HBO – The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, in collaboration with the Vietnam Farmers’ Union, the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha and the Hoa Binh provincial People’s Committee, held a ceremony to launch a New Year tree planting festival on February 13, in Kem village, Lam Son commune, Luong Son district of Hoa Binh, to commemorate late President Ho Chi Minh.
National Assembly Chairwoman
Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Bui Van Tinh
and other delegates plant trees in Lam Son commune, Luong Son district.
National Assembly Chairwoman
Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan and leaders of ministries, sectors, and Hoa Binh present
gifts to local policy beneficiaries.
National
Assembly Chairwoman Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan beat the gong to launch the New Year
tree planting festival. Attending the event were representatives from
ministries and sectors, together with member of the Party Central Committee and
Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Bui Van Tinh, Vice Secretary of the
provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the People’s Council Tran Dang Ninh,
Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the People’s
Committee Nguyen Van Quang, and numerous locals.
Addressing
the event, Quang said that Hoa Binh always considers tree planting as an
important deed during its socio-economic development, environmental protection
and climate change response. The province has fulfilled its targets related to
afforestation, forest protection and management, with the forest coverage
hitting 51 percent. In 2019, local authorizes and people will actively respond
to tree planting and forest protection to bring huge economic benefits and
contribute to environmental protection.
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Chairman Ngan stated that green growth and sustainable development have become
a top concern of all nations in the world and also a target that Vietnam is striving
for.
Growing
more trees will help mitigate ravages of disasters, prevent erosion, reduce
floods and improve the living environment, she added.
After
the launching ceremony, the top legislator joined other delegates and locals
planted more than 2,000 trees of different kinds in Lam Son commune.
This
year, the province set a target of growing 5,790 hectares of concentrated
forest and 15,000 scattered trees.
On
this occasion, the NA Chairwoman granted presents to 30 local policy
beneficiaries./.
In recent years, Mai Ha commune in Mai Chau district has been making efforts to restructure its crops and livestock to improve production efficiency, enhance the quality of life, and increase income for local residents. Notably, the cultivation of watermelon in line with Vietnamese Goods Agricultural Practices (VietGAP) standards has helped local people escape poverty.
Hoa Binh province scored 43.5493 points in the 2023 Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI), ranking 20th out of the 63 provinces and cities nationwide, up 23 places compared to the 2022 list. The results show people's satisfaction with the effectiveness of implementing State policies and laws, local governance, and providing public services by authorities at all levels in the province.
With the motto of "polite, dedicated, professional, and lawful,” over the years, Phu Cuong commune in Tan Lac district has gradually improved the quality of processing administrative procedures, winning high satisfaction from local people and businesses.
Stretching over 300 meters, valued at hundreds of million dong and built to the new-style rural standards, a concrete road in De hamlet, Bac Phong commune, Cao Phong district, was completed by the end of 2023 thanks to the collective contributions of armed forces at provincial and district levels coupled with the active participation of military units stationed throughout the district.
Over the years, the People’s Committee of Lac Thuy district has issued many plans and programmes to speed up the administrative reform, aiming to better serve local people and businesses.
Kim Boi district is drafting 23 planning projects which are expected to help boost the local socio-economic development, attract investors, and mobilise resources for development, said Vice chairman of the district People’s Committee Tran Tuan Son.
They include the one on Bo urban area development until 2045, 20 zoning, and 12 on rural residential areas in communes.
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