Building a team of 'both red and professional' cadres to achieve development goals

On the morning of May 8, the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee held a provincial conference to study and disseminate the content of the 2025 theme: Studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle; Directive No. 42-CT/TW, dated January 16, 2025 of the Politburo; the article by General Secretary To Lam on "Lifelong Learning" and Directive No. 45-CT/TW, dated April 14, 2025 of the Politburo.

At the provincial bridge, comrades: Nguyen Duc Trung - Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee: Hoang Nghia Hieu - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council chaired the conference.

Preserving the image of officials "for the people, for the country"

At the conference, comrade Ngoc Kim Nam - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department, thoroughly grasped the content of Directive No. 42-CT/TW, dated January 16, 2025 of the Politburo on strengthening the Party's leadership in education work of diligence, thrift, integrity, uprightness, impartiality and selflessness.

The Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department said that education on thrift, integrity, and uprightness is one of the pillars of Party building work on ethics, which has been focused on since the Party's inception and has been given great attention by President Ho Chi Minh.

Educating and practicing the qualities of diligence, thrift, integrity, impartiality, and selflessness are effective measures to prevent and combat self-evolution and self-transformation, maintain Party membership, contribute to building a clean and strong Party in all aspects, and preserve and strengthen the people's trust in the Party.

The Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department said that once officials degenerate, become corrupt, and live far from the people, people's trust will decline, thereby affecting the Party's leadership and governing role.

Strengthening education and practice of diligence, thrift, integrity, impartiality, and selflessness contributes to keeping the Party "moral and civilized" and preserving the image of cadres "for the people and the country".

Currently, the entire Party and people are entering an era of rising up, becoming rich and prosperous with a great revolution on three pillars: Rearranging administrative units to create space for development; rearranging the apparatus of the political system towards efficiency, effectiveness and efficiency; achieving double-digit economic growth to achieve the goal of becoming a high-income developed country by 2045 - the 100th anniversary of the country's founding.

To successfully complete that revolution, we need a team of cadres who are both red and professional to act as the core and leader, because cadres are the "root" of all work. And the most essential qualities of cadres who are both red and professional are diligence, thrift, integrity, uprightness, impartiality and selflessness.

Qualities such as diligence, thrift, anti-wastefulness, integrity, uprightness, and impartiality will contribute to improving the capacity and effectiveness of the State apparatus in governance and operation, creating a solid foundation for sustainable development, achieving the goal of economic development associated with environmental protection, improving people's lives, and building a fair, democratic, and civilized society.

Turn awareness into concrete, practical action

Thoroughly grasping the basic contents of Directive 42, the Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department said that the Politburo assessed that in recent times, the work of education on thrift, integrity, impartiality and impartiality has received attention from the Party, the State and Party committees and organizations at all levels, leading and directing, achieving important results.

However, the awareness of the role, importance and urgency of education on thrift, integrity, impartiality and selflessness of many Party committees, Party organizations, cadres and Party members is not adequate and appropriate.

The work of educating revolutionary ethics, especially education on integrity, thrift practice, and anti-waste has not yet become an important and regular task of many Party committees and organizations. The awareness of self-consciousness in studying, training, and practicing thrift, integrity, impartiality, and selflessness has not yet been formed among cadres and Party members.

Although corruption and negativity have been controlled, prevented and tended to decrease, many serious incidents still occur. Wastefulness is still quite common, causing great loss of State and People's assets. A number of cadres and Party members, including high-ranking cadres, violate Party regulations and State laws to the extent that they must be dealt with.

Citing evidence, comrade Ngoc Kim Nam said that in 2024, the national economic police force prosecuted 825 new cases/1,646 defendants for corruption crimes, an increase of 16.4% compared to 2023; recovered 1,334.6 billion VND and many valuable assets.

According to the Report of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption, in 2024 alone, the Central Executive Committee, the Politburo, the Secretariat, and the Central Inspection Commission disciplined 68 officials under the Central management.

Based on the theoretical basis, practice, context and limitations pointed out, the Politburo proposed 8 groups of tasks and solutions to strengthen the education of diligence, thrift, integrity, impartiality and selflessness for cadres, party members and the people.

Implementing Directive 42 of the Politburo, the Standing Committee of Nghe An Provincial Party Committee issued Plan No. 381, dated April 3, 2025, accordingly, assigning specific tasks to Party committees, Party organizations, agencies and units for implementation.

The implementation of Directive 42 must be associated with the implementation of Regulation No. 144 dated May 9, 2024 of the Politburo on revolutionary ethical standards of cadres and party members in the new period.

In order for Directive 42 to be put into practice in a practical and effective manner, the Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department requested that Party committees at all levels, Party organizations, authorities, the Fatherland Front, unions and each cadre and Party member strengthen propaganda, education, raise awareness and responsibility in training and preserving revolutionary ethics.

Promote setting examples, tightening discipline, and synchronously combining "building" and "fighting". Promote the strength of the entire political system and society in spreading good moral values. Link studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality, and lifestyle with the implementation of political tasks at localities, agencies, and units.

"With a high sense of responsibility, we need to seriously absorb, apply, and effectively organize implementation, turning awareness into specific and practical actions in each field of work, contributing to building a clean and strong Party and political system," emphasized Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Propaganda and Mass Mobilization Department Ngoc Kim Nam.