Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong speaks at a meeting in Hanoi on April 23 (Photo: VNA) – Party General Secretary
and State President Nguyen Phu Trong recently wrote an article that highlights
some issues that need special attention in the personnel preparation for the
approaching 13th National Party Congress.
The 13th National Party Congress is a political
event of great significance that will set up future orientations and encourage
the entire Party, people and army to push ahead with the reforms
comprehensively and synchronously, thereby developing the country in a fast and
sustainable manner.
The two most important contents of each national
Party congress are the document and personnel-related work. Particularly, the
personnel preparation is of utmost importance as it is the decisive factor in
the success of a congress and the successful implementation of the event’s
resolutions.
Given this, the Party and State leader’s article
emphasised the role and significance of personnel preparations, requirements
for the personnel work of the 13th National Congress, along with the
implementation content and methods.
According to him, in any aspects or localities,
cadres always play the decisive role, and the personnel work is not only the
key to the Party building but it is also vital to all activities of the Party
and the success or failure of the revolution.
He wrote that during the process of leading the
revolution, the Party always affirms that the personnel work is decided by the
political line and serves political tasks, so aside from preparing the
political line, it is also necessary to actively make personnel preparations.
At present, apart from preparing for and
organising all-level Party congresses, the Party is also making preparations
for the 13th National Party Congress, slated for the first quarter of 2021.
At its eighth session in October 2018, the Party
Central Committee decided to set up five sub-committees to prepare for the
coming congress, namely the sub-committees for documents, socio-economic
affairs, the Party’s statutes, personnel, and organisation. On March 30, 2019,
the Politburo issued Directive 35 on all-level Party congresses towards the
13th National Party Congress.
The Party General Secretary and State President
said the two most important contents of each national Party congress is
discussing and deciding the Party’s political line and tasks (also known as
adopting documents), and electing the Party’s leadership agencies (also known
as the personnel work).
They are closely connected with each other and
both need thorough preparations, he noted, adding that the personnel
preparation for the congress is of utmost importance as it is the decisive
factor in the success of the congress and the successful implementation of the
event’s resolutions.
Stressing the significance of the 13th national
congress, the leader pointed out that although Party members’ thought and the
people’s state of mind are mainly positive, there are also worrying signs. In particular,
the degradation of political thought, morality and lifestyle, along with
bureaucracy, corruption and negative phenomena in some cadres, Party members
and civil servants have just been partly prevented.
This situation indicates that the tasks of the
entire Party for the time ahead are very heavy, he noted.
According to him, to deal with major issues of
the country in the coming time, the Politburo and the Party Central Committee
have to make thorough preparations so that the congress will discuss and decide
the personnel work for the 13th tenure, thus ensuring the success of the
congress and the implementation of its resolutions.
The personnel work is extremely important, and
complex, too, requiring the Party Central Committee, the Politburo, the Party
Central Committee’s Secretariat and the whole political system to work with a
very high sense of responsibility and in an impartial and scientific manner
that puts the nation, Party and people’s interests above all, he said.
Highlighting requirements for the 13th-tenure
Party Central Committee, the leader noted that it must be a truly united, clean
and strong collective with high unanimity in both thought and action, strong
political firmness, taintless morals, persistence in the goals of national independence
and socialism, strategic vision, wisdom, an innovative and creative mindset,
and sufficient prestige and capability to lead the country in the new
development stage.
Besides, he said, members of the 13th-tenure
Party Central Committee must be the Party’s true exemplars of political mettle,
morality and work capability.
In his article, Party General Secretary and
State President Nguyen Phu Trong also noted that the personnel preparation for
the 13th national congress is the task of not only the personnel sub-committee,
the Politburo, the Party Central Committee or its Secretariat but also the
entire political system, all-level Party committees, Party organisations,
agencies, units and localities.
The personnel work must be done well right from
Party congresses at lower levels so as to help make the best personnel
preparations for the 13th national congress, he said, noting that during the
personnel selection and arrangement process, it is also important to have
precise assessment of cadres’ strong and weak points so as not to choose wrong
persons. Additionally, it is necessary to have appropriate personnel
arrangement plans to bring into play the strengths and limit the weaknesses of
each person in order to create a strong and relatively perfect leadership
apparatus./.