1 INTRODUCTION Reasons of choosing the thesis topic Officials are the decisive factor for the success or failure of the revolution, associated with the fate of the Party, the country and the regime, which is a key step in the Party building work Personnel work is always a key work of the Party Therefore, during all revolutionary periods, our Party and President Ho Chi Minh regularly took care of the development of official staff, considering the construction of official staff as an important work of the Party, the core of organizational work, the strategic issue for the revolutionary cause The staffs of political agencies in the Military Academies and Officer Schools are the core force, playing a leading role in implementing the functions and tasks of political agencies This is a direct force to advise and propose to the Party Committee, commanders of the Military Academies and Officer Schools regarding guidelines and measures to implement Party works and political work; direct, guide and organize the implementation of Party works and political work in schools Therefore, it is important to regularly care for and concern the development of official staff of the political agencies to ensure that this team is really strong, with sufficient quantity, reasonable structure and high quality Correctly being aware of the position and role of the staff in political agencies, in the past years, the party committee, the commanders of Military Academies and Officer Schools have paid attention to leading and directing the development of official staff in political agencies, directly contributing to improve quality, effectiveness Party works and political work However, besides the advantages, the staff of political agencies still show disadvantages and certain limitations in terms of quality, competence, methods and working styles; leadership, direction and organization of team building Therefore, in the coming time, it is necessary to promote advantages and overcome limitations, focusing on building a really strong official staff in political agencies to meet the assigned tasks Entering the new period, with the requirement of military construction task, the requirement of fundamental and comprehensive innovation of education and training of Military Academies and Officer Schools, especially the need to improve the quality of Party works and political work in Military Academies and Officer Schools, it requires to focus on developing the staff in political agencies with sufficient qualities, capabilities, methods and working style, on par with the task requirements From the above reasons, the author has chosen the topic: "Building the staff of political agencies at Military Academies and Officer Schools of the Vietnam People's Army today" as a doctoral thesis This is an important issue both theoretically and practically Purpose and tasks of the research Purposes The dissertation clarifies a number of practical and theoretical issues and proposes some basic solutions to strengthening the building of the staff of political agencies at military academies and officer schools in the Vietnam People’s Army at the present Tasks The dissertation gives an overview of the research related to the dissertation topic and identifies issues need addressing in the thesis The dissertation clarifies basic issues on the staff of political agencies and the building of the staff of political agencies at military academies and officer schools in the Vietnam People’s Army The dissertation evaluates the practical situation, identifies the causes and draws some lessons for building of the staff of political agencies at military academies and officer schools in the Vietnam People’s Army The dissertation identifies requirements and proposes some basic solutions to strengthening the building of the staff of political agencies at military academies and officer schools in the Vietnam People’s Army at the present Object and scope of the research Object of the research: The building of the staff of political agencies at military academies and officer schools in the Vietnam People’s Army Scope of the research The practical and theoretical issues on the reality of leadership and direction of building of the staff of political agencies at military academies and officer schools in the Army (except Academy of Defence) Surveys, interviews and questionnaires are used with representatives of the offices in charge at military academies and officer schools, the staff of political agencies at branches and battalions Investigation, surveys and sufficient numbers survey data are taken from 2011 to present Theoretical, practical basis and methodology Theoretical basis The dissertation is based on the viewpoint of Marxism-Leninism and Ho Chi Minh's thoughts; the lines and views of Vietnam Communist Party on officials, officials work, on building the revolutionary army of the working class; on political agencies, political officials; the Party’s documents and resolutions, the law of the State, the Central Party Commission on officials, building the political agencies, the staff of political agencies and party work, political work in the army 3 Practical basis The dissertation is based on the building the political agencies and the staff of political agencies at military academies and military officer schools; summary reports of Ministry of Defence, General Ministry of Staff, General Department of Politics and different branches in charge on party work, political work, on officials and officials work, on political agencies and the staff of political agencies at military academies and military officer schools; summary reports on conducting the task of military academies and military officer schools; surveys and data on the building of the staff of political agencies at military academies and military officer schools Methodology The dissertation uses the methodology of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, combined with the use of methods of analysis and synthesis; history and logic; generalization and abstraction; sociological investigation methods and experts consultancy to fulfil the purposes and tasks of the dissertation New contributions of the research The dissertation interprets and clarifies the concept and issues of regularity in building the staff of political agencies at military academies and officer schools in the army The dissertation generalizes some experiences on building the staff of political agencies at military academies and officer schools in the army The dissertation proposes a number of basic and feasible solutions to strengthening the building the staff of political agencies at military academies and officer schools in the Vietnam People’s Army at the present Theoretical and practical significance of the research The findings of the dissertation contribute to clarify the practical and theoretical basis on the building the staff of political agencies, providing a number of scientific arguments for the work of leadership and directions of building the staff of political agencies at military academies and officer schools in the Vietnam People’s Army at the present The dissertation can be used as references for researching and teaching at military academies and military officer schools Structure of the thesis The thesis includes: Introduction, chapters (9 periods), Conclusions, list of scientific works of the author related to the dissertation, list of references and Appendices 4 Chapter OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH SITUATION RELATED TO THE THESIS TITLE 1.1 The foreign works related to the thesis topic 1.1.1 The works on the official’s staff and building the official’s staff Typical works: “Expanding open door reform, heading forward” by Tang Ngoc Thanh, Chu La Canh (1997); “Strengthening the building of the board of leadership, forming the promising, successful and active leaders” by Ton Hieu Quan (2004); “Start from the great cause, heading to the long-term, trying to build the reserve staff with good capability” by Chu Phuc Khoi (2004); “Respect the intellects and talents, 100-year great plan for making the nation prosper” by Tham Vinh Hoa, Ngo Quoc Dieu (chief editor) (2008); "The quality of the staff, civil servants of labour and social welfare of the Democratic Republic of Lao in the current period" by Xone Monevilay (2015) These above works touch upon different aspects in terms of officials, the work of officials, building, improving the quality of the staff, especially the position, role of the officials, planning, training, assessing, using and the policy on the staff, the talents It is asserted that in order to develop the country, it is necessary to pay attention and improve the quality of the staff with good quality, capacity and level The requirements for building the staff, the quality and improving the quality of the staff are different in different periods These works mainly look at the issue under the perspective of methodology and experience on the work of staff overseas, which have certain significance for this thesis 1.1.2 The works on the staff and building the military staff History of party work, political work in the Soviet armed forces 19181973, (1976) by General A.A Episep, Head of Army Politics and Soviet Navy (chief editor); The Soviet armed forces by A.A.Gre-Sco (1978); "The Course book of party work, political work of China People’s Liberation Army” (1987) (used at academies, schools in the new period, chief editor - Truong Tu Nghi, Publishing House of Defence University of China People’s Liberation Army, 1986, translated by Duong Minh Hao, Duong Thuy Trang); “Rules of political work of China People’s Liberation Army” (2003); “Operations of Soviet Communist Party in training the military officials” (1979) by Loblev.A.M; “Building the staff of Cambodian Royal Army today” by Neang Phat (2016), " Building the staff of the Lao People’s Army more powerful and of high quality" by Bun Lon Sa Luoi Sac (2014) These above-mentioned works research on the countries with different political systems, yet they all emphasize the important role of building, improving the quality of the staff, army officers; especially the selection, training, arrangement, use and realization of rewarding policy; improving the education level, specialization, creative capacity, skills and fighting experience, flexibility and cooperation among different forces 1.2 The domestic works related to the thesis topic 1.2.1 The works on the staff and building, improving the quality of the staff There are a number of works on the staff and building the staff, typically: “Scientific arguments for improving the quality of the staff in the industrialization and modernization period” by Nguyen Phu Trong, Tran Xuan Sam (2001); “Building the staff of leadership, management to meet the requirements of the country’s industrialization and modernization” by Vu Van Hien (2007); "Building the staff of leadership, management in charge of emulation, reward in our country at the present" by Nguyen Khac Ha (2017) These works provide the scientific bases for interpreting the issues on officials and building the staff This is an important point in ensuring the work of officials on the right track under the Party’s leadership The solutions for building the staff must be conducted synchronously, from selecting, training, fostering to arranging and using the officials Building the staff should contain both quality and quantity These above works are the bases to identify the content, requirement and solutions to build the staff of political agencies at military academies, officer schools in the Vietnam People’s Army today 1.2.2 The works on the military staff and building the staff of the Vietnam People’s Army * The works on fostering, improving the quality of the military staff “Improving the quality of training, fostering the political staff in the Vietnam people’s Army in the new period”, Publishing house of People’s Army (2002); “Relations between the quantity and quality of people in enhancing the fighting spirit of the Vietnam People’s Army today” by Nguyen Kim Ninh (2003); “Improving the quality, capacity of political commissars, political instructors in the Vietnam People’s Army today” by Nguyen Tien Quoc (2011) These works point out that the personal models of political commissars, political instructors are composed: Quality (moral and political quality), ability, working method and manner Accordingly, “political quality, moral quality, lifestyle, knowledge, capability and working method of political commissars, political instructors are in close link and interaction, making the components of the personal models of political commissars, political instructors in the new period However, the position and role of each factor are not equal Of which, political quality and morality are the core, the foundation for forming and developing other factors” 6 * The works on building the military staff “Building the military staff to meet the assigned requirements in the new revolutionary period” by General Department of Politics (2000); “Building the appropriate mechanism of the staff of the Vietnam People’s Army in the new revolutionary period” by Tran Danh Bich (1996); “Building the political staff of the Vietnam People’s Army in the current period according to Ho Chi Minh’s though” by Nguyen Quang Phat, (2001); “Strengthening the personnel’s work in the army to meet the demand of the cause of the Fatherland’s protection” by Ngo Xuan Lich, (2010) The findings of these works have practical significance for planning, training and fostering political officials in general, the staff of political agencies in particular However, it is necessary to add and develop appropriately to the requirements of training and building the current staff 1.2.3 The works on the political agencies and building, improving the quality of the staff of political agencies in the Vietnam people’s Army * The works on building, improving the quality, effectiveness of the political agencies’ operations “Improving the working quality of political agencies at the level of regiments, divisions in the new condition” by Ministry of Defence (2010); “Building the powerful and complete political agencies of the Navy Brigades in the current period” by Nguyen Huu Binh, (2009) The works on political agencies contribute positively in clarifying the theory and practice of building political agencies in the army In terms of theory, these works help to interpret and analyse some basic issues on position and role of political agencies and the officials and staff of political agencies In terms of practice, the works point out the insufficiency in mechanism, organization, specialized knowledge of the staff, officials; the results of conducting their work, especially the advice and suggestion for party executive committees, political commissars, commanders of political agencies in some areas of party work, political work not meet the requirements as well as the realization of the resolution No 51/NQ-TW od Ministry of Defence * The works on building, fostering the staff of political agencies in the army “On the political work in the people’s army” (1975) by Song Hao, Publishing House of People’s Army; “Fostering the working capability of the staff of political agencies at divisions of the Vietnam People’s Army in the current period” by Tran Sinh Huy (2012);“Strengthening self-studying, self-training of the staff of political agencies at units today” by Nguyen Duc Do (2009) These works claim: self-studying and training are the main and direct methods for each official of political agencies to add insufficiency in political quality, morality, knowledge, capacity, working experience meeting the tasks assigned At the same time, the authors give some requirements and main contents to strengthen self-studying and training of officials, including: educating and building the motivation for self-studying and training to best meet the authority demands; apply flexibly and closely various ways to improve the effectiveness of self-studying and training of officials and frequently create favourable environments for self-studying and training of officials in political agencies in the army 1.3 Overview of main results of relevant scientific works published and the issues for dissertation continue to deal with 1.3.1 Overview of main results of published scientific works related to the thesis Foreign and domestic scientific and research projects related to the construction of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the Vietnam People's Army were reviewed to show the following major results Firstly, scientific works stand on Marxist's viewpoint about building a contingent of officials in general and building and fostering and improving the quality of army officials in particular to better meet the requirements of the new era The works have affirmed: Building a contingent of officials in general and building and fostering and improving the quality of army officers in particular is an important part of the organization and personnel of the Party in the army, has the task of building up the staff, first of all the leading and truly qualified staff to complete mission; which makes an important contribution to building organizations and people, successfully completing all assigned tasks Secondly, research works have confirmed the position, role of party work, political work, the role of political agencies and political staff; the party work, political work is a principle in building the Party's revolutionary armed forces; is an important aspect of leadership, contributing to maintaining and continuously strengthening the Party's leadership over the army, building strong army and units, first of all political strong Thirdly, The works have focused on clarifying: organization and leadership of the armed forces in general, the military in particular must go through many organizations, including the party organization system, political agencies and that is indispensable and objective; the system of political agencies always holds the position, the very important role in the cause of construction and development, the victory of the military of the countries; at the same time, it affirmed: taking care of, building political bodies and political staff is a matter of principle and should be carried out regularly and continuously Fourthly, the works have outlined the position, roles, responsibilities, tasks, working relationships and pointed out the requirements for political qualities, moral qualities, lifestyles, abilities, methods, working styles, professional qualifications of each type of staff, meeting the task requirements The works have brought about the principle issues and criteria for evaluating the construction, fostering and improving the quality of the staff Fifthly, the projects have evaluated the situation, pointed out the causes of the advantages, limitations and drawn some valuable experiences in building, fostering and improving the quality of officials The authors analysed the development of the situation affecting the construction of political staff in the military, deeply analysed and clarified the objective requirements of the military construction task, which poses an increasing demand for the construction of the staff and training to improve the quality of political staff in the army On that basis, the authors have come up with basic solutions to building and fostering and improving the quality of political officials in the new period army Due to the objects, approaches, objectives, research tasks of each project are different; no work has basically studied the system of theory and practice and proposed solutions to build official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the Vietnam People's Army from the perspective of an independent scientific work However, the scientific works mentioned above have pointed out issues directly related to the thesis topic It is an important material, practical basis to provide scientific arguments for the author to be able to inherit, continue to study and develop ideas of the works which announced but not mentioned It has also successfully built the thesis of the right codes specialized in building the Party and State Government 1.3.2 The issues that the thesis needs to focus on research and resolution Firstly, the thesis focuses on researching to clarify the theoretical issues about political agencies, political officials and officials and building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army; role and characteristics of officials of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools; in-depth study to clarify the concepts of tools and central concepts of the topic, thereby analysing and clarifying the essence of building a contingent of political officials in Military Academies and Officer Schools; clarify subjects, objects, forces, content, form, implementation measures, principles to direct the process of building a contingent of political officials and academies; determine criteria Research results of theoretical issues are the basis for studying the next contents of the thesis Secondly, from a theoretical basis to build official staff of political agencies, sticking closely to construction criteria to clarify the current situation of building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools today The results of analysis and evaluation together with the proven data help assess the actual situation more accurately, clearly identify the causes of limitations as a basis for drawing experiences in building official staff of political agencies Thirdly, analysing the impact of the situation and tasks, especially the task of building, fighting the army, the education, training tasks of the Military Academies and Officer Schools and problems for construction official staff of political agencies, the thesis has proposed a system of solutions to build official staff of political agencies suitable to the reality of building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army Conclusion of Chapter Foreign and domestic scientific works have approached and discussed different aspects, levels of officials, official work, and building and improving the quality of officials, in which, the position and role of officials and officials work are quite profound Basically, these projects all emphasize the desire to develop the country necessarily to pay attention to and build and improve the quality of officials with full qualifications, capabilities to meet requirements and tasks The research works related to the dissertation topic show a quite complete and comprehensive picture of both theory and practice about officials, on building and improving the quality of officials From the results of the research situation related to the topic, the author of the dissertation identifies the issues that need to be implemented, focusing on research, to clarify the thesis topic Chapter THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL ISSUES OF BUILDING OFFICIAL STAFF OF POLITICAL AGENCIES IN MILITARY ACADEMIES AND OFFICER SCHOOLS IN THE VIETNAM PEOPLE'S ARMY 2.1 Political agencies and official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools 2.1.1 Political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in Army * Military Academies and Officer Schools Currently, there are institutes in the People's Army of Vietnam: 01 Military Academy directly under the Government; 05 Military 10 Academies under the Ministry of Defense; 05 Military Academies belong to the army and equivalent The Officers Schools in the People's Army of Vietnam include: 03 Officers Schools under the Ministry of Defense; 08 Officers Schools under the army and equivalent Organizational structure of Military Academies and Officer Schools According to Article 6, Chapter 2, Charter of the School of Vietnam People's Army, the organizational structure of the Military Academies and Officer Schools include: board of directors (for Military Academies), board of directors (for Officers Schools), education and training management agencies, research institutes, faculty faculties, learner management bodies and agencies , units and establishments serving education and training Functions of Military Academies and Officer Schools Military Academies and Officer Schools have the function of educating, training and fostering officers and officers of the army; military science research; contributing to providing scientific support to the Central Military Commission, Department of Defense; advising the Party and the State in building, supplementing, perfecting military and national defense and security policies, building the people's armed forces; applying advanced and modern scientific and technological achievements to serve industrialization and modernization of the country, build and protect the country The mission of Military Academies and Officer Schools Organize educational, training and scientific research activities according to tasks, contents, programs and plans approved by competent authorities Train and foster of officials, army officers, training of trainers, post-graduate scientific and training officials; train and foster high quality human resources for the cause of national industrialization and modernization; foster leaders and state managers on defense and security tasks Select students according to standards, criteria and regulations of the Ministry of Education and Training, the Ministry of Defense and ministries, departments and agencies to send training at schools in the national and foreign education systems Perform the task of linking domestic and international cooperation and training; implement high school education according to the regular education program of the State Educate the defense and security knowledge for students in accordance with the regulations of the Government and the Ministry of Defense Research, apply, develop scientific and technological activities, military science, social sciences and humanities * Political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools 11 Conception: Political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools is an organization within the structure, organization and staffing of academia and cadets operating under the leadership of the party committee, directing the political commissar, manager and executive of the school commander, and under the direction of superior political authorities; is a specialized agency responsible for party work, political work, advising the Party Committee and guiding and inspecting agencies and units conducting party work, political work, in order to implement the leadership of the Party; maintain political orientation in the performance of tasks, building a strong party committees of Military Academies and Officer Schools in politics, ideology, organization and morality, building a comprehensive Military Academies and Officer Schools Payroll of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools: According to the payroll form of Military Academies and Officer Schools (except for the National Defense Academy), political agencies are organized into political departments and staffed by departments and branches under the political departments of academia, the school is staffed with a number of 30 to 45 people, of which 23 to 35 officers are political officials Functions and duties of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools Functions of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools Political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools are responsible for party work, political work and activities under the direct leadership of the party committee, the direction and guidance of the political commissar (party secretary) at the same level and the direction of the superior political authority Based on the direction and guidance of the superior political authority, the situation of the unit's tasks, the political agency advising to propose to the party committee to decide the content and measures of party and political work in the unit; to develop plans, direct, guide and inspect the implementing agencies and units Duties of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools Research and thoroughly grasp the resolutions, directives, orders and instructions of superiors, the mission of Military Academies and Officer Schools; advise and propose to the party committee (standing party committee), political commissar the guidelines and measures to carry out the party work, political work in the Military Academies and Officer Schools; develop and implement plans and directly conduct party work, 12 political work in the Military Academies and Officer Schools and direct, guide and inspect agencies and units to implement Direct, guide, organize and inspect agencies and units conducting propaganda; build for officers and soldiers in the unit to be absolutely loyal to the Party, the Fatherland, to the people, having a strong political will, having a strong will to fight; direct, participate in research and development of military and humanitarian science, reasoning on party work, political work, compilation of history and tradition of party and unit Direct, guide, organize the implementation and inspecting party committees, organizing party committees in the party of the Military Academies and Officer Schools conducting the construction of a strong and clean party organization; build a team of party members with comprehensive leadership and high fighting capacity, united unity Manage and firmly grasp the situation of the number and quality of the contingent of officials, lecturers, learners of the Military Academies and Officer Schools; propose to the party committee and party committees the guidelines and measures to build the contingent of officials, party members and scientific officials and on management, education, mobilizing officials, teachers and students Direct and organize the implementation and inspection of agencies and units conducting security and security work; strictly abide by regulations on prevention, confidentiality and struggle to defeat all destructive plots of hostile forces; strict manage the internal political situation, the construction of Military Academies and Officer Schools safety of politics Direct and guide the implementation and inspection of agencies and units conducting civil mobilization and special propaganda; direct, guide, organize and inspect the implementation of policies of the Party and the State for the army and rear troops Directing, guiding and organizing the implementation and inspection of agencies and units conducting party work, political work in tasks of Military Academies and Officer Schools Build political institutions and political staff in academia and strong cadets; Guide, inspect and organize the management and use of funds, supplies and equipment for party work, political work Working relationships of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools The relationship between the political agencies of the Military Academies and Officer Schools with the direct superior political agencies is the relationship between submission and direction The relationship between the political agencies of the Military Academies and Officer Schools with the party committee of the Military Academies and Officer Schools is the relationship between submission and leadership and direction 13 Relationship between the political agencies of the Military Academies and Officer Schools with political commissars, directors (principals), deputy political commissars and deputy directors (vice principals) is the relationship between submission and direction The relationship between the political agencies of the Military Academies and Officer Schools with the authorities and the inspection committee of the party committee of the Military Academies and Officer Schools is a coordinated working relationship The relationship between the political agencies of the Military Academies and Officer Schools with agencies and units attached to the Military Academies and Officer Schools is the relationship of direction, guidance and examination of party work, political work and submission and direction The relationship between the political agencies of the Military Academies and Officer Schools with the executive committee, the government, the departments, the branches, the local mass organizations and the relevant agencies and units where they are located is the working coordination 2.1.2 The contingent of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the Vietnam People's Army * The concept of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army Conception: The official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the Vietnam People's Army is a part of the political staff of political agencies of the army with those who have the qualifications, and the necessary conditions and are assigned to work in political institutions of Military Academies and Officer Schools; being the core force, directly advising and proposing to help the Party Committee and officials to lead and direct the activities of party work, political work in the Military Academies and Officer Schools; and at the same time directly perform a number of other assigned tasks The above concept has been determined that officials of political agencies include: Political director, deputy political director, heads of departments, assistant team, and at the same time point out the main responsibilities and tasks of this staffs * Basic requirements on quality, competence and methods, working style of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in Vietnam People's Army Requirements for political qualities Official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army must have a high level of political enlightenment, 14 political instincts, and a firm and steady mind-set, have the right attitude, the right attitude, the exemplary attitude in action and employment Requirements for moral qualities Official staff of political agencies must exemplify lifestyle ethics, have the right attitude and conduct; have a clean, healthy, honest, straightforward lifestyle; can distinguish right and wrong; is a shining example in studying and working Requirements on working capacity Good professional knowledge Official staff of political agencies in academia and cadets in the army must be knowledgeable on the regulations, rules and arguments of party work, political work, on the political tasks of academia and cadets, serving as a basis for political officials to advise and propose professional development, to perform tasks in the right direction and effectively Organizational capacity to perform good tasks: Organizational and managerial capacity of officials on many aspects such as: capacity to work out work plans, capable to analyse and evaluate to balance with the current time and conditions without duplication, capable to run the work according to the plan Requirements on method, working style: Official staff of political agencies must always uphold the party character, principles, but flexible in handling practical, non-mechanical, dogmatic, non-disciplined, rigid and rigorous tasks but also not free, arbitrarily violating the principle Methods and working styles of official staff of political agencies are working according to plan, maintaining party character, high science, democracy, high unity, strict discipline, good behaviour * The role of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army Firstly, the official staffs of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools directly contributes to the construction of a strong party and institute, a strong and clean cadet, and a strong comprehensive school Secondly, the official staffs of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools is a direct force contributing to improving the quality and effectiveness of the party and political work Thirdly, the building official staffs of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools directly contributes to building a comprehensive and strong political body, fulfilling the assigned functions and tasks * Characteristics of the official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the Vietnam People's Army Firstly, a majority of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools are basically trained in party work, political work, have the capacity and experience of practical work, but 15 most of them have not been trained and fostered in depth according to each industry, according to their position and position Secondly, the official staffs of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army is formed from a variety of sources, experienced through many working positions, carefully selected and screened Thirdly, the official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools must perform many jobs, solve many relationships, many diverse objects both inside and outside the Military Academies and Officer Schools Fourthly, the official staffs of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools is uneven and incompetent, practical experience is not the same; the trend of age and military rankings is increasing 2.2 Concepts, issues of principle and criteria for assessing the construction of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the Vietnam People's Army 2.2.1 Concepts of the construction of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the Vietnam People's Army Conception: Building political officials in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the Vietnam People's Army is a purposeful and planned activity of subjects and forces, including overall guidelines, contents, forms and measures of planning; management, use and implementation of staff policies, in order to create a contingent of political officials with sufficient numbers, rational structure and high quality, synchronous and solid development, meeting the requirements of responsibilities and assigned tasks and require the construction of Military Academies and Officer Schools in the regular, advanced and exemplary army in the new situation The above concept points out some issues: Construction objectives; Subject of construction; Force participating in construction; Object of construction; Content, processes and measures to build a contingent of political officials 2.2.2 Issues of principle of the construction of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the Vietnam People's Army Firstly, the thoroughness, creative application of the Party's and Military Party's policies and guidelines on officials and officials work in building official staffs of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools Secondly, the construction of official staffs of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army must be under the leadership, of the party committee, the cadres presiding at the academy, cadet cadets, and the guidance of superior political authority 16 Thirdly, the building of official staffs of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools must be associated with the construction of the party committees and party organizations of political institutions, strong and clean cadets, and a strong and comprehensive political agency Fourthly, the building of official staffs of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools must be comprehensive and comprehensive in quantity, structure and quality, always adhere to the requirements of central political mission and practical work of the party, the political work of Military Academies and Officer Schools 2.2.3 Criteria for assessing the construction of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the Vietnam People's Army Firstly, the awareness, responsibility and capacity of the subjects and forces participating in building official staffs of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army Secondly, the assessment of contents processes and measures to build official staffs of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army Thirdly, results of official staffs of political agencies Fourthly, the results of accomplishing the tasks of official staffs of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army Conclusion of Chapter The official staffs of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army plays an important role in advising and proposing leadership guidelines and measures, directing the party work, political work in Military Academies and Officer Schools, directly guiding and inspecting party committees, organizing parties in the party committees of Military Academies and Officer Schools, thoroughly grasping and organizing the implementation of resolutions, directives, regulations and regulations on party work, political work of superiors and party committees of Military Academies and Officer Schools Therefore, building official staffs of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army has sufficient quantity, reasonable structure and high quality is one of the most important, regular and urgent tasks Building official staffs of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the overall work of building cadres of Military Academies and Officer Schools; therefore, It has to comply with the guidelines, views, principles and processes of cadre work and apply flexibly, in accordance with the characteristics of political officials, solve harmoniously the relationship Chapter 17 CURRENT SITUATION AND SOME EXPERIENCES IN BUILDING OFFICIAL STAFF OF POLITICAL AGENCIES IN MILITARY ACADEMIES AND OFFICER SCHOOLS OF THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE'S ARMY 3.1 Current situation of building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools of the Vietnamese People's Army 3.1.1 Successes and advantages Firstly, awareness and responsibility of the subjects and forces participating in building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army have gradually been raised Secondly, contents, processes and measures in building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army are basically taken seriously Thirdly, the number, structure, quality of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools basically meet the requirements of the staff, functions and duties of political agencies and the authorities of each political officer Fourthly, the vast majority of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools has successfully completed their assigned tasks, contributing to improving the quality of party work and political work in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the new situation 3.1.2 Limitations and shortcomings Firstly, awareness of some party committees, party organizations, and officials in charge are not really deep, have not regularly paid attention to leadership and direction for building official staff of political agencies Secondly, the implementation of a number of contents, processes and measures to build official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools still has limitations Thirdly, quantity, quality and structure of political officials have some shortcomings and shortcomings that have not yet met the standards of officials and political officials Fourthly, a number of political officials at the level of accomplishing the task are not high, capable of undertaking the task, ready to replace comrades in political agencies when it is still difficult 3.2 Causes and some experiences in building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools of the Vietnamese People's Army 18 3.2.1 The cause of the situation in building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools of the Vietnamese People's Army * Causes of success and advantages Firstly, achievements of the renovation of the country, construction and adjustment of the party have created favourable conditions for building official staff of political agencies Secondly, the leadership and direction of the Central Military Commission, the party committee of the General Department, the army, the direction and guidance of the Political Bureau, and directly as the party committee, the officials in charge of the Military Academies and Officer Schools of the army, the party committee, and leading the political agency in building official staff of political agencies Thirdly, the official staffs of political agencies has always been focused on education and training in terms of quality, competence, methods and working styles by party committees, officials in charge of Military Academies and Officer Schools and party committees, officials in charge of political agencies Fourthly, the interest and fostering and guidance on the Party's professional work, political work of higher political agencies for the official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army Fifthly, education to build motivation, sense of responsibility, promote positive and proactive in self-improvement to improve the quality and comprehensive capacity of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools are highly promoted and effectively implemented at all levels * Causes of limitations and shortcomings Firstly, the situation of the world and the region has many complicated developments; the hostile forces fiercely oppose the difficulties of the country, the army and Military Academies and Officer Schools Secondly, negative impacts on the reverse side of the market mechanism, inadequacies in mechanisms and policies, which significantly affect the construction of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools Thirdly, some party committees, party organizations and officials in charge of Military Academies and Officer Schools and political agencies have not paid due attention to leading and directing cadre work and building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools 19 Fourthly, some political officials have not been proactive, actively self-studying, cultivating, and training to improve the quality, competence, methods and working styles to meet the task requirements 3.2.2 Some experiences on building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools of the Vietnamese People's Army Firstly, regularly attach importance to education to raise awareness, responsibilities of organizations and forces; first of all party committees, officials in charge of Military Academies and Officer Schools and specialized agencies in cadre work for building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools Secondly, attach importance to thoroughly grasping and strictly implementing the regulations on standards of officials and political officials and well solving the relationship between quantity and quality and team structure Thirdly, attach importance to the synchronous implementation of stages and steps in the process of building official staff of political agencies Fourthly, focus on harmonizing the relationship between the requirement of specialization, intensive and rotation of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army Conclusion of Chapter In the past years, the awareness and responsibility of the subjects in building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army have changed dramatically in content, forms and measures Having such results is due to the correct guidelines, policies and policies on cadre work, training and retraining of officials; working environment, material and spiritual life in the army as well as in Military Academies and Officer Schools are increasingly being raised However, there is still inadequate awareness of building official staff of political agencies Some contents, forms and measures are not close to reality and ineffective Qualifications and qualifications, number of political officials are still inadequate All levels, sectors, organizations and forces need to be properly aware of, consistently implement the standards on the titles of political officials; Good resolution of the relationship between quantity and quality and team structure Chapter REQUIREMENTS AND SOLUTIONS TO STRENGTHEN THE CONSTRUCTION OF OFFICIAL STAFF OF POLITICAL AGENCIES IN MILITARY ACADEMIES AND OFFICER SCHOOLS IN VIETNAM PEOPLE'S ARMY TODAY 20 4.1 Factors affecting and requiring the building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the Vietnamese People's Army today 4.1.1 Factors affecting the building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the Vietnamese People's Army today Firstly, the situation of the world, the region and the country is complicated, deeply affecting the construction of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army Secondly, requests for military and defines missions to protect the socialist homeland; the task of building the military poses a high demand for building Military Academies and Officer Schools in general, building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in particular Thirdly, requests for innovation to improve the quality and effectiveness of party work, political work in the Army in general, in Military Academies and Officer Schools in particular Fourthly, requests for basic and comprehensive innovation of education and training of Military Academies and Officer Schools directly impact on building official staff of political agencies 4.1.2 Request to strengthen the construction of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the Vietnamese People's Army today Firstly, the strengthening of building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools must ensure sufficient numbers, appropriate reserve ratios, reasonable structure, and high quality, synchronous and steady development Secondly, the strengthening of building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools must be under the leadership of the party committee of the Military Academies and Officer Schools, political party organization and strictly implement the content and process of building cadres Thirdly, the strengthening of building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools must be carried out regularly and synchronously with various rich and diverse contents, forms and measures Fourthly, the strengthening of building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools must promote well the role and responsibility of organizations, forces and efforts to strive and train the staff of political agencies 21 4.2 Solutions to strengthen the construction of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the Vietnamese People's Army today 4.2.1 Create a change in the awareness and responsibilities of organizations and forces for building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the Vietnam People's Army today Firstly, the creation of institutional awareness, force of position, the role of political officials and the necessity of building official staff of political agencies Secondly, raising awareness of party committees, party organizations and officials in charge on the position, role and task of party work, political work Thirdly, awareness raising of organizations and forces on the advantages, limitations, advantages and disadvantages of building official staff of political agencies Fourthly, awareness raising on the roles, responsibilities and powers of organizations and forces for building official staff of political agencies Fifthly, organizations and forces, first of all the committees and commanders at all levels, should fight to overcome simple, unilateral perceptions and negative manifestations in building official staff of political agencies Forms and measures: Fristly, through ideological education work to raise awareness of organizations and forces on building official staff of political agencies Secondly, through the forms of activities of party organizations, mass organizations, military councils of political agencies to raise awareness about the need to build official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools Thirdly, through practical activities to perform the responsibilities and tasks to raise awareness, responsibilities of organizations and forces on building official staff of political agencies 4.2.2 Good implementation of planning; the creation and selection of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the Vietnamese people's army today * Good implementation of planning official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the Vietnamese people's army today Firstly, the thoroughness and concretization of standards of each title as a basis for planning the official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools 22 Secondly, the synchronous implementation of measures in the formulation and implementation of the planning, linking the planning of cadres with the stages of cadre work Thirdly, the promotion of the role of the committee level, enhancing the responsibility of the leading officials and political agencies in developing and implementing the planning of political officials * The good performance in the work of creating official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army In order to well, the following main contents and measures must be implemented: Firstly, the unity of awareness about the source of political officials Secondly, the development of standards, structure and good implementation of the plan for the generation of political officials Thirdly, regular implementation of training and retraining of resources; the strengthening of leadership and direction of the committees and officials who are in charge of source creation * Good implementation of the recruitment of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army Firstly, good implementation of the selection process: Secondly, the determination of the source for each staff title to select Thirdly, the strengthening of the leadership of the Military Academies and Officer Schools and political agencies 4.2.3 The good implementation of training, retraining, management, use and implementation of regimes and policies for official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the Vietnam People's Army today * Good implementation of the training of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools: Firstly, flexible diversification and application of training forms Secondly, a close combination of basic training and retraining * Good implementation of fostering official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in the army Firstly, the strengthening of renovation of refresher contents towards updating, improving knowledge, experience, ability and practical organization level of official staff of political agencies Secondly, flexible application of forms and measures to improve the quality and capacity of political officials (training, competitions, higher levels to foster lower levels, through practical implementation of responsibilities, tasks and organization of activities of exchange of experiences) * Good implementation of the management of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools today 23 Firstly, the management of official staff of political agencies must be comprehensive in terms of quantity, quality, and structure Secondly, the promotion of the role of party committees, party organizations, and officials in charge of staff management * Good implementation of the use of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools today Arrange and use political officials to meet the tasks of party work, political work of political agencies and schools Arrange and use the right quality and capacity of each political officer Arrange and use political officials to ensure the promotion of the capacity of cadres, improving the quality of party work, political work Well implement staff rotation to foster and train staff of political agencies * Good implementation of regimes and policies for official staff of political agencies 4.2.4 The promotion of the activeness of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools in self-study and training to improve their qualities, capabilities, methods and working styles The official staff of political agencies should raise their awareness and responsibility, forming a self-learning and training engine to develop all faculties Promote the role of official staff of political agencies in selfassessment of quality, competence, method, working style Promote the role of official staff of political agencies in planning, content selection, self-learning methods, improving qualities, capabilities, methods and working styles Strengthen the leadership, direction and management of the committees, leading officials, for self-learning and training activities of official staff of political agencies 4.2.5 The promotion of the combined strength of organizations and forces in building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools Promote the role of the Central Military Commission, the party committee of the General Department, the army, the direction and guidance of the Political General Department and the Political Bureau of the General Departments, Military and Military Forces to official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools Promoting the role and responsibilities of institutions and units in the Military Academies and Officer Schools to build official staff of political agencies 24 Promoting the role of mass organizations, military council for building official staff of political agencies Conclusion of Chapter Building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools is a constant and continuous process according to regulations and regulations of cadre work To achieve efficiency in building official staff of political agencies must be on the basis of fully aware of the favourable and difficult situation, subjective and objective factors impact on the process of building official staff of political agencies Therefore, it is necessary to build and adhere to the requirements set out for the construction of official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools need to apply flexible and creative application of various forms and contents of measures, ensuring measures of ideological work, organization, personnel work and policy work The application of measures to strengthen the construction of official staff of political agencies must be carried out flexibly, suitable to each situation and subjects of specific political officials CONCLUSION The official staff of political agencies at Military Academies and Officer Schools is an important force in advising the executive committee and senior officials and in directing, guiding, inspecting and organizing the implementation of party and political work activities Under current conditions, it is necessary to build a contingent of political officials on a new level with the new task Over the past time, under the leadership, direction and interest of the party committees, party organizations, leading officials and political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools, the first step in building official staff of political agencies has achieved quite good results The results of building political staff have basically improved Therefore, it has contributed positively to improving the quality and effectiveness of party work, political work in general, and the tasks of political agencies in particular Along with the above advantages still exist some limitations in both moral qualities, professional capacity of many political officials; the number of officials is inadequate, the structure is unreasonable, many officials have not met the increasing requirements of the party specialties and political work The cause of these limitations and weaknesses is mainly due to the fact that some party committees, officials in charge of Military Academies and Officer Schools are not properly aware and highly responsible in building official staff of political agencies Building official staff of political agencies in Military Academies and Officer Schools is conducted on the basis of deeply grasping the views, 25 lines and policies of the Party and the State about cadres and cadre work, by overall activities to identify directions, requirements, standards, planning, source creation, training, retraining, management, layout and use, policy implementation Building official staff of political agencies is the responsibility of organizations and forces Building official staff of political agencies must be based on the Party's and military's guidelines and views on building official staff of political agencies in general and building a contingent of political officials in particular; derived from the political, military, national practices, the construction and operation practices of the military, the political tasks of Military Academies and Officer Schools; closely combine the building official staff of political agencies with the consolidation of the quality, structure and organization of a comprehensive strong political agency The measures that needs to be researched are: the creation of changes in awareness, responsibilities of organizations and forces; good implementation of content and process of building official staff of political agencies; regular attention to taking care of training and retraining; the promotion of the activeness and initiative of the political staff and the synergy of organizations and forces in building official staff of political agencies Building official staff of political agencies in the Military Academies and Officer Schools today needs to be carried out regularly, continuously, in accordance with principles, processes and quality assurance Research and flexibly apply creative forms and measures on ideological work, organization and policy to create a synergy in building political officials./  ... forward” by Tang Ngoc Thanh, Chu La Canh (1997); “Strengthening the building of the board of leadership, forming the promising, successful and active leaders” by Ton Hieu Quan (2004); “Start from... appropriate mechanism of the staff of the Vietnam People’s Army in the new revolutionary period” by Tran Danh Bich (1996); “Building the political staff of the Vietnam People’s Army in the current period... implementation and inspecting party committees, organizing party committees in the party of the Military Academies and Officer Schools conducting the construction of a strong and clean party organization;