'Eliminate' weak, reduce 'white' village party cells in special areas

(Baonghean) -Based on the current situation of the quality of operations of the political system in specific regions and the risk of having no Party cells again, on August 10, 2016, Nghe An Provincial Party Committee issued Project No. 01-DA/TU on "Building Party cells and developing Party members in blocks, hamlets and villages at risk of having no Party cells in the period 2012-2020" with many synchronous solutions.

The core objective of Project No. 01-DA/TU issued by Nghe An Provincial Party Committee (hereinafter referred to as Project 01) is to focus on improving the quality of Party cell activities, associated with the effective implementation of training and development of new Party members, gradually reducing the number of hamlets without Party cells or Party members on the spot. Building a team of cadres and Party members with sufficient qualities, capacity and responsibility, solidarity, close attachment to the people, proactively detecting and promptly and effectively resolving difficulties and problems arising from the grassroots.

Comrade Nguyen Quoc Khanh - Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Board said: To effectively implement Project 01, the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Board has advised the Provincial Party Committee's Standing Committee to establish a steering committee for the project, issue documents directing the implementation and organize dissemination of the project's contents, assign specific tasks to Party committees, authorities, departments, and organizations in the political system; organize provincial conferences to disseminate the project's contents. At the same time, inspection teams have been established for the implementation at units. Up to now, many localities have developed specific implementation programs and plans, flexibly applying them to local realities on the basis of previously implemented projects.

Choose weak areas to focus on

In Tan Ky district, with the characteristics of a locality with both Catholics (accounting for 0.38%) and ethnic minorities (accounting for 21.07% of the district's population), the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee always identifies the building of a strong and comprehensive political system as one of the key tasks. Along with mobilizing 37 branches, units, and agencies to register to help communes in the "weakness compensates for weakness" method, the district issued many decisions, projects, and plans to build pilot models with specific methods.

Tan Huong is a particularly difficult commune in the religious area that the district has chosen as one of the key units to focus on directing the building of a strong political system. In addition to mobilizing district cadres to become chairmen of this commune, Tan Ky District Party Committee also directed the commune Party Committee to reorganize 100% of the mass organization team, transfer 12 cadres and party members to work at 6 weak and lacking party cells to increase the leadership and core in carrying out the political tasks of the cells. Sending cadres to participate in activities at rural party cells has created a strong change, contributing to strengthening the grassroots political system in Tan Huong.

Mr. Tran Van Thu - Party cell secretary of hamlet 7, Tan Huong commune guides people in growing acacia seedlings

The rate of union members is increasing (veterans reach 97.13%, up 2%, youth union 64.5%, up 15%); the socio-economy has positive changes, average income per capita in 2015 reached 15 million VND/person, up 3.5 million VND compared to 2013. The poverty rate decreased by over 2%/year.

Some urgent and prominent issues at the grassroots level such as electricity, environmental pollution, land, and policies occurring in villages and hamlets were focused on, creating trust among the people. The quality of Party cell activities was improved, the political core role of the Party cell and the sense of responsibility of Party members were enhanced. After being selected as a pilot, Tan Huong admitted 9 new Party members, including 3 Party members from the Catholic region. Currently, this commune has only 2/12 Catholic hamlets at risk of having a "white" Party cell again, which are hamlets 11 and 12.

Mr. Phan Van Giap - Standing Deputy Secretary of Tan Ky District Party Committee said: Based on the implementation plan of Project 01-DA/TU of the Provincial Party Committee and Conclusion No. 84-KL/HU of the Tan Ky District Party Committee, the district continues to build a grassroots political system with the motto "comprehensive strength, substantial sustainability". Strive by 2020 to have over 80% of grassroots party organizations, government, Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations complete their tasks well or better, without weaknesses, and sustainably eliminate party cells at risk of becoming "white".

Do a good job of personnel work

Imbued with Uncle Ho's teaching "what cadre, what movement", Yen Thanh district identified the core issue in consolidating the political system as cadre work. According to the Standing Deputy Secretary of Yen Thanh District Party Committee - Comrade Nguyen Viet Hung: To have good cadres, we must discover, nurture, and create sources from the grassroots. First of all, we need to pay attention to discovering, nurturing, and training a team of local cadres "using our strength to liberate ourselves".

In fact, in recent times, Yen Thanh district has focused on training and fostering cadres from the grassroots level. Thanks to that, the quality of commune-level cadres in Yen Thanh has had many positive changes. In the whole district, out of a total of 413 commune-level specialized cadres, 192 have university and college degrees; 132 are intermediate cadres. In terms of politics, 49 people have bachelor's and advanced degrees; 273 people have intermediate degrees.

Particularly for the commune-level Party Committee, in the 2015-2020 term, there are 585 Party Committee members, of which 362 have university degrees, accounting for nearly 62%. Regarding civil servants, 458 people have 236 university and college degrees and 220 intermediate degrees; 2 political bachelors and 137 intermediate political degrees. In addition to training, Yen Thanh also focuses on strengthening competent cadres with a high sense of responsibility from the district to hold key positions in some localities with weak movements or lacking competent cadres. After the 26th District Party Congress, term 2015-2020, the district has transferred 2 district cadres to take up leadership positions in 2 communes in the religious areas.

For Cong Thanh commune - where 46% of the population is Catholic, including 7 Catholic hamlets, according to the Party Secretary of the commune - comrade Nguyen Van Thuan: In any locality, dignitaries and officials have good awareness, know how to harmonize the work of the parish and parish pastoral council with the work of the locality, the activities of the political system at the grassroots level will be favorable and vice versa. Therefore, the issue for the Party committees, authorities and political systems in these localities is to make efforts to improve all aspects of qualifications, working skills, propaganda and persuasion skills; maintain good relationships with church dignitaries and officials to accompany the common goal: "Good life, good religion".

Chief of Huoi Chao village, Nam Can commune (Ky Son) talks with district party committee officials and reporters

Comrade Hoang Van Bo - Standing Deputy Secretary of Quynh Luu District Party Committee - one of the 3 units selected by the Provincial Party Committee as a pilot to implement Project 01 (along with Nghi Loc and Hung Nguyen districts) also said: Currently, the most important thing in building and consolidating the grassroots political system is to develop local party members so that all hamlets have party members and establish independent party cells, ensuring the role of the core leadership at this level. Along with that is the consolidation of hamlet command boards and branches and youth unions; innovation of the content and methods of operation of the Front and mass organizations, creating movements to attract union members to participate, thereby discovering training factors for the Party.

From the grassroots practice, comrade Nguyen Danh Hanh - Secretary of the Party Cell of Hamlet 12, Bao Thanh Commune (Yen Thanh District) raised the issue: To consolidate the quality of the grassroots political system in a special region, it is not only necessary to improve the capacity and operational efficiency of the organization and staff, but also to innovate the leadership and direction methods, working style of staff and to handle well the relationship with the people. Each cadre and party member in the grassroots political system needs to continue to strengthen the people's trust through actions of "saying goes hand in hand with doing"; must be truly close to the grassroots, close to the people, understand the people, respect the people, and promote the people's right to mastery. Because these are the people, the organization closest to the people...

Agreeing with this view, Comrade Hoang Van Phi - Secretary of Hung Nguyen District Party Committee said: The district regularly takes care of training and developing a team of party members and core cadres to help the masses properly implement the Party and State's policies and guidelines. Up to now, the whole district has 120 party members who are religious people spread across 16/23 communes and towns with religious people. Experience shows that in hamlets and communes with core cadres, steadfast party members, and united leadership, the party cells and mass organizations can promote their central role in solidarity, guiding people to religious activities in accordance with the law, with few violations occurring.

Therefore, doing a good job in mass mobilization, maintaining good relationships with dignitaries and officials; building good models and factors for replication are some of the solutions that the Party Committee of Hung Nguyen district has been implementing in building and consolidating the political system of special regions, focusing on party cells in regions with a large number of religious followers. Thanks to this approach, up to now, Hung Nguyen only has 4 party cells at risk of becoming "white" again, namely Bac Phuc Long, Ke Gai, Hung Thinh 3 (Hung Tay) and Hamlet 8 (Hung Trung)...

Promote socio-economic development

Along with building, consolidating and improving the capacity and fighting power of Party cells and promoting the role of organizations and unions, many opinions say that Party committees and authorities at all levels need to pay attention to investing in socio-economic development in religious and ethnic minority areas, focusing on exploiting the strengths of each locality; mobilizing all resources to effectively implement social security policies. Thereby improving people's lives and incomes, ensuring a prosperous and stable life, and strengthening people's trust in the Party's leadership.

Bringing mechanization into agricultural production in Yen Thanh

In Project 01, the Provincial Party Committee also assigned the responsibility to the Party Committee of the Provincial People's Committee to direct the issuance of a set of criteria, mechanisms and resources for new rural construction for hamlets in religious and disadvantaged areas of the province. Initially, the focus will be on 168 hamlets that do not have party cells or party members... However, for the project to truly "take root" in life effectively, it requires synchronous, long-term participation and flexible application of sectors at all levels and localities. In particular, it focuses on creating sources of new party members, improving the political capacity of cadres, party members and the fighting strength of party cells in special areas.

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