Party building work has always been an important content that General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong paid attention to and gave profound instructions during his three visits and work in Quang Ninh province. Under the leadership of the Party, the guidance and instructions of the General Secretary, the Party Committee, the government and the people of all ethnic groups in Quang Ninh province have always promoted the spirit of inheritance, maintained solidarity, unity, and continuously innovated and developed. In particular, the work of Party building and rectification has been promoted, the leadership capacity and fighting strength of Party organizations and bases have been improved, the qualities, capacities and political mettle of cadres and Party members have been improved, and the close relationship with the people and for the people has been strengthened. Thereby, contributing to building Quang Ninh into one of the leading provinces in the innovation of the Northern Delta region, a growth pole of the Northern region.
Party building work plays a particularly important role.
General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong joined the Communist Party of Vietnam when he was a 23-year-old young man who had just graduated from the Faculty of Literature, Hanoi University of Science. For nearly 6 decades since then, he has devoted himself entirely to the cause of the Party and the nation, with the persistent aspiration to build a socialist rule-of-law state of the people, by the people, and for the people.
That ideal accompanied the General Secretary until the end of his life, even during his days on his sickbed. At the age of 80, the General Secretary both ran the Party's affairs and received treatment and health care at the 108 Central Military Hospital - where he breathed his last at 1:38 p.m. on July 19.
"Throughout his revolutionary career, Party work and Party building held a particularly important position for comrade Nguyen Phu Trong," President To Lam concluded in an article about the revolutionary life of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.
During his lifetime, General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong always affirmed: "Party building is always a key task of the Party, of extremely important significance to our country's revolutionary cause" and "it is necessary to carry out Party building and rectification with a positive, resolute and strong spirit, in order to create a more obvious change in all aspects".
During his visit and work in Quang Ninh province in June 2022, the General Secretary shared: “I welcome Quang Ninh's recent breakthroughs and creativity in implementing the Party's policies; streamlining the apparatus, holding concurrent positions in accordance with the policies and orientations of the Central Committee, but must pay close attention to controlling power, strengthening inspection and supervision, avoiding abuse of power; preventing cadres from stumbling and making mistakes. Further tightening the close relationship between the Party, the government and the people, relying on the people to build the Party and the political system; taking people's satisfaction as a measure to evaluate the effectiveness of the activities of Party committees and governments at all levels; at the same time, we must fight against manifestations of populism, formal democracy, and demagogy". The great ideology in Party building work and the advice of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong during his three visits and working sessions in Quang Ninh are the guiding principles throughout the journey of building and sustainable development of the Party Committee, Government and people of all ethnic groups in Quang Ninh province.
In the past terms, the Provincial Party Committee has attached special importance to and implemented the work of Party building and rectification and the political system in a comprehensive, synchronous, focused, key manner, with inheritance, innovation and development. In particular, it is clearly identified that Party building and rectification is the key, must be closely linked and implemented synchronously with the tasks of rapid and sustainable socio-economic development, environmental protection is the center, developing a culture rich in Quang Ninh identity is the spiritual foundation, ensuring national defense and security, and improving the effectiveness of foreign affairs are constant priorities.
In the face of every difficulty and challenge, the Provincial Party Committee always demonstrates steadfastness, consistency, and firmness, upholds principles, solidarity, discipline, and order, upholds the exemplary role and responsibility of the leader, the Standing Committee, the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, and the Provincial Party Committee Executive Committee, which are always the center of solidarity and unity of the Party Committee and the entire province's political system. In the process of leading, directing, and organizing the implementation of tasks, the Provincial Party Committee always puts the people at the center; chooses the right key tasks and breakthroughs, combined with focused leadership, direction, and concentration of resources to organize and implement thoroughly, with measurable results and effectiveness.
With great political determination and drastic actions, many difficult, complicated, unprecedented but beneficial contents for the common cause have been effectively implemented by the Provincial Party Committee. A typical example is the leadership, direction, and consolidation of the political system's apparatus towards streamlining and effective and efficient operation. Many new models of organization and concurrent positions to streamline focal points, reduce staffing and control power have been scientifically, cautiously, firmly and have proven effective in practice.
Quang Ninh is the first locality to propose and establish the Provincial Media Center under the Provincial Party Committee, with the model of "Converged Newsroom" on the basis of merging the information and press agencies of the province including: Quang Ninh Newspaper, Quang Ninh Radio - Television Station, General Electronic Information Portal (under the Office of the Quang Ninh Provincial People's Committee), Ha Long Newspaper of the Quang Ninh Provincial Literature and Arts Association; is the first locality in the country to establish the Provincial Investment Promotion and Support Board (IPA Quang Ninh); is the first province to establish the Provincial Tax Department Party Committee under the Provincial Party Committee in conjunction with the reorganization of the Tax sector; establish Public Administration Service Centers at all levels under the People's Committees at the same level, implementing the 5 on-site principles. Quang Ninh is the leading province to successfully pilot and maintain the model of Border Guard officers participating in Party committees of coastal and island border districts and cities since 2017, providing scientific arguments from practice for the Secretariat to issue Conclusion No. 68-KL/TW dated February 5, 2020...
The province has boldly and effectively implemented the arrangement of administrative units. Up to now, the whole province has reduced 9 commune-level administrative units in 5 localities; merged 48 villages, hamlets, and neighborhoods in 7 localities. In 2024, the whole province will continue to merge 12 commune-level administrative units, after the merger, it will continue to reduce 6 commune-level administrative units. Quang Ninh is the only locality in the country to propose and implement the arrangement of district-level administrative units under the incentive category (merging Hoanh Bo district and Ha Long city); up to now, the urbanization rate has reached nearly 70%, among the top localities in the country.
Along with that, the Provincial Party Committee has directed and boldly piloted the successful application of many new governance models. At the same time, persistently implementing the motto of "3 before", "4 on-site", from afar, from early, from the grassroots; "5 real", "6 dare", "do right, do fast, do well"; taking internal strength as the foundation, external strength is important, closely combining internal resources with external resources to create optimal synthetic resources; using "public investment to lead private investment" to improve investment efficiency in the form of public-private partnership (PPP) and socialization. The budget focuses on social security and projects with spillover dynamics; developing new thinking on the model of organizing development space "one center, two multi-dimensional routes, breakthroughs, three dynamic regions". Gradually shaping the local value system of Quang Ninh with the characteristics of "Beautiful nature - Unique culture - Civilized society - Transparent administration - Developed economy - Happy people".
Identifying personnel work as a breakthrough and key step, the Provincial Party Committee has creatively and flexibly applied the Central Government's guidelines and policies on organization and personnel work, proactively promulgating a system of separate guidelines and policies suitable to the characteristics of Quang Ninh, from the practical requirements of the innovation process in the area. Personnel planning has been focused on, timely supplementing the planning to meet the requirements of tasks in the new situation...
Closely following local realities, the Provincial Party Committee proactively issued documents to lead and direct the work of preventing and combating corruption and negativity, practicing thrift and combating waste, creating a profound change in awareness throughout the Party Committee about the importance and meeting the increasing requirements of the new situation. Quang Ninh is one of the provinces and cities that established the Steering Committee for preventing and combating corruption and negativity early and operated in a disciplined and effective manner. In 2023, for the first time, the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee conducted an inspection when there were signs of violations against the Party Committee of the Provincial People's Committee in leading, directing and organizing the implementation of Covid-19 prevention and control and bidding and purchasing Covid-19 test kits in the province; through the inspection, violations of collectives and individuals were strictly handled according to Party regulations and State laws.
The strength of the Party lies in the trust of the people.
Throughout the ideology of General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong is the People, the human beings, wholeheartedly serving the people, building the human beings, taking the People as the subject, the center of the renovation process. The General Secretary affirmed: "Our Party must have the highest responsibility to the people, taking care of the material and spiritual life of the People"; "The Party's guidelines that do not reflect the interests of the People, of the country, of the nation, are not in accordance with the laws of historical evolution, are wrong guidelines"; "Close connection with the people is the law of the existence, development and operation of the Party, is the decisive factor creating the Party's strength".
Closely following the General Secretary's direction and instructions, in the past terms, the Provincial Party Committee has creatively applied the Party's guidelines to specific circumstances, both taking advantage of the Central's guidance and assistance and promoting local efforts with the consistent spirit and goal of "doing everything that is beneficial to the people and the country". From there, it has overcome all difficulties and challenges and achieved many important achievements in all fields.
Comrade Nguyen Xuan Ky, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Council affirmed: Quang Ninh province always identifies the strength of people's trust as the driving force of development; always attaches importance to building trust based on the thorough understanding and correct application of the Central's policies, resolutions and directives in the spirit of innovation and creativity to propose breakthrough policies suitable to local realities; by the example of cadres, especially practical actions that say what they do; by solidarity and unity within the Party Committee and government; by effective leadership and management demonstrated through measurable figures; by improving the living standards and quality of life for the people in their daily lives.
All policies and guidelines of the Provincial Party Committee are consistent with the viewpoint of "taking people's happiness as a noble and consistent goal to strive for". Dozens of separate policies on social security and social welfare have been issued. Among them, many policies prioritize the allocation of large resources for particularly difficult areas, ethnic minorities, policy subjects, and vulnerable groups, such as Resolution No. 06-NQ/TU "On sustainable socio-economic development associated with ensuring solid national defense and security in communes, villages, and hamlets in ethnic minority, mountainous, border, and island areas for the period 2021-2025, with a vision to 2030". Quang Ninh has reached the finish line of the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction for the period 2021-2025 3 years ahead of schedule. The province is moving to the stage of building and implementing a new multidimensional poverty standard, higher than the national average.
In particular, in the early years of the 2020-2025 term, when the economy was greatly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, Quang Ninh has built and implemented many new mechanisms and policies, with the goal of supporting all classes of people to stabilize their lives, develop long-term and sustainable livelihoods and be protected from the epidemic. These can be said to be Quang Ninh's "people-friendly" and "popular" policies during the "storm" of the Covid-19 pandemic.
To consolidate and enhance people's trust in the Party and government, the Provincial Party Committee has paid attention to, innovated, and adjusted the working style and manners of the cadres in the direction of being close to the people. At the same time, seriously promoting measures to educate, train, and strictly manage cadres and party members, fighting against the phenomena of degeneration and corruption, tightening Party discipline, resolutely eliminating corrupted elements from the Party, and purifying the Party and government apparatus. As the General Secretary instructed, " We must imbue, study, and follow Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality, and style, consider "Honor as the most sacred and noble thing," wholeheartedly and wholeheartedly serve the Fatherland and the people, "rely on the people to work," be closely attached to the people, protect the interests of the people, and make the people trust us more and more, and help us more and more.
The Provincial Party Committee has issued and effectively led the implementation of projects, resolutions, regulations and rules on mass mobilization work, on implementing democracy at the grassroots level, and well implemented the mechanism of Party leadership, State management and People's mastery with the motto "People know, people discuss, people do, people inspect, people supervise, people benefit". Along with that, it has directed the development and effective implementation of many projects and regulations to innovate the method of operation, focusing on the grassroots, localities and residents, promoting the highest role and position of the Fatherland Front, socio-political organizations and the People in monitoring, evaluating, criticizing and contributing ideas to build the Party and the government; Consolidate and promote the combined strength of the great national unity bloc... Continue to maintain and expand forms of direct democracy for cadres, party members and people to participate in Party and government building such as: Implementing the election of Party Committee secretaries at Party congresses at all levels and the method of "People trust, Party nominates" in electing Party cell secretaries who are also village, hamlet and neighborhood heads in 100% of villages and neighborhoods in the area; expand the model of people directly assessing their satisfaction with organizations, agencies and units...
Party committees at all levels in the province have also strengthened their direction towards the grassroots, closely following the grassroots, promptly directing the resolution of complex issues arising from the grassroots and promoting the role and responsibility of setting an example for cadres and party members in general, and key leaders at all levels in particular; creating conditions for people to contribute ideas, labor and money for socio-economic development, building the grassroots political system... These activities have contributed to demonstrating the promotion of democracy within the Party, all cadres and party members have the opportunity to express their opinions, thoughts, and legitimate aspirations, participate in planning policies, guidelines, and policies to build the country, build the Party and Quang Ninh province to become increasingly strong and developed. Thereby, consolidating and enhancing people's trust in the Party and government, through sociological surveys showing that the indicator increased from 73.3% in 2016 to 95.6% in 2023.
The profound advice of the General Secretary as well as the pioneering, innovative and developing spirit in the work of Party building and rectification have contributed to building the provincial Party Committee increasingly clean and strong. Quang Ninh has "risen to become one of the leading provinces in the innovation and creativity of the Northern Delta, a growth pole of the Northern region" with 6 characteristics: "Beautiful nature - Unique culture - Civilized society - Transparent administration - Developed economy - Happy people".
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