Nghe An Provincial Party Committee issued a Project to Improve the Quality of Grasping and Orienting Public Opinion

Delegates visit Nghe An Newspaper's booth at the Spring Newspaper Festival Canh Ty 2020 held in Quynh Luu. Photo: Quoc Son

The project clearly states: Nghe An Provincial Party Committee always identifies ideological work, in which public opinion work is the task of the entire Party Committee, Party committees, cadres and Party members. However, in the current context, the work of grasping and orienting public opinion is influenced by many factors, facing many difficulties, affecting the leadership, administration and social management of the province; in which the strong development of new media and social networks with diverse and multi-dimensional information streams; hostile forces intensify their sabotage against the great national unity bloc, the revolutionary cause of the Party...

Faced with the urgent requirements of reality, the Provincial Party Standing Committee set out the general objectives of the project: to raise awareness of Party committees and authorities at all levels about the role and importance of public opinion work in leadership and management; to make public opinion work a regular task in the direction and administration of Party committees, authorities, the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations. To continue to innovate methods, improve the quality and effectiveness of activities to grasp and orient public opinion; to promptly grasp the public opinion situation and propose solutions, helping Party committees and authorities at all levels to make correct decisions, contributing to consolidating people's trust in the Party's leadership. To strengthen solidarity and unity within the Party, create consensus, contributing to the successful implementation of resolutions of Party Congresses at all levels and the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress.

The Standing Committee has set out the following basic tasks and solutions throughout the term: Strengthening leadership and direction to promote the combined strength of the entire political system and all classes of people; gradually making public opinion work a regular and routine task. Innovating the content and form to improve the quality and effectiveness of the work of grasping and orienting public opinion. Strengthening coordination between agencies, departments, branches and localities in the work of grasping and orienting public opinion. Building, consolidating and perfecting the team doing public opinion work. Organizing sociological surveys to grasp public opinion. Investing in facilities and funding for public opinion work.

To organize the implementation of the Project, the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee directed the establishment of a Steering Committee for the implementation of the Project, headed by the Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; assigned the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda Department to preside over and coordinate with relevant agencies and units to advise, guide, inspect, and urge the organization and implementation of the Project; periodically advise the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee to organize a preliminary and final review to draw lessons learned to effectively direct the implementation of the Project in practice.