Full faith and love for the Party
(Baonghean.vn) - On the occasion of the 91st anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam (February 3, 1930 - February 3, 2021), Nghe An Newspaper had a conversation with Dr. Bui Thi Can - Head of the Department of Theory and Teaching Methods of Politics - Ho Chi Minh Thought, Vinh University.
PV: Doctor, the Communist Party of Vietnam was born, leading our people and our country to overcome rapids, from one victory to another. History has also proven that the Communist Party of Vietnam is the inevitable choice of the people and the country. Can you elaborate on this?
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| Dr. Bui Thi Can - Head of the Department of Theory and Teaching Methods of Politics - Ho Chi Minh Ideology, in charge of the Graduate program of the Institute of Social Pedagogy, Vinh University. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
Based on the specific historical conditions of Vietnam, President Ho Chi Minh creatively applied the Marxist-Leninist doctrine on revolutionary parties to lead to the establishment of the Communist Party of Vietnam in 1930. The birth of the Communist Party of Vietnam was the product of the combination of Marxism-Leninism with the workers' movement and the Vietnamese patriotic movement, in which the Vietnamese patriotic movement became fertile ground for Marxism-Leninism and the workers' movement sowed the seeds for the birth of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
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| The 19th Provincial Party Congress for the 2020-2025 term. Photo courtesy of Thanh Cuong |
The birth of the Communist Party of Vietnam not only met the nation's demands but also the unity of the people's earnest and legitimate aspirations. That is, the nation is independent, the people are free, prosperous and happy. The Party's principles, goals and nature have won the trust and choice of the nation and the people. The Party has no other interests than the interests of the working class, the working people, the interests of the entire Vietnamese nation, and the interests of progressive people in the world. The leadership role of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the decisive role of the Party's leadership in the Vietnamese revolution has been proven by history, and no political organization can replace it.
Under the Party's correct and talented leadership, Vietnam has achieved great victories, recording brilliant milestones in the nation's history. At just 15 years old, the Party led the Vietnamese people to carry out the miraculous August Revolution, gaining independence and freedom for the nation after nearly a hundred years of French colonial rule; changing the people's lives from miserable slavery to becoming masters of the country. The Party continued to lead the people to successfully carry out two resistance wars against the French colonialists and the invading American imperialists, liberating the nation, unifying the country, leading the whole country to socialism, firmly protecting the independence, sovereignty, unity and territorial integrity of the Fatherland.
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| Nghe An develops production and business activities, especially in industries and fields with potential and advantages, creating development momentum. Illustrative photo source: Lam Tung and PV |
More specifically, in the cause of comprehensive national renovation, under the leadership of the Party, our country has achieved great achievements in the fields of economy, culture, society, national defense, security, ensuring human rights... Today, our country is excited and confident about the foundation, potential, position and prestige that the Communist Party of Vietnam and our entire nation have worked hard to build. The whole world has been admiring the "Miracle" of Vietnam in the work of preventing and fighting the Covid-19 pandemic and developing the economy.
PV:In the long-term existence and development of a political party, there are always difficulties and challenges. So what are the challenges facing the Communist Party of Vietnam at the present stage? In your opinion, what should our Party do to overcome these challenges and continue to lead the country to development?
Dr. Bui Thi Can: In the current new context, there are many changes, complexities, unpredictability, many challenges that are strongly affecting and placing increasing demands on the Party's leadership. That requires the Communist Party of Vietnam to constantly train its intelligence, vision and steadfast political will in the face of all storms of the times.
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| Canning at Royal Foods Factory in Nam Cam Industrial Park (Southeast Economic Zone). Photo courtesy of Lam Tung |
The challenges of the Communist Party of Vietnam in the current period are: The issue of leadership and governing capacity to have enough scope, strength, and intelligence to fulfill the people's expectations, the country's development, and integration into the world; The issue of training revolutionary moral qualities within the Party to be able to face temptations, plots of peaceful evolution, self-transformation, and self-evolution; The issue of responsibility to be able to maintain, consolidate, and develop people's trust in the Party's leadership.
To overcome that challenge and continue to lead the country to develop, our Party needs to constantly self-rectify, self-renew, and improve its comprehensive capacity in leadership and governance; innovate the Party's leadership methods to ensure effectiveness, creativity, and many important breakthroughs for the country's development; always be proactive and vigilant in forecasting risks and challenges and measures to respond to risks and challenges; take advantage of opportunities and promote the strengths of the nation and the country for development.
The Party needs to clearly define the responsibilities of relevant parties in formulating guidelines, in formulating and implementing policies for national development; focus on persevering in the ideal goal of national independence associated with socialism, strengthening the close connection between the Party - State - People - Nation; resolutely fight against distortions and sabotage of the ideological foundation of the Party, the nation and the achievements of the country; constantly protect the foundation, protect cadres of the Party, the State, and protect the people with more appropriate solutions; focus on arousing and strongly promoting the resources and driving forces of the country, attaching more importance to talents to serve the process of sustainable development and strong international integration; mobilize the strength of many classes of people in policy making and implementation of policies and laws; Perfect the socialist institutions to pave the way for innovation, creativity and breakthroughs in all economic - political - cultural - social fields.
PV: Right now, the Communist Party of Vietnam is holding its 13th National Congress. As a citizen, what do you expect and believe the entire Vietnamese people have towards this Congress?
Dr. Bui Thi Can: The 13th National Party Congress has clearly demonstrated the Party's will and the people's hearts, with the basic spirit of: Strengthening the building and rectification of a clean and strong Party and political system; promoting the will, intelligence, aspiration, and strength of great national unity combined with the strength of the times; promoting innovation, rapid and sustainable development of the country; firmly protecting the Fatherland, maintaining a peaceful and stable environment; striving to make our country a developed country with a socialist orientation by the middle of the 21st century.
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| Scene of the 13th National Congress of the Party. Photo courtesy of Thanh Duy |
Looking forward to the 13th Party Congress, the Vietnamese people are expecting the realization of the Aspiration for National Development - Sustainable Development - the people's trust is linked to scientific, theoretical and practical foundations and must have strong, verified evidence; focusing on perfecting the socialist institutions to develop the country; truly promoting the network of many layers of forces and responsibilities from Party members, grassroots Party organizations to Party committees and people with the forces of the whole society in implementing the Resolution of the Congress.
The Congress focuses on the orientation of national development in the period of 2021 - 2030, which must arouse the spirit of patriotism, pride, talent, intelligence, qualities and mettle of the Vietnamese people; on building and perfecting the socialist rule of law state of Vietnam, it is necessary to propose measures to promote accountability to the Party, the National Assembly and the People, associated with specific responsibilities; mechanisms and responsibilities need to be clearly defined. Focus on having specific plans to implement strategic breakthroughs such as: Perfecting synchronous development institutions; developing human resources, especially high-quality human resources; building a synchronous and modern infrastructure system.
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| Selecting outstanding party members. Photo courtesy of PV |
The people expect that when facing negative and difficult problems in the Party and the State, we need to trace the fundamental and specific causes to be frank, scientifically and comprehensively based to resolve them. For example, “the potential and capacity of the Vietnamese people in developing the country have not been fully exploited. That partly comes from the fact that we have not created many motivations and effective mechanisms to encourage and clear bottlenecks in human resources…”. From that, what important lessons need to be drawn?
People hope that in building the 10-year socio-economic development strategy (2021 - 2030), it is necessary to emphasize rapid and sustainable development based mainly on achievements in science, technology and innovation; specific solutions to build a State with a mechanism of responsibility to the People and society... Wishing for more fundamental measures to promote self-awareness and proactiveness in all fields, especially in the fields of security and defense; in the issue of building a rule-of-law state, it is necessary to pay attention to promoting the State's service to the People.
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| The entire political system needs to continue to promote the spirit of solidarity and identify the task of preventing and fighting the epidemic. Photo: Thanh Chung - Thanh Cuong |
The people also expect that the Congress will select a team of worthy leaders, with enough heart, capacity and intelligence to undertake the noble tasks of the revolutionary cause and the trust and authorization of the people... Thus, it can be said that the opinions and expectations of the people are relatively comprehensive, rich, specific and convey their trust and love for the Party and the State, for the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, expressing trust, expectation and burning desire for a prosperous Vietnam in the near future.
PV: Thank you, Doctor!