[China Education Newspaper] Why Was Nerve of the ”Top Leader” Tightened?

2016-11-23

Because the work of Party building had many weak links, the Secretary of the Party Committee of Hunan Institute of Technology "felt embarrassed" at the centralized reporting meeting of responsibility performance about Party building work implemented by secretaries of the Party Committees of Hunan’s colleges and universities in 2015. Hunan Institute of Technology "enjoyed an trunaround" this year, its ranking stood on the 8th among universities in Hunan Province from being lower-ranking last year, and its Party building problems had been adjusted and corrected.

In 2015, the Education Work Committee of Hunan Provincial Party Committee implemented the report and assessment on his/her work performance in Party building shouldered by the Party Committee secretaries of the colleges and universities, and such work was taken as important measures for "two learnings and one do" learning and education this year, and secretaries of the Party Committees of 32 universities and 10 subordinate vocational colleges under Department of Education of Hunan Province were organized every year to carry out collective "examination" based on 3 categories as university, undergraduate college and higher vocational college, to promote secretaries of the Party Committees of colleges and universities to perform the uppermost responsibility of the Party building work by virtue of true "assessment" and strict " examination" "in real earnest", therefore, the Party building work of colleges and universities in Hunan Province took on a new look.

"It's useless even if the materials are beautiful"-

Really Take "Uppermost Responsibility"

Why was centralized reporting by secretaries of the Party Committees of colleges and universities conducted? The reason was that some secretaries of the Party Committees failed to actually perform "uppermost responsibility".

“ ‘Focusing on development and neglecting Party building’ had happened to several colleges and universities for many years, and the work of Party building failed to be placed in the appropriate location”, the head of the Education Department of Hunan Province, secretary of Party Leading Group and secretary of education committee of Hunan Provincial Party Committee Xiao Guoan said. If the work of Party building failed to be well done, the business operation would get half result but pay twice effort, even the development foundation of universities would be shaken.

The education committee of Hunan Provincial Party Committee combed four problems existing in the Party building work of colleges and universities, which appears in colleges and universities to varying degrees. For example, "two duties for one post" in building a clean and honest administration of individual colleges and universities failed to be put in place, and the system performance failed to be in place, and even some persons in charge violating the discipline occurred; partial universities failed to assign full-time counselors, full-time education courses teachers and psychological health education teachers according to requirements, and the vacancy of full-time counselors of a university reached to 23.54%.

Xiao Guoan said that "these problems seemed to be unconspicuous, but they seriously restricted integral level and actual result of the Party building work". As the secretaries of the Party Committees of colleges and universities, they should not only be good at grasping the direction, overall management and grasping the key, but also do well in paying attention to implementation, trifle and detail and roundly promote the Party building of colleges and universities to a high level. And "it's useless even if the materials are beautiful".

Thus, Hunan formulated Reporting and Appraising Assessment Working Scheme for Responsibility Performance in the Party Building Work Implemented by Secretaries of the Party Committees of Colleges and Universities and supportive documents, which confirmed responsibility list and specific requirements for the secretaries of the Party Committees of colleges and universities in charge of the Party building, making the "uppermost responsibility" really implemented.

The journalist knew from this scheme that reporting and appraising content was divided into grass-roots Party building work, leading group and official team construction, construction of clean and honest administration and other 6 aspects including 32 assessment indexes, which drew a "hard leverage" for responsibility performance in the Party building implemented by secretaries of the Party Committees of colleges and universities. For example, the party secretaries’ annual times had been clearly stipulated for presiding and researching the Party building, researching to grass-roots units and so on.

"By making it walk, you can know whether it is a horse or a mule" -

Don't conduct appraisal perfunctorily

"How to handle secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission to manage work other than inspect discipline?" "How to solve the grass-roots party organization remain only in name?"…In January 2015, Hunan held the first reporting and appraisal meeting of responsibility performance of Party building work by secretaries of the Party Committees of colleges and universities. The secretaries not only accepted appraisal by the public, but also accepted "evaluation" by "two representatives and one committee member" from colleges and universities and representatives of the grass-roots party workers.

"By making it work, you can know whether it is a horse or a mule", the member of the party leading group of the Education Department of Hunan Province and deputy secretary of Education Committee of Hunan Provincial Party Committee Xia Zhilun humorously said, and reporting and marking on the site and scored on the site, some secretaries with lower scores felt uneasy with "face turning red and sweating".

The assessment and appraisal were divided into three links: Verification through investigation, public opinion survey and reporting on the scene, which accounted for 50%, 10% and 40% of comprehensive scores. Reporting and appraisal on the scene were divided into reporting by secretary, commenting by leaders, and appraisal by meeting participants, etc. and leaders pointed out problems when commenting and finally announced comprehensive scores on the site. The score result was reported to organization department of Hunan Provincial Party Committee to serve as the important basis for provincial Party committee adjusting and employing cadres.

In order to completely eradicate falsification, before the reporting, the investigation and verification team firstly entered colleges and universities to comprehensively grasp objective circumstances of Party building work implemented by secretaries of the Party Committees of colleges and universities by virtue of personal interview, field visit, access to information, etc. During reporting on the scene, secretaries of the Party Committees of colleges and universities must give a corresponding reply to problems pointed out when reporting and appraising previous year, the self-inspection reports with understatement, beating around the bush and dwelling on the abstract & avoiding real problems with respect to problems found and pointed would be rejected and needed to rewrite, and self-inspection reports of some universities had been rewritten for three times.

"Such practice was serious", Xia Zhilun said, centralized reporting caused a shock among secretaries of the Party Committees of colleges and universities, and a secretary of the Party Committee went to his office every day to explain the situation and reasons due to being low-ranking, and "it indicated that problem-based reporting had really touched the heartstrings of secretaries".

"Solve real problems and complete final one kilometer" -

Implementing "uppermost responsibility" becoming common practice

After the first reporting, secretary of the Party Committee of Hunan Institute of Technology once felt restless: He said: "I always think how to implement the work of Party building well day and night". He led the members of the leading group to carry out grass-roots research for 17 times and responded to concerns from teachers and students based on taking the university holding the second congress of party representatives as opportunity in 2015. He presided over and held a special Party committee meeting about Party building for 8 times successively, gave a Party lecture for 6 times or gave a center group learning guidance report, and went to "three stricts and three realities" contact point and poverty relief points in the village for 14 times to guide the work and conduct "one enters and two visits".

Secretaries of the Party Committees nervously completing the Party building work day and night and "solving real problems" nowadays are not a few at colleges and universities of Hunan Province, which has become a common practice.

Although the secretary of the Party Committee of Hunan Normal University Li Min ranked the first in the performance reporting this year, but he daren't relax, he still further analyzed Party building problems of the university: the theoretical study is not sufficient, the ideological understanding is not sufficiently deep, and depth and actual effect of ideological and political education against teachers and students are not ideal; work driving is not enough, sometime a grasp in the end and persistence and perseverance of "completing the final one kilometer" are lacking.

Just like Li Min, the secretary of the Party Committee of Hunan University of Commerce Tang Yayang, ranking the first in the undergraduate college team, also thought that the work of Party building was a tough fight and even a protracted war, and it's necessary to possess the determination of constant grasping, patience of strict grasping and confidence of doing a good job with continuous hard work and persistence.

"Why was the atmosphere of racing each other formed? The key point was to implement the Party building work strictly and fully through the reporting and appraisal, not only making Party committee teams undertake the responsibilities of Party building, but also making secretary of the Party Committee undertake such responsibilities", the comrade in charge of the organization department of Education Committee of Hunan Provincial Party Committee said. (Journalist Yang Xiye, Li Lun'e)