Sharp, sensitive, timely in orienting public opinion

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee chaired the meeting. Also attending were comrades: Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Nguyen Duc Trung - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee;...

Panorama of the regular meeting of the Provincial Party Standing Committee. Photo: Thanh Duy

ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN A SOCIAL OPINION FEEDBACK MECHANISM

Nghe An Provincial Party Committee always identifies ideological work, including public opinion work, as the task of the entire Party Committee, of each Party Committee at all levels and each Party member.

However, in the current context, the work of grasping and orienting public opinion is influenced by many factors, faces many difficulties, and affects the leadership, administration, and social management of the province.

Therefore, the development and promulgation of the Project aims to strengthen the leadership and direction of Party committees and authorities at all levels, the synchronous and smooth coordination, the participation of the entire political system and all classes of people in grasping the orientation of public opinion in the province.

Thereby, improving the quality and effectiveness of the work of grasping and orienting public opinion, increasing forecasting, proposing that Party committees and authorities at all levels issue correct and appropriate policies and guidelines; proactively orienting ideology, propagating and effectively fighting against false, distorted and hostile arguments.

Comrade Tran Quoc Khanh - Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department presented the draft Project. Photo: Thanh Duy

Timely orienting public opinion, effectively resolving social problems and concerns, especially establishing and maintaining a mechanism to respond to issues reflected by public opinion, helping localities and units overcome and correct limitations and weaknesses; contributing to strengthening trust, creating consensus among cadres, party members and people, maintaining ideological stability of cadres and party members in the new situation, and promoting the strength of great national unity.

The project's requirements are to assess the current status of public opinion capture and orientation in recent times, and to propose basic solutions to continue improving the quality and effectiveness of public opinion capture and orientation in the coming time.

Making public opinion work a regular task, contributing to stabilizing ideology, creating unity within the Party and consensus in society to successfully implement the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress, the Resolution of the 19th Provincial Party Congress, term 2020 - 2025 and the following years. To achieve the set goals and requirements, the draft Project has developed 6 tasks and solutions.

REGULAR, IMPORTANT TASKS

Regarding the draft content of the project, Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Hoang Nghia Hieu emphasized that the role of social opinion orientation is extremely important; however, to be effective, it is necessary to grasp early, promptly, reflect fully, objectively, honestly, and avoid one-sidedness; social opinion orientation must be based early on the Party's viewpoints, State laws and policies, and traditional standards and values.

Comrade Nguyen Van Thong - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee deeply analyzed many requirements in the work of grasping and orienting public opinion in the current period. Photo: Thanh Duy

Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Van Thong said that one of the upcoming solutions that requires utmost attention is to equip competent agencies, units, sectors, teams, and cadres with skills to carry out the requirements of grasping and orienting public opinion.

Through the implementation of the Project, Party committees at all levels and sectors must pay more attention to the work of orienting public opinion, considering this an important task in the Party's leadership; and building an elite propaganda team.

Therefore, when implementing the Project, the Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee suggested: The Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department needs to advise on the work of disseminating policies, fostering professional skills and expertise to ensure sensitive, timely, complete, accurate and objective information; process information and effectively orient public opinion.

Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy concludes the content of the draft Project. Photo: Thanh Duy

Concluding this content, analyzing some existing problems and limitations in the work of grasping and orienting public opinion today, especially at the grassroots level, Provincial Party Secretary Thai Thanh Quy requested that when implementing the Project, it is necessary to consider the work of grasping and orienting public opinion as a regular and important task of Party committees, authorities, the Fatherland Front and mass organizations in directing and operating.

Along with that, the head of the Provincial Party Committee requested: The work of capturing information and public opinion must be fast, accurate, honest, and objective; generalizing, identifying the content of correct and incorrect information; forecasting, analyzing, and processing, thereby having timely and effective orientation.

On the other hand, it is necessary to make full use of modern technology to serve the work of capturing information, analyzing data, and orienting public opinion; at the same time, it is also necessary to grasp the situation at the grassroots level. The Public Security and Military sectors should strengthen coordination with the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department to effectively implement the Project.

Also at the working session, the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee listened to and commented on the content of the first session of the 18th Provincial People's Council; reviewed, supplemented, and adjusted the working program of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee for the last 6 months of 2021;...