(HBO) – The national target programme on building new-style rural areas has received wide support from people in Hoa Binh province. A wide range of campaigns have been carried out to cast a new look to the locality while improving local livelihoods, including "Hoa Binh people join hands to build new-style rural areas”, "The whole people unite to build new-style rural areas and civilised urban areas”, and "Clean house-beautiful garden-pleasant environment-civilised alley”.
Investment injected to enlarge roads in Tan Vinh commune,
Luong Son district, to meet travel and trade demand of locals.
During January-September, more than 1.9 trillion
VND (81.6 million USD) was splashed out to implement the new-style rural area
building programme. Of the total amount, more than 720 billion VND was sourced
from the central budget, 876.9 billion VND from local budget, and 54.14 billion
VND mobilised from enterprises and organisations. Particularly, some 175.8
billion VND worth of local people’s land, money and working days was raised for
the construction of public works.
Along with infrastructure, the province paid due
heed to developing production and better income for farmers. In the nine-month
period, Hoa Binh city and districts mobilised 13.1 trillion VND to branch out
production models and projects.
With the allocated 1.2 billion VND, Luong Son
district carried out a project to develop cattle herd, while Tan Lac district
used 953 million VND to develop local buffalo herd. Additionally, the
provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development implemented three
value chain projects with a total value of over 2 billion VND. The provincial
People’s Committee supported 12 value chain projects with over 16.6 billion
VND.
Thanks to concerted efforts of the locality, the
province has 57 communes meeting criteria of new-style rural areas, accounting
for 43.5 percent of the province’s total communes. Six communes satisfied 15-18
criteria, and 68 communes attained 10-14 criteria. The whole province completed
15.15 criteria on average.
Hoa Binh province is now home to seven communes
achieving advanced criteria for new-style rural area, 39 model residential
areas, and 122 model orchards./.
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.