(HBO) – The People’s Committee of Hoa Binh province recently organised a conference to review 15 years of implementing preferential credit policy. The event was attended by Bui Van Tinh, member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee; Bui Van Cuu, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and head of the representative board of the provincial Bank for Social Policies and Bui Quang Vinh, Deputy General Director of the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies.
Photo: Bui Van Cuu, Vice
Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and head of the representative
board of the provincial Bank for Social Policies, presents certificates of merit
to excellent individuals.
Bui Quang Vinh, Deputy General Director of the Vietnam Bank for Social
Policies, hands over certificates of merit to typical individuals.
After 15 years of carrying out the preferential
credit policy, the provincial Bank for Social Policies has deployed 15 credit
programmes with total outstanding debts of nearly 2.7 trillion VND and overdue
debts of 3.5 billion VND, accounting for 0.13 percent of total outstanding
debts. In the past 15 years, more than 426,000 impoverished households and
policy beneficiaries have been provided with loans by the bank. These loans
have helped over 90,000 families get out of poverty (poverty rate dropping by 3
percent on average annually), create jobs for 73,000 labourers and support the
poor in building 19,000 houses as well as 90,000 clean water and environmental
sanitation works.
Nearly 1,000 labourers were provided with soft loans to work abroad. Some
35,000 disadvantaged students were enabled to go to school thanks to the loans,
while more than 8,000 ethnic minority households were assisted in production
and business activities.
During 2017-2020, the province has set a target of providing vital products and
services of the Bank for Social Policies for all of poor people and policy
beneficiaries.
Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Bui Van Tinh stressed that the
credit programme has affirmed its role in the province’s socio-economic
development, ensuring social security and implementing the national target
programme on sustainable poverty reduction and new style rural area building.
Tinh hoped that in the coming time, the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies will provide
more funds for the poor to step up production, making contributions to
effectively implementing Instruction No. 40-CT/TW of the Party Central
Committee’s Secretariat on enhancing the Party’s leadership in social policy
credit programmes and promoting communication works for credit activities to
ensure sufficient capital for the beneficiaries.
On this occasion, the Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee granted certificates
of merit to 10 organisations and 15 individuals and the General Director of the
Vietnam Bank for Social Policies bestowed certificates of merit to 30
organisations, 62 individuals and four families for their contributions to the
implementation of poverty reduction and social security programmes 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.
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.