Mr. Son builds 'clean and beautiful new countryside'

To effectively implement the National Target Program on building new rural areas associated with a bright, green, clean and beautiful rural environment and model residential areas, Anh Son district launched the movement "Green, clean, beautiful, bright, friendly" and received positive responses from the majority of people.

The appearance of new rural areas in Anh Son district is increasingly improving. Photo: Thai Hien

Cam Son is the second locality of Anh Son district to achieve the new rural standards in 2015. Up to now, after 6 years of reaching the finish line, the new rural appearance here has completely changed. Having the opportunity to visit Cam Son commune these days, the traffic roads have been concreted, the village roads and alleys are clean and beautiful, the irrigation canal system has been solidified, the infrastructure, health, culture, education have been improved, and people's lives have been gradually improved.

Currently, people in the whole commune are competing to respond to the movement "Green, clean, beautiful, bright, friendly" and build a commune that meets advanced NTM standards. On the Hoi Lam inter-village road, people are taking care of the flower road that was planted 1 month ago. Ms. Nguyen Thi Yen shared: Not only my family but also the people in the village are very happy and excited when the commune reaches the NTM finish line. Children have the conditions to study, the village roads and alleys are clean and beautiful, the people's lives are increasingly improved. Responding to the movement, each person in the village has promoted their sense of responsibility, preserved the landscape and environment, together creating a green and clean space for each village road and alley. Besides maintaining regular daily garbage collection on time and in the right place.

Mr. Hoang Manh Hung - Chairman of Cam Son Commune People's Committee said: In 2010, when starting to implement the construction of new rural areas, Cam Son was a locality with many difficulties, because the commune was at a low starting point, people's income mainly came from agricultural production, but with high consensus among the people, the construction of cultural houses, rural roads, and repair of intra-field canals were supported by the people. Currently, to build a commune to achieve advanced new rural areas, in addition to completing the criteria, the commune has launched the movement "Green, clean, beautiful, bright, friendly".

Propaganda for households to build fences, tidy up their houses, actively participate in keeping village roads and alleys clean, plant flower paths and ornamental plants on inter-village routes. In addition, weekly and monthly cleaning, collection, treatment and assembling of waste are enthusiastically responded by the people.

Up to now, the whole commune has planted 10 flower roads with a length of more than 8km; 1 Ban flower road is more than 800m long. Since implementing the movement to build advanced new rural areas associated with bright green, clean and beautiful landscapes, the appearance of Cam Son commune has increasingly improved. Currently, the average income per capita has reached 44.7 million VND, an increase of 13.2 million VND compared to 2015. The poverty rate has decreased from 6.79% in 2015 to 1.77%.

Tam Son commune is a remote locality, located in the upper district, where people's lives still face many difficulties, but currently the commune is focusing all resources on completing the criteria for building a new rural area and actively responding to the movement "Green, clean, beautiful, bright, friendly". Now, Tam Son commune no longer has muddy roads or dusty sunny days like before, but instead there are spacious concrete roads, solid rows of houses, clean and spacious inter-village and inter-hamlet roads, covered with flags and flowers.

Mr. Nguyen Van Que, Chairman of Tam Son Commune People's Committee, said: Determining the implementation of the emulation movement "Green, clean, beautiful, bright, friendly" is an important task, the commune has mobilized the entire political system to participate. In just a short time, Tam Son commune has done many meaningful things.

Specifically: Officials and people planted over 2,500 bamboo trees along the Lam River to prevent erosion and landslides and planted 110 Bauhinia trees along the roads. In addition, the locality has built the "Lighting up the countryside" road to highlight the beauty of the whole commune's landscape, with high voltage electricity, and hanging the national flag with a length of 7 km, worth 1.4 billion VND, in the form of social mobilization, the State and the people work together, in which the people contribute 50% of the cost.

This is also the only locality with the largest high-voltage power line in the entire district, built by the commune and the people. In particular, the commune is currently building a green park associated with Bai Da eco-tourism. The project covers an area of ​​nearly 7 hectares, with the planning including the protective forest area along Lam River, the green park area, the bathing beach in the commune's rocky area...

Anh Son people respond to the construction of new rural areas associated with bright - green - clean - beautiful landscapes. Photo: Thai Hien

Up to now, Anh Son district has 12/20 communes meeting the new rural standards. Along with implementing the new rural construction program for the remaining communes, Anh Son district has launched the emulation movement "Green, clean, beautiful, bright, friendly" in the district for the period 2020-2025, aiming to actively contribute to protecting the clean living environment, beautifying the landscape of village roads, alleys and making the appearance of the new rural areas of the localities increasingly prosperous.

Mr. Hoang Quyen, Chairman of Anh Son District People's Committee, said: Building new rural areas in Anh Son is a correct movement that has been agreed upon and actively responded to by a large number of cadres, party members and people in the district, thereby creating a driving force to build an increasingly prosperous new rural area, comprehensively improving people's lives.

Each agency, unit, organization and association has its own implementation method suitable to practical conditions, typically: the Green Sunday movement launched by the Vietnam Fatherland Front; the movement to plant flower roads, the green house model, "turning waste into seedlings", "turning scrap into insurance cards to support the poor and disadvantaged households of the Women's Union; the tree planting movement (planting bamboo, meters to prevent riverbank erosion and landslides of the district farmers' association; the program "Exchanging scrap for masks", "Exchanging scrap for trees", "Collecting scrap - Exchanging flowers, trees" launched by the Youth Union...

Movement to make flower streets clean and beautiful in Anh Son. Photo: Thai Hien

The goal is to strive by 2025 for all agencies, units, businesses, schools; Cultural houses of villages, hamlets, and residential groups to meet the criteria of "Green, clean, beautiful, bright, friendly"; Along both sides of National Highway 7A, village roads are planted with trees and reasonable shade; historical and cultural relics, village gates, village wells are gradually restored and upgraded... The waste collection and treatment system is implemented in accordance with regulations.