How can the development of outstanding rural talent teams be strengthened? Some reflections

In rural areas, the accumulation, selection, and cultivation of talent have always been weak links. Beixiaoying Town in Shunyi District, Beijing, has taken knowledge professionalization, job professionalization, and work standardization as its orientation, with "tapping," "cultivating," "managing," and "retaining" as its work priorities, innovating work approaches, exploring work methods, and striving to build a diversified rural talent team to boost rural development.

Establish a scientific selection mechanism to deeply tap talent

To give play to the role of outstanding rural talent, it is necessary to uphold the correct direction of Party committee leadership over talent development, improve scientific discovery and selection mechanisms, and do sufficient work at the first gateway of building an outstanding talent team - the "selection gateway."

Reasonably set talent standards and clarify "who is talent." Based on the geographic relationship between individuals and the region, as well as personal moral character, ability, and contributions, our town includes village Party branch secretaries, village "two committees" cadres, Party members, reserve cadres, and resource-based talent in the category of outstanding rural talent. In selecting and identifying talent, we adhere to the following three principles: First, morality comes first. Putting "morality" first, political quality and moral cultivation are taken as the primary conditions for selecting outstanding talent. Second, quantify standards. The age is under 50 years old, education is high school (secondary specialized school, technical school) or above, and the industry scope is expanded to include village wealth-generating experts, demobilized veterans, village committee staff, students currently enrolled in or graduated from junior college or above, college student "village officials," enterprise management personnel, and personnel working in various administrative and public institutions, so as to ensure maximum recommendation of talent. Third, draw a bottom line. In addition to excluding from outstanding talent recommendation those who have received Party disciplinary or administrative sanctions, criminal penalties, or public security penalties from public security organs, "adverse records such as illegal construction, illegal sand and gravel mining, participation in cult organizations, violation of family planning policy, and encroachment on village collective interests" are also included as elimination conditions.

Conduct a comprehensive survey of the current talent situation and establish a "talent ledger." Our town innovatively established a "rural outstanding talent pool." Through talent surveys, we fully grasp the current talent situation, achieving a clear base number and clear circumstances. First, give play to organizational advantages and enrich recommendation methods, so that talent recommendation "leaves no one out." We determined a working method of "recommendation by village Party branches as the main method, supplemented by recommendation by village representatives and self-recommendation by individuals," emphasizing that village Party branch recommendations must strictly follow the steps of "visiting the grassroots - initially determining candidates - discussion by the two committees - confirming and reporting," while also adding two methods, recommendation by village representatives and self-recommendation by individuals, to ensure the widest possible discovery of talent. Second, give play to the role of functional departments and strengthen joint departmental review, so that talent recommendation "makes no mistake." For recommended candidates reported to the town Party building office, 8 departments including the police station, judicial office, letters and visits office, planning and construction office, and discipline inspection commission separately verify the recommended candidates, and those who meet the conditions are filed with the town Party building office.

Take professionalization as the orientation and focus on cultivating talent

The town Party committee, by continuously improving the talent cultivation mechanism, strives to open up a growth path of "Party member - backbone - cadre," cultivating and supplying a large amount of localized talent for advancing various rural work.

Strengthen awareness of purpose, improve the ability to do mass work, and cultivate "talent" into "Party members." Our town takes outstanding rural talent as key cultivation targets for developing Party members. Combined with the "1+1+15" project-based management model (meaning each village (community), according to the number of Party members and village representatives and the number of households in the whole village (community), forms a group with 15 households as one group, with 1 Party member and 1 village representative paired together, jointly responsible for the work of that group), outstanding rural talent are included among the two "1"s. During project implementation, their ability to serve development and serve the masses is gradually cultivated, their ideological and political quality is improved, and good conditions are created for them to join the Party. First, absorb outstanding talent into the two "1"s. Conduct a survey of the current status of the two "1"s in the existing 17 villages, adjust Party members and village representatives who are older and play a limited role, and take outstanding talent in the talent pool as key replacement targets. Second, focus on mentoring and cultivation. Establish a complete rural contact and mentoring system. The secretary of each village Party branch or village "two committees" cadres mentor 1~2 outstanding talent. The contact person is responsible for guiding the daily work of the two "1"s, conducts a talk and education session with the contact target once a month, understands their ideological state and work situation, and provides targeted help and guidance.

Strengthen awareness of responsibility, improve management ability, and cultivate "Party members" into "backbones" and "cadres." Our town gradually cultivates outstanding Party members into Party representatives, people's congress representatives, and reserve cadres, giving play to their positive role in serving the people, village affairs management, and democratic supervision. First, strengthen training and education. Comprehensively considering central work, cadres' performance of duties, and healthy growth needs, scientifically formulate training plans and reasonably set training content. Second, strengthen practical exercise. For those who have been included in the scope of reserve cadres, arrange in a planned way for them to undergo practical exercise in various village committees, village Party branches, rural cooperatives, etc., to improve their ability to perform duties and handle complex contradictions and problems. Third, improve the assessment mechanism. Clarify the reserve cadre cultivation responsibilities of each village branch, and include this work in the assessment of branch secretaries; establish a system of regular talks between village-contracted cadres and reserve cadres to grasp their ideological trends in a timely manner; improve the daily management, supervision, and assessment system for reserve cadres, and comprehensively evaluate reserve cadres according to the five aspects of morality, ability, diligence, performance, and integrity. Fourth, improve the use mechanism. When promoting cadres, give priority to selecting from reserve cadres, realizing complementary backup and progressive transformation of the reserve cadre team.

Refine professionalized guarantee measures to ensure talent is retained. First, establish and improve a government-led rural talent investment mechanism, give priority to and increase investment in rural talent team development, and include talent team development funds in the town fiscal budget. Second, strengthen publicity, using town and village broadcasts, mobile phone text messages, government websites, Weibo, and other carriers to create a strong public opinion environment that respects labor, respects knowledge, respects talent, and respects creation. Third, by improving the social security mechanism, provide convenient living conditions for talent. Taking village cadres as an example, the treatment guarantee problem for village Party branch secretaries has been solved. Among this, according to the principle of "basic salary + year-end performance," salary treatment has been standardized. In 2014, the Beixiaoying Town finance added nearly 2 million yuan in budget to raise the salary remuneration of village branch secretaries; on the basis of fully paying the five insurances, the town finance deposits housing provident fund at the standard of 1000 yuan/month; departure guarantee measures have been issued. Among normally departing village branch secretaries who have served for a certain number of years, outstanding personnel are selected to work in town organs, and according to their years of service they enjoy corresponding organ cadre position salary treatment.