Core to building a strong political system

(Baonghean) - Comprehensively consolidating the political system is determined to start from the grassroots level, creating a solid foundation and being close to the masses. In particular, the force of retired Party members living in the locality is one of the "core". Promoting the strength of this force is to minimize the waste of the Party's resources in carrying out the mission of serving the people.

As long as there is strength, there will be contribution.

Retired party members are the most frequent and numerous force participating in local party cells and are constantly increasing every year. In Vinh City alone, from 2010 to March 2014, 359 retired party members transferred from the Provincial Party Committee of the Provincial Agencies to the City Party Committee and then to the ward and commune levels. For the Enterprise Party Committee, 724 party members transferred to live locally after retiring. This is identified as an abundant source of human resources, with high levels of knowledge and trust from society, very suitable for working in key positions in the locality such as Party cell secretary, block head, head of the Front work committee, head of the Party committee, etc.

Retired party members of Ha Huy Tap ward (Vinh city) signed the emulation agreement in 2014.

Ha Huy Tap Ward is home to a very large number of retired party members: more than 1,300 out of a total of 1,600 party members active in 34 party cells in the ward. Retired party members hold the positions of party cell secretaries in 22/22 residential blocks and block leaders in 20/22 residential blocks. Many of them have worked for many consecutive terms, even holding multiple tasks concurrently.

Comrade Bang Duc Thuan in Block 1 is a typical retired party member actively participating in local work. This old colonel, former commander of a battalion at the Military School of Military Region 4, is now in his third term as Secretary of the block's Party Cell and Head of the Fatherland Front Work Committee. Retiring in 2004, he began participating in Party Committee activities in 2006. Since 2010, with the trust of the Party Cell and the love of the people of the block, he has taken on tasks on both "fronts" - two key positions in the locality up to now.

With a high sense of responsibility and the perseverance and tenacity of a retired party member, from a block with a small party membership (10 party members out of more than 600 people), the population is mainly laborers, and economic conditions are difficult, up to now the block has been recognized as a cultural block, the block's party cell has been a clean and strong party cell for 4 consecutive years and a typical clean and strong party cell of the ward for 3 consecutive years. He himself is continuously an outstanding and typical party member of the party cell and has been commended by the ward.

With the specific characteristics of the area having a complicated social security situation due to being adjacent to the city's drug hotspots, he determined that he had to proactively learn and shorten the distance with families whose children had criminal records, and encourage them to integrate into the community and become useful citizens for society. Or when there was a policy of not scattering votive paper at funerals, the Executive Committee of the block organized and mobilized the elderly and those with a voice in the family and clan to follow the new policy. The process of propagating and mobilizing the people was not always smooth, but with perseverance, dedication and closeness to the people, gradually creating trust and consensus among the people.

Or in Nam Dan Town, 70% of the key grassroots leadership team are retired party members, in which the Phan Boi Chau block Party Cell is one of the Party Cells with the largest number of retired party members. Comrade Tran Quang Vinh - Party Cell Secretary is a retired officer. Before being trusted by the Party Committee to be elected Party Cell Secretary in 2000, he actively participated in local movements, gave many advices and suggestions to promote the movement. In particular, Phan Boi Chau block is a place with many tourism services and 28 households participating in Nam Dan soy sauce craft village.

To increase revenue and increase the value of goods, he discussed with the Party Committee, the hamlet executive committee, and members of the craft village to distribute leaflets, promote propaganda in the form of dramatization, and thoroughly educate the owners of establishments about preserving the traditional flavor and color of Nam Dan soy sauce. Later, in his position as Party cell secretary, he determined that in order to create consensus and trust from the masses, the cadres must be clean and exemplary. In the first term congress, he and the cadres in the Party Committee requested the congress to purge those who lacked responsibility and the spirit of dedication to serving the Party and the people. Thanks to that, the grassroots party organization was consolidated and perfected.

Up to now, Phan Boi Chau bloc is one of the leading blocs in implementing the policies and guidelines of the Party and the State. Annual fund tax revenue reaches 100% and is completed the earliest. Notably, in 2015, responding to the fundraising movement for the poor launched by the Fatherland Front at all levels, 4,112,000 VND was collected, equivalent to 112% of the assigned plan target in just 10 days.

The above are just a few typical faces among the large number of retired party members who, although they have left their positions to enjoy their old age, are still ready to actively respond to the "call" of the Party and the masses. That is not only the clearest proof of the ideal of dedication, the steadfast will to advance under the Party's flag without stopping - those party members are truly precious, worthy of respect and above all, they are an indispensable force that creates the long-term, sustainable strength of the Party. Continuing to promote that spirit of dedication, exploiting and developing the resources of retired party members is both the responsibility of the Party committees and authorities at all levels and also something that every retired party member should engrave in their mind to be worthy of the trust and love of the Party and the people.

(To be continued)

Thuc Anh - Thanh Nga