Implementing the Politburo's conclusions on reforming personnel work.
On August 20th, the national conference of cadres to thoroughly understand and implement the Politburo's conclusions on reforming cadre work opened in Ho Chi Minh City. General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong attended and delivered a keynote address.

General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong and other delegates attend the conference.
In his opening remarks at the conference, Comrade To Huy Rua, Member of the Political Bureau, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party, and Head of the Central Organization Department, stated: The national conference of cadres to thoroughly understand and implement the Political Bureau's Conclusion on reforming cadre work is also a conference to discuss the immediate tasks needed in Party building, contributing to the early implementation of the Party's Central Resolution 4 (11th Congress).
Comrade Tô Huy Rứa thoroughly explained the policies and orientations on reforming personnel work in accordance with the spirit of Conclusion No. 24 of the Politburo and Resolution of the 4th Central Committee Meeting (11th term) of the Party; summarized the achievements, pointed out the shortcomings and weaknesses in personnel planning and rotation; clearly analyzed the causes and six important groups of solutions to promote personnel planning and rotation alongside the comprehensive reform of other aspects of personnel work, including many solutions aimed at focusing on reforming and improving the quality of personnel evaluation.
Comrade To Huy Rua proposed that the Conference focus on thoroughly discussing solutions for implementing the policies and orientations on personnel work outlined in the Central Committee's Resolution and the Politburo's Conclusion; providing feedback on draft amendments and revisions to regulations and guidelines on personnel planning and rotation, and other important proposals.
In his address to the Conference, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong emphasized and affirmed the firm stance that personnel planning, especially for leading and managerial cadres, is absolutely necessary. However, according to the assessment in the Report, personnel planning still has many limitations and shortcomings that need to be supplemented and adjusted to improve this important task.
According to the program, this conference will discuss and provide input on many important issues, many new issues for which there is insufficient experience, such as: criteria for evaluating cadres; confidence votes; regulations on the responsibilities of heads of departments… During the discussion of these issues, the General Secretary requested that delegates thoroughly understand the common viewpoints and guiding principles on cadre work to clearly see the comprehensive, dialectical, difficult, complex, but extremely important nature of cadre work.
The General Secretary stated clearly: Personnel work is a key link in Party building, a crucial aspect of all the Party's activities, and a decisive factor in the success of the revolution. Simultaneously with preparing political guidelines and socio-economic development strategies, we must prepare a personnel strategy and develop personnel plans.
It is necessary to thoroughly understand the class perspective in personnel work, and on that basis, to have a policy of uniting and gathering cadres broadly, valuing all talents, expanding international relations, and integrating into the international community. Personnel work should be conducted according to the principle of democratic centralism, emphasizing the role of the individual leader but in relation to the collective, ensuring democracy and avoiding authoritarianism.
The General Secretary affirmed: The Party unifies leadership in personnel work, directly manages the cadre team, and at the same time promotes the role of organizations within the political system; in the process, there must be decentralization, assignment of responsibilities, close coordination between Party organs and other agencies in the political system, promoting the role of State agencies and socio-political organizations...; there must be supervision and inspection of personnel work and cadre management.
Over the two working days (August 20-21), the conference focused on discussing and contributing ideas to the following issues: developing standards for official positions and criteria for evaluating officials based on these standards, work efficiency, and the trust of officials, Party members, and the people; regulations on providing feedback and conducting annual confidence votes for leadership positions in Party, State, Fatherland Front, and mass organizations; regulations on the authority and responsibility of heads of agencies in evaluating, planning, rotating, appointing, and nominating candidates for official positions; supplementing and amending regulations on the decentralization of personnel management and the regulations on appointment and nomination of candidates; supplementing and amending guidelines on the planning of leadership and management personnel...
According to (Chinhphu.vn) - LT


