This is the result of the 3-year implementation of Resolution No. 21 dated February 10, 2022 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee (term XXII) on building a contingent of ethnic minority cadres for the period 2022 - 2025 and orientation to 2030. However, in reality, the roadmap for building a contingent of ethnic minority cadres is facing many "barriers", especially in the recruitment, arrangement and use of policies and mechanisms to attract qualified cadres who are "both red and professional"...
“Bridge” from local officials
With responsibility and dedication, many generations of ethnic minority cadres have been promoting their role as a bridge, contributing to the goal of developing mountainous areas.
Serving the homeland
With nearly 10 years of experience in the medical field, Dr. Kring Truong - Deputy Head of the Emergency Department of Nam Tra My District Medical Center is known as a "connector" in grassroots professional activities. In addition to his work at the agency, Dr. Kring Truong is almost always present in the delegations visiting volunteer programs and annual military recruitment in mountainous areas. Not afraid of hardships or difficulties, wherever people need him, he is always there.
Doctor Kring Truong (born in 1989) is a Ve ethnic group - a branch of the Gie Trieng ethnic group, from the border commune of Dac Pring (Nam Giang). In 2017, after nearly 2 years of internship in his hometown, Kring Truong volunteered to go to Nam Tra My on a probationary basis. Promoting his creative working ability, combined with his enthusiasm and dedication to patients, he was soon signed a contract by the unit. In early 2019, Kring Truong registered for and passed the civil servant exam at the Nam Tra My District Medical Center.
Doctor Kring Truong said that working in difficult conditions like Nam Tra My, young doctors cannot avoid pressure and specific difficulties. Especially the shortage of human resources, forcing them to work continuously without timely replacement.
“The busy work schedule makes the time for rest and recovery of the medical team limited. But we do not give up. The medical staff often encourage each other to try to overcome, because the greatest joy for cadres in the mountainous areas like us is to return to serve our compatriots and people,” shared Dr. Kring Truong.
The story of Dr. Kring Truong reminds us of the journey back of Riah Dung - Secretary of the Youth Union of Ga Ry commune (Tay Giang). A few years ago, after working at the district youth union, Riah Dung suddenly asked to be transferred back to the grassroots level, with the desire to contribute to reviving youth movements and gathering border youth. The luggage that this 32-year-old Co Tu man brought back was a start-up model under the project "Ecotourism connecting indigenous oranges of Tay Giang".
After nearly 4 years of implementation, Riah Dung said that he has been gradually improving the quality of Ga Ry orange products, aiming to build a unique brand in the Eastern Truong Son region, through a combined ecological model. “This is what I look forward to the most. Hopefully, with the common determination of the local youth of Ga Ry, the model will create a unique feature, bringing the typical products of the Co Tu people in the Vietnam - Laos border area to all regions of the country” - Riah Dung confided.
With practical contributions to her homeland, in recent years, Riah Dung has been continuously honored, becoming a typical young face to receive the Ly Tu Trong Award of the Central Committee of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union in 2023. Most recently, Riah Dung attended the ceremony to honor "Beautiful examples of the village" and presented the Vu A Dinh Award for her outstanding achievements and contributions to the development of ethnic minorities in mountainous and island areas, organized by the Central Committee of the Youth Union.
Pioneering the "measure" of quality
Through practical training programs, many ethnic minority cadres in the province have been and are escaping the limited notion of capacity and professional qualifications as before. Over the past ten years, through assessment, most of the mountainous cadres have been interested in training and education, filling the "gaps" that are no longer suitable today.
According to Mr. Zoram Buon - Standing Deputy Secretary of Tay Giang District Party Committee, identifying quality as a "measure" to evaluate the capacity of grassroots cadres, in recent years, the locality has sent hundreds of ethnic minority cadres for training and development in professional expertise, political theory, state management, IT skills, foreign languages, etc. This training work is all associated with planning and appointment of positions, gradually overcoming the shortage of ethnic minority cadres according to current needs. "After being sent for training and development, the team of ethnic minority cadres have promoted their own capacity during their work" - Mr. Zoram Buon added.
Tay Giang has planned 175/178 ethnic minority cadres at commune level and 42/73 district level cadres. On this basis, the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee proactively proposed to the province to open training courses on political theory, expertise, as well as related training and professional training courses. At the same time, cadres and civil servants were sent to participate in training and refresher courses inside and outside the province... Thanks to that, the quality of the ethnic minority cadre team has been increasingly improved, meeting the demand for local cadres for arrangement, promotion and appointment.
Quang Nam currently has 3,751 ethnic minority cadres, civil servants and public employees, accounting for 10.5%; of which 34 are at the provincial level, 185 at the district level and 1,070 at the commune level, with 2,462 being civil servants. By 2023, the whole province will have 658 ethnic minority cadres, civil servants and public employees working in state agencies and public service units at the provincial level/10,215 assigned positions, reaching 6.4%. Ethnic minority cadres and civil servants who are People's Council delegates at all levels are 1,243, accounting for 21%.
“To take care of the work of local ethnic minority cadres, in the past, we registered with the province to send students to attend specialized university classes according to demand. Of the 177 people sent to study under the selection system, 157 have graduated from university. Over the years, we have arranged jobs for 100 selected students, of which 11 are commune-level civil servants, 9 are district-level civil servants, and the rest are assigned to teach and work at public service units under the district and vertical sectors of the province,” said Mr. Zơrâm Buôn.
The “bridges” are gradually spreading. The mountainous region has more and more “bright gems” after the journey of training. From practical stories, each changing face in the mountainous region, somewhere people talk more about local cadres - the intellectuals of the village. Such as Bhling Mien - Chairman of the People's Committee of Lang Commune (Tay Giang); Dinh Thi Ngoi - Chairman of the People's Committee of Song Kon Commune (Dong Giang); Ho Van Phuc - Chairman of the People's Committee of Phuoc Thanh Commune (Phuoc Son) ... tirelessly contributing to the community.
The difficult problem of recruitment
Despite positive changes, the proportion of ethnic minority cadres is still low, even absent in Party committees or socio-political organizations.
Many problems and difficulties in recruiting and using ethnic minority cadres at provincial agencies and 6 mountainous districts have just been recorded at a recent monitoring session of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of the province.
Low provincial recruitment
Among the many specific goals set out in Resolution No. 21 by 2025, provincial agencies and units are striving to have ethnic minority cadres, civil servants and public employees (CBCCVC). According to information from the Department of Home Affairs, up to now, the provincial government has 11/21 provincial departments, branches and sectors and 5/8 public service units under the Provincial People's Committee with ethnic minority cadres and public employees working. For the Provincial Ethnic Committee, there are currently 4 ethnic minority civil servants/20 assigned positions, reaching 20%, lower than the target of the resolution.
Talking about the difficulties in recruiting ethnic minority cadres, Mr. Ha Ra Dieu - Deputy Head of the Provincial Ethnic Minorities Committee said that in the past 2 years, the unit has announced 5 recruitment exams to supplement ethnic minority cadres. However, only one case of an ethnic minority child in Dong Giang district passed the exam. And the Committee had to encourage this child many times before he agreed to go to Tam Ky to work, because he was afraid of the long distance and was not used to the living environment in the city.
"The Provincial Ethnic Minority Committee is short of two more ethnic minority officials to meet 30% of the target according to Resolution No. 21. In the coming time, the Committee will continue to recruit to ensure the target," said Mr. Dieu.
Quang Nam has also reviewed the quantity and quality of ethnic minority civil servants and public employees in the province and assessed the surplus and shortage of ethnic minority civil servants and public employees in each agency, unit and locality compared to the assigned targets in Resolution No. 21. As of June 30, departments, branches and sectors recruited 9 people/66 targets (reaching 13.6%); public service units under the Provincial People's Committee recruited 3 people/8 targets (reaching 37.5%); People's Committees of mountainous districts recruited 172/248 targets (reaching 69.4%).
Ms. Tran Thi Kim Hoa - Director of the Department of Home Affairs said that to ensure that the departments and branches of the province have at least 1 ethnic minority cadre or civil servant working, the Department has "guarded the gate" of recruitment registration. The job position of the department, branch, and branch can only recruit ethnic minorities, so the Department of Home Affairs will control it. If the quota of ethnic minority cadres cannot be met, the quota will be left blank and civil servants who are not ethnic minorities will not be recruited or accepted.
Strive to achieve the target
The Department of Home Affairs affirmed that the Provincial People's Committee issued Decision 3161 dated November 21, 2022 based on a survey, based on the number of staff assigned for 2021 - 2022, the number of unused staff of units and localities and expected retirement age by 2025, not imposed.
Notably, implementing the preferential policy in recruitment for ethnic minorities, in 2023, the Department of Home Affairs advised the Provincial People's Committee to organize a separate civil servant recruitment exam for ethnic minorities. Units and localities registered 16 quotas, with 84 applications. The recruitment results were 13 quotas, not meeting expectations.
According to Mr. Dinh Minh Nho - Head of the Department of Civil Servants and Public Employees (Department of Home Affairs), organizing an exam like this is very costly, the Department of Home Affairs has proposed, but the demand for registering recruitment quotas from units and localities is very low. "Currently, the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee has approved the policy of organizing civil servant recruitment exams in 2024. The Provincial People's Committee has issued a plan to recruit 41 quotas, focusing on mountainous districts, including recruitment quotas for ethnic minorities" - Mr. Nho said.
From 2020 to June 30, 2024, Quang Nam has organized training for more than 2,500 ethnic minority officials and public employees. Compared to before February 10, 2021, the number of ethnic minority officials and public employees in the provincial government has increased by 944 people. As of June 30, 2024, there were 227 ethnic minority officials and public employees holding leadership and management positions in state management agencies and public service units from the district level and above (of which, there were 3 department-level leaders, 14 district-level leaders, and 210 division-level leaders) and 601 commune-level officials were ethnic minorities.
Regarding the Party, the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations, the Provincial Party Committee's Organizing Committee said that from February 2022 to June 2024, 28 ethnic minority people were recruited. Of which, 9 were recruited through the nomination system; 9 were recruited through the examination system and 10 were transferred from commune-level cadres to district-level officials and from civil servants to public employees.
Mr. Cao Thanh Hai - Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Organization Board said that the recruitment of ethnic minority cadres is facing difficulties due to regulations on increasing the retirement age, streamlining the payroll, streamlining the organizational apparatus, and reducing deputy positions. The number of retirees each year is decreasing, there is no longer a surplus payroll source for the Party, the Front, and socio-political organizations to recruit. In departments and branches with limited quotas, ethnic minority children also have little need to work in the province, due to customs, living conditions, and travel.
Resolution 16 dated December 15, 2014 of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee set a target for provincial agencies and units to strive to have ethnic minority cadres and civil servants, but it was not achieved. Realizing some difficulties, Resolution 21 continued to orient towards striving to achieve this target by 2025. Although it is not yet mandatory, the Provincial Party Committee's Organizing Committee coordinated with the Department of Home Affairs to study and advise on a mechanism so that each agency and department of the province must have ethnic minority cadres.
"We will resolutely coordinate with the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, the Party Committee of the Provincial People's Committee to direct the Provincial People's Committee and related sectors to focus on recruitment to strive to achieve this target according to Resolution 21" - Mr. Hai said.
Rotate, approach new tasks
Many ethnic minority cadres have been “trained” through rotation of positions and working environments. In addition to being exposed to diverse and new tasks, most of the cadres subject to mobilization and rotation have shown high capacity, work efficiency, and creative thinking...
Form of "tempering"
After holding the position of Chairman of Tra Nam Commune People's Committee, Nguyen Thanh Phuong - a young Xo Dang cadre was mobilized and transferred by Nam Tra My District Party Committee to become Chairman of Tra Van Commune People's Committee. This is the most difficult commune in Nam Tra My District, with a relatively high poverty rate.
However, the experience of managing the work of the commune chairman for nearly 10 years helped Nguyen Thanh Phuong feel confident when taking on the task. Mr. Phuong said that after a period of getting used to the new environment, he realized that Tra Van was not much different from Tra Nam many years ago. That is the difficult traffic conditions, the unsynchronized infrastructure, plus the people's thinking in labor production is not sharp.
To overcome these difficulties, in addition to making the most of priority resources in ethnic minority and mountainous areas to invest in infrastructure, Tra Van will develop a socio-economic development project. “The characteristics of mountainous areas are that agricultural economy is still considered the mainstay. Therefore, we will invest heavily in agriculture, specifically growing medicinal herbs under the forest canopy combined with growing cassava, bananas, cinnamon and concentrated livestock. Hopefully this will be a new direction to help people escape poverty,” Mr. Phuong shared.
Mr. Nguyen Thanh Phuong is not an isolated case. Rotating commune cadres who are ethnic minorities to districts for training and to approach tasks; at the same time, transferring district cadres to the grassroots to build, consolidate and develop the commune-level government apparatus to meet new requirements is being implemented by many mountainous districts.
Mr. Briu Quan - Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Tay Giang district said that in the period of 2014 - 2018, he was mobilized and transferred by the district to work as Secretary of the Party Committee of A Vuong and A Tieng communes. At that time, both localities lacked key officials and were preparing for the Party Congress personnel consolidation, so they needed reinforcement from the district.
“After the Commune Party Congress, I and the local leadership focused on directing the construction of new rural areas. Many resolutions were issued, encouraging people to expand fish ponds to develop aquaculture, combine livestock farming and grow fruit trees. In particular, expanding the cultivation of medicinal herbs under the forest canopy such as Morinda officinalis, cinnamon and implementing the construction of residential areas, commune administrative centers...
In addition, we also pay attention to the work of organizing cadres, training local leaders, continuing to promote and preserve the Co Tu culture, establishing groups to talk about and sing about... Thanks to that, both Party Committees of these communes now have a strong, qualified cadre team; some have master's degrees, advanced political theory, and become District Party Committee members and District People's Council delegates" - Mr. Briu Quan said.
Create local staff resources
Mr. Lalim Hau - Standing Deputy Secretary of Nam Giang District Party Committee said that, especially in mountainous areas, the rotation of ethnic minority cadres from commune to district level and vice versa is considered an opportunity to enhance the work efficiency of grassroots cadres. This is both in accordance with the regulations of the central and provincial governments on cadre work and in accordance with the practical situation of the locality.
To perfect the grassroots cadres, right after the District Party Congress for the 2020-2025 term and the election of People's Councils at all levels for the 2021-2026 term, Nam Giang focused on arranging and assigning qualified and capable cadres; especially young and female cadres to key positions in district-level departments and branches.
At the same time, organize the mobilization and rotation of ethnic minority cadres from the district to the grassroots or between localities, agencies and units, helping to increase human resources for necessary areas and fields, meeting the requirements of training cadres through practice in difficult places.
“Up to now, we have transferred 12 ethnic minority cadres. After the job position project was approved, the District People's Committee also transferred 34 civil servants and public employees; including 17 ethnic minority cadres.
In the 2020-2025 term, 24 ethnic minority cadres participated in the District Party Executive Committee, accounting for 61.54%, and 6 comrades participated in the District Party Standing Committee, accounting for 46.15%. In addition, since the beginning of the term, Nam Giang has appointed 18 ethnic minority leaders and managers, increasing the number of department-level leaders and managers to 51 people," Mr. Lalim Hau added.
As of the end of May 2024, Nam Giang had 1,058 civil servants and public employees; of which, 737 were ethnic minority cadres, accounting for 69.66%. “At the district level, there were 501/813 ethnic minority cadres, with 469/501 having university degrees and 11/501 having postgraduate degrees. In addition, the locality had 99/501 ethnic minority cadres with intermediate political theory qualifications and 27/501 senior political theory cadres. Particularly at the commune level, out of 236 ethnic minority cadres, there were 209 cadres with university degrees and 1 cadre with postgraduate degrees.
Thanks to the rotation, ethnic minority cadres and civil servants have the opportunity to approach diverse and sensitive tasks to perform their tasks more effectively.
Need special policy
A specific roadmap as well as specific policies are needed to create resources and improve the quality of ethnic minority staff in the coming time.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Tuyet Thanh - Secretary of Bac Tra My District Party Committee: Prioritizing planning for ethnic minority cadres
For Bac Tra My, the planning of ethnic minority cadres is being paid attention to and implemented very well. Among the 11 members of the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee, there are 5 ethnic minority comrades. However, the problem is that although the commune has 100% ethnic minority cadres, they cannot be added to the planning. The reason is that none of the ethnic minority cadres there have studied in the fields of land administration, finance... which are not related to the job position, so they cannot be added to the planning.
Compared to the general level of mountainous areas, the quality of ethnic minority cadres in Bac Tra My is quite good. However, when transferring Kinh cadres to ethnic minority areas, it is convenient, but transferring ethnic minority cadres in the opposite direction does not ensure the professional requirements associated with the job position.
We determined that it would take more time for ethnic minority cadres to reach “maturity”. Therefore, for deputy heads of specialized departments, the district tries to find ethnic minority cadres to arrange, in order to strive to train, mature, and develop to higher positions.
Ms. ALang Thi Tam - Head of Nam Giang District Internal Affairs Department: Need guidance on signing training order contracts
The Provincial People's Committee has approved the list of undergraduate and postgraduate training majors for students and civil servants who are ethnic minorities in Quang Nam province for the period 2023 - 2025. Accordingly, the People's Committees of districts benefiting from the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas for the period 2021 - 2030 are assigned to implement the training majors according to the approved list and the annual allocated budget.
Circular 02 dated August 21, 2023 of the Ethnic Committee stipulates that the selection of the method of signing an order contract with a training institution shall be considered and decided by the Provincial People's Committee. However, at present, the Provincial People's Committee has not issued any documents with specific regulations and instructions on the method of signing the contract. Therefore, it is very difficult for the district to implement the signing of order contracts with training institutions. Competent authorities need to provide specific instructions and regulations on the method of signing contracts with training institutions so that localities have a basis for implementation.
At the recent working session with the National Assembly's Ethnic Council's Supervisory Delegation, Quang Nam proposed that there should be more open and flexible mechanisms and regulations to prioritize ethnic minority cadres in recruitment. "To complete the roadmap and targets set out in Resolution 21 and build a team of ethnic minority cadres that meet the requirements of the current period, there needs to be more fundamental and drastic policies from the central to local levels and more synchronous participation from all sectors and levels," said a representative of the Department of Home Affairs.
Mr. Nguyen Van Mau - Vice Chairman of the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee: There must be appropriate methods to avoid waste.
Regarding policies for ethnic minority cadres, the province issued them in a timely and complete manner, but in practice, many shortcomings were revealed. As in Resolution 09 dated July 12, 2023 of the Provincial People's Council, localities reflected that there was no problem in applying it to cases of rotation and transfer from the province to the district; however, applying it to cases from the district to the commune and vice versa, or from one commune to another, localities had difficulty in balancing the budget, had to calculate to spend on implementing the policy, otherwise there would be comparisons and complaints.
Now the arrangement is based on job position, so mountainous areas lack teachers, and health care workers cannot recruit and arrange for students who have graduated, this is a huge waste.
Building a contingent of ethnic minority cadres to meet the requirements of local development tasks cannot be said and done overnight. Localities all want to have specific policies for ethnic minority cadres to attract, retain, and build a source of local cadres as the goal set out in Resolution 21.
Mr. Dang Tan Phuong - Deputy Head of the Ethnic Committee of the Provincial People's Council: Need policies to attract and retain cadres
In recent times, the province has issued many policies and mechanisms for mountainous areas and ethnic minorities in general, including policies on personnel work. However, in terms of specific mechanisms for ethnic minority cadres, there is no clarity. Specifically, in Resolutions 11 and 09 of the Provincial People's Council, there are only additional regulations on support levels for ethnic minorities, but no specific policies.
Mountainous localities have reported the reality of recruiting civil servants and public employees who are from the plains, but after working for a few years, or enjoying preferential policies in particularly difficult areas, they ask to return to the lowlands. The problem of labor shortage in mountainous areas has not been fundamentally solved because there is no policy to attract and retain, especially for local people. It is recommended that the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee and the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee direct the development of separate policies on ethnic minority cadre work, in order to build a team of local cadres, creating a stable source for the long term.
Content: ALANG NGUOC - NGUYEN DOAN - HUU PHAT - DANG NGOC - KHANH NGUYEN - HOAI AN - HAN GIANG - DANG NGUYEN
Presented by: MINH TAO
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