Resolution and practice

(Baonghean) - A specialist with outstanding document drafting skills is often assigned to advise on drafting resolutions for Party committees. Entrusted with drafting a resolution on improving the quality of rural Party branch meetings, he poured all his theoretical knowledge into producing a resolution that covered all issues: principles of Party branch organization, characteristics of different types of Party branches, content and methods of organizing Party branch meetings…

When the resolution was presented to the Party committee for discussion, some opinions disagreed because the content was unclear, but it was ultimately passed by a simple majority vote. After some time working there, he was promoted to deputy head of the committee and then transferred to become secretary of a grassroots Party committee to be included in the planning for the position of head of the committee.

Fundamentally, his first action was to check the implementation of resolutions from higher levels. He was surprised to find that the resolution on improving the quality of rural Party branch activities, which he had meticulously drafted, was not understood by the branch secretaries. Seeing this as unusual, he decided to convene a meeting of branch secretaries to reiterate the resolution.

At the conference, the branch secretaries offered many opinions:

- The resolution on improving the quality of rural Party branch activities, when presented as if it were a Party branch in an agency, fails to address the pressing issues currently facing rural Party branches.

- Rural youth nowadays don't want to strive to join the Party. The resolution is well-written, but it fails to address the fundamental issue of developing young Party members in rural areas.

- There are retired people who have served as village Party branch secretaries for many consecutive terms, yet there's still no one to replace them. Resolutions may be well-written, but without qualified cadres, who will implement them?

Faced with the "counter-arguments" of the branch secretaries, he realized that when drafting the resolution, he had been subjective and failed to study the actual situation, while the Party committee had passed the resolution bureaucratically.

Through his time as a grassroots leader, he realized that some resolutions were well-written but detached from reality. Perhaps this is the reason why resolutions from many Party committees fail to be implemented in practice.

Tran Hong Co