Finding the Focus of Grassroots Governance Led by Party Building | Grid | Youth
【 This issue's golden sentence 】
Adhere to the clear guidance of focusing on grassroots work, promote rural revitalization through party building, strengthen urban community party building work, promote grassroots governance led by party building, continuously rectify weak and lax grassroots party organizations, and build grassroots party organizations into strong fortresses for effectively implementing party leadership.
-- October 16, 2022, Xi Jinping's report at the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China
【 Current Learner 】
Author: Professor Tian Yumin from the School of Marxism at Tianjin Agricultural University
The key to governing a country and ensuring national security lies at the grassroots level. Grassroots governance is the cornerstone of national governance, and promoting grassroots governance is the fundamental project for achieving modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity. The key to grassroots governance lies in the Party. The leadership of the CPC is the most essential feature of socialism with Chinese characteristics and the greatest advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. Adhering to the comprehensive leadership of the Party is the fundamental guarantee for strengthening and innovating grassroots governance. To promote grassroots governance led by Party building, we must identify and grasp the key points of Party building leading grassroots governance, and ensure the correct direction of grassroots governance with high-quality Party building.
Build a strong command center that excels in governance.The comprehensive leadership of the Party and all Party work rely on the strong organizational system of the Party to achieve. A rigorous organizational system is the advantage and strength of the Party. To promote grassroots governance led by party building, the first step is to strengthen the construction of grassroots party organizations and enhance their political and organizational functions. As the grassroots organization of the Party, the street party committee leads the work of the local area and grassroots social governance, and is the frontline "command center" of grassroots governance. To promote grassroots governance led by Party building, it is necessary to grasp the "bull nose" of grassroots governance, strengthen the "command center" that is proficient in governance, strengthen the linkage between upper and lower levels, plan the overall situation, grasp overall planning, strengthen guarantees and promote implementation, ensure the authority of grassroots Party organizations, integrate Party leadership throughout the entire process of grassroots governance in all aspects, promote the deep integration of Party organization construction and grassroots governance, strengthen political guidance, organizational guidance, and ability guidance, and focus on improving the leadership, leadership, organizational strength, and execution power of Party organizations in grassroots governance, fully play the key role of overall planning and coordination of all parties, and become the "backbone" of grassroots governance.
Build a solid "bridgehead" that is good at governance.Only when grassroots party organizations are strong and powerful, and party members play their due roles, can the foundation of the party be firmly established and the party have combat effectiveness. Strong branches, grassroots governance, and peace for the people. Community party branches are the most grassroots organizations of the party, the "nerve endings" of the party's body, located at the beginning of people's livelihood and the ultimate point of implementation, determining the quality and effectiveness of grassroots governance. Promote grassroots governance led by Party building, strengthen the use of streets to promote communities, solidly grasp the construction of Party branches, build a "bridgehead" that is good at governance, make it a "dynamic factor" of grassroots governance, be a "commander" and "vanguard" of grassroots governance, be a "servant" and "clerk" of grassroots masses, fully play the supporting and leading role of Party branches, continuously enhance the cohesion of grassroots Party organizations, and truly become a strong fortress for promoting Party's propositions, implementing Party decisions, uniting and mobilizing relying on the masses, and leading grassroots governance.
Choose the leading geese who dare to govern. Grassroots governance directly faces the diverse demands of the masses, responds to emergencies, mediates conflicts and disputes, and handles various complex issues. It has both suddenness and particularity, as well as comprehensiveness and complexity. The key to laying a foundation at the grassroots level is to build a high-quality team of leading grassroots party organizations, and enhance the leadership and comprehensive governance capabilities of the community's "two committees". Therefore, to promote grassroots governance led by party building, it is necessary to effectively select the "leading geese" who dare to govern. We must strictly adhere to the selection criteria, prioritize political standards, adhere to the principle of selecting the best from the best and selecting the strong from the best. We must boldly select party members who are politically strong, proficient in business, knowledgeable in governance, courageous, and willing to take on responsibilities to serve as party branch secretaries, and also serve as neighborhood committee directors through legal procedures. We must also select the "leading geese" of grassroots party organizations. At the same time, we will strengthen the deputy secretary of the community party branch and deputy director of the neighborhood committee, allocate personnel from the "two committees", seize the "key minority" of grassroots organizational cadres, drive all grassroots party members to fulfill their duties, take improving people's well-being as the starting point and foothold, solve grassroots governance problems, and improve the effectiveness of grassroots governance.
Forge the vanguard of leading governance. Grassroots governance requires Party members to take the lead. Party members are the "red cells" of party organizations and the vanguard of grassroots governance. To promote grassroots governance led by party building, we need to strengthen the construction of grassroots party members, focus on forging a party member team that can fight tough battles, practice the original intention, refine party spirit, and style in grassroots governance, and play a pioneering and exemplary role. We need to optimize the structure of the party member team, focus on developing party members from young and industrial workers, farmers, and intellectuals, and enhance the vitality of grassroots party organizations; We need to strengthen and improve the education and management of mobile party members, further promote in-service party members to report and provide services to grassroots party organizations in urban and rural areas, take the lead in implementing various regulations in urban and rural communities, and participate in community public services; It is necessary to organize and carry out special professional training, improve the overall quality of the party members, enhance their awareness, strengthen their party spirit cultivation, improve their comprehensive quality, maintain the progressiveness and purity of the party members, and better play a vanguard and model role in grass-roots governance. Establish a system of party member identity, enhance the sense of honor, responsibility, and mission of party members, and assist the community "two committees" in leading the people to participate in grassroots governance.
Activate the main force involved in governance. The people are participants and beneficiaries of grassroots governance. To promote grassroots governance led by Party building, it is necessary to closely rely on the people, adhere to the main position of the people in grassroots governance, and fully play the role of the people as the main force. We should actively develop grassroots democracy, improve the democratic decision-making, implementation, and supervision mechanism of community affairs under the leadership of party organizations, and use grassroots democracy within the party to drive widespread participation of the masses. We need to improve the democratic consultation mechanism, pay attention to consultation with the people and consultation for the people, promote the deep integration of consultative democracy and grassroots governance, widely negotiate around the urgent and difficult issues of the people, reach consensus, form consultation opinions, safeguard the people's right to know and participate, enhance their sense of gain, happiness, and satisfaction, and stimulate the vitality of grassroots autonomy. Pay attention to building discussion platforms such as the "Small Courtyard Meeting Hall", "Bench Night Talk Conference", and "Courtyard Meeting", widely solicit public opinion and coordinate handling, improve feedback mechanisms, provide more opportunities for the people to participate in autonomy, effectively communicate social and public opinion, coordinate interests of all parties, gather consensus, resolve conflicts, and enable the people to participate in grassroots governance from "standing and watching" and "following" to "managing themselves", and build a community of grassroots governance to reduce the cost of grassroots governance.
Build a "grid team" for digital governance. In today's era, everything is interconnected and information technology is fully integrated into the entire process and various fields of social life, empowering grassroots governance. By utilizing information technology, we will promote grassroots governance led by party building, create a data-driven platform for grid management, coordinate party building, comprehensive governance, social services, and other work within the grid, achieve "multi network integration", build a team of grid members with excellent technology and strong management and service capabilities, transform the political and organizational advantages of the party into grassroots governance efficiency, and stimulate new vitality in grassroots governance. We need to strengthen the training of grid personnel, improve their abilities in information collection and analysis, public opinion response, coordination and processing, promote the transformation of grid management to grid services, and comprehensively improve the ability and level of grid service management; To integrate resource strength, gather resources towards the grid, integrate resources in the grid, upgrade services in the grid, and solve problems in the grid; We need to improve the mechanism of grid item list, strengthen the implementation of grid personnel's responsibilities, ensure that grassroots governance tasks are assigned and managed, and achieve the refinement of serving the people and the precision, refinement, and intelligence of grid governance.
This article is the phased achievement of the research project on the application of the "Thousand Scholars Serving Grassroots" activity in the social science community of Tianjin in 2023