(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.
Administrative reform has been identified as a key priority in enhancing state governance, improving the business environment, and facilitating services for citizens and enterprises.
The Standing Board of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee met on March 18 to review and guide major investment projects aimed at boosting local socio-economic development.
The air is thick with the hum of drills and the clatter of machinery as the Hoa Binh – Moc Chau expressway takes shape amid the rugged terrain. Welding sparks illuminate the faces of workers, and concrete mixers churn relentlessly, laying fresh pavement on the newly-carved road. The construction site buzzes with a palpable sense of urgency, particularly in Hoa Binh province where the expressway's future is being forged.
The northern province of Hoa Binh, with over 467,000 hectares of natural forest and more than 100,000 hectares of production forest, holds significant potential for carbon credit market development.
Replacing substandard houses with more sturdy ones by June 30 is the direction given by Nguyen Phi Long, alternate member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee, at a meeting held in early March by the provincial Steering Committee for the programme to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses for the needy.
Recognising digital transformation as an inevitable trend, authorities and agencies in Hoa Binh have made great efforts in the work by focusing on three core pillars - digital government, digital society, and digital economy, resulting in enhanced competitiveness, improved investment climate, and ensured economic and social welfare.
