Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Thai Thanh Quy: Will pay more attention to 27 especially difficult communes

Building new rural areas is a breakthrough for Nghe An.

According to the report of the Provincial New Rural Area Coordination Office, in 2018, the whole province built and upgraded 751 km of rural roads of all kinds with a total cost of 550 billion VND. Since the program was implemented, the whole province has built and upgraded 9,974 km of rural roads of all kinds with a total cost of 9,636.4 billion VND.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee highly appreciated the results of new rural construction of Nghe An in 2018. Photo: Quang An

Also in 2018, Nghe An built 85 more schools of all levels meeting national standards with a budget of 894.3 billion VND. Since the program was implemented, 1,043/1,519 schools of all levels have been built to meet national standards.

Up to now, 324/431 communes have met criterion No. 10 on income, accounting for 75.2%; 372/431 communes have met criterion No. 12 (employed workers), accounting for 86.3%. The rate of people using clean water is 81%. Total capital mobilized since the beginning of the year is 3,069.8 billion VND.

It is expected that in 2018, there will be 30 more communes meeting new rural standards/plan 27 communes (reaching 111.1%), bringing the total number of communes meeting new rural standards by the end of 2018 to 211/431 communes, accounting for 48.96%. This is an outstanding result of Nghe An.

Son Society, Anh Son district successfully produces melons. Photo courtesy

Since the beginning of 2018, 4 more villages and hamlets have been recognized by the People's Committees of the districts as meeting the New Rural Standards according to the province's criteria and it is expected that from now until the end of 2018, about 36 more villages and hamlets will be recognized; bringing the total number of villages and hamlets meeting the New Rural Standards by the end of 2018 to 86 villages and hamlets.

In general, although 2018 was a year of many difficulties due to natural disasters, limited investment capital and mobilization, localities have strived to achieve and exceed the set plan (the whole province has 30/27 planned communes and 40/25 planned villages and hamlets meeting the standards). In particular, Yen Thanh is expected to achieve 9 communes/6 communes plan.

In 2019, Nghe An strives to have at least 27 more communes meeting new rural standards; bringing the total number of communes meeting standards by the end of 2019 to 238/431 communes (reaching a rate of 55.22%); have one more district-level unit meeting new rural standards (Yen Thanh district); have 25 more villages and hamlets in mountainous districts meeting new rural standards according to the province's criteria.

According to comrade Luong Thanh Hai - Head of the Provincial Ethnic Minorities Committee, it is necessary to continue to strengthen the new rural areas in mountainous, ethnic, remote and isolated areas, both building new rural areas and sustainably reducing poverty.

Comrade Dinh Viet Hong - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee also said: The issuance of a set of criteria and instructions for building new rural areas at the village and hamlet level is a breakthrough of Nghe An in directing the construction of new rural areas in difficult mountainous areas, which is highly appreciated by the Central Government.

Synthesize effective models, traditional products, and advantageous products of localities to support product promotion, introduction, and replication in localities, contributing to the successful implementation of the One Commune One Product (OCOP) project as approved by the Prime Minister in the province, contributing to increasing income for people in rural areas.

More attention will be paid to 27 particularly disadvantaged communes.

Comrade Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee praised the great results that the whole province has achieved. In addition to infrastructure construction, Nghe An's new rural areas now have new marks such as electricity at night; clean and peaceful villages; well-functioning village self-management groups; and a complete and sustainable grassroots political system. The rate of communes achieving new rural areas compared to the whole province is high, higher than the national average, the rate of villages achieving new rural areas is high. Some mountainous districts have made efforts in building new rural areas such as Tuong Duong.

According to comrade Thai Thanh Quy, the movement to build new rural areas to create jobs and increase income for people is extremely important. In the coming time, the province will pay more attention to 27 particularly difficult communes, build new rural areas in mountainous areas, encourage businesses to invest in agriculture and rural areas, increase people's income, create conditions for businesses to accumulate land and produce effectively. Focus on completing documents and appraising communes that have met new rural standards accurately and convincingly.

Summer-autumn rice production is a bumper crop in Xiangyang. Photo courtesy

The Provincial People's Committee also agreed to propose to the Central Government a number of contents such as: Increasing the level of support for direct capital sources in the New Rural Construction Program for provinces that have not balanced their budgets such as Nghe An; allowing Nghe An to advance 10% of the reserve fund for the New Rural Program for the period 2016 - 2020 of the province to implement the contents of new rural construction, especially implementing 2 projects approved by the Central Government, including: Project "Building new rural areas in 27 communes in the border area of ​​Nghe An province to develop the economy - society, ensure national defense - security for the period 2017 - 2020" and Project to build Nam Dan district into a model new rural district.

Overview of the meeting. Photo: Quang An

Also this morning, the Provincial People's Committee approved the draft to approve the State budget revenue settlement; Local budget expenditure settlement in 2017; Results of practicing thrift and combating waste in 2018; Draft Resolution amending and supplementing a number of articles of the Regulation on decentralization of revenue sources, expenditure tasks and percentage of revenue division among provincial budget levels.