Create clarity, unity, and consensus

NDO - On October 29, in Hanoi, Comrade To Lam, General Secretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, had a working session with the Central Propaganda Department on the implementation of propaganda tasks since the beginning of the 13th Party Congress term and the key directions and tasks in the coming time, especially from now until the 14th Party Congress.

Attending the meeting were comrades: Nguyen Trong Nghia, Politburo member, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Propaganda Department; comrade Nguyen Duy Ngoc, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Head of the Central Party Office; comrades of the Party Central Committee: Lam Thi Phuong Thanh, Deputy Chief of the Standing Office of the Party Central Committee; Lai Xuan Mon, Deputy Head of the Standing Committee of the Central Propaganda Department; Le Quoc Minh, Editor-in-Chief of Nhan Dan Newspaper, Deputy Head of the Central Propaganda Department, President of the Vietnam Journalists Association; comrades representing the leaders of the Party's departments, the Central Party Office, the General Secretary's Office, leaders of the Central Propaganda Department, the Central Theoretical Council, the Central Council of Theoretical and Literary and Artistic Criticism, etc.

Propaganda work is increasingly proactive, positive and effective.

At the meeting, reporting on the implementation of work tasks, comrade Lai Xuan Mon said that since the beginning of the 13th Congress term, the Central Propaganda Department has proactively summarized practices, investigated public opinion, researched theories, and developed 52 topics and projects, of which 23 topics and projects have been completed to advise the Politburo and the Secretariat to issue new documents, resolutions, directives, conclusions, and regulations of the Party; 2 topics and projects have been submitted to the Politburo to issue new documents; 9 topics and tasks have been completed and reported to the Politburo and the Secretariat for direction on continued implementation; 18 topics and projects are being implemented according to schedule until the end of 2025. The topics and projects ensure quality and are on schedule.

The Central Propaganda Department has also proactively and actively participated effectively in drafting documents to be submitted to the 14th National Party Congress; Draft summarizing a number of theoretical and practical issues of 40 years of Innovation...; proactively implementing the development of the Strategy for ideological, cultural, scientific and educational work to 2030, with a vision to 2045 to be submitted to the 14th Politburo. The work of advising on the organization of research, study, dissemination, propaganda and implementation of important resolutions, directives, conclusions and regulations of the Central Executive Committee, the Politburo and the Secretariat has been proactively and promptly implemented, with many innovations, recognized and highly appreciated by all levels, sectors and the entire political system, thereby contributing to creating a real change in the awareness and actions of Party committees, Party organizations and Party members to effectively and substantially implement the Central's viewpoints, policies and guidelines.

The promotion of studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle in conjunction with the implementation of the resolutions of the 4th Central Conference, Session XI XII, and the Conclusions of the 4th Central Conference, Session XIII, has been directed with attention, creating a strong spread in society. In particular, the advice of the Politburo to issue Regulation 144-QD/TW on revolutionary ethical standards for cadres and party members in the new period is an important basis for educating and training revolutionary ethics, a basis for Party committees at all levels, cadres and party members to voluntarily cultivate, train, "self-reflect", "self-correct", and uphold the honor and self-respect of party members.

Working session scene. (Photo: DANG KHOA)

The work of protecting the Party's ideological foundation and fighting against false and hostile information and viewpoints has been innovated in both content and form, creating strong changes. The work of directing, orienting information, propaganda, investigation, and grasping public opinion has become increasingly timely and proactive, thereby contributing to orienting healthy and positive public opinion, creating a positive information flow as the mainstream in the media space. Since the beginning of the term, the Central Propaganda Department has issued 120 guidelines, 350 plans, 46 documents and outlines to orient ideology and public opinion in many fields; conducted 33 surveys and polls of public opinion; and 40 quick reports providing information to Party and State leaders and Party committees at all levels. Information and propaganda on major holidays, important historical events of the country, and foreign affairs activities are planned systematically, directed and oriented early, with focus and key points, creating highlights in information and propaganda...

At the meeting, representatives of the agencies' leaders exchanged many enthusiastic and responsible opinions; acknowledged the efforts of the Central Propaganda Department and the Propaganda sector in the past time; frankly mentioned a number of issues that need attention in the coming time, especially in the information and propaganda work on Party Congresses at all levels towards the 14th National Party Congress; strengthened information, propaganda, and dissemination of messages and instructions of General Secretary To Lam to cadres, party members and the people.

Strongly innovate propaganda work in a proactive and practical direction

Concluding the meeting, General Secretary To Lam acknowledged and commended the achievements and results that the Central Propaganda Department has achieved in recent times. In recent years, Propaganda work has been deployed synchronously, gradually going into depth on the basis of closely following reality; actively advising the Party Central Committee to issue many resolutions, directives, conclusions, and regulations of the Party on politics, ideology, ethics, and propaganda work, including new and unprecedented issues. Propaganda work, foreign information, and grasping the ideological situation and public opinion have been carried out quite systematically; orienting information and communication more proactively and effectively, in both real space and cyberspace, especially before important political events, hot and prominent issues of public interest, contributing to creating high unity in the awareness and actions of cadres, party members, and people of all walks of life.

Delegates attending the meeting. (Photo: DANG KHOA)

The Central Propaganda Department has mobilized the participation of press and media agencies from the central to local levels, gradually building and consolidating the information and communication posture, creating a mainstream information flow, suppressing negative and untrue information, creating consensus, arousing the will and determination of the entire Party, the entire people, and the entire army to effectively carry out revolutionary tasks in the new period. The Department has also actively promoted the role of the Standing Committee of the Central Steering Committee 35, creating new, more proactive and effective steps forward on the ideological struggle front, maintaining the ideological and information front, protecting the Party's ideological foundation, and fighting against erroneous and hostile viewpoints.

The General Secretary highly appreciated the fact that the Central Propaganda Department has frankly pointed out some shortcomings and shortcomings, and at the same time suggested some issues so that the Department can soon find solutions to create clear changes: Bad, toxic, and untrue information, although accounting for only 1%, has a huge impact, every day and every hour, on the thoughts and moods of cadres, party members and the masses. This situation has lasted for many years but no effective solution has been found. Recently, the messages of the Party and State leaders have created an exciting atmosphere, arousing confidence, self-reliance, national pride, and aspirations to rise up in cadres, party members and the masses; What should the Propaganda Department do to promote and maintain this social mood? This is an urgent requirement of the Party for the work of the Central Propaganda Department at present. Currently, the whole country has 797 press agencies and 72 radio and television agencies. Is it cumbersome? What solutions does the Central Propaganda Department have for journalists, reporters, and collaborators who have degraded, “self-evolved,” “self-transformed,” and distanced themselves from the Party’s character? The effectiveness of external propaganda is not as expected, and is even weak. What solutions do we need?

Emphasizing that propaganda work in the era of national development is facing new and urgent requirements and tasks, the General Secretary suggested that it is necessary to unify the perception that propaganda work is the work of the Party, of Party committees at all levels, Party organizations, each Party cell and Party member; the Central Propaganda Department must play a good role in advising, coordinating, urging and guiding the entire Party, first of all each Party cell and each Party member, to do this work well. Through Party cells and Party members, to propagate, concretize and organize the implementation of the Party's policies, set an example for the masses to follow, and guide the masses to implement; grasp and promptly handle early, from the beginning, the emerging concerns in each locality and field that affect the ideology and mood of society; fight against wrong, hostile and distorted viewpoints right from the grassroots.

Propaganda work in the new revolutionary period must achieve the goal of creating clarity, solidarity, unanimity, and creating a competitive atmosphere in the entire Party, people, and army to implement the Party's guidelines and viewpoints and the State's policies and laws.

General Secretary To Lam

The General Secretary emphasized that propaganda work in the new revolutionary period must achieve the goal of creating clarity, solidarity, unanimity, creating a competitive atmosphere in the entire Party, the entire people, and the entire army to implement the Party's guidelines and viewpoints, the State's policies and laws; highly promoting patriotism, the spirit of great national solidarity; the spirit of self-reliance, self-improvement, creativity, creating a revolutionary action movement of the entire Party, the entire people, and the entire army to successfully implement the strategic goals of 100 years under the Party's leadership, 100 years of the country's founding. Along with spreading positive information, the Central Propaganda Department needs to promptly advise and propose effective solutions to handle the current 1% of bad, toxic information, distorted propaganda, and sabotage; There are specific solutions to mobilize the participation of the entire political system, all levels, all sectors, and all people in protecting the Party's ideological foundation, fighting against erroneous and hostile viewpoints, contributing to defeating all plots and activities of ideological sabotage by hostile and reactionary forces.

The Propaganda Department continues to strongly innovate propaganda work in the direction of being proactive, close to reality, sensitive, detecting and promptly advising the Party to effectively resolve emerging practical issues; propagating to bring the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's laws and policies into life in a practical way, reducing conferences and meetings, closely following the practical life of the people, suitable to the characteristics of each industry, each field, region, and area to have a way of doing things that is suitable to the breath of social life, absolutely not to misunderstand what is right, misunderstand what is good and beautiful. The Central Propaganda Department promptly studies and proposes to restructure both central and local television channels; build a key English television channel for foreign information in the new era. The Propaganda Department focuses on grasping the situation, doing a better job of advising the Party on strategic policies on science and technology, especially health care, education, and social security (these issues are still pressing among the people); Actively research and propose to the Party policies on culture, ensuring that culture truly becomes a guiding light for the entire Party, people, and army to successfully implement the Party's strategic goals, contributing more and more to human civilization.

Building a team of propaganda cadres who are truly steadfast soldiers on the ideological and propaganda front of the Party, united, creative, wholeheartedly serving the Fatherland and the People, with strong political will, ethics, a clean and healthy lifestyle, passion and dedication to the profession, always oriented towards the grassroots, closely following reality and closely attached to the people. Focus on streamlining the apparatus, reducing staff, promoting digital transformation in organizing all aspects of work associated with further improving the quality of human resources.

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