Avoid conservative thinking and waiting and relying on others.

CLEAR TRANSFORMATION

One of the problems that hinders the overall development of the province and each locality is the conservative, expectant, and dependent mindset among cadres, party members, and people. Realizing that, on the basis of Project No. 07-DA/TU, dated May 30, 2014 of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee on "Enhancing exemplary behavior, combating conservative, expectant, and dependent mindset among cadres and party members", in recent times, Party committees at all levels in the province have implemented many solutions to this problem.

In Do Luong district, three consecutive terms have issued projects onideological workwith clearly defining key contents associated with implementing specific tasks in each field of socio-economics, national defense - security and Party building. In particular, it is to encourage innovative and creative thinking in leadership and direction from the Party cell up; dare to think, dare to do, dare to take responsibility of cadres, overcome the mindset of being satisfied or stubbornly keeping what they have while the movement of the locality, agency, and unit does not have any changes or breakthroughs. To create a shift in ideology and new thinking among cadres and party members, the Party Committees at all levels in Do Luong district are promoting the implementation of Directive 05 of the Politburo and evaluating and classifying party organizations and cadres, party members, especially leading cadres on the basis of work results and movements of agencies and units.

Officials of the Propaganda Department of Do Luong District Party Committee and Boi Son Commune discussed with the people the policy of developing household economy. Photo: Mai Hoa

According to comrade Nguyen Minh Hanh - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Propaganda Department of Do Luong District Party Committee: The change in ideology in the locality is reflected by practical results, which is the change in thinking in attracting investment by not waiting for investors to come to you but proactively looking for investors, at the same time accompanying and removing difficulties and obstacles with investors in the process of project implementation from site clearance tohandling administrative proceduresunder the authority and related to provincial departments and branches. Therefore, in the past term, Do Luong district has attracted more than 10 investment projects to the area. This is an important basis to promote economic restructuring and accelerate urbanization, changing the face of the district. It also demonstrates a new idea in promoting internal resources to build new rural areas with 29/32 communes reaching the finish line.

People have become more aware of the commodity economy, using value per unit area as a measure to transform the structure of crops and livestock, while strengthening links with businesses that consume products...

Comrade Nguyen Minh Hanh - Head of Propaganda Department of Do Luong District Party Committee

For the mountainous district of Quy Chau, overcoming the limitations caused by conservative thinking, waiting, and relying on others is associated with overcoming the shortcomings and limitations that have been pointed out in the spirit of Resolution 4 of the Central Committee (term XI, term XII), while promoting the implementation of Directive 05-CT/TW of the Politburo to innovate the working style and manner of the leadership and management team at all levels, to be more responsible and specific; to limit the situation of working carelessly, vaguely, ineffectively or not fulfilling the assigned duties and responsibilities. Quy Chau district also focuses on improving the quality of the staff from the district to the grassroots level by creating conditions for staff to participate in training and fostering classes and increasing the rotation of staff to the grassroots level to create a "two-way" learning environment for district and commune officials and civil servants.

Tan Lac Town (Quy Chau). Photo: Ke Kien

Comrade Lo Thanh Luan - Standing Deputy Secretary of Quy Chau District Party Committee affirmed: When cadres and party members escape from conservative, waiting and relying thoughts, the people will also move along. Evidence is that in Quy Chau district today, people have gradually taken advantage of conditions to expand the area of ​​industrial sugarcane cultivation with more than 1,300 hectares and fruit trees with more than 120 hectares; developing buffalo, cow, goat, pig and chicken farming from small scale to concentrated with a total of more than 211 farms and households. In particular, the waiting and relying thoughts of cadres and people have been gradually overcome by contributing money and labor to build new rural areas with 1 commune and 20 villages meeting new rural standards. The poverty rate has decreased from 50.55% in 2015 to 20.17% in 2020, an average decrease of 6% per year.

With Tuong Duong - District 30a, there are many difficulties. In the process of leadership and direction, to overcome conservative thinking, waiting, and dependence, the Party Committee and the district government have clearly determined that it must rely on internal resources; internal thinking and intelligence of cadres and civil servants in consulting and organizing the implementation of programs, projects, and tasks, and internal resources from the strength and material resources of cadres, party members, and people.

The successful direction of 5 communes meeting new rural standards of the district in recent times is a breakthrough lesson in overcoming conservative thinking, waiting, and dependence among cadres, party members and people.

Comrade Lu Van May - Standing Deputy Secretary of Tuong Duong District Party Committee

Leaders of Tuong Duong district and Xa Luong commune directly went to the area to grasp people's feedback. Photo: Mai Hoa

NEED TO BE MORE DETERMINED

It can be said that after 7 years of implementing Project No. 07-DA/TU on "Improving exemplary behavior, combating conservative, expectant, and dependent thinking among cadres and party members" of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, in Party committees at all levels, cadres and party members have become more aware and clearly identified conservative, expectant, and dependent thinking in order to find solutions to overcome it. The most obvious change is the working style and manner of cadres and civil servants, especially leaders and managers, which have had many innovations in the direction of being proactive and creative. In some localities, they have boldly replaced cadres, especially leaders and managers at the grassroots level who are conservative, expectant, and dependent, or the local movement, agencies, and units that are stagnant and slow to develop, in order to create a real movement at each level, creating resonance for the overall development of the province.

However, conservative, expectant and dependent thinking still exists among cadres, party members and people, especially in the period ofindustrial revolution 4.0Nowadays, if we have a conservative, expectant, and dependent mindset, and do not set out determination and have drastic solutions that are both urgent in the short term and persistent in the long term, we will not only not be able to keep up with the general development but will even lead to falling behind.

According to the opinion of comrade Lu Van May - Standing Deputy Secretary of Tuong Duong District Party Committee, in order to overcome the conservative, waiting, and relying mindset, first of all, at each level, agency, and unit, we must clearly identify the manifestations in each group of leaders and managers; in civil servants and people in order to have appropriate solutions. In reality in Tuong Duong, in some district-level agencies, some cadres and civil servants have not proactively developed plans and solutions to perform tasks according to the functions and authority of the unit or the tasks of cadres and civil servants according to position and job, but are passively solving them according to cases and incidents. At the grassroots level, some issues related to land management, forestry products, minerals, etc., although under the management authority, are not proactive, do not have management measures, even when violations occur, they do not handle them but wait and rely on the district's forces to intervene.

Overcoming the mentality of waiting and relying on others to promote internal strength in building new rural areas (Photo: People of Tan Thanh commune, Yen Thanh district participate in building canals, flower roads, and planting trees). Photo: Mai Hoa

To solve the conservative, expectant, and dependent thinking among cadres, party members, and people, according to comrade Nguyen Minh Hanh - Standing Committee member, Head of the Propaganda Department of Do Luong District Party Committee, first of all, it is necessary to promote the exemplary character of cadres and civil servants in renewing their thinking, ways of thinking, ways of doing, daring to absorb and implement new and progressive things, especially leaders at all levels. Because if the leader is conservative, expectant, and dependent, it is extremely dangerous, then the role of "locomotive" will not be able to "pull" the collective forward. Besides, it is necessary to overcome barriers in mechanisms and policies, such as mechanisms to create motivation for cadres to innovate, create, dare to think, dare to do, and mechanisms to "untie" in economic development related to land accumulation, linking to create value chains in agricultural production, etc.