(HBO) - Hoa Binh City is the first district-level locality of Hoa Binh province to have satisfied standards for new-style rural areas, with all the seven communes having received recognition for meeting all the criteria of the programme in the period of 2016-2020, including one particularly disadvantaged commune in the Hoa Binh reservoir area.
Over the past eight
years, the city has made prominent and comprehensive achievements in its programme
of building new-style rural areas, helping improve
the spiritual and material life of locals.
The traffic and irrigation systems in communes have been built and
upgraded, facilitating locals’ travel and production activities.
Local residents are
provided with safe electricity. All the communes in the city have facilities
serving cultural and sport activities. Up to 91.96 percent of households in the
city have houses meeting prescribed standards; and 98.5 percent of rural
residents have access to hygienic water.
The living conditions of locals have been improved. The per capita income in
rural areas in the city reaches 39 million VND/year; the rate of poor household
is at 1.05 percent; and 90.3 percent of the locality’s population has bought health
insurance.
Traffic system in Su Ngoi (Hoa Binh City) has
met locals’ demand of travel and goods transport.
Authorities of Hoa
Binh city has mobilised over 862 billion VND for its new-style rural area building programme, including more than 94 billion
VND contributed by locals.
Rural
infrastructure in the locality has been invested and upgraded in a concerted
and modern manner, effectively serving production and daily activities of local
residents.
Agricultural production has been improved in the direction of strengthening linkage
of commodity production in combination with promoting development of industry,
tourism and services, along with creating close links between rural development
and urban development in line with the master plan.
As a result, local people's material and spiritual life has been better. The
quality of education, health, culture, and environment has been improved, and
the national cultural identity preserved and developed.
The locality has also paid attention to maintaining political security and
social order. The political organization
system of the locality is increasingly strong, and the implementation ofgrassroots democracypromoted.
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.
This year, Hoa Binh province strives to have eight communes recognised as meeting new-style rural area standards and five communes satisfying exemplary new-style rural area standards. Since the beginning of the year, the provincial People's Committee has drastically directed the implementation of the national target programme on new-style rural area building to fulfil the set target.
Cao Phong district achieved positive socio-economic development results last year as drastic comprehensive measures were implemented with high determination of its whole political system, said the Secretary of the district Party Committee Ha Van Di.