How to strengthen rural grassroots Party building in the new era
Strengthening the construction of Party conduct and clean government at the rural grassroots level is an important task for consolidating the Party's governing position in rural areas, solidifying the mass foundation, and creating a favorable atmosphere for rural economic development. It is an important manifestation of scientific development and governing the country according to law. Under the new circumstances, based on the characteristics of rural grassroots work, with the goal of promoting agricultural development and rural stability, and with the focus on safeguarding farmers' interests, while vigorously investigating and handling corruption problems that occur around the masses, we should further reform and innovate, deepen and expand, strive to enhance the pertinence, effectiveness and systematicness of the work, effectively build a long-term mechanism for combating corruption and promoting integrity in rural areas, and comprehensively advance the construction of Party conduct and clean government in rural areas toward institutionalization, standardization, scientification and legalization.
Highlight team supervision and education, and further improve the working mechanism for grassroots cadres to perform their duties with integrity. Deepen the ideological education of “serving the people, being pragmatic, and being clean” as well as education on Party discipline, political discipline and legal discipline, guide cadres to firm up their ideals and convictions, enhance their awareness of discipline and the concept of the rule of law, strictly act in accordance with discipline and law, and firmly establish the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly. Carry out education activities on clean governance, analyze from multiple angles, dig deep into the roots, so that Party members and cadres accept lessons and receive warnings, clarify codes of conduct, know what should be done and what should not be done, and further strengthen self-disciplined and clean behavior. By establishing typical examples, promoting integrity, finding gaps, investigating problems, and pursuing rectification, effectively solve one's own existing problems and achieve the goal of mutual help and common progress. Township (street) Party (working) committees, as the most grassroots disciplinary inspection bodies, should shoulder the responsibility of supervision, truly take the construction of Party conduct and clean government as an important criterion for the performance assessment and promotion of rural grassroots cadres, and for those who seriously neglect the construction of Party conduct and clean government, resolutely implement the “one-vote veto”.
Highlight the fundamental purpose of serving the masses, and further improve the mechanism for implementing policies that benefit and benefit the people. Doing a good job in implementing the Party's various policies in rural areas and effectively safeguarding and developing the fundamental interests of the broad masses of the people is the fundamental starting point and foothold of grassroots Party conduct and clean government construction, and is also a requirement for implementing the Scientific Outlook on Development. It is necessary to further strengthen supervision and inspection to ensure that grain subsidies, comprehensive subsidies, grain seed subsidies, rural minimum living allowances, agricultural insurance and other policies that benefit and benefit the people are implemented in a timely and comprehensive manner for the masses, so that the masses truly benefit. Seriously investigate and handle acts that infringe on the interests of the masses in areas such as education, medical care, social security, land expropriation and demolition, and public services, and effectively safeguard people's interests and ensure people's livelihood. Deeply transform the work style of cadres, solidly promote the normalization of cadres listening to the demands of the masses, strengthen support for poor rural families, achieve the goal that where the people have calls, we respond, truly keep the interests of the masses in mind, and continuously close the relationship between the Party and the masses and between cadres and the masses.
Highlight democracy and institutional construction, and further improve the rural democratic management mechanism. Give full play to the principal role of the farmer masses in the construction of grassroots democratic politics, and through safeguarding farmers' rights, exercise effective supervision and restraint over the exercise of power by grassroots cadres. First, deeply advance the openness of township government affairs. Improve the content of openness, with emphasis on making public the state's policies and measures concerning “agriculture, rural areas and farmers”. Through openness, enable the farmer masses to truly benefit from the policies; second, deeply advance the openness of village affairs. Start from the practical problems that the masses generally care about and that involve their vital interests. All major issues in the village and hot issues of concern to the masses should be disclosed to the masses in a timely manner, so that the masses can understand and supervise the village collective assets and financial revenue and expenditure; it is necessary to develop from post-event disclosure to disclosure of the entire process before, during and after the event; it is necessary to standardize and strictly implement disclosure procedures, adopt disclosure forms convenient to the people, and give full play to the principal role of the farmer masses; third, deeply advance the openness of affairs of grassroots stations and offices. Relevant management departments and industries should clarify service charges, service procedures, service discipline and service time limits. Through openness, effectively change the problems of a small number of grassroots staff such as simple working methods, low efficiency, and competing with the people for profits, and win the trust of the people with a good image.