In recent years, Thung Nai commune on has undergone significant changes in its appearance, landscape, and lives of local residents. Road 435 from Hoa Binh City to Tan Lac district’s Suoi Hoa commune, passing through the Thung Nai commune, has helped attract many tourists to the area.
Investment has been poured into transportation infrastructure in Thung Nai commune (Cao Phong district), contributing to speed up local socio-economic development.
According to Bui Van Thoa, Secretary of the commune's Party Committee, the commune has 160 party members in nine party cells.
Recently, the commune’s party committee and local administration have innovated their operation methods, focusing on assessing the capabilities of officials, party members, and civil servants through their implementation of political tasks. Currently, 100% of commune officials and civil servants hold university degrees, meeting the job requirements. Especially, the commune underlined the need to enhance the quality of party cell activities, actively innovating leadership methods, gradually improving working regulations, and promoting the pioneering and exemplary role of officials and party members in fulfilling political tasks. Most officials and party members have led the way in implementing policies, striving to complete tasks, and participating in production and new life development movements.
Thanks to the efforts of local Party Committee, administration, and residents, positive changes have been recorded in many aspects.
The commune has focused its leadership on restructuring crops and livestock, promoting the development of trade and services. Regarding agriculture, local residents have shifted to cultivate high-value crops such as oranges and pomelos. In 2023, pomelo grown by Thung Nai Commune cooperative group met VietGAP standards. The group signed a contract with the 3T Cooperative to ensure sales of the product.
The commune has 143 households operating in tourism, of which 43 engage in trading, 89 in transportation and 11 in catering business. Locals have proactively invested in passenger transport, aquaculture, and food services to serve tourism in the Hoa Binh lake area. Many households in villages surrounding the lake, such as Moi, Nai, and Tien, have poured capital in aquaculture and provided tourism services, thus becoming better off.
Responding to emulation movements and the National Target Programme for new-style rural development, local people actively donate land and contribute labour to build roads, welfare facilities and upgrade village roads. With the concerted efforts of the political system, the commune’s poverty rate based on new criteria dropped to 5.45% and the average income per capita reached 43.6 million VND (1,710 USD) last year.
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.
