The Tank - Armoured Corps Party Committee has been fully aware that the Party building is of paramount importance to building pure, strong party organisations and preventing the signs of degradation in political ideology, morality, and lifestyle amongst cadres and party members. In response to the new task requirements, this work must be placed under close, practical, effective leadership and direction.

Over the years, grasping and executing resolutions by party organisations at all levels, particularly the 12^th Party Central Committee’s Resolution No.4 on the Party building and rectification, the Tank - Armoured Corps Party Committee has always focused its leadership over performing the Party building work, enhancing party committees and organisations’ leadership and combativeness, raising the quality of cadres and party members, and making party organisations politically, ideologically, morally, organisationally strong and capable of playing a core role in leading their units to successfully fulfil the task.

Due attention has been paid to building a politically, ideologically strong Party Organisation of the Corps. The Corps Party Committee has always grasped and included the Party’s guidelines and the Central Military Commission’s resolutions in the building of the Corps Party Organisation. Emphasis has been placed on concretising higher echelons’ resolutions into the Corps Party Committee’s resolutions and action programmes, effectively implementing resolutions by all-level party congresses, and strictly exercising self-examination, self-criticism, and criticism under the 12^th Party Central Committees’ Resolution No.4 in line with the 12^th Politburo’s Directive 05-CT/TW on studying and emulating Ho Chi Minh’s ideology, ethics and lifestyle and the Campaign entitled “promoting tradition, devoting talent, deserving to be Uncle Ho’s soldiers in the new period.” The Corps Party Committee has frequently renewed political and ideological education for cadres and party members, proactively orientated their ideology, and opportunely dealt with the arising issues. At the same time, it has resolutely prevented and fought against the hostile forces’ “peaceful evolution” strategy and their tricks of “depoliticising our Military” as well as wrong, negative, backward viewpoints, opportunism and the signs of mediocrity. As a result, cadres and party members of the Corps Party Organisation have always kept their absolute faith in the Party, the State, and the Military, remained steadfast in the goal of national independence and socialism, complied with directives and resolutions by the Party, set role models for others to follow, and heightened a sense of political responsibility to overcome difficulties and successfully fulfil their assigned task.

Head of the Corps addressing a Conference on the party and political work

To build an organisationally and morally strong Party Organisation of the Corps, the Corps Party Committee has proactively designed, promulgated, and stringently executed the working and leadership regulations. It has directed affiliated party committees and organisations to frequently maintain the order for Party meetings, observe the principles of democratic centralism, collective leadership, and individual accountability, heighten combativeness, self-criticism, and criticism, foster a sense of unity and consensus, and promote the vanguard, exemplary role of cadres and party members so as to enhance all-level party committees and organisations’ leadership capacity and combativeness. Party committees at all levels within the Corps have always closely managed and trained cadres and party members, while developing and effectively implementing plans for overcoming weaknesses after self-examination, self-criticism, and criticism under the 12^th Party Central Committee’s Resolution No.4. They have stepped up the work of inspection, supervision, and disciplinary action in a serious, close, focalised manner. A focus has been placed on inspecting party committee members, commanders, and party members who had shown the signs of discipline violation to opportunely rectify weaknesses and shortcomings. At the same time, consideration has been given to well performing the work of internal political protection, grasping the political quality of party members, particularly in key offices and units, preparing the personnel plans for all-level party congresses, initiating new members into the Party, and carrying out the work of military entrance examination. Regarding the building of the Party morally, party committees and organisations within the Corps have adopted various measures for training and improving cadres and party members’ awareness and responsibility under the 12^th Party Central Committee’s Resolution No.4 and the Politburo’s Directive 05-CT/TW, preventing and pushing back the signs of degradation in political ideology, ethics and lifestyle as well as “self-evolution” and “self-transformation.” They have also complied with the regulation on the role model-setting responsibility of cadres and party members, particularly party committee members and commanders at all levels, while actively, proactively preventing and combating corruption, wastefulness and negative practices. As a result, cadres and party members within the Corps Party Organisation have always showed good qualities, ethics, and lifestyle. More importantly, they have no manifestations of degradation in political ideology, ethics and lifestyle, which has greatly contributed to building a pure, strong Party Organisation and a comprehensively strong Corps.

In response to the scientific and technological development, the negative impacts by social networks, the dark side of the market economy, and especially the hostile forces’ sabotage scheme, in the upcoming time, the Tank - Armoured Corps Party Organisation will concentrate on several measures for raising the effectiveness of the Party building as follows.

1. The Corps Party Organisation will continue renewing political and ideological education to raise cadres and party members’ awareness of Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh’s ideology and enable them to remain steadfast in the Party’s renewal guidelines. It will strictly implement higher echelons’ directives and resolutions on the Party building, particularly all-level party congresses’ resolutions. It will step up the training of cadres and party members’ revolutionary ethics, capacity, and hands-on experiences, while continuing to effectively implement the 12^th Party Central Committee’s Resolution No.4, the Politburo’s Directive 05-CT/TW, and the Campaign entitled “promoting tradition, devoting talent, deserving to be Uncle Ho’s soldiers in the new period” as a routine task of all party organisations, cadres, and party members.

2. The Corps Party Organisation will focus its leadership and direction on holding all-level party congresses under higher echelons’ direction and making a huge positive change in all-level party organisations’ leadership capacity and combativeness, especially in the performance of political task and the building of comprehensively strong offices and units. It will cement the solidarity between leadership and command, maintain the leadership principle, and make party organisations capable of playing a core role in leading all operations of offices and units. It will frequently consolidate all-level party committees with good quality and proper structure, combine the building of Party Organisation with that of comprehensively strong offices and units, and align the building of party committees with that of key cadres at all levels. It will strictly maintain the regulations on Party meetings, study, and work, preserve the principle of democratic centralism, uphold self-criticism and criticism, promote the role of mass organisations in the Party building, and improve all-level party committees’ capacity to grasp, concretise, and execute resolutions. It will well implement the Regulations on grass-roots level democracy, manage and grasp party members’ ideology and relationships, and build a contingent of party members with the increasingly high quality. It will well conduct the work of assessing and classifying party members and organisations annually, initiate new members into the Party, and uphold the Party’s working-class nature and the vanguard role of cadres and party members. It will concentrate on making itself politically, ideologically, organisationally and morally strong, building its cadres and party members’ political zeal, ethics, lifestyle, and responsibility, and resolutely combating wrong, hostile viewpoints, “self-evolution” and self-transformation” from within.

3. The Corps Party Organisation will stringently implement resolutions, directives, regulations, and procedures for inspection and supervision under the Party’s Charter, ensuring that supervision will be expanded and inspection will be focalised. It will proactively inspect party organisations and members with the signs of discipline violation, seriously handle violations of discipline, and opportunely deal with letters of complaint and denunciation. It will resolutely fight against all manifestations of individualism, arbitrariness, and formal democracy.

4. The Corps Party Orgnisation will raise the quality of cadres and comply with the regulations and procedures for cadre planning, evaluation, appointment and rotation. It will promote the role of heads of offices and units in the personnel work, closely combine the management of cadres with that of party members, and align organisations’ management with each party member’s self-management and self-improvement. It will place emphasis on opportunely identifying and rectifying violations of the regulations and procedures for the personnel work by all-level party committees, party organisations, and commanders.

5. Significance will be attached to taking measures for internal political management and protection, reviewing and appraising party members’ political quality, preparing the personnel plans for all-level party congresses, initiating new members into the Party, and performing the work of military entrance examination closely under the regulations. The Corps Party Organisation will proactively prevent and fight against negative practices within offices and units, while combining the work of internal political protection with supervision and inspection to opportunely detect and settle incidents. Besides, it will remain a sense of vigilance and resolutely prevent the hostile forces from sending spies into offices and units.

Maj. Gen. NGUYEN DUC DINH

Commissar of the Tank - Armoured Corps