Recall the work of "Rural Party Building Pilot Counties".
Grasp the grassroots and lay the foundation, the party's organizational foundation is at the grassroots level, and if the foundation is not firm, the ground will shake. In 1995, the main task of carrying out the organizational building of the rural party in the whole region was to strengthen the organizational building of the rural grassroots party in Qixian County.
In Tuoketuo County, the main task of building rural party organizations is to strengthen the building of party branches and party members in administrative villages.
In the 80s and 90s of the 20th century, Tuoketuo County was a state-level key poverty-stricken county dominated by agriculture, with 11 townships and towns, 120 administrative villages and 365 natural villages. The total population of the county is 170,000, of which 150,000 are in agriculture and rural areas. Administrative villages have party branches and village committees.
In 1995, the Organization Department of the Inner Mongolia Party Committee designated Tuoketuo County as a pilot county for the construction of rural grassroots party organizations in the whole region. After the success of the pilot project, it is necessary to popularize the work experience of rural party building throughout the region.
At that time, I was the secretary of the county party committee and was responsible for the party building at the grassroots level in rural areas. It is our duty to briefly reflect on and review the work of building rural party organizations in this historical period from several aspects.
1. Review of the work of the county party committee in that year
To carry out the pilot work of building rural grassroots party organizations assigned by the organization department of the autonomous regional party committee, it is first necessary to carry out the preparatory work for the building of rural grassroots party organizations in the early stage. The focus of work should be to carefully find out and grasp the specific background of rural grassroots party organizations; Secondly, the members of the county party committee must have a high degree of unity of thought, strengthen their belief in victory, set an example, and devote themselves to the building of rural grassroots party organizations with practical actions.
At that time, it can be said that since the founding of New China, after more than 40 years of experience, the leading bodies still maintained a "consistent system." The members of the party branch and the village committee are old and lack office space, and some branch secretaries and directors of the village committee work with official seals, and are vividly called "Kangtou Party Branch" and "Mobile Village Committee" by the villagers. In accordance with the situation and development requirements at that time, it was urgent to build the "five haves" party branch and village committee.
"Five haves". The village has a good party branch; The party branch must have a good leader, a party branch secretary; The party branch must formulate a set of good work ideas to lead the villagers to get rich; The party branch must develop a group of new party members who are educated, knowledgeable, moral, ambitious and dedicated; Party branches and village committees must build a good office space, a party organization activity room, and a cultural and recreational activity position for villagers.
On 1 July 1998, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee held a meeting in Beijing to summarize and commend the work of the national rural party building work.
2. The county party committee strengthens leadership and sets up special work bodies.
In the winter of 1995, Tuoketuo County was identified as a pilot county for rural party building in the whole region.
One day after the end of the county party congress in November, the organization department of the autonomous regional party committee sent relevant responsible comrades to the county party committee to report that the organization department of the autonomous region, in accordance with the arrangements made by the organization department of the central committee, demanded that the building of rural party organizations be carried out in an all-round way. It is required to immediately set up a leading body for rural party building in pilot counties, formulate a work plan, and carry out work.
In order to implement the opinions of the Organization Department of the Autonomous Regional Party Committee on the arrangements for the work of the pilot counties for rural party building, the county party committee immediately convened a meeting of the standing committee of the county party committee to study the establishment of a leading group and formulate a work plan.
The meeting decided that the secretary of the county party committee for the rural grassroots party building work should be responsible for the overall responsibility, and I would serve as the leader of the leading group; Duan Shouheng, deputy secretary of the county party committee in charge of organizational work, and Gao Xian, director of the organization department, served as deputy team leaders; The leading group has an office. The director of the office is concurrently served by Gao Xian. The leading group formulates a work plan and carries out its work as soon as possible; Each township and township shall establish a leading group for rural party building work, and the secretary of the township party committee shall be the first person responsible for the rural party building work in the township or township.
After the Standing Committee of the county party committee formed the minutes of the meeting and distributed them to the township party committees, the work of building rural party organizations was carried out in an all-round way in the county's 120 administrative villages.
3. Formulate a work plan, clarify work tasks, and carry out work
The county's rural party building pilot work plan was introduced, which clearly deployed the specific content, work tasks, work completion time, and specific requirements for inspection and acceptance of rural party building work.
The main contents and tasks of rural party building work are: First, grasp the grassroots, lay the foundation, solve the problem of "the foundation is not solid, the ground shakes", and establish a responsibility system. The secretaries of the 11 township party committees are each responsible for the overall responsibility, and they have respectively carried out the rectification of the existing village party branches in the 120 administrative villages in the county; The second is the task of rural party building, which is to build a village party branch team with cohesion, combat effectiveness, and ability to lead the villagers to get rich; the third is to choose a good leader who is good at developing the village-level economy and leading the villagers to get rich, that is, the secretary of the village party branch; the fourth is to focus on selecting and cultivating a group of good seedlings for the successors of the village branch team; Fifth, the village branch team is rejuvenated, and the young and promising, dedicated and innovative party members are enriched to the village branch team; Sixth, build a good team of party members, pay attention to the development of a group of young and promising new party members who are educated, have ideas, have the courage to innovate, bear hardships and stand hard work, and have a spirit of dedication; Seventh, formulate a set of development ideas suitable for local conditions; Eighth, the construction of a party branch, the village committee's workplace, the party members' activity position and the villagers' cultural and entertainment activities; Ninth, the county party committee should boldly reform the system of selecting and employing people, be good at discovering good cadres who are in charge of their own affairs from among the outstanding young village branch secretaries, and focus on training and promoting them to township and town leading cadres; Tenth, the pilot work of party building in rural areas should be completed in an all-round way by early 1998. The responsible persons of the party building leading group of the county party committee should go down to the grassroots level, carry out investigation and research uninterruptedly and regularly, and follow up and supervise the progress of party building in townships, towns, and villages. Secretaries of township and township party committees should be good at taking command of the expedition and giving prominence to grasping party building with one hand and economic and social development with the other. To promote development through party building, we must not only focus on squatting, but also inspect and inspect.
Fourth, focus on the implementation of key points of work
The secretary of the county party committee and members of the leading group should go deep into the 120 administrative villages to conduct investigation and study, and be good at discovering and solving problems. Responsible persons of the Organization Department of the Autonomous Regional Party Committee and the Organization Department of the Hohhot Municipal Party Committee have continuously gone deep into the administrative villages of Tuoketuo County to understand, guide, supervise and inspect, discover problems, and solve problems.
After the pilot work was carried out, the main problems found in the process of finding out the current situation and main problems of the county's administrative village party branches are: first, some members of the village branch team are older and conservative in their thinking; second, lack of confidence in rural party building; Third, the national poverty of the county, the existence of the collective economy is weak, the construction of village branches and village committees is troubled by financial resources, work constraints, and difficult progress.
In response to the problem, the county party committee made it clear that it would adjust the members of the village party branch who are aging and conservative. Age demarcation, village branch members over 60 years old, ask to retire, select young and promising party members to enrich the branch team members; The members of the village branch who lack confidence in the work of grassroots party building should be replaced; Due to the problem of insufficient financial resources, the secretaries of village branches who are unable to give full play to their subjective initiative in the construction of positions should come up with work measures within a time limit, be self-reliant and self-reliant, and find ways to solve the problem of funds. Those who do not do anything will be dismissed.
The most important thing in the existing problems is to first solve the problem of "Kangtou Party branch and mobile village committee".
In view of the above-mentioned problems, I made it clear to the secretaries of the township and town party committees and village branches: What is the nature of the problem that the grassroots party organizations of the Communist Party cannot conscientiously grasp party building and the construction of positions? Think about it seriously for yourselves, and be careful at your own peril!
After such a work, the 120 administrative village party branches are not willing to lag behind, carry forward the spirit of self-reliance and hard struggle, try their best to expand their ideas, and scramble to carry out the construction of positions, and when the county's grassroots party organization construction pilot work task is completed, the county's 120 administrative villages and villages have built a new courtyard neatly, and successfully completed the task of building party branches, village committees, party member activities and villagers' cultural and entertainment venues.
As I once said, "The party branch of the Communist Party does not pay attention to the construction of the Communist Party. After hearing this sentence, the responsible person of the organization department of the autonomous region who grasped the work of grassroots party building in rural and pastoral areas became an "exemplary slogan" for the work of party building in rural areas.
Fifth, the secretary of the county party committee pays attention to the investigation and research of rural party building
Township and village party organizations have firm beliefs, concentrate their efforts, overcome difficulties, and strive to increase the construction of grassroots party organizations.
The whole county twisted into a rope, opened roads in the mountains, built bridges in the water, fought for three years, passed the acceptance, and successfully completed the work tasks of the pilot counties for the construction of rural party organizations in the whole region issued by the Organization Department of the Party Committee of the Autonomous Region.
The secretary of the county party committee, the first responsible person, must have a clear idea of how well the building of rural grassroots party organizations is carried out and carry out the work in a down-to-earth manner.
Taking the lead in grasping investigation and research work is an effective measure for grasping the dynamics of grassroots units.
"Build a good grass-roots party organization, govern the scattered and poor teams, and one by one to grasp the investigation report on party building and promoting development in Yanshanying Township, Tuo County." During the investigation, the representative party building work of this township was dissected, so as to achieve the purpose of having a preliminary grasp of the dynamics of rural party building work in the county.
There are 10 party branches in Yanshanying Township, 28% of which are poor households in the township, and 5 shell villages have collective economic income in 10 administrative villages.
In the three years from 1995 to 1998, the township has achieved remarkable results in promoting development through party building.
"Grasp the difficulty. dissipate accumulation and dispel stasis". grasp the vanguard and exemplary role of Communist Party members, and give full play to the cohesion and fighting fortress role of Party branches; resolve the work contradictions between village cadres and the masses; Strengthen the construction of the system, strictly govern the party, solve the factional war, and govern the scattered, poor and poor; Do practical things to improve the centripetal force, cohesion and combat effectiveness of the branch; speed up the replacement of new and old members of the village branch team and the development of party members; do a good job in the ideological and work style construction of party branch members; Strengthen the building of township and town party committees.
The investigation reports were published in the Inner Mongolia Daily and the Hohhot Daily, which aroused the attention of the township and town party committees in the county to the work of rural party building.
6. Members of the leading group of county and rural grass-roots party organizations and the person in charge of the office attach importance to the patrol inspection work
After the rural grassroots party building work was launched, Duan Shouheng, deputy secretary of the county party committee, and Gao Xian, director of the organization department of the county party committee, were conscientious and responsible to the county party committee, and regularly went to the townships and rural areas to conduct in-depth inspections and made major achievements in the construction of rural grassroots party organizations in the county.
To understand the situation at the grassroots level, the main task of the key and difficult points is to understand the effectiveness of the rectification of the village-level party branch team; the selection and allocation of party branch secretaries; the development of party members; the development of village-level economy and the formulation and implementation of the work ideas and plans for villagers to get rid of poverty and become rich; Arduous struggle, opening roads in the mountains, building bridges in the face of water, and the construction of office space for village-level organizations.
The in-depth actual inspection and supervision of the war have done effective work and achieved remarkable results, which has played a great role in promoting the pilot work of rural grassroots party building.
7. Fight for more than three years, achieve the expected goal, and enter the stage of comprehensive acceptance
Since 1995, the pilot work of rural grassroots party building has lasted three years, and on the eve of July 1, 1998, the pilot work of party building assigned by the higher authorities has been successfully completed, and the acceptance work of rural grassroots party organization construction in the county has been carried out in accordance with the scheduled requirements.
First of all, the Tuoketuo County Committee of the Communist Party of China conducted a comprehensive acceptance of the completion of the pilot work of the construction of rural grass-roots party organizations in the county in accordance with the acceptance plan formulated; After that, the Organization Department of the Hohhot Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China went deep into the rural areas of Tuoketuo County for inspection and acceptance; Finally, the leading group of the organization department of the party committee of the autonomous region for the pilot work of rural grassroots party organization construction carried out a very detailed and specific work acceptance of the pilot work of rural grassroots party organization construction in the county.
The main responsible comrades of the Organization Bureau of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, in coordination with the main responsible comrades of the Organization Department of the Party Committee of the Mongolia Autonomous Region of the Communist Party of China, went to Tuoketuo County to listen to the report of the county party committee on the construction of rural party branches, and went deep into the rural party branches to inspect and inspect the pilot work of rural party building.
With the joint efforts of the party organizations at the county, township, and village levels, it took three years to fully complete the tasks of the pilot work of rural grassroots party building, creating unprecedented major achievements in the party building work in the history of the Tuoketuo County Party Committee of the Communist Party of China, and successfully popularizing the experience of the autonomous regional party committee in comprehensively carrying out the building of grassroots party organizations in the rural areas of the whole region.
Review the main results of the pilot work of rural party building in Tuoketuo County at that time: first, the 120 administrative village party branches in the county were rectified, and the branch members reached a relatively young age; Second, each village branch selects a good leader who is more satisfied, has ideas, and can lead the villagers to get rich, that is, the secretary of the village party branch; Third, each administrative village formulates a set of development ideas that are in line with the actual situation of the village; Fourth, the party branches of various administrative villages have developed a group of new party members who are educated, relatively young, and have the prestige of the masses; Fifth, it solves the stubborn problem of "Kangtou Party branch and mobile village committee" without a fixed residence, and each administrative village has built a public affairs and activity compound integrating party branches, village committee offices, party member activities, and villagers' cultural and entertainment activities; Sixth, through the pilot work of building grassroots party organizations in rural areas, a number of good leaders who can lead the villagers to become rich have been discovered. Like Wang Xianshi, the party secretary of Tofu Kiln Village, Liu Zhisheng, the former village party secretary, and Zhang Shengke, the party secretary of Yifang Village. To this end, the county party committee boldly reformed the employment system and promoted the above-mentioned secretaries of village branches to township and town leaders. Comrade Wang Xianshi was also elected as a deputy to the National People's Congress.
8. Report to the banner counties and districts of the whole region on the development of the pilot work of rural grassroots party organizations
On the eve of the celebration of the 77 th anniversary of the founding of the CPC in 1998, the CPC Mongolia Autonomous Regional Party Committee held a teleconference on the work of building party organizations in rural areas throughout the region. The principal responsible person of the regional party committee attended the meeting at the main venue of Hohhot City and made an important speech.
At the meeting, I made a presentation on the main work and the main achievements of the pilot project for the building of rural grassroots party organizations in the whole region since the launch of the pilot project.
The conference solemnly commended the advanced units and individuals in the rural grassroots party building work.
The Tuoketuo County Party Committee of the Communist Party of China was commended by the Party Committee of the Autonomous Region as the only "Excellent County Party Committee for the Construction of Rural Grassroots Party Organizations in the Banner County of the Whole Region"
I was commended as the only outstanding county party secretary in the construction of rural grassroots party organizations in the banner counties of the whole region
9. Go to Beijing to attend the commendation meeting of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.
After the conclusion of the autonomous region's teleconference on the building of rural grassroots party organizations, he received a notice to go to Beijing to attend a meeting of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee on summing up and commending the work of building rural grassroots party organizations.
Participated in the National Rural Grassroots Party Organization Construction Summary and Commendation Conference held by the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, Comrade Zhou Tongzhan, Director of the Organization Department of the CPC Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, led the team, and Comrade Wang Ru, Director of the Organization Division, was specifically responsible for coordinating the participation in the meeting. The participants in the autonomous region were only me, the secretary of the county party committee, a secretary of the township party committee of the Bayannur League, and a person in charge of an enterprise.
After arriving in Beijing, they will stay in accommodation, hold small meetings, and discuss in groups, and arrange them in the guest house of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee; The speeches of the central leaders, the work summary report, and the commendation meeting were held in the Great Hall of the People.
When I stayed in the guest house of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, Director Wang Ru arranged for me and Minister Zhou Tongzhan to be in the same room. So he went to Wang Ru and asked to adjust the room, and moved to Wang Ru's room to live.
On June 28, 1998, the National Grassroots Party Organization Work Summary and Commendation Conference was held in the Great Hall of the People.
CPC Central Committee leaders Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao, and Zeng Qinghong attended the meeting, and Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao made important speeches on the importance of building grassroots party organizations.
Zhang Quanjing, director of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, made a summary report on the construction of grassroots party organizations. Commended representatives of individual provinces and municipalities made speeches on work exchanges.
The conference commended advanced collectives and individuals in the construction of grassroots party organizations. The Tuoketuo County Party Committee of the Communist Party of China was commended as an outstanding county party committee for the construction of rural grassroots party organizations in the country; I was commended as the only outstanding county party secretary in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region for the construction of rural grassroots party organizations.
After summing up and commending the meeting, Comrades Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao, and Zeng Qinghong, leaders of the CPC Central Committee, and Comrade Zhang Quanjing, director of the Central Organization Department, who attended the meeting, met with the participants and took a group photo.
Meet the participants, take a group photo, and arrange to sit on the first floor of the Great Hall of the People in the reception hall from north to south.
The interviewees stood on the curved bench for a group photo in layers. If you want to win the meeting of the leader at close range, you must choose a reasonable position. I estimated that the leader would enter the reception and group photo hall from the west, so I chose the first standing position in the west behind the first row of leaders' seats. As he wished, he became the first person to be received by the central leaders.
The meeting was held in the conference room of the Guest House of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, and the group discussion was also held in the group discussion room of the Guest House of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee.
Minister Zhang Quanjing made an important speech at the meeting of the Central Organization Department's guest house, affirming the achievements and work experience in the building of grassroots party organizations across the country over the past three years, and at the same time asking the participants to convey, discuss, and implement the spirit of the speech of the central leaders and the spirit of the meeting after the meeting, and implement it step by step. It is necessary to further consolidate the achievements, continue to carry forward the successful experience in the building of grassroots party organizations, hold the position, strengthen the conviction, and achieve greater results.
During the meeting, the conference organized participants to visit Zhongnanhai Fengze Park and climb the Tiananmen Tower to experience the majesty of Tiananmen Square.
Visiting Zhongnanhai Fengze Garden, the deepest impression is that the chairman's library is full of wind, frost, rain and snow, and the Fengze collection of books in the southern and northern wars, full of wind, frost, rain and snow, and fighting the heavens and the earth, in order to commemorate the chairman's leadership of the people of the whole country to fight the world and build the world, Wen Taowu's great ambition, and there are millions of soldiers in the book.
Climb the Tiananmen Tower, overlook Tiananmen Square, and look up at the Monument to the People's Heroes, the Great Hall of the People, the Memorial Hall of Chairman Mao, the History Museum, and the Qianmen Tower. Thinking about Chinese civilization, I suddenly felt a sense of pride in the past that was reminiscent of the times.
10. Implement the spirit of the meeting and achieve results in the work of "three rural".
The National Grassroots Party Organization Construction Work Summary and Commendation Conference was successfully concluded, and the participants from all over the country began to publicize and implement the spirit of the meeting after returning to their own regions and units.
Tuoketuo County proceeded from its own reality, closely followed the central work, played a core role, and the village party branches summarized the achievements of party building, led the villagers to grasp the village-level economy, implemented the idea of poverty alleviation and prosperity, and intensified their work, and harvested new achievements in economic and social development to varying degrees.
At that time, Tuoketuo County was a poverty-stricken county dominated by agriculture. Increasing the per capita net income of villagers and increasing the fiscal revenue of counties and townships is an important task for testing the results of party building work. Focusing on the two improvements, grasping the development of agricultural industrialization on the one hand and the income generation of township, town, and village-run enterprises on the other hand is a major goal and task that meets the needs of actual development.
Grasping the three rural areas and cooperating with the Tuoketuo County Party Committee and the county government has become the primary task of the work of the Tuoketuo County Party Committee and the county government.
develop the rural economy, take the road of agricultural industrialization, grasp the layout of industrialization, and integrate management; grasp the production of characteristic agriculture, formulate one township, one policy, one village, one product work measures; We should grasp the revitalization of the rural economy, and give specific tasks to all towns and villages to run enterprises and carry out projects.
Support the power and development of the county. Seize the opportunity of the launch of the Tuoketuo Power Plant, cooperate with the Tuoketuo Power Plant to do a good job in service work, and plan and formulate the planning and implementation plan of the Tuoketuo Power Plant Industrial Park.
Actively serve the project of attracting yellow water into the call, and expand the channels of local financial revenue.
Expand the county economy, accelerate the pace of poverty alleviation and prosperity, and enter the forefront of the economic and social development of the city's banner counties and districts.
Under the basic role of strengthening the building of grassroots party organizations in rural areas, in rural areas, we have alleviated our worries about the development of the county economy to varying degrees. By the end of 1998, county-level fiscal revenues had reached 61 million. The fiscal revenue of poverty-stricken counties ranks third among the nine banner counties and districts, second only to the suburbs and new urban areas of Hohhot, which have strong economic strength.
Under the current situation, what was the concept of a poor county's fiscal revenue reaching 61 million yuan? It cannot be measured by today's eyes. If we compare the values, the gold content of $61 million in 1998 may be better than today's $6 billion, or even more. These are the values of two different eras, and the two are not the historical gold content of the same starting line.
Nearly 30 years have passed since 1995 when the pilot project of building rural grassroots party organizations in the autonomous region's rural areas in an epoch-making historical sense was launched in Tuoketuo County.
With the progress of the times, the pace of urbanization has accelerated, and time has gone further, and policy adjustments such as demolishing villages and merging villages, demolishing townships and merging towns, farmers going to work in villages, and students leaving their hometowns to study, have left traces of work in the construction of 120 village party branches in the county that year; It is also unknown whether the Tuoketo County Chronicle will include this epoch-making and major historical move in the historical records.
The times have progressed, but whether this precious historical wealth of core values left behind by the blood and sweat of a generation in the history of the party needs to be remembered, retained, inherited, and carried forward, as a source of strength, to educate the vast number of Communist Party members today, may be a valuable ideological relic and spiritual wealth.
Using yesterday's thinking to measure today's existence and analyzing yesterday's thinking with today's existence is a major organizational task, spiritual wealth, and party spirit requirement that should be recorded in the history of the dialectical argument of the times in governing the party and the country.
I wish that the foundation of today's party building work in Tuoketuo County will be forever cast, the old will bring forth the new, the original intention will be excellent, the mission will be sustainable, and step by step; I wish the economic, social, political and cultural coordination and harmonious progress of Tuoketuo County.
Yun Gaohuai
May 16, 2024
【About the author】Yun Gaohuai, Mongolia, from Xiaolisu Village, Tumut Left Banner. Former chairman of the Wuhai CPPCC.