Hoa Binh on the way to build civilised, modern city

6/25/2018 - 3:01:01 PM

(HBO) – After 10 years of becoming an urban area grade 3, Hoa Binh city has step by step affirmed its role and position of a central urban area, paving the way for making Hoa Binh province a key economic area of Hanoi capital, and developing Hoa Binh city into an urban area grade 2, a modern city imbued with local culture identity by 2020.

Hoa Binh Square area is built to match its position

In 2016 to 2017, total social investment in the province reached 5.23 trillion VND. The figure hit 7 trillion VND by June 30, 2018. Many projects were completed and put into use, contributing to giving a facelift to the city, including Hoa Binh Square, sidewalks system, and upgraded roads.

The city is striving to speed up the implementation of programmes and projects under the Northern Mountainous Urban Programme; a water drainage and wastewater treatment projects using ODA; and an administrative-political centre of the city, and the Hoa Binh 3 bridge with total investment of 434 billion VND.

Recently, the city has introduced adjustments to a detailed construction planning of the Hoa Binh Youth Park at a scale of 1/500. The project covers an area of 8.23 hectares. The amusement park with has green space, water surface combined with activities of entertainment, learning, relaxation. The Hoa Binh Youth Park has been approved in the form of public-private partnership with estimated investment of about 214 billion VND. It is expected to finish and become operational in the third quarter of 2020.

In addition, the city has implemented a project to install energy saving LEDs in the form of build-lease-transfer (BLT) contract with a total investment of 36.185 billion VND to equip the normal electric lighting infrastructure with LED lighting technology, contributing to improving the beauty of the city. At the same time, the city has also implemented the project of Vincom Shophouse Hoa Binh, a trade centre project invested by Vingroup.

Along with building infrastructure, emulation activities and movements to build a bright - green - clean - beautiful city have been implemented effectively. Locals have actively responded to activities such as Green Day, self-governing road, civilized streets, garbage-free residential areas, and Green Sunday.

Currently, 100 percent of wards and communes have joined Green Saturday, while nearly 100 streets managed by the youth and women have been formed, and 100 percent of local schools have engaged in the Cultural School Gate campaign. The city has continued to expand the model of "civilized streets, garbage-free residential areas". The percentage of people provided with waste collection and treatment service is 95 percent and the percentage of treated medical wastes is 100 percent./.

Provincial Steering Committee on population, development convenes meeting

Nguyen Van Toan, Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee, chaired a meeting of the Steering Committee on Population and Development.

Laotian students in Hoa Binh have happily celebrated the Bunpimay festival

Hoa Binh works to complete educational database

Hoa Binh province’s Department of Education and Training on April 16 held a conference on the materialisation of the Prime Minister’s directive on the further implementation of the project on the application of population database, e-identification and e-authentication for national digital transformation in the 2022-2025 period with a vision to 2030. The provincial Department of Education and Training signs cooperation agreements on cashless tuition fee collection with partners and businesses.

Linking vocational training with job creation

Creating jobs for labourers in general and young people in particular is currently a focus of the province, with vocational training linked to job creation considered one of the strategic breakthrough solutions.

Intergenerational self-help clubs benefit elderly people

A total of 30 intergenerational self-help clubs (ISHC) have been established in Hoa Binh province under the project "Reducing Income- and Health-Related Vulnerability of Older Persons in Vietnam" (VIE071) since 2021.

Woman active in charity work

Nguyen Thi Nu, a resident of Thach Ly sub-area in Da Bac township of Da Bac district, has been popular in the area as a simple woman that is rich in compassion. For nearly 10 years, she has spread her kindness through many charity activities to ease difficulties for the needy.