Join hands to build new countryside

(Baonghean) - In recent times, the new rural construction movement has been widely deployed by the Fatherland Front of Yen Thanh district and received enthusiastic response from the people. The movement has contributed to building cultural life, developing the economy associated with building an increasingly strong and stable political system.

Coming to Hau Thanh commune (Yen Thanh) in the last days of May, when people were urgently completing the 2014 spring rice harvest. Visiting the family of Mr. Nguyen Khac Trinh - Head of the Trung group, Dong Phu hamlet, just when he and his wife were preparing the land for the new crop. Pouring a bowl of golden green tea for guests, Mr. Trinh could not hide his joy: "This year has a good harvest. My family has a total of 5 sao but harvested 1.5 tons of rice. Thanks to the commune's policy of land consolidation and plot exchange according to the new rural criteria, bringing full mechanization to the fields, it only took 30 minutes using a combined threshing machine to finish 5 sao of rice. Also thanks to the mobilization of people's strength and the State's support of cement, the rural roads of Dong Phu hamlet were concreted according to new rural standards. Responding to the campaign of the Front and the commune, my family supported an additional 1 million VND to build concrete roads in addition to the 1 million VND contribution according to the hamlet's regulations".

Officials of the Yen Thanh District Front and Hau Thanh Commune discussed work with the Dong Phu hamlet inter-family group about the new rural construction situation.

Talking about mobilizing people to build village roads and alleys according to the new rural criteria, Mr. Nguyen Viet Phuong - Secretary and Head of the Front's Working Committee excitedly said: Previously, the village roads and alleys of Dong Phu were very muddy, especially during the harvest season, which greatly affected the progress of work, not to mention the hardships of people's travel and daily activities. When there was no policy of the Party and State on building new rural areas, Dong Phu people also responded to the movement to build rural traffic, determined to contribute labor and money to build concrete roads to the hamlets and households. In particular, after the policy of building new rural areas was issued, the hamlet organized many meetings, taking the role of the Front as the core, openly discussing democratically for people to discuss, until there was a high consensus, everything was considered smooth. In just a short time, the hamlet mobilized 200 million VND (each household contributed 1 million VND) plus 35 million VND from voluntary donations (small households contributed 500 thousand VND, large households contributed 5 million VND, such as Mai Huy Hung and Le Dinh Lam's households...).

After more than 2 months of construction, the nearly 6 km road meeting new rural standards (3 m wide, 20 cm thick) of Dong Phu hamlet was completed in the excitement of the people. This is the first hamlet of Hau Thanh commune to complete the rural traffic criteria according to new rural standards.

Talking with Ms. Nguyen Thi Hai - Chairman of the Fatherland Front of Hau Thanh commune, it is known that: As a purely agricultural commune, the construction of roads, consolidation of fields, plot exchange, and mechanization of fields are identified by Hau Thanh as the top goals in implementing the criteria for new rural construction. However, to successfully implement the set goals and tasks, together with the Party Committee, the commune government, the Fatherland Front and member organizations have determined that promoting internal resources and building a great national unity bloc plays an extremely important role. If promoted well, it will create a great driving force in both material and spiritual terms, bringing the program to the finish line on time. From the above policy, the Fatherland Front of the commune coordinates with the government, departments, branches and organizations in the commune to promote mobilization and propaganda to all classes of people with many rich and flexible forms such as organizing conferences and propaganda on the loudspeaker system; Integrate the content of new rural construction into festival, cultural, artistic, physical education and sports activities, activities of member organizations, as well as through the "National Great Unity Day in residential areas".

This approach has helped people of all walks of life better understand the policies, viewpoints, purposes, meanings and importance of the emulation movement to join hands in building the new rural areas. Through propaganda, mobilization and specific actions of the Fatherland Front, including the exemplary and pioneering role of cadres, party members, union members and association members, there has been a change in the awareness and actions of each family and each person. The movement to expand inter-village, inter-hamlet and branch roads into residential areas has been actively supported by the people. Up to now, the rural traffic system in the commune has been basically expanded and upgraded. Most of the intra-commune and intra-field traffic routes have been hardened, increasingly meeting the needs of production, people's livelihood, trade and travel of the people and the socio-economic development goals of the locality.

Mr. Tran Van Hung - Standing Vice Chairman of the District Fatherland Front Committee affirmed: The Fatherland Front at all levels has focused on propagating the purpose and significance of the new rural construction movement, in which 13/19 criteria were selected for the Front to directly participate, coordinate propaganda, and mobilize thousands of households to voluntarily donate over 33,000 m2 of land for rural roads. By the end of 2013, 32 communes had met 13 criteria or more, with 1 commune (Son Thanh) leading the province in new rural construction. Electricity, road, school, and station infrastructure continued to be upgraded and expanded, the rural appearance was increasingly prosperous, and people's lives were gradually improved. Many welfare works were invested in and built more solidly and spaciously. Up to now, 1,033 projects have been started with a total investment capital of 4,225 billion VND, of which the people contributed 12.7%, typically in the communes of Son Thanh, Dong Thanh, Phuc Thanh, Hop Thanh, Long Thanh, Do Thanh...

With specific and practical action programs, the Fatherland Front at all levels in the district has played, is playing and will continue to play an important role in mobilizing people to "Join hands to build new rural areas", contributing to comprehensive and sustainable socio-economic development.

Thanh Thuy