Many provinces have held provincial social work conferences with high specifications, so what issues have been discussed and what signals have been released?
Recently, multiple provinces have held provincial social work conferences. Some provinces also mentioned that this is the first time to hold a provincial-level social work conference since the establishment of the provincial social work department.
On December 26th, the Sichuan Provincial Party Committee Social Work Conference was held in Chengdu. Wang Xiaohui, secretary of the provincial party committee attended the meeting and made a speech. Wang Xiaohui pointed out that in accordance with the unified deployment of the central government, Sichuan Province has completed the establishment of social work departments at the provincial, city and county levels in a short time and has entered the stage of substantial operation. The work has achieved good results in all aspects. At the same time, we must also clearly realize that in the new era and new journey, there are many new practical challenges to do social work throughout the province, which must be promoted to solve through solid and effective work.
He also pointed out that it is necessary to strengthen the party’s construction in emerging areas. We will strengthen the party’s construction in new economic organizations, focus on improving the quality of party building in private enterprises, guide the party building of mixed ownership enterprises in a classified way, and continue to promote the coverage of party organizations and work in new industries and new economic areas. We will strengthen the party’s construction in new social organizations, integrate the work of the party into the whole process of organization operation and development, coordinate and promote the reform of industry and commerce association management system, and promote the healthy development of new social organizations. We will strengthen the party’s construction among new employment groups, explore effective forms of play a role by party organizations and party members, increase care and concern for new employment groups, and expand effective ways of service management.
In addition, it is necessary to promote the construction of grass-roots governance led by party building and grass-roots political power. We will continue to enhance the political function and organizational function of grass-roots party organizations, build solid positions and carriers, pilot construction of a number of community service complexes, promote the integration of “multi-network fusion and multi-grid integration” in a substantial way; promote deep cultivation and good governance, continue to promote the optimization of urban and rural community governance and service improvement actions, make services more precise and governance warmer. We will focus on solving prominent problems such as “small horse pulling big cart” in grass-roots governance, clarify the rights and responsibilities of counties and townships, promote resource power sinking, earnestly implement various regulations to reduce formalities for grass-roots units, so that grass-roots units can be felt and accessible.
An article from Sichuan Online mentioned that this is the first provincial-level social work conference held by Sichuan Province. The article also revealed that many social works in Sichuan are still at an initial stage. In practice, there are still some problems such as insufficient efficient coordination among various social work forces, low level of fine grass-roots governance, lack of innovative methods for working with the masses, and insufficient ability and quality of social work teams. At the same time, as an economic and populous province, there are still many challenges in new areas such as population aging and family miniaturization, increasing new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups with different levels of development in the new era. All these require all levels and departments to take practical measures to solve them.
For example, Zhang Xiancui, deputy director of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Transportation, introduced that there are still some difficulties and problems in the party building work among truck drivers and online car-hailing drivers. There are nearly 1 million drivers in these two groups in Sichuan. Their working hours are long, working conditions are poor, rights protection is insufficient, and their social status is weak. These problems involve multiple departments and require cooperation among departments to study and solve them through doing more practical works that benefit drivers.
On December 24th, the Jilin Provincial Party Committee Social Work Conference was held in Changchun. Huang Qiang, secretary of the provincial party committee attended the meeting and made a speech. He emphasized that in recent years, all levels of party committees (party groups) have implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the provincial party committee. The leadership of the party over social work has been comprehensively strengthened, the party building in emerging areas has started smoothly, the foundation of grass-roots governance has been continuously consolidated, and working forces have been growing. At the same time, we must also be clear-eyed to see that current social work still faces many difficulties and challenges. All localities and departments should be good at summarizing experience, grasp laws, and improve their abilities in analysis and problem solving.
He also stressed that we should further improve our political standing, make good use of the “key move” of reform, promote the implementation of key tasks of social work. We must expand and deepen the party’s construction in emerging areas, strengthen the responsibility of “managing industry while also
