Hanoi (VNA) – The Communist Party of Vietnam wants its leaders and membersto set good examples, so it is spelling out how they do this.

The12th Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee (CPVCC) on October25 issued Regulation No. 08-QDi/TW on the responsibility for setting examplesof officials and Party members, firstly members of the Politburo, theSecretariat and the Party Central Committee.

The need for officials and Party members to set examples has been often mentionedin Party documents, resolutions and regulations. However, this is the firsttime the CPVCC has issued a regulation detailing the top Party leaders’responsibility for setting examples, showing increasing transparency anddemocracy within the Party.

Theregulation once again affirms that setting an example is the responsibility,duty and part of the ethics of a cadre.

Theraising of responsibility for setting examples has never been mentioned asoften or as seriously as in recent years. After the Resolution of the 11th CPVCC’s fourth plenum onseveral urgent issues on Party building at present was issued, on June 7, 2012,the CPVCC’s Secretariat promulgated Regulation No. 101-QD/TW on theresponsibility for setting examples of officials and Party members, especiallykey leaders at all levels.

Theregulation requests officials and Party members to lead the way inimplementing, popularising and protecting the guidelines and policies of theParty and the policies and laws of the State as well as the objectives andideals of the Party. They must set good examples in terms of morality andlifestyle, and pioneer in fighting corruption, wastefulness and other negativephenomena. They should be a mirror in self-criticism and criticism, responsibilityfor work, relations with people, sense of discipline and internal solidarity.

InRegulation No. 55-QD/TW, issued on December 19, 2016, the Politburo bannedofficials and Party members from receiving and giving gifts for self-interestedpurposes and leading a lavish lifestyle.

TheResolution of the 12th CPVCC’s fourth plenum on strengthening Partybuilding and rectification set out measures to fix shortcomings in personnelwork and cadre management; drive back degradation in political thought,morality and lifestyle; and roll back corruption, wastefulness and othernegative phenomena.

PresidentHo Chi Minh once taught that “A living example is more valuable than hundredsof agitprop speeches”. If officials want people to follow them, they must set goodexamples and volunteer first.

Settinga good example is a leadership mode of the Party but has its own specificcharacteristics. Setting a good example has extremely great effects as it iscapable of calling upon the masses through the strength of confidence andsentiments from their hearts.

Ina closing speech at the recent eight plenum of the 12th CPVCC, PartyGeneral Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong stressed that if nearly 200 members of the12th CPVCC raise their responsibility of setting examples, it willcreate strong changes in the entire Party and political system, helping toconsolidate and enhance trust among officials and Party members, and the peoplein the Party Central Committee, the Politburo and the Secretariat.

Accompanying the nation through history, the Party has always attachedimportance to the Party building, particularly personnel work, considering it anextremely crucial task.-VNA