Vietnam Communist Party Focuses on Youth Engagement to Boost New Membership

The Communist Party of Vietnam is exploring new approaches to motivate young people to join the Party, aiming to strengthen its organizations and secure future generations of members. Drawing on experiences from various localities, the cultivation and quality improvement of party candidates have yielded promising results through diverse efforts and innovations. Some party committees and organizations in challenging areas, including rural, mountainous, border, and island regions, as well as ethnic minority areas, have successfully met their set targets. Practical insights from these regions indicate that by implementing solutions that encourage competition in learning and labor, party committees are adapting their methods. They are creating environments and providing opportunities for individuals, particularly the youth, to demonstrate their resolve and commitment to joining the Party. In Ha Tinh province, the Provincial Party Committee's Standing Committee proactively issued Directive No. 08-CT/TU on "Enhancing the Quality of Party Member Development in the New Phase," along with several key solutions. These include supporting local youth unions, schools, and businesses in innovating their activities, intensifying patriotic, labor, learning, and innovation competitions, and organizing forums and clubs to identify and nurture exemplary individuals for the Party. Competitive movements for socio-economic development and new rural construction have actively engaged youth union members and participants, forming a basis for selecting outstanding individuals and developing long-term training plans. Furthermore, young party members are positioned as bridges to the youth, disseminating motivation for joining the Party through practical activities such as maintaining security and order, and supporting youth entrepreneurship. In Lai Chau province, many village and hamlet branches are proactively identifying and selecting individuals from competitive movements focused on wealth creation and cultural life building. Party members are assigned to mentor and assist these candidates. According to the Standing Committee of the Sin Ho Commune Party Committee, during the candidate cultivation process from grassroots movements, the Party Committee and assigned members are tasked with closely monitoring the growth in awareness and actions of each individual. This serves as a crucial basis for party organizations to evaluate progress and ensure that party member recruitment prioritizes quality over quantity. For long-term and sustainable candidate development, some party committees are implementing comprehensive solutions to retain young laborers in their hometowns. These include preferential loans, vocational training, and encouragement for high-tech agricultural and eco-tourism startup models. This enables young people to establish businesses locally rather than seeking work elsewhere, contributing to agricultural, rural, and farming development goals while building a stable foundation for party member recruitment. This dual-purpose measure not only aids in achieving local socio-economic development objectives but also fosters an environment for nurturing future party cadres. This approach has been effectively applied by the Binh Thuan Commune Party Committee in Son La province, contributing to the achievement of annual party development targets. By 2025, the commune's party organization aims to admit 24 new members, fulfilling 100% of its plan. Notably, the Ta Khoang village branch is a leading unit in this endeavor within Binh Thuan Commune. New members from this branch are exemplary youth union members and farmers who actively participate in new rural construction, boldly adopt advanced techniques in production and animal husbandry, and are trusted by the community. The plan for 2026 includes cultivating and admitting three more new members. Moreover, enhancing the exemplary role of party members and building an image of pioneering and model individuals in daily life is considered a fundamental solution. This aims to build trust and attract individuals to join the Party, thereby elevating the prestige of party organizations and ensuring the quality of admitted members. Through practical competitive movements closely linked to local socio-economic activities, numerous advanced models have emerged and are continuously nurtured and admitted by party committees. This contributes to building increasingly clean and strong party organizations from the grassroots, in line with the directives of the 14th National Party Congress. Source: Nhan Dan