010, the commune had 90/186 farms, now thanks to the mobilization and correct direction of the commune Party Committee and the mass mobilization working group, there are 186/186 households participating in livestock farms, growing oranges and tangerines, the average income per capita has now reached 62 million VND/year, the commune has up to 20 households with income from 2 to 3 billion VND. Thanks to a prosperous life, people have voluntarily contributed up to 435 million VND to build cultural houses, village gates, football fields, etc., contributing to the construction of new rural areas.
Typical examples of the "skillful mass mobilization" model include the field of building great national solidarity in many localities. For example, in Blocks 5 and 6, Thu Thuy Ward (Cua Lo Town); Hamlet 6, Hung Trung Commune (Hung Nguyen), these are models of "skillful mass mobilization" in building solidarity between religions and non-religious people. Here, the Party Committee, the government and the people are of one mind and one heart to build a strong, civilized and united hamlet. Mr. Hoang Duc Nguyen, Party Cell Secretary and Head of the Fatherland Front Subcommittee of Hamlet 6, Hung Trung Commune (Hung Nguyen) said: "Skillful mass mobilization in my hamlet is like a natural thing, because this solidarity has become a tradition that every household task in the hamlet is a common task. When movements are launched, everyone participates in them when they are fun and meaningful. The lesson here is the solidarity and unanimity in the hamlet executive committee".
In recent years, the emulation movement "Skilled in Mass Mobilization" has continued to be effectively implemented in the province. Many typical examples, models, and individuals of "Skilled in Mass Mobilization" have appeared in conjunction with administrative reform and amendments to the working style of cadres and civil servants; awareness and responsibility of all levels and sectors regarding mass mobilization work have been raised, the sense of responsibility, leadership and advisory capacity of the mass mobilization system and the mass mobilization cadre team have changed. In the process of organization and implementation, the emulation movement "Skilled in Mass Mobilization" has mobilized the combined strength of the political system at the grassroots level, typically in the issue of land acquisition, new rural construction, or building solidarity between religions and non-religious people; at the same time, the synchronous combination of mass mobilization work with management and operation activities, finding effective measures to address the legitimate needs and aspirations of the people, ensuring harmony of the interests of the State, collectives, and individuals, has been agreed and responded to by the masses.
After implementing the emulation to build the model of "skillful mass mobilization", every year, localities have voted to honor and commend typical models of "skillful mass mobilization". If in 2011 there were 367 models, in 2014 there were 2,212 models and in 2015, 3,652 models were registered to be built. Localities have also mobilized people to donate more than 5,000 m2 of land, more than 4,000 working days, and contribute more than 4,000 billion VND to build new rural areas and so far 39 communes have met 19 criteria. Any locality that builds a model of "skillful mass mobilization" will achieve economic, political and social security goals.
Promoting grassroots democracy regulations
In the process of implementing mass mobilization work of the political system, grassroots party organizations have effectively implemented the grassroots democracy regulations in all three types of communes, wards, towns, and agencies. 21/21 districts, cities, and towns have developed 31 bright spots in implementing the grassroots democracy regulations. Localities have considered practicing democracy as the basic method of mass mobilization work. Implementing grassroots democracy regulations in the spirit of: explaining to people, discussing with people, organizing for people to implement, reviewing work with people according to Ho Chi Minh's thought and the four mottos: people know, people discuss, people do, people inspect that the Party has affirmed. In all content of mass mobilization work, cadres always imbued with Uncle Ho's advice "with skillful mass mobilization, everything will be successful".
A typical example is Tan Phu commune (Tan Ky), in the construction of new rural areas, the democratic regulations have been implemented as a method to create consensus among the people. The commune has elected a construction committee consisting of representatives of mass organizations, heads of self-management groups and a few people with qualifications in appraisal, calculation and inspection to specify the revenue and expenditure when constructing rural traffic works and cultural houses, then publicly announced to the people. Thus, along with the people knowing and discussing, the work that the people directly do and inspect has been carried out systematically here. Another bright spot in the implementation of democratic regulations is in Huu Kiem commune (Ky Son), which is carried out through administrative reform. The work of serving the people in the area is regularly rectified, when people come to do procedures and documents, they are guided enthusiastically, and commune officials have worked overtime to resolve the procedures for the people.
The bright spots in the grassroots democracy regulations are also recognized in the Legal Democracy Committee (Provincial Fatherland Front), the Department of Planning and Investment of the Southeast Economic Zone, Binh Minh Trading and Transport Company Limited (Nghi Loc); ... thereby contributing to creating clear changes in the socio-economic, defense, security and building the grassroots political system of the province. The implementation of the democratic regulations in the province in recent times has been harmoniously integrated with the model of "skillful mass mobilization", thereby strongly changing the leadership methods, working styles and manners of the Party Committees, the Front's authorities and organizations. Through this, cadres at all levels have been close to the grassroots, close to the people, and listened to their opinions.
The good implementation of the grassroots democracy regulations has contributed to the fight against corruption and waste, promoted administrative reform, reduced complaints and denunciations from citizens, and prevented people from bringing large numbers of people to file complaints at the Central level. Thereby, people are happy, contributing to maintaining political stability, social order and safety, ensuring national defense and security. Mr. Nguyen Manh Khoi, Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Commission, said: "Recently, when people and businesses come to public agencies to report their records, they do not have to wait long, and the procedural process has also been shortened. That is also the reason why in the past term, investment attraction in the province has increased, suspended projects have also decreased, and the measure of people's satisfaction has been widely spread in many areas."
During the past term, the government's mass mobilization work has made changes in awareness and action, contributing to building public ethics, raising awareness, responsibility, and attitude towards serving the people and businesses. A typical example is Nam Cat commune (Nam Dan), during our visit on the occasion of the commune receiving the new rural commune standard, comrade Nguyen Thi Oanh, Secretary of the commune Party Committee, excitedly announced that the movements need to mobilize the people's strength, we do not have to go to each house to mobilize. The Secretary and the hamlet chief only need to broadcast on the hamlet radio system and the people will immediately contribute, because they believe that when the policy reaches the hamlet, they will benefit.
Mr. Nguyen Manh Khoi, Deputy Head of the Mass Mobilization Committee, stated: No matter how little or much, people have to contact and relate to the government, so just a warm and caring attitude can make people trust, thereby making the mobilization work effective. Moreover, the government's task is to concretize the Party's guidelines and policies at all levels into policies for implementation. If those policies are consistent with the people's aspirations and the implementation is highly effective, the people will be more excited and confident in the leadership of the Party and the management of the government.
During the past term, the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Committee focused on effectively implementing mass mobilization work in the spirit of Resolution 26 of the Politburo. Many localities have been successful in mobilizing people to comply with the policies and guidelines of the Party and State, actively participating in patriotic emulation movements, and effectively participating in socio-economic development fields. In addition, mass mobilization cadres have proactively and promptly grasped the situation among the people, the issues of urgent concern to reflect to the Party Committee and the government for direction and resolution. Up to now, 480/480 communes, wards and towns have mass mobilization blocs, 5,906 mass mobilization groups operating regularly. Mass mobilization groups have mobilized the masses to participate in patriotic emulation movements, movements of "All people unite to build cultural life in residential areas"; movements to support the Fund "For the poor", "Volunteer shock for the West", "Joining hands to build new rural areas" ...
With positive contributions in the past term, mass mobilization work has created consensus among the people, thanks to the Party committees, authorities and organizations that have carried out mass mobilization work based on the principle: Mass mobilization in the new period must be innovated, maximizing the people's mastery according to the motto "people know, people discuss, people do, people inspect", thereby "listening to people speak, speaking so that people understand, doing so that people believe".
Thanh Nga
