Tuong Duong: Innovation from eliminating conservative thinking, waiting, and dependence
(Baonghean.vn) - Project No. 07-DA/HU dated March 8, 2022 on "eliminating conservative, expectant, and dependent thinking among cadres, party members, and the masses" is one of seven important projects on Party building and the political system identified in the Action Program to implement the Resolution of the 27th Tuong Duong District Party Congress, term 2020 - 2025. The project was developed to strongly encourage the thinking of daring to think, daring to do, and daring to take responsibility of cadres, party members, and the masses.
The changes
The first impression when coming to Tam Lien (Tam Quang) village is the beautiful green forests like in a painting. Village chief Vi Van Minh happily said: "That has been the livelihood of the villagers for many years!"
Determining that in order to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty, one cannot rely on the State's support policies but must be self-reliant, self-reliant, and self-improvement in life, the Party Cell and the Tam Lien Village Management Board have directed people to actively plant acacia and met.
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People in Tam Lien village, Tam Quang commune actively grow meters to increase income. Photo: Hoai Thu - Gia Huy |
Currently, the village has over 300 hectares of met trees and 250 hectares of acacia, of which the household with the most is Mr. Luong The Vinh with 2,800 trees, and the village chief Vi Van Minh's family also has nearly 1,000 trees... Thanks to the development of bamboo and met trees, plus the development of livestock with a herd of 560 buffaloes and cows and labor export, the people's lives have gradually improved, mobilizing people to repair branch roads within the village, and building works such as corrugated iron roofs for kindergartens, village cultural houses... are also more convenient.
In fact, not only in Tam Lien village but also in many other villages in Tam Quang commune, the spirit of self-reliance has been promoted and expanded. Although being the first unit to reach the new rural area of the district, the Party Committee, government and people of Tam Quang border commune do not feel complacent. When there was Project No. 07 of the District Party Committee on eliminating the mentality of waiting and relying on others, the Party Committee of the commune proactively developed Plan No. 67 for implementation.
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Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung visited economic models in Tam Quang commune (Tuong Duong). Photo: Pham Bang |
Mr. Nguyen Hoang Son - Secretary of the Party Committee of Tam Quang commune said: In addition to promoting propaganda work associated with launching a widespread emulation movement on setting an example, saying what you do, overcoming the mentality of waiting and relying on others, building the will of self-reliance and self-improvement among party members and people.
Local authorities also implement programs and plans to eliminate hunger, reduce poverty, and build new rural areas in line with the local reality. In particular, they promote the strengths of forestry, especially acacia and met.
Currently, the whole commune has 687.72 hectares of land, in 2022 alone, up to June, the area of self-invested planted forests is 104 hectares (of which, the area of acacia is 89.5 hectares and the area of land is 14.5 hectares).
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| A corner of the new rural area of Tam Quang commune; Inner-field roads are invested in upgrading, large-tonnage vehicles go to the fields to buy products for the people; People contribute their efforts to build the new rural area. Photo courtesy of PV-CTV |
In addition to afforestation, Tam Quang commune people promote buffalo and cow breeding with more than 4,000 heads, developing the area for planting main crops: 633.61 hectares. Of which, the area for tea trees is 5.5 hectares, fruit trees is 34.1 hectares (red-fleshed dragon fruit is 7.1 hectares).
In addition, in 2022, the commune will continue to direct the people of Tung Huong village to install drainage culverts and pour concrete on the road to the Nam Xan experience point with a total concrete length of 420m; complete the construction of an electrical system with a length of 1,000m, mobilizing 696 working days, with a budget of 184,200,000 VND.
According to Ms. Kha Thi Hien - Chairman of Tam Quang Commune People's Committee: The change is not only reflected in thinking but also in action, especially the exemplary behavior of cadres from communes and hamlets that has spread to the people.
Currently, many villages and hamlets invest in building their own infrastructure, such as Lang Mo, which mobilized people to build a roof for the cultural house with a budget of 55 million VND. In Bai Xa, Lang Nhung, and Bai So villages, people voluntarily contributed to build stadiums and solar power systems, creating a breakthrough to reach the advanced new rural area goal by 2025.
In Tam Hop - a border commune adjacent to Laos (with 4 ethnic groups Mong, Thai, Tay Poong and Kinh) living together, people's lives are still difficult with 315 poor households and 87 near-poor households. To help people improve their lives, before Project No. 07 of the District Party Committee, the Commune Party Committee issued Resolution No. 21 on eliminating the mentality of waiting and relying on others and thoroughly implementing it to the villages, hamlets and people.
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| Officials of Pha Lom village, Tam Hop commune talk to reporters about the progress of building new rural areas. Photo: KL |
First of all, it is necessary to change the working style and manner of the communal cadres and civil servants. Every month, the Standing Committee and the Party Executive Committee of the commune assign targets, attaching responsibilities to each person and each department, reviewing each specific task. Assign cadres to stay close to the people, the locality, and the grassroots, especially for poor households and those in particularly difficult circumstances, to have a plan to help them rise up. The commune also proactively established a special working group in Mong Pha Lom village to guide the village to complete the new rural village targets.
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The special working group of Tam Hop commune inspected the progress of new rural construction in Mong Pha Lom village. Photo: KL |
Up to now, the village has achieved 8/13 criteria, the number of poor households has decreased from 72 to 52. In terms of economy, the commune focuses on developing models of raising cattle in captivity, fattening cattle, growing crops such as turmeric, bo bo, pineapple, seven-leaf ginseng, green squash, pumpkin... to increase income.
According to the Party Secretary of the commune, Le Hong Thai, although there are still some people who are not willing to work hard to improve their work, production, and household economic development, and do not want to escape poverty... but in general, there have been positive changes. Up to now, Tam Hop commune has achieved 9/19 NTM criteria.
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People in Tam Hop commune actively develop livestock farming to escape poverty. Photo: KL |
Or in Xa Luong commune, instead of the idea of "waiting for support from superiors", some villages and hamlets have united together to promote internal strength to build public works to serve life.
Typically, people in Khe Ngau, Xieng Huong, and Thach Duong villages contributed money, materials, and labor to build self-flowing water projects to serve daily life; people in Cua Rao 2, Lo, and Ang villages contributed money and labor to build roads to the production area.
Some villages mobilized their own people to repair community cultural houses, install street lights, and build and repair bridges, creating a vibrant emulation movement throughout the commune.
Bringing the project to life
According to the leader of Tuong Duong District Party Committee: Project 07 is a continuation, inheritance, development and expansion of Project 07-DA/TU in 2014 of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee as well as a number of important tasks set out in previous district congresses that have not been thoroughly resolved.
Thereby, in order to create changes from awareness, thinking to practical actions of cadres and party members, especially leaders at all levels. First of all, the district requires strengthening the leadership, direction and responsibility of Party committees at all levels associated with the role of heads of agencies, units and organizations.
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| Thach Giam town is increasingly clean and beautiful; The atmosphere of preparing for the congress in the mountainous district of Tuong Duong; The forest of cassia in Tam Dinh commune (Tuong Duong). Photo courtesy of Nguyen - Dinh Tuan - Ho Phuong Book |
Each grassroots Party organization must issue a plan to implement the Project "Eliminate conservative, expectant, and dependent thinking among cadres, party members, and the people" in accordance with the actual situation. At the same time, develop a self-assessment form and comprehensively review the subjects under its management regarding the level of conservatism, expectant, and dependent thinking, along with specific solutions to overcome it.
The project also clearly states that it is necessary to strengthen the effective implementation of setting an example, requiring each party member to be associated with the household responsibility model, eliminating the mindset of waiting and relying on others, and taking the implementation results as one of the bases for annual quality assessment.
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To put the project into practice, first of all, the district focuses on innovating and improving personnel work; strengthening the arrangement and assignment of cadres and civil servants according to job positions; continuing to implement the policy of arranging commune-level Party secretaries who are not local people, which has so far been arranged in 14/17 commune-level units (82.3%). The Standing Committee of the District Party Committee, the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee, and the Executive Committee of the District Party Committee strictly implement the Party Committee's regulations, with the motto of strengthening "orientation towards the grassroots".
In the first 6 months of 2022, the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee organized 25 working sessions with departments, branches, units, and localities to grasp the situation, promptly orient socio-economic development, stabilize national defense and security, build a strong Party and political system.
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| Overview of the working session between Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Duc Trung and leaders of departments, branches and sectors with leaders of Tuong Duong district. Photo: Pham Bang |
In the economic field, the district promotes hunger eradication and poverty reduction programs, improves the quality of vocational training to export labor, promotes creativity among cadres, party members and people to contribute ideas to build new rural areas; builds and consolidates infrastructure systems to change the face of mountainous areas, especially in terms of transportation, focuses on developing production, improving the material and spiritual life of the people.
In the first 6 months of 2022, Tuong Duong has focused on maintaining the criteria for meeting new rural standards in 4 communes of Tam Thai, Tam Quang, Tam Dinh, Xa Luong; issued Resolution No. 04-NQ/HU of the District Party Committee to direct the implementation of the Project on building the new rural program for the period 2021 - 2025; in which, it is determined to focus on bringing Luu Kien commune to the finish line in 2022, focusing on building Pha Lom village as a bright spot to meet new rural standards. Completed connecting the national grid to Xop Chao village, Luong Minh commune and 3 villages of Na Kha, Pieng Coc, Pha Khao, Mai Son commune.
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| Many economic models in Tuong Duong are effective. Photo: Dang Cuong |
In particular, to overcome the mentality of waiting and relying on the State's policies and guidelines, "rather suffer than work hard" that still exists among the people, in addition to synchronously implementing policies according to the support of the Resolution of the National Assembly, the Government invests in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the period of 2021 - 2030, Tuong Duong district has directed departments and branches to research, review and supplement a number of mechanisms and policies that are no longer suitable, from "free" to "conditional" support; focusing on supporting product output, helping to connect product consumption channels, and building product brands.
"At the same time, review, research, and clearly analyze the causes of poverty of poor and near-poor households to develop specific and appropriate support mechanisms and policies to help people escape poverty sustainably" - Mr. Lo Thanh Nhat - Vice Chairman of Tuong Duong District People's Committee said.
