Unity and consensus– the era power of Binh Duong in the process of industrialization

During his lifetime, President Ho Chi Minh taught: "Solidarity is an extremely precious tradition of the Party and our nation. Officers from the Central Committee to the cell branches need to preserve the unity and consensus of the Party like preserving the pupils of their eyes.” When entering the process of construction and development, Binh Duong Provincial Party Committee has paid special attention to the implementation of internal unity and solidarity along with the consensus of the people to create epochal strength for the province to successfully implement the process of industrialization and modernization.

National Highway 13 – the road of historical mission in the promotion of industrialization and modernization of Binh Duong. Photo: Quoc Chien

Unity preservation with the CPV

During the first time as Binh Duong entered the process of construction and development, the country's renovation also began to deepen and the leadership responsibility of the Party committee has become more important. Building a truly clean and strong Party has become an urgent requirement related to the success or failure of the renovation cause as well as the outlined development path of Binh Duong. Therefore, the 6th provincial Party Congress clearly defined: Building a strong political system, paying special attention to Party building and planning, and training cadres as a fundamental and key step and the deciding factor.

Mr. Nguyen Minh Duc, former Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, said that when Song Be province was split to establish two provinces of Binh Duong and Binh Phuoc, the development direction for Binh Duong was set very favorably. At the time, the solidarity and internal unity was a very important factor. In the process of implementing the tasks, the province has been very proactive within the Standing Committee and the Executive Committee, especially emphasizing the principle of democratic centralism in leadership, direction and administration. All work has been unified throughout from the Party committee, government, Fatherland Front and mass organizations.

It is by promoting the lesson of solidarity and internal unity that the provincial Party Committee has created a unity of thoughts and action for undertakings and policies in socio-economic development ever since the implementation of leadership, direction and administration. Thanks to that, after 10 years of implementing the renovation and 5 years of implementing the Resolution of the 7th National Party Congress and the Resolution of the 6th provincial Party Congress, Binh Duong officials, Party members and people have closely united to rise. Binh Duong has won many great and comprehensive achievements in all fields and especially created an exciting atmosphere in the political life and spiritual life of cadres, Party members and all classes of people.

Under the leadership of the provincial Party Committee and with the attention and support of the central government, the province has focused on building material and technical foundations and socio-economic infrastructure to accelerate the economic restructuring towards industry – service – agriculture – forestry; to develop a multi-sector economy with a market mechanism under the management of the State. Thanks to the policy of socio-economic development and the correct leadership of the Party Committee, by 2000, most of the important targets had been reached or exceeded regarding the goals of the Resolution of the 6th provincial Party Congress.

Consensus – the key to success

Along with the spirit of solidarity and unity within the Party, the consensus of all classes of people in the province is also a fundamental factor for Binh Duong to step up and make breakthroughs in the process of accelerating industrialization, modernization, and socio-economic development to constantly improve people's living standards.

Right from the time when it was Song Be province, people's hearts have always been given special attention by leaders of Party committees and local authorities. Mr. Nguyen Minh Triet, former Secretary of the Song Be provincial Party Committee, former Politburo member, and former President, shared that the land of Song Be - Binh Duong was severely damaged by wars. People's lives after the war faced many difficulties, but the new direction created conditions for people to have a better and better life. People's trust and happiness have been getting greater. To this day, the people's trust in the Party has not changed, and they strongly believe in the Party's leadership.

Song Be, then Binh Duong, went up with the chosen path of accelerating industrialization and modernization; along with breakthrough thinking, pioneering guidelines and policies, the consensus of the people was very important. According to Mr. Nguyen Minh Triet, the consensus and support of the people has been very clear, especially in the field of land. For example, at the time of Song Be province, although the land was fallow, the people did not have land for production, which was very unreasonable. And when the province calculated to allocate land to people for production, but at that time, there was no complete mechanism and policy, the provincial leaders were therefore reminded while the people were very sorry. Then when the provincial leader was not reprimanded, the people were all very happy. “It showed that the people and the leaders of the Party Committee, and the government have become closer to share. Therefore, the unanimous support of the people for the development guidelines and directions at that time was especially important, and up to now, this has also been one of the decisive factors," said Mr. Nguyen Minh Triet.

Following that source and continuing the lesson on people's hearts on entering the process of construction and development since the beginning of 1997, the Party Committee and provincial authority have always focused on promoting the people's mastery. Specifically, the Standing Board of the provincial Party Committee issued Directive No. 08-CT/TV dated July 3, 1998 on the implementation of the Regulation on democracy in communes, wards and townships. The guiding view was to place the promotion of the people's mastery in communes, wards and townships in the overall mechanism of the political system. The Party leads, the State manages, and the people are the masters.

By promoting the spirit of "people know, people discuss, people do, people check", socio-economic development guidelines and policies have been agreed by the people, thereby, joining hands to implement. The most obvious thing about the strength of people's hearts was the consensus of the people for the clearance, compensation and site clearance to build arterial roads and form industrial parks in the locality.

When new wide roads creating favorable trade conditions for people are opened, when industrial parks are built to create jobs and opportunities for family economic development, people's lives have constantly been improved and people know that they have become the subjects of the guidelines and policies set forth by the Party and State. And the people's hearts and the people's consensus are also the strength of time for Binh Duong to take off.

Reported by D. Thanh – Translated by Vi Bao