“All localities should have 18 community workers for every 10,000 permanent urban residents” and “establish a mentoring system”… Recently, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the Council of State issued the “Opinions on strengthening the construction of a team of community workers”” (hereinafter the “Opinions”), has received wide attention. What are the highlights of the “Opinions “? What is the significance? People's Daily Online interviewed relevant experts for its interpretation.
This is the first central document dedicated to strengthening the team of community workers.
“Six parts and 17 measures provide a clear guide to strengthen the construction of the team of community workers in my country in the next five years, especially a reform plan based on the full life cycle of human resource management of workers community.” Society of Renmin University of China. Zhu Yuhong, a researcher at the Research Center for Scientific Theory and Methods, pointed out in an interview with a reporter from the People's Daily Online.
The new era and the new path favor the modernization of grassroots government systems and governance capabilities, and have raised new and higher requirements for the construction of the team of community workers, which urgently need to be standardized and institutionally guaranteed.
How to ensure that community workers are well recruited, retained and motivated? Sun Peijun, associate professor of the Department of Political and Legal Research and Education of the Central Party School (National School of Administration), pointed out that the “Opinions” focus on establishing and improving a graded sequence of workers' positions community with step by step. -development of steps, clear levels, scientific and reasonable operation, and effective operation, and build a career that is consistent with the characteristics of the work of community workers.
“The system of selection and matching offers room for development and guaranteed benefits. By establishing and improving a mechanism of reward and punishment, doing a good job of tolerance and correction of errors, and motivating people to assume their responsibilities, only community workers who want to do. things, are able to do things and can do things successfully can have the opportunity and ability to do it. Scenario,” said Sun Peijun.
The “Opinions” clearly stipulate that a certain number of posts will be allocated each year. Community party organizing secretaries who have continuously worked in the community for more than 10 years, have served as community party organizing secretary for one term and have outstanding performance. be hired on merit in accordance with the public procurement regulations of public institutions. Among the staff of public institutions, those who are particularly outstanding can be selected to the street (community) management team through merit transfer. and general elections.
“This regulation opens up the career path between community workers and officials and staff of public institutions, and expands the space for the promotion and development of community workers,” said Zhu Yuhong.
How to give community workers more time and energy to serve residents? The reporter noted that the last article in the document focuses on “deepening burden reduction and improving efficiency” and requires coordinating the promotion of the construction of smart communities and grassroots governance platforms to achieve the single collection and multi-party use of basic data information. .
“Over a period of time, there have been too many smart platforms built into community work, resulting in information overload and data collection tasks for community workers, adding unnecessary administrative burdens to workers of the community. This content is mainly aimed at this kind of It is proposed that all localities need to further strengthen the coordination and overall planning of functional departments,” Zhu Yuhong presented.
“Promoting the construction of smart communities and grassroots governance platforms is inseparable from paying attention to the 'last meter.'” Professor Yang Jitang, Dean and Professor of the Institute of Urban and Rural Grassroots Social Governance from Peking Union University, highlighted: “Grassroots governance”. The platforms should be implemented at the community and resident level, can be actually used by community workers and achieve the characteristics of convenience, effectiveness and speed by opening up the platform.”
Yang Jitang believes that the “Opinions” have absorbed some good experiences and practices in building community work teams in recent years and built the “four beams and eight pillars” of community worker selection, remuneration, organizational guarantees, development paths and other training programs.
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