Review and remove weak party members from the organization.

Therefore, people expect that the Directive on improving the quality of Party membership admission and reviewing and screening those who are no longer qualified to be Party members and removing them from the Party, which has just been issued by the Secretariat, will improve the quality of Party members, enhance the leadership capacity and fighting strength of Party organizations; contribute to building a clean and strong Party, and consolidate the people's trust.

First of all, it must be said that over the past decades, our Party has always attached importance to the work of Party members. The number of Party members has increased rapidly through the congresses. At the 11th Party Congress, there were 3.6 million Party members, and by the 12th Congress, there were more than 4.5 million Party members.

But what our Party and the people care about and desire is not only the large and rapidly increasing number of Party members, but also the quality of Party members and their strength. Has the spread of the affirmation of Party members' prestige and the building of trust among the masses met the requirements?

From 2011 to 2017, nearly 60,000 party members were removed from their lists, not to mention nearly 12,500 party members were disciplined and expelled from the Party. It is not natural that the screening and removal of unqualified party members from the Party has increased over the years.

Although we do not want to admit it, we have to admit the fact that there are still many shortcomings in the work of Party members. Those shortcomings include the fact that in many places, people who do not meet the standards and conditions, and people with improper motives are admitted into the Party; that many grassroots Party organizations are busy chasing after quantity and achievements while forgetting about the quality of Party members; that there is laxity and formality in the management of education, in the inspection and supervision of Party members; that there is insubstantiality, a lack of fighting spirit, self-criticism and criticism in the evaluation of Party members, and a lack of determination in reviewing, screening, and removing from the ranks degenerate Party members.

It is these shortcomings that have created a group of party members who have self-evolved and self-transformed, damaging the image of exemplary vanguard party members.

Because clearly, if the grassroots party committees and organizations did their jobs well, if each party member and cadre fully and deeply understood the importance of improving the leadership capacity, fighting strength of the party organization and the quality of party members, there would be no party members who would take advantage of the trust of the party and the trust of the people to seek personal interests.

It is not uncommon for party members, who one day raised their hands to swear under the Party flag and the national flag, to have the same hands stained the next day, joining hands to create chains to run for positions and power, run for all kinds of things, to embezzle, be corrupt, and waste.

It is also from these shortcomings that our Party must "discipline one person to save thousands", must remove from the Party those who have made great contributions to the country and the people, must bring them before the law for serious violations under the guise of being leaders and Party members who always complete their tasks excellently.

The obvious lesson in personnel work with 60 people who have held high positions in the Party since the beginning of the 12th term until now being disciplined, most recently the Secretariat suspending Party activities, and law enforcement agencies prosecuting and temporarily detaining 2 former Ministers of Information and Communications, has shown how necessary and urgent Party member work is.

Because those shortcomings and weaknesses have significantly affected the leadership role and fighting strength of the Party organization and Party members, reducing the people's trust in the Party. Therefore, we need to build a good team of cadres, Party members and good Party cells so that the Party can be strong and lead the country to develop.