Accurate and timely in grasping public opinion
One of the most important requirements is to build a team of people who work to grasp public opinion. In addition to good qualifications, capacity and skills, it is also required to improve their mettle to provide the most complete and accurate information to Party committees at all levels.
On the afternoon of May 22, the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the Provincial Party agencies coordinated with the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Committee to organize a training conference on professional social opinion work for key cadres, social opinion reporters and collaborators of Steering Committee 35 of agencies and units under the two Party Committees of the Provincial Party agencies and the Provincial People's Committee.
Public opinion work is an important and necessary task to grasp, promptly and truthfully gather the thoughts, feelings, wills and aspirations of cadres, party members and people on current issues and events in the country, in the province and in each Party Committee; promptly reflect urgent and prominent issues arising to propose, reflect and advise the Party Committee and professional bodies to resolve and orient public opinion.
This is also an important and necessary step in building, promulgating, organizing and evaluating the implementation results of the Party and State's policies and guidelines.
The conference heard comrade Pham Thu Ha - Head of the Department of Research and Social Opinion, under the Central Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Commission, directly present the topic "Work of grasping, investigating, and orienting social opinion in the new situation".
It clarifies general issues on public opinion work, affirms the "strength" of public opinion; distinguishes between public opinion and rumors; and especially clarifies the Party's guiding views on public opinion work.
Head of the Department of Research - Social Opinion Pham Thi Ha also provided students with information on the requirements and tasks of social opinion work, including capturing, investigating, researching, forecasting and orienting social opinion with the ultimate goal of advising and reflecting the thoughts, feelings, aspirations and wishes of the people to the Party and agencies in order to adjust policies and guidelines to ensure "the Party's will is in line with the people's will".
The requirement for public opinion work is to closely follow the viewpoints, policies and guidelines of the Party and State, closely follow political, socio-economic events, foreign affairs activities, etc.; closely follow the "breath" of practical life, starting from practice, drawing on experiences and lessons from practice to supplement and develop theories, constantly innovating the content and methods of operation; especially paying attention to scientific requirements, especially accuracy, objectivity and comprehensiveness.
At the conference, Director of the Department of Research and Social Opinion Pham Thi Ha provided additional skills on capturing, synthesizing, and analyzing social opinion; methods of investigating social opinion; methods of orienting social opinion...
The most important requirement is that the team of people working to grasp public opinion, in addition to good qualifications, capacity and skills, must also improve their mettle to provide the most complete and accurate information.
Based on the communication of the Director of the Department of Research and Social Opinion Pham Thi Ha, a number of students also discussed and exchanged a number of issues related to the responsibilities of cadres and party members participating in social networks to spread positive information, at the same time fight and refute false and destructive information of hostile forces, and protect the Party's ideological foundation.
At the end of the conference, the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of the provincial Party agencies and the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Committee also thoroughly grasped a number of contents, requiring the continued promotion of the role of Party committees and heads of agencies and units in leading and directing the implementation of the work of grasping and orienting public opinion at agencies and units; making public opinion work a regular task in the leadership, direction and operation of Party committees.
For comrades attending the training, continue to improve the sense of responsibility, proactively research, innovate and create,Improve the effectiveness of grasping and orienting public opinion, combined with increasing participation in the fight against erroneous and hostile views and actively spreading information on mass media, especially on the Internet and social networks, and participating in protecting the Party's ideological foundation.