The Central Steering Committee of the National Target Program on New Rural Construction worked in Nghe An
(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of October 22, a working delegation led by Mr. Tran Thanh Nam - Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Deputy Head of the Central Steering Committee for the National Target Program on New Rural Development worked with the Provincial People's Committee on the implementation of the National Target Program on New Rural Development. Receiving and working with the delegation were Mr. Dinh Viet Hong - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Deputy Head of the Provincial Steering Committee for the National Target Program on New Rural Development, and members of the provincial steering committee.
During the working trip, the delegation went to Kim Lien (Nam Dan) to offer incense to commemorate President Ho Chi Minh.
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The delegation came to offer flowers and incense at Kim Lien - Nam Dan relic site. |
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The delegation offered flowers and incense to commemorate President Ho Chi Minh. |
According to the province's report, after nearly 4 years of implementing the National Target Program on New Rural Construction, the movement of the province has become increasingly widespread throughout the province and achieved many results. In 2010, the average number of criteria of communes was 3.64 criteria/commune, by the end of 2014 it was estimated to reach 11.3/criteria/commune. By October 15, 2014, Nghe An province had 8 communes meeting 19/19 NTM criteria, of which 7 communes had received a Decision to recognize the NTM standards, 01 commune was carrying out procedures to recognize the commune meeting the NTM standards; There were 26 communes meeting 16-18 criteria, 12 communes meeting 15 criteria, 154 communes meeting 10-14 criteria, 183 communes meeting 5-9 criteria, 48 communes meeting 2-4 criteria; no more white society on criteria.
The whole province strives to have 18-20 communes meeting the NTM standards by the end of 2014, with an average of 11.3 criteria. By 2015, 93 communes will meet 15-18 criteria, 62 communes will meet 10-14 criteria, and the remaining communes will strive to meet 1-2 additional criteria/commune. By 2020, 216 communes will meet the NTM standards, with 1-2 districts meeting the NTM standards, and 2 model NTM communes will be built, including Kim Lien commune, Nam Dan district and Quynh Doi commune, Quynh Luu district.
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Working scene. |
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Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam spoke at the meeting. |
After listening to the report, the members of the delegation asked the Provincial Steering Committee to clarify a number of issues: Allocating resources, mobilizing people's strength in accordance with the local situation, mobilizing integrated resources, arranging capital to build economic models... The members of the Steering Committee clarified the issues that the members of the delegation were interested in.
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Comrade Dinh Viet Hong spoke at the meeting. |
Speaking at the conference, Deputy Minister Tran Thanh Nam praised Nghe An's achievements and good practices such as creativity in the integration mechanism, proactive budget investment for the new rural areas, creativity in building model new rural communes, effective direction, etc. He also noted that localities in allocating government bond capital should focus on localities in particularly difficult areas. Moving forward, it is necessary to focus strongly on activities to improve people's living standards, promote democracy in advocacy work, and communes that meet the standards need to improve the quality of criteria. In direction and implementation, it is necessary to clarify the responsibilities of each sector and locality.
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Comrade Tran Thanh Nam (far left) inspects cultural institutions in Hung Dong commune (Vinh city) |
Speaking at the meeting, Mr. Dinh Viet Hong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said: In the coming time, Nghe An province will actively mobilize resources, effectively integrate programs and investment projects to develop socio-economic infrastructure to serve production and people's lives; Focus on propaganda and mobilize people to be determined to implement the Program to complete the set plan.
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and visit the safe vegetable growing model in Hung Dong commune (Vinh city) |
Video clip of the Central Steering Committee for New Rural Development working in Nghe An:
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In the afternoon, the Deputy Minister and members of the delegation had a working session with the Party Committee and People's Committee of Hung Dong commune (Vinh city). According to the report of the leaders of Hung Dong commune, after 3 years of implementing the National Target Program on New Rural Construction, the commune has so far completed 19/19 criteria; the material and spiritual life of the people has been improved, the average income per capita has reached nearly 30 million VND/year. The rate of poor households is only 1.2%, the rate of well-off and rich households is 70%. 100% of the roads in the area have been asphalted or concreted with a total length of more than 56km... After the working session, comrade Tran Thanh Nam and the delegation also visited some local household economic models.
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