General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong requested to create a clear mark on building Party culture.
(Baonghean.vn) - General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong requested that studying and following President Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style become a regular activity, a cultural and spiritual need in the Party, creating a clear mark on building Party culture, so that our Party is truly moral and civilized.
On the morning of June 12, the Party Central Committee Secretariat held a national online conference to review 5 years of implementing Directive No. 05-CT/TW; deploy Conclusion No. 01 KL/TW and study the entire term of the 13th National Party Congress - the 2021 theme.
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General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and other Party and State leaders attended the conference at the Hanoi bridge. Photo: Pham Cuong |
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong attended and delivered a speech at the Conference. Also attending were Politburo members: Nguyen Xuan Phuc - President; Pham Minh Chinh - Prime Minister; Vuong Dinh Hue - Chairman of the National Assembly; Politburo members, Secretaries of the Party Central Committee;...
In Nghe An, the conference connected online with 1 bridge at the Provincial Party Committee, 30 bridge points at district level and equivalent, 277 bridge points at commune level with 9,330 leaders, cadres, and party members attending.
Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee chaired at the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee bridge point. 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; Nguyen Xuan Son - Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; comrades of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Provincial Party Committee; leaders of Party committees, and the National Assembly delegation of the province.
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Delegates attending the conference at the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee bridge. Photo: Thanh Duy |
STRENGTHENING PEOPLE'S TRUST IN THE PARTY AND THE STATE
Over the past years, Party committees and organizations at all levels have led and directed the implementation of Directive No. 05 in conjunction with the implementation of Resolution No. 4 of the Central Committee (term XI, XII) on Party building and rectification, achieving many important and comprehensive results, with many new, creative and practical ways of doing things, creating strong, positive changes that have spread throughout the entire Party and society.
Studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle have gradually become routine, becoming an important and regular task of each Party committee, Party organization, cadre and Party member, making an important contribution to the work of Party building and rectification, promoting the self-awareness and exemplary role of cadres, Party members and leaders, especially the pioneering and exemplary role of Politburo members, Secretariat members and Central Executive Committee members.
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Comrade Nguyen Trong Nghia - Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Department delivered the opening speech and summarized the results of 5 years of implementing Directive 05. Photo: Pham Cuong |
Implementing Directive 05 contributes to curbing and preventing the degradation of political ideology, morality, lifestyle, and manifestations of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation" within the Party; actively protecting the Party's ideological foundation, fighting against erroneous and hostile viewpoints; and strengthening the people's trust in the Party, the State, and the socialist regime.
The above results are important factors contributing to the success of the 13th National Party Congress, the cause of innovation, national construction and defense.
The results of the March 2021 public opinion survey on studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style in recent times showed that 60% of respondents said that emulation movements and competitions were "rich, attractive and profound"; 42% of respondents said that they were "very clearly demonstrated" in the actual behavior of cadres and party members and 46% assessed that they were "relatively clearly demonstrated"; 71% of respondents said that the implementation of Directive 05 "Restored and strengthened the people's trust and attachment to the Party, the State and the socialist regime".
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Delegates follow the conference at the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee bridge. Photo: Thanh Duy |
THE HIGHER THE POSITION, THE GREATER THE POSITION,
BE A MODEL
At the Conference, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong delivered an important and profound speech, emphasizing the necessity of studying and following President Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style; at the same time evaluating the results of 5 years of implementing Directive No. 05-CT/TW of the Politburo; pointing out limitations that need to be overcome soon.
In particular, the General Secretary raised very important basic and general contents on the implementation of Directive 05 in the coming time, focusing on 3 issues: Studying, following and setting an example for cadres and party members.
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General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong delivers a speech at the conference. Photo: Pham Cuong |
The General Secretary analyzed: Studying Uncle Ho means studying the ideology, worldview, revolutionary outlook on life, revolutionary morality and style of a true communist soldier; promoting studying Uncle Ho to become the lifestyle, thinking and working style of each cadre, party member and citizen; making President Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style truly permeate social life, truly become a solid spiritual foundation, a great source of strength for our entire Party, people and army to develop internal strength, overcome difficulties and challenges, and complete all revolutionary tasks in the new period.
Make every cadre and party member truly imbued with Uncle Ho's thoughts, unifying thoughts and actions, words and deeds; everyone sees in them the moral standards that need to be learned, cultivated, and trained, becoming natural needs and reasons for living, and the desire to strive to perfect themselves; bravery, steadfastness, absolute loyalty to revolutionary goals and ideals; diligence, thrift, integrity, impartiality; close to the people, trust the people, love the people, learn from the people, be closely attached to the people; wholeheartedly and wholeheartedly serve the Fatherland and the people.
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Delegates follow the conference at the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee bridge. Photo: Thanh Duy |
Thereby, fostering patriotism, national self-reliance, and the desire to develop a prosperous and happy country, making our country increasingly developed and our nation increasingly prosperous and everlasting.
With a team of trained and mature cadres and party members, our Party has increasingly strengthened its strength, fighting spirit and purity, worthy of its role and mission of leading the revolution and the trust and expectations of the people, worthy of being a leader and a truly loyal servant of the people.
The General Secretary emphasized that following Uncle Ho is to promote and create a strong transformation from studying to following; not just empty words, memorization, and certainly not empty words; but must permeate deeply into the heart, mind, and every action and deed.
To actualize with action programs and specific, practical tasks in implementing the political tasks of localities, agencies, units and the work of Party building and rectification, associated with promoting the responsibilities and public ethics of each cadre and Party member, effectively resolving breakthroughs, key and urgent issues in practice on the basis of the guiding principle of Ho Chi Minh's thought and Marxism-Leninism in all actions.
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Delegates follow the conference at the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee bridge. Photo: Thanh Duy |
We must be imbued with Uncle Ho's thoughts on Party building and rectification in terms of politics, ideology, ethics, lifestyle, organization and cadres; improve the Party's leadership capacity, governing capacity and fighting strength; build a truly socialist rule-of-law State of the people, by the people, for the people; do not say one thing and do another.
Also according to General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong: Setting an example means simultaneously implementing and linking it with studying and following Uncle Ho, effectively promoting the relationship between these three tasks, in which the pioneering and exemplary role and responsibility of cadres and party members, especially the heads of Party committees, authorities, agencies and units, first of all, the comrades of the Politburo, members of the Secretariat, members of the Party Central Committee, Party committees at all levels, and government agencies at all levels, are emphasized.
"Each cadre and party member must seriously fulfill the responsibility of setting an example. The higher the position and the greater the position, the more exemplary one must be in cultivating and training qualities, ethics, lifestyle, style, working style, and working methods for the masses and people to follow; must demonstrate a steadfast ideology, correct viewpoint, dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility, wholeheartedly serve the country and the people; have a scientific, democratic, practical leadership style, truly be the nucleus of solidarity, gathering, creating motivation and promoting collective intelligence in the spirit of Uncle Ho's teaching: "A living example is worth more than a hundred propaganda speeches".
Regarding setting an example, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong also requested to enhance revolutionary ethics, eliminate individualism, resolutely, persistently, and actively prevent, stop, and push back corruption, negativity, ideological, political, moral, and lifestyle degradation of cadres and Party members; the state of self-evolution and self-transformation within the Party; make studying and following President Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality, and style a regular activity, a cultural and spiritual need within the Party, creating a clear mark on building Party culture, so that our Party is truly moral and civilized.
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Delegates follow the conference at the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee bridge. Photo: Thanh Duy |
To carry out the three tasks mentioned above, the General Secretary suggested that it is necessary to closely combine construction and prevention; in which construction is fundamental and strategic, prevention is important and urgent; promote the spirit of saying and doing, lifelong training, regular self-examination and self-correction; fight to prevent and push back the state of degradation in ideology, politics, morality, and lifestyle; manifestations of self-evolution and self-transformation within the Party; persistently and resolutely fight against corruption and negativity with the spirit of no forbidden areas, no exceptions, and no influence by any dishonest individuals or organizations.
Strengthen inspection and supervision work, raise awareness and deterrence against negative thoughts and manifestations; at the same time encourage and motivate cadres and party members to think and act for the common good and for the happiness of the people; make the Party truly clean and strong.
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Delegates follow the conference at the Nghe An Provincial Party Committee bridge. Photo: Thanh Duy |
“I hope that after this conference, the study and following of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style will continue to be promoted, becoming more and more in-depth, more and more practical and effective; actively contributing to the successful implementation of the Resolution of the 13th National Party Congress and the cause of innovation, construction and protection of the country, striving to bring our country to the middle of the 21st century, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, now the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, to become a developed country with high income, realizing President Ho Chi Minh's wish to bring Vietnam on par with the world powers”.
On the occasion of the 5-year review of the implementation of Directive 05 of the Politburo, nationwide, 136 collectives and 187 individuals received Certificates of Merit from the Prime Minister for their outstanding achievements in implementing Directive 05 in the period 2016 - 2021.