Innovation in ideological work in Yen Thanh
(Baonghean) - "If your thoughts are not clear, carrying an empty pot is still heavy" - is a popular and easy-to-understand saying about political and ideological work when it is not carried out effectively. Clearly identifying this as one of the key contents associated with the local socio-economic goals, in recent times, the Yen Thanh district Party Committees have used many solutions to effectively implement political and ideological work, meeting the practical requirements.
Creating consensus through political and ideological work
Tan Thanh is a mountainous commune, more than 20 km northwest of Yen Thanh district center. The commune has a population of more than 10,000 people, a large area with a total natural area of more than 2,500 hectares. In addition, Tan Thanh commune has a large number of Catholics. Therefore, according to the Party Secretary of the commune Pham Van Chinh, in the process of leading and directing the implementation of political tasks, Tan Thanh has its own characteristics, especially in the new rural construction movement. Recognizing the practical difficulties, ideological work is always considered important by the Party Committee.
Before implementation, each policy and task must be "communicated" to the collective of the Standing Committee, the Party Executive Committee of the commune, to the extended "military - people - government" and the people. In addition, the policy is widely communicated through the commune radio system, mobilized at the Party cells, in which cadres and Party members are the core factors.
In implementing the NTM program, from road construction to environmental protection, planting flower beds, ornamental plants, model gardens, lighting up rural roads... the commune has selected each residential group and hamlet to focus on directing, then influencing the ideology of cadres and people in other residential groups and hamlets to implement together.
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| Concreting canals, making flower roads, planting trees in Tan Thanh commune. Photo: Mai Hoa |
However, all tasks are not easy, there are still cases where party members and people do not agree to carry out. "In cases like this, the role of the inter-family community is promoted to arouse people's responsibility to the community, because each person cannot separate and isolate himself from the general community" - Secretary of the Commune Party Committee Pham Van Chinh shared his experience.
Thanks to the focus on ideological work, from a poor commune with only about 2 km of asphalt road, up to now, the traffic system of Tan Thanh commune has been asphalted and concreted for about 70 km, the technical infrastructure is guaranteed to be synchronous, Tan Thanh is in the top of the most beautiful new-style rural communes in the province. In agricultural economic development, Tan Thanh has also made some new changes with 30% of the area producing high-quality rice seeds and commercial rice; converting 50% of the hill area to grow Kaien pineapple; putting the model of hydroponic vegetable growing net house into production; implementing "land consolidation and plot exchange" to bring 5% of the commune's land to a centralized location to create conditions for people to rent land to open farms and family farms with a total of more than 20 family farms and farms currently.
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| View of Tien Thanh commune (Yen Thanh). Photo: Thai Hong |
Also a difficult area, Hung Thanh commune was separated from Hau Thanh commune in 2007 with poor infrastructure conditions, low living standards, average income per capita only reached 22.6 million VND/person/year. Some policies, especially shortcomings in land management, have affected people's thinking, some extremist elements in the community took advantage of the situation to incite people to file complaints, including mass complaints in the area.
From that reality, the issue prioritized by the Hung Thanh Commune Party Committee after the 2015-2020 term congress is to do a good job of ideological work, creating stability among the people by focusing on resolving complaints, reflections and recommendations from the people.
The locality also maintains regular dialogues between the Party Committee, the government and the people, through which many people's issues are informed and resolved promptly, creating transparency and the staff and civil servants are also more concerned and responsible for their work. Thanks to that, from the locality, there are quite a few complicated petitions, up to now, in the area there is only one petition related to forest land disputes.
According to comrade Nguyen Van Phuc - Secretary of the Party Committee of Hung Thanh commune, to ensure ideological stability and high consensus among the people, the Party Committee of the commune focuses on building a team of responsible, dedicated and devoted cadres, party members and civil servants through promulgating a system of regulations and management by regulations; clearly orienting tasks for agencies and organizations. Particularly for the mass organizations, the Women's Union undertakes the task of propagating and mobilizing members to build model roads and undertake environmental sanitation work; the Farmers' Association implements models of raising hill chickens and beekeeping for honey; the Youth Union undertakes the task of propagating and supporting youth union members to export labor and plant trees on the roads; the Veterans' Association maintains the activities of the news club and undertakes patrolling and maintaining security and order in residential areas; The Fatherland Front plays a good role in monitoring, criticizing and grasping the people's situation to promptly reflect and advise the Party Committee and government to intervene and handle the situation together with the grassroots...
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| The greenhouse vegetable model of Ms. Ha Thi Suong's family in Hong Thanh commune (Yen Thanh). Photo: Minh Chi |
Removing obstacles
It can be said that in Yen Thanh, grassroots ideological work is always concerned based on timely guidance from the Party Committee, the government, the Fatherland Front, and district-level organizations; because of the viewpoint that wherever problems arise, they must be solved there, and to ensure good leadership and direction of local political tasks, we must first pay attention to doing a good job of ideological work, because "if our thoughts are not clear, carrying an empty pot is still heavy".
To create that awareness for the grassroots, according to comrade Hoang Van Minh - Deputy Head of the Propaganda Department of Yen Thanh District Party Committee, right from the beginning of the term, the District Party Committee issued Resolution No. 02/NQ-HU dated December 31, 2015 on continuing to promote ideological work, period 2016 - 2020. In which, it is clearly defined that ideological work must come first, creating unity in awareness, building trust and motivation for action. At all levels, more attention is paid to providing and publicizing guidelines, policies, programs, projects, planning, socio-economic development plans as well as local legal regulations to cadres, party members and people. The implementation process focuses on propaganda work, enhancing exchanges and dialogues with cadres, party members and people to find common consensus.
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| Raising awareness of responsibility to serve the people is the solution for ideological work, Photo: Mai Hoa |
In the 3 years since the beginning of the term, the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee has organized 3 thematic dialogues; the District People's Committee has organized nearly 50 dialogues and the grassroots level has organized hundreds of dialogues.
The results of implementing the local political tasks have had many positive changes. Notably, in the construction of new rural areas, 34/38 communes have met the standards, an increase of 21 communes compared to the beginning of the term; the area for producing rice seeds and commercial rice has reached 35-40%, equivalent to 8,000-9,000 hectares (at the beginning of the term, it only reached 10%). The district has also implemented 4 high-tech agricultural models for producing vegetables and fruits; attracted a number of investment projects for high-tech waste incinerators in Minh Thanh, Son Thanh, Tang Thanh, Van Thanh communes; investment projects for spiritual and ecological tourism areas of Gam temple - pagoda; expansion of phase II, garment factories and a number of traffic projects...
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| Yen Thanh district has 35 - 40% of commercial rice area. Photo: Minh Chi |
In addition to the awareness of responsibility of cadres, party members and people in implementing political tasks in the locality has generally been raised, there are still some who have not accompanied and participated. The resolution of some arising problems; the removal of difficulties for people; the settlement of petitions, complaints, denunciations, reflections and recommendations of people from the Party Committee and the government are not very effective; the difficulties and production efficiency in agriculture have not met the requirements of improving and enhancing people's lives... These are the issues that the Party Committee and the government at all levels in Yen Thanh need to consider in order to do better in terms of ideology, create high consensus in society, and create new development momentum in the coming time in the rice district.