Hanoi (VNA) – The strategy on cadres in the period ofnational industrialisation and modernisation enhancement, issued by the8th-tenure Party Central Committee in 1997, has fulfilled its “historicmission”, creating an institutional framework for the shaping and developmentof the cadre contingent in the country’s new development period.

Politburo member Pham Minh Chinh, Secretary ofthe Party Central Committee and Chairman of the Party Central Committee’sOrganisation Commission, made the comment in an article ahead of the seventh plenarymeeting of 12th-tenure Party Central Committee.

The cadre strategy was issued in Resolution03/NQ-TW of the third plenary meeting of the eighth-tenure Party CentralCommittee dated June 18, 1997 with a view to creating fundamental andcomprehensive improvement of the contingent of cadres.

Looking back on the past two decades, aside fromcertain shortcomings, the implementation of the cadre strategy has resulted inimportant outcomes, Chinh said.

In terms of institutional building, the Politburo and theParty Central Committee Secretariat from the 8th to the 12th tenures haveissued 142 documents, including seven thematic resolutions. Since the beginningof the 12th tenure alone, 26 documents on personnel work rectification havebeen promulgated.

As a result, the contingent of cadres at alllevels has developed in multiple aspects while their quality has been increasinglyimproved. The age, gender, ethnicity and profession structures of cadres havebecome more balanced.

According to the article, the rate of under-40officials holding leadership and management positions is 6.22 percent atcentral-level agencies and ministries and 6.41 percent at the provincial level.The rate of those under 35 years old at the district level is 6.5 percent. Theratio of female cadres holding positions under the management of the PartyCentral Committee, the Politburo and the Party Central Committee Secretariathas doubled over the last three tenures, from 10 percent to 20 percent. About13.03 percent of officials holding senior positions at central agencies andministries are women.

Chinh also highlighted improvements in theevaluation, planning, training, election, appointment and rotation of cadres,which have been made in an increasingly democratic, objective, open andtransparent manner.

He added for the first time, the 11th-tenureParty Central Committee introduced several new measures with the aim ofenhancing the quality of officials holding leading and managerial positions atall levels, including making a personnel plan for the Party Central Committee, organisingvotes of confidence on officials at Party and people-elected agencies, fillingall positions of the State leadership immediately after the National PartyCongress, and organising training courses for potential candidates forhigh-level positions.

The Party’s examination and inspection work has receivedgreater attention and been stepped up, he wrote, noting that many violationshave been uncovered and publicised, thereby giving warning and deterrence againstnegative phenomena and consolidating officials, Party members and people’strust in the Party and the State.

In his article, Chinh affirmed that the developmentof the contingent of cadres in general and those in the leadership andmanagement at all levels in particular, has considerably contributed to thehuge and historic achievements of the country’s Doi moi (renewal) in the pastover 30 years.

The maturity and development of the cadrecontingent over the last two decades are vivid evidence of the significance andvalues of the cadre strategy. It’s now an occasion for the Party to reflect onthe successes that need to be promoted and the shortcomings that need to beaddressed so as to draw useful lessons serving the continued building of thecadre contingent and reform of personnel work, to meet requirements of newtasks in the new revolutionary period, the official added.-VNA