Con Cuong: There are 2 communes and 7 villages meeting new rural standards.

Specifically, the villages that met the NTM standards in 2018 include: Village 2/9, Bai Gao (Chau Khe); Tien Thanh village, Lien Dinh village (Chi Khe commune); Xieng village, Thai Son 1 (Mon Son commune). These 6 villages all met 15/15 criteria according to regulations.

Currently, Con Cuong has 360 hectares of oranges, of which 120 hectares are for harvest. Of which, Yen Khe is the locality with the largest orange area in the district with 257.96 hectares. Photo: Ba Hau

In particular, Bong Khe is a commune surrounding Con Cuong town, with an average income per capita of more than 30 million VND/person/year, a convenient transportation system, 100% of roads are asphalted and hardened, ensuring car traffic, beautiful environmental landscape with more than 130 households specializing in growing flowers to beautify home gardens and commercial flowers.

Currently, the District People's Committee is completing procedures to submit to the Provincial People's Committee for appraisal that Bong Khe commune meets the 2018 New Rural Standards according to regulations.

Planting flowers to beautify the environment in Bong Khe commune. Photo: Minh Hanh

Previously, as a mountainous district, Con Cuong had a low starting point compared to the newly prescribed criteria for building new rural areas.

By the end of 2017, at the commune level, 1/12 communes were recognized by the province as meeting the NTM standards (Yen Khe commune). Regarding villages, 1/127 villages (Quyet Tien village) were recognized by the district People's Committee as meeting the NTM standards.

Growing clean vegetables for sale in Quyet Tien village - Chi Khe commune. Photo: Ba Hau