Adding the function of the Steering Committee is very correct and timely.
On October 30, in Hanoi, General Secretary To Lam, Head of the Central Steering Committee on Anti-Corruption, Wastefulness and Negativity (Steering Committee) chaired a meeting of the Standing Committee of the Steering Committee.
According to the Central Internal Affairs Commission (Standing Body of the Steering Committee), in his concluding remarks at the meeting, General Secretary To Lam emphasized that over the past time, the work of preventing and combating corruption, waste, and negativity has continued to be promoted, in-depth, closely following reality, and relentlessly, regardless of the field.
The trust, consensus and support of cadres, party members and people in the work of preventing and combating corruption, waste and negativity continue to be strengthened.
The timely addition of functions and tasks of the Steering Committee is assessed by cadres, party members and people as very correct and accurate, expecting many changes in the coming time.
General Secretary To Lam pointed out that, besides the achieved results, there are still some limitations in asset appraisal and valuation; the situation of corruption, waste, and negativity is still complicated...
Building a culture of integrity, no corruption, waste, or negativity
Regarding a number of tasks in the coming time, the Standing Committee of the Steering Committee requires Party committees, Party organizations, and functional agencies to continue to further promote the work of preventing and combating corruption, waste, and negativity; to focus on directing the promotion of the work of preventing and combating waste; to link the prevention and combating of corruption and negativity with the prevention and combating of waste; to determine that the prevention and combating of waste has an equivalent position to the prevention and combating of corruption and negativity.
General Secretary To Lam stated that, in general, it is necessary to persistently and synchronously implement solutions from low to high levels to practice thrift and fight waste.
Building culture, fighting waste in the whole society, becoming ethical standards, social standards, regulations in Party and State documents, handling violations from administrative to high level, especially criminal.
The General Secretary requested to review, amend and supplement Party regulations and State laws on waste prevention and control to ensure consistency and unity; immediately amend and supplement regulations on technical and economic standards and norms that are no longer suitable to the country's development practices; direct the review and strict handling of major waste cases of public concern in the spirit of handling one case to alert the entire region and field, clearly defining the responsibility for handling related organizations and individuals.
“There must be an address responsible, because this is the State’s property, the people’s money. In the immediate future, we must review and thoroughly handle the long-standing problems of important national projects, key projects, and low-efficiency projects that cause great loss and waste,” said the General Secretary.
The General Secretary emphasized that there should be a form of reward and recognition for collectives and individuals with achievements in practicing thrift, fighting waste or having solutions that benefit the State.
The General Secretary also stated that corruption cases and incidents that the public is concerned about must be investigated and handled quickly; cases of cadres and party members showing signs of violations in cases and incidents related to personnel work at Party Congresses at all levels must be urgently clarified in a serious, cautious, and objective manner, determined not to let degraded, corrupt, negative, and wasteful cadres enter the new term.
The General Secretary proposed building a culture of integrity, without corruption, waste, or negativity among cadres, party members, and people, creating a strong spread in society.
“We must make the practice of integrity, anti-corruption, waste and negativity a “voluntary” and “intentional” act like “daily food, water and clothing”. We must encourage cadres, party members and people to increase the practice of thrift, create the habit of valuing working time, money, state assets and people’s efforts”, the General Secretary emphasized.
