(HBO) - Dung Phong commune is working to improve the lives of local people through creating large fields via land accumulation in Bai Be 2 and Dong Moi villages, and attracting investment from the Quang Ha garment making company into the locality. It is expected that when the company put into operation its factory in the commune, it will create jobs for 100 local workers.
In the economic development plan, Dung Phong commune (Cao Phong) continues to
develop sugarcane cultivation. (Photo)
Dung Phong is mainly an agricultural commune with the main crops being rice,
corn, sugarcane and citrus fruits. During the 2015-2020 term, the commune
actively encouraged local farmers to switch to plants with high economic value.
Up to now, a number of rice cultivation areas have been converted to sugarcane,
and hillside land has been used to grow citrus fruit. Currently, the commune
has an area of 335.7 hectares of sugarcane and 180 hectares of citrus trees.
Local authority reported that economic growth reached 10 percent in which
agriculture accounts for 55 percent; handicrafts account for 25 percent; the
per capita income reached 45 million VND/year and the poverty rate was 5.6
percent. The commune has maintained results it made under the new style rural
area building programme and is building model residential areas and
gardens.
In the 2020-2025 term, the commune's Party Committee aims for a decent and
sustainable economic growth. It will work to accelerate economic restructuring
and labor restructuring, while improving the quality, efficiency and the
competitiveness of the local economy. In order to fulfill this task, the
commune Party Committee is focusing on leading and directing the review and
supplementation of socio-economic development plans in association with the new
style rural development programme. The committee will also direct the
evaluation of the effectiveness of economic models, and put forward investment
policies to expand and develop quality and effective models; creating favorable
conditions to attract investment...
Regarding agriculture and forestry, the commune will focus on
industrialisation and modernisation of agricultural production, and on
developing livestock in the direction of semi-industrial model.
In the economic development roadmap for the period of 2020-2025, the commune's
Party organisation has outlined many breakthrough solutions in economic
development, creating motivation to complete the tasks and successfully achieve
economic development goals, including a 10-percent economic growth rate, per
capita income of 62 million VND a year, and a poverty rate of under five
percent./.
In the afternoon of December 17, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism organized a summary and awarding ceremony for the Online Competition on preventing and controlling the Family Violence in 2024.
Implementing the Resolution of the 17th Provincial Party Congress to reach a health insurance coverage rate of 95% or more of the population, the Women's Union at all provincial levels has deployed the creative models and methods and effectively replicated them. These activities not only contribute to completing the social security goals, but they also spread the spirit of solidarity and sharing in the community.
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.
