For Nguyen Nguyet Anh - Member of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Student Association, Member of the University Youth Union, President of the Vinh University Student Association, Deputy Secretary of the Youth Union of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, the two most valuable things that the Youth Union - Association activities have brought her are "sympathy for the unfortunate lives and the experiences and soft skills acquired after each program and activity".
Talking to us, the 2022 Central-level “January Star” expressed that participating in the Youth Union and Association activities has helped her become more mature and have more opportunities to demonstrate the pioneering spirit of youth in volunteer, cultural and sports activities. Thereby, accumulating life experience, work arrangement and organization, and leadership skills. Also from actively participating in Youth Union and Association activities and making efforts in studying, on March 24, 2023, Nguyen Nguyet Anh was honored to join the Party.
In order to create an environment for students like Nguyen Nguyet Anh to study, practice and strive to join the Party, in recent times, the Youth Union of high schools, universities and colleges in Nghe An has adopted revolutionary action movements and programs to accompany young people, creating an environment for students to experience, practice, strive and gradually mature in both awareness and action. Highlights include the campaigns "Youth Union members strive to become members of the Communist Party of Vietnam", "Nghe An Youth study and follow Uncle Ho's teachings"; political forums with the theme "Nghe An Youth proudly marching under the Party's flag", "I - a young Communist"; the movements "3 good students", "3 training students", "5 good students"; Volunteer activities such as the "Green Summer" Campaign, "Red Flamboyant", "Exam Support" Program... have truly created a competitive atmosphere and active participation among students, thereby discovering many outstanding and excellent factors to introduce to the Party for consideration of admission.
Typically, at Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted, where high-quality students are concentrated, the School Youth Union has promoted team models, study groups, clubs based on skills, interests, volunteer activities, etc. Thereby, discovering factors that are not only excellent in cultural knowledge but also good at skills, enthusiastic about community activities to nurture, cultivate, and encourage students to strive to join the Party. The School Youth Union Executive Committee also actively uses new visual tools such as infographics, clips, trailers, mind maps, etc. on social networking platforms to propagate, educate politics, ideology, train revolutionary ethics, and build the right ideal of striving to join the Party for union members and young people.
In his speech on “Current situation and solutions for Party development work among high school students”, Secretary of the Youth Union of Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted Chu Minh Anh Tho said: The propaganda and education activities of the Youth Union have contributed to stabilizing the ideology, increasing the confidence of Youth Union members and young people in the leadership of the Party, helping Youth Union members and young people have a deep awareness and enlightenment about the Party, and have the will to strive to excel in studying and training. Therefore, the number of Youth Union members and young people who aspire to become Party members in schools is increasing, forming a generation of young people who live with ideals and have pure motivation to join the Party. Outstanding Youth Union members are required to write reports on their achievements in all aspects of study and extracurricular activities during the school year, as a basis for selecting outstanding people to introduce to the Party. In particular, special attention is paid to Youth Union members who are class cadres, exemplary Youth Union cadres; students who have achieved the titles of “3 Good Students” at all levels.
Evaluating the Youth Union movement, Mr. Tran Van Nga - Vice Principal of Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted said: "On average, each year, Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted admits 15-20 new party members who are students, including many national and international excellent students, students who are class officers, Youth Union officers... The result is that through the activities of the Youth Union, the school has discovered and introduced outstanding individuals for the Party to consider and admit."
Huynh Thuc Khang High School (Vinh City) is also considered a bright spot in the work of creating sources, training and developing student party members. Every year, right from the time of receiving 10th grade students, the Party Cell and the Board of Directors of Huynh Thuc Khang High School have assigned the task to the School Youth Union to review and make a list of excellent students who actively participate in Team activities at the secondary school. Thereby, focusing on training and guiding students to continue to strive, study and practice, demonstrating their abilities in the activities of the Youth Union and youth movements. In addition, the School Youth Union regularly organizes thematic political activities, movement activities, club activities and trusts students to carry out specific tasks, creating a vibrant competitive environment...
In 2022, Huynh Thuc Khang High School had 24 students joining the Party. The common point of these young party members is that they not only possess excellent academic achievements, but they are also pioneers in implementing emulation movements, especially the Youth Union movement. Of the 24 students, 16 are secretaries and deputy secretaries of the Youth Union branches. This shows the important role of the Youth Union organization in discovering, nurturing, creating a challenging environment, and training outstanding masses for the Party.
At Nghe An Ethnic Minority High School No. 2 - a place for training, educating and comprehensively caring for children of ethnic minorities in disadvantaged, remote and isolated areas of the province, the School's Youth Union Executive Committee has created many useful playgrounds after school hours, such as "Youth Forum with the sea and islands of the homeland", "Youth with the cause of building and protecting the Fatherland", "Passionate Saturday Night" activities, academic clubs; activities about the source... Thereby, helping ethnic minority students gradually eliminate their inferiority and self-containment, boldly express their talents, and at the same time, it is the basis for the School's Youth Union to discover and nurture outstanding factors to introduce to participate in Party sympathy training classes. The selection of outstanding Youth Union members to introduce to the Party for consideration and admission is organized closely and seriously by the School's Youth Union, based on many information channels such as from the Board of Directors, homeroom teachers, Teachers' Council, night duty team, student managers...
In addition, on a monthly and quarterly basis, the Party Committee of Nghe An Ethnic Minority High School No. 2 meets to listen to and give opinions on Party development work in the branches to provide timely guidance. Thanks to that, from 2015-2022, the school has introduced 220 students to attend the Party sympathy class and recruited 78 students.
At the 12th National Congress of the Youth Union, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong emphasized that “Participating in building and protecting the Party and the political system is the responsibility and political right of union members, youth and the Youth Union organization, and is an important and regular task of the Youth Union at all levels. The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union must regularly supplement the Party with a source of young vitality through a contingent of Party members recruited from outstanding union members and qualified young cadres…”.
In Nghe An, there are more than 130,000 students studying in 89 high schools; 21 continuing education centers, 19 vocational education centers, 11 universities and colleges with Youth Union organizations under the Provincial Youth Union. This is an abundant and stable source of union members, with great potential for the work of developing new party members. Mr. Tran Linh - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Youth Union said: In the past time, the Youth Union chapters at all levels in the province have promoted the work of advising the Party Committee to issue documents directing and orienting the work of developing the Party among union members, youth in general, and students in particular. Determining that participating in Party building, training and introducing outstanding union members to the Party is not only a task, but also a noble and sacred mission of the Youth Union in its role as a reliable reserve force of the Party. Every year, the Provincial Youth Union Standing Committee directs units to implement solutions to promote the development of party members from outstanding members, suitable for each target and locality. In particular, focusing on developing party members from students. In addition, the Provincial Youth Union Standing Committee also organizes the signing of agreements with the education sector to strengthen political and ideological education, focusing on the development of party members. At the same time, directs the Youth Union organizations in universities, colleges, and high schools to proactively advise the Party Committee on the development of party members from outstanding members; conducts a review of union members to have a plan to train and admit them into the Party.
For example, at Vinh University, during the 2017-2022 term, the Standing Committee of the Youth Union introduced nearly 1,494 outstanding members to the Party for consideration of admission, of which 1,351 outstanding members were admitted to the Party. Mr. Nguyen Thai Dung - Secretary of the Youth Union of Vinh University said: The Youth Union has launched extensive movements with many rich and diverse forms of activities, suitable to the characteristics and legitimate needs of students. In addition, it is required that Youth Union - Association officials must be the core of political leadership at the grassroots level, close to and promptly grasp the thoughts and aspirations of students; monitor, help and nurture students in their studies and training. The school's Youth Union also prioritizes assigning specific tasks to outstanding members after they have been introduced to the Party for consideration of admission and coordinates with the Student Political Affairs Department to advise the school's Party Committee to do a good job of training new Party members, promoting the pioneering and exemplary role of students in studying, scientific research and movement activities.
The synchronous and drastic participation of the Youth Union and Association at all levels has contributed to bringing positive signals in implementing the campaign "Youth Union members strive to become members of the Communist Party of Vietnam".
In March 2023, the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Youth Union organized the Forum "Training outstanding members for the Party - The noble and sacred mission of the Youth Union" with the participation of many affiliated Youth Union organizations and Party committees at all levels. Many fundamental and practical solutions to improve the quality of the Youth Union's work in Party building were discussed and shared at this forum. According to Mr. Le Dinh Ly - Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Board: "This is also a new point of the Youth Union in its advisory work, aiming to find solutions and methods to improve the Party development work from outstanding members, especially high school students".