(HBO) – After six years implementing the national target programme on new-style rural area building, Dong Mon commune of Lac Thuy district has met only 10 out of 19 criteria.
The road connecting Dong Mon commune and Lac Hung commune in Yen Thuy
district remains rough.
As a remote area locating about 19km from
the district’s centre, Dong Mon commune has three villages with 358 households
and 1,048 people. The commune’s terrain is mostly low hills; the local
population live mainly on forestry, with 1,500 hectares of acacia trees
(including 72 ha newly planted this year). Although the tree areas bring
long-term and stable income, it is difficult for locals to make breakthrough in
economic development to raise incomes.
Over the past years, communal authorities
have encouraged locals to diversify crops in the direction of optimizing
natural and soil conditions of the locality to produce agricultural products
with higher economic values.
Currently, the commune is facing
difficulties in fulfilling the criterion on rural transportation. So far, only
27.55 percent of main roads in villages and hamlets have been concreted, while
all roads across fields are still dirt roads. Many roads in the commune are
still rough with holes, affecting trading activities, such as roads in Cu, Von
and Dung villages, the road to Lien Hoa and Lac Hung commune of Yen Thuy
district.
The criterion on irrigation has also not
been completed yet because the work requires large investment, long-term plans
with the cooperation between the government and the community. Over the past
years, the commune authorities have focused on upgrading the canal and
irrigation system to serve agricultural production.
Since early 2018, making full use of support
resources, the commune has repaired village-to-village roads as well as roads
inside villages, while clearing bushes along the roads and cleaning up the
environment.
Under the movement of solidarity in
building new-style rural areas, the local community contributed many working
days to repair 20km of roads, clear 13,000 square metres of land along roads,
and dredge open sewers.
Many role models have emerged during the
implementation of the movement, including Mr. Nguyen Duc Thai and Mrs. Bui Thi
Thao, both from Dung village, and Mr. Bui Duc Lam from Cu village who donated
land, construction materials and working days to build roads and cultural
infrastructure system.
However, many criteria have remained
uncompleted. The commune’s health care station has been degraded, while local schools
lack learning equipment, the collection of garbage remains spontaneous, and
many locals still live in temporary and dilapidated houses./.
Hoa Binh is carried out investment projects to upgrade three district medical centres in Lac Son and Yen Thuy districts and Hoa Binh city. The projects are funded by the central budget under the Economic and Social Recovery and Development Programme, aiming to improve healthcare services. The goal is to gradually develop a system of modern and quality district-level healthcare facilities.
To improve the cultural and spiritual life of the elderly, the associations for the elderly at various levels in Hoa Binh province have created many interesting and meaningful activities, attracting the participation of a large number of old people. These activities provide opportunities for them to improve both their physical and mental health, enabling them to live happily and healthily.
The pilot programme for sending Vietnamese workers to the Republic of Korea (RoK) for seasonal agricultural jobs continues under a collaboration between localities of the two countries, running for five years from January 1, 2022.
Staff of the Red Cross Society of Hoa Binh province were deeply moved by a meaningful and humanitarian act by Mr Vu Huu Lung, 86, in Hoa Binh city, to donate his corneas, which brought hopes to those yearning for the light. Before passing away, Lung left behind a noble wish to donate all of his organs, including his corneas, to help patients suffering from blindness and those in need of organ transplants to revive their lives.
In the small house of Bui Van Luong in Bung 2 Hamlet, Thu Phong commune, Cao Phong district, an array of traditional items such as serving trays, woven storage baskets for blankets, sticky rice containers, and bamboo baskets are beautifully and skillfully crafted.
Over the recent past, the education and training sector of Hoa Binh province has paid great attention to reforming management activities, improving teachers’ quality, and innovating teaching methods that focus on quality and efficiency, at the same time with implementing the sector’s emulation campaigns and movements.
