Building a team of officials with innovative thinking and a desire for development.

Implement solutions in a coordinated manner.

Over the past period, various measures and solutions have been implemented at all levels within the province to improvequality of personnelIn Tuong Duong district, for many consecutive terms, attention has been paid to supporting and creating favorable conditions for cadres to pursue further education, improve their qualifications, and standardize their professional degrees. According to a report from the Organization Department of the Tuong Duong District Party Committee, currently, 11% of cadres, civil servants, and public employees in the district's Party and mass organizations have master's degrees and 72.9% have bachelor's degrees; in the district government, 14.6% have master's degrees and 80.6% have bachelor's degrees; and at the grassroots level, over 87% have master's and bachelor's degrees.

Officials from Tam Hop commune inspect the effectiveness of the sorghum cultivation model. Photo: Mai Hoa

In addition to standardizing qualifications, according to Comrade Mac Van Nguyen - Head of the Organization Department of Tuong Duong District Party Committee, the district focuses on updating knowledge of state management, social management, and specialized professional skills through training courses; linking the training of communication skills, conduct, mass mobilization work, and situation handling procedures for district and grassroots officials and civil servants through the system of officials going to the grassroots. This is linked to implementation.rotation of officialsTraining and development should be conducted from district-level departments down to communes and vice versa, following both top-down and bottom-up approaches, and from one commune to another, in order to thoroughly overcome the closed-off and parochial nature of personnel management. The district should boldly appoint, promote, and utilize young, capable, and enthusiastic cadres in key positions at the district and grassroots levels, creating motivation for cadres to strive for advancement.

For Ky Son, a mountainous district where nearly 95% of the population are ethnic minorities and socio-economic conditions are challenging, the solution to improving the quality of cadres is to create opportunities for them to gain practical experience and learn from each other to grow through cadre deployment and rotation.

Over the past five years, Ky Son district has rotated 9 officials to communes and 9 officials from communes to the district; 36 district-level officials and 6 commune-level officials have been rotated horizontally.

Muong Xen town (Ky Son district). Photo courtesy of Nguyen Sach.

According to the Secretary of the Ky Son District Party Committee, Vi Hoe, the reassignment and rotation of cadres have overcome subjectivity, self-satisfaction, inertia, and stagnation among some officials; especially the parochialism and deference of grassroots officials that affect the effectiveness of leadership and guidance in the local political tasks. On the other hand, the general psychology of cadres when arriving in a new environment is one of anxiety and concern, seeking solutions to demonstrate their individual role before the new collective; contributing to the dissemination of new thinking, leadership methods, and management approaches to the cadres in the units where they are transferred. And in practice, any unit or locality where cadres are transferred has seen positive new movements in the movement, contributing to promoting the overall movement of the district, maintaining the three "peaces": "peace for the people, peace for the area, and peace for the border" in the border district.

From a provincial perspective, according to Comrade Le Quoc Khanh, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Organization Department, in recent times, all levels in the province have implemented many comprehensive solutions to improve the quality of cadres. This starts from the selection process to the placement of cadres according to their abilities and strengths. In particular, cadre evaluation must be based on the results and effectiveness of their work according to their assigned responsibilities and duties.

The training and development of cadres has been emphasized through various forms, such as sending them to training courses and workshops; and strengthening cadre rotation to train them through practical experience. Even the policy of evaluating civil servants in Party, government, Fatherland Front, and mass organizations implemented by the province over the past two years has had a very positive impact on improving the quality of the workforce. The implementation of Central Resolutions 4 (11th and 12th Party Congresses) and the regulations on the exemplary conduct of cadres and Party members, as well as Political Bureau Directive No. 05-CT/TW, Government Directive 26, and Provincial Party Standing Committee Directive 17, have all contributed to improving the quality and sense of responsibility of cadres and civil servants throughout the province.

A village meeting in Nhon Mai commune.

Identify weaknesses in order to address them.

Overall, the quality of the staff at all levels has improved significantly in recent years. However, the quality of the staff still reveals some limitations, as clearly stated in the summary report of the 2015-2020 term by the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Department. These include an irrational structure of professional fields and sectors, especially a shortage of staff in economic and technical fields, and a lack of skilled experts in various areas.

The capacity of some officials and civil servants to direct, concretize, and organize the implementation of the Party's guidelines and resolutions at all levels, as well as the State's policies and laws, remains limited; especially their ability and skills in handling situations arising from practical situations are still limited. A segment of officials still harbors conservative and stagnant thinking, working based on experience, and are reluctant to learn and absorb new knowledge.

Within that overall context, based on the practical experience of monitoring officials in the district, Comrade Tran Thi Binh - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Yen Thanh District Party Committee - stated that currently, some officials still have...conservative ideologyStagnation, slow innovation in work methods, lack of exemplary conduct in work and life, causing internal disunity, harassment of the people, and disciplinary violations. In addition, the awareness of learning, especially self-study to improve qualifications, among many leading and managerial cadres is not high; they have not clearly defined their motivation for learning as being for work; the mentality of learning to "standardize" or "become a cadre" is still quite common; many comrades are complacent and satisfied with their training level, rarely engaging in self-study, research, or participating in training to update new knowledge, and therefore do not meet the requirements to continue holding leadership positions.

The one-stop service center for receiving and returning results at Hoa Thanh commune, Yen Thanh district. Photo: Mai Hoa.

In the mountainous district of Kỳ Sơn, according to the District Party Secretary, Comrade Vi Hòe, besides some officials lacking experience in leadership, direction, management, and administration, and whose capabilities do not meet the requirements of their tasks, there are also some officials and civil servants who lack ambition and a proactive attitude; they are afraid of difficulties and hardships, work half-heartedly, and have a mentality of waiting and relying on others.

Specifically addressing the grassroots level, Comrade Bui Thanh Bao, Secretary of the Tan Ky District Party Committee, stated that the weakest point of the current team of commune-level officials and civil servants is their lack of responsibility, awareness of serving the people, and dedication to local movements and the people. Some officials and civil servants still harass and are indifferent to the people; they do not focus on resolving issues that concern and require the people's attention. There are still instances of grassroots officials lacking self-discipline, maintaining good conduct, and setting a good example, believing they have the right to "say whatever they want, do whatever they want, and force everyone to listen and follow."

Recognizing the limitations and the requirements for building a team of cadres set by the Provincial Party Committee for the 2020-2025 term, including the requirement to build a team of key leaders with innovative thinking, a desire for development, the courage to think, act, and confront difficulties and challenges; it is necessary for Party committees at all levels to propose specific solutions to comprehensively improve the quality of cadres, meeting the development requirements of the province for the coming period.

The rural landscape of Tang Thanh commune (Yen Thanh district) is improving. Photo: Mai Hoa