A new spring is coming, people in the midland mountainous district of Thanh Chuong happily welcome the Year of the Cat with joy, excitement and great expectations for the development of their homeland.
Gone are the days of "four blocks", surrounded by rivers and mountains, wanting to go "outside" one had to "cross the river and rely on a ferry", wade through streams and mountains; now cars and motorbikes can go straight from the beginning to the end of the district, into every hamlet, village, and hamlet. Comrade Trinh Van Nha - Deputy Secretary of the District Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Thanh Chuong district shared: Along with the support from the Central Government, the province, combined with the internal strength of the district; especially the unanimous support in material and intellectual resources of the people, of the children of Thanh Chuong "overcoming difficult land" to rise up in remote areas at home and abroad through the new rural construction movement. The traffic system in the district has been basically closed with asphalt and concrete (more than 700km of asphalt roads and over 1,000km of concrete roads). Traffic development opens up a new way of thinking about socio-economic development, creating a driving force for comprehensive development. The number of 23/37 communes meeting new rural standards and 3 communes meeting advanced new rural standards has affirmed the comprehensive development of the district.
A commune with many difficulties like Thanh Huong, now has vast tea hills, fruit gardens, large livestock farms with hundreds, thousands of pigs, dozens of buffaloes, cows; many households own several hectares of tea, grapefruit, oranges, dozens of hectares of raw acacia... This mountainous commune has a model that generates an income of 320 million VND/ha/year when raising black apple snails.
Comrade Nguyen Van Tien - Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Thanh Huong commune excitedly shared: Not only has the economic thinking changed, but the people's awareness in building their homeland has also changed, with consensus and trust in the direction of the Party Committee, the government, the mobilization of the Fatherland Front and organizations to contribute to building the locality to the new rural destination in 2022. The rural traffic system is now invested and synchronously renovated with a total of 55km of main commune roads and hamlet roads, inter-family roads are basically concreted... The atmosphere of welcoming Tet, the colors of Spring are more bustling in every house.
With 10 years of persistent implementation of the movement to build new rural areas and advanced new rural areas, the people of Thanh Phong commune have unanimously contributed a lot of effort and money; up to this point, the criteria for advanced new rural areas have been completed. Comrade Phan Manh Hung - Secretary of the Thanh Phong Commune Party Committee affirmed: Building new rural areas is an extremely correct policy, truly reaching the hearts of the people, promoting the internal strength of the people along with the resources of the State to develop infrastructure to serve the people. Schools at all 3 levels of the commune have achieved district-level cultural units and national standards. Entertainment, recreation, cultural and sports venues have been formed in 7/7 hamlets combined with the sports and physical training equipment area in the commune center to meet the needs of daily life, enjoyment, and improve the spiritual life and health of the people. The traffic system, in addition to being closed with asphalt and concrete, also ensures light - green - clean beauty on all routes; Install signs and speed bumps at bends and turns...
Traveling throughout the Thanh Chuong countryside, one can feel the exciting atmosphere welcoming the New Year. In the central area of the district - Dung town has put on a "new coat" with the town space being expanded; the construction of civilized urban areas has been actively implemented, such as investing in and renovating the central lake, Ranh Ranh dam; building a number of belt roads belonging to the newly merged blocks from Thanh Ngoc commune; renovating the sidewalk system of the main routes associated with the construction of civilized, bright - green - clean - beautiful roads. The district town now has streets with names, houses with numbers, and a civilized urban lifestyle is being formed.
Comrade Tuong Dang Hao - Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Thanh Chuong town said: The people of the town have been very active in investing, expanding production and business development. Currently, the proportion of services and trade in the town accounts for more than 63%, agriculture accounts for only 3%; the average income of the people has reached 89 million VND/person/year. The locality is focusing on attracting investment associated with mobilizing resources, striving to build the town to meet urban civilized standards by 2024.
Coming to the midland of Thanh Chuong, we all recognized a common spirit, that is, from the achieved results, cadres, party members and local people are more determined in the new Spring of Quy Mao 2023 to bring the district to a new strong development step.
Comrade Trinh Van Nha - Deputy Secretary of the District Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Thanh Chuong district discussed: The Resolution of the 31st District Party Congress, term 2020 - 2025 sets the goal of developing Thanh Chuong into a well-off district of the province. 2023 is the mid-term year of implementing the Resolutions of Party Congresses at all levels, especially the Resolution of the 31st District Party Congress, therefore, the Party Committee, the government and the entire political system from the district to the grassroots will focus on directing the implementation of the issued resolutions, projects and key plans.
In particular, the agricultural sector continues to promote propaganda, combined with policy support to transform the structure of crops and livestock; convert the form and method of organic farming to further change the agricultural mindset to agricultural economics, increasing the value of agricultural production. Along with that, promote investment attraction and speed up the construction of a number of works and projects, such as Cung ferry bridge, the road from Ngoc Son to Nam Hung (Nam Dan), the road connecting Ho Chi Minh road to the old Youth Volunteer Corps 2.
In 2023, Thanh Chuong is determined to build 6 more communes meeting new rural standards, 2 communes meeting advanced new rural standards, 1 commune meeting model new rural standards; focusing on developing agricultural tourism and eco-tourism. With the view that investing in education is investing in sustainable development, therefore, in the coming time, in the National Target Program on building new rural areas, the district will continue to prioritize investment in facilities, while improving the quality of teachers and fulfilling the responsibilities of school leaders to meet development requirements, improving the quality of comprehensive education for students. Continue to develop the cultural and spiritual life of the people... Focus on implementing solutions to ensure rural security, border security, creating an environment for socio-economic development.
To effectively carry out the above-mentioned key tasks and create higher development in the new year, the Chairman of Thanh Chuong District People's Committee emphasized: The implementation theme for 2023 is: "Sticking closely to the grassroots - Removing difficulties - Accelerating development". The district is determined to promote the application of information technology in state agencies to serve administrative reform and build e-Government, digital Government, improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the organization and operation of the government from the district to the grassroots.