Highlights of model new rural communes in Nghe An

Green garden, beautiful road

After more than 13 years of implementationNational Target Program on New Rural Construction, Nghe An has achieved many encouraging results, with 313 communes reaching the new rural finish line, of which the highlight is 10 communes reaching the model new rural finish line. Coming to the model new rural communes, according to the general feeling of many people, these are all livable countrysides.

Nam Dan district is a locality with many standard communes.new rural modelin the province, including 5 communes: Kim Lien, Nam Giang, Nam Cat, Nam Anh and Nam Nghia. Kim Lien is one of the localities recognized as the earliest model new rural commune in the province.Nghe An(2021).

The highlight when coming to this countryside is the clean and beautiful roads, including the Xo Viet road leading to the Kim Lien National Special Relic Site with blooming Ban flowers, creating an impression on visitors from all over the world when visiting Uncle Ho's hometown. Around Kim Lien commune, there are lotus ponds, which are not only a tourist highlight, but also create jobs for local people. Many OCOP products from lotus have been focused on building.

Nam Giang Commune, Nam Dan District is a locality recognized as a model new rural commune in 2022. People are also aware of preserving a green and clean environment. Visiting Ms. Pham Thi Mui's house in Hamlet 1, we were amazed by the vast flower garden and ornamental plants.

Ms. Mui shared: “My family and the people in the neighborhood have always liked to grow ornamental plants, the main purpose is not for business but to create a clean, beautiful, peaceful environment, protecting the health of family and relatives”. It is known that in Nam Giang commune, many new rural standard gardens have been built with a variety of plants, the gardens all invest in irrigation systems, helping plants grow well, increasing income for people.

Coming to Hung Tan commune (Hung Nguyen) in the first days of the new year, the joyful atmosphere, with flags and flowers appearing on the village roads and alleys, when this locality has just been recognized as a model new rural commune in 2023, the first commune in Hung Nguyen district to achieve this title.

This is the effort, endeavor, and solidarity of the Party Committee, the government, and the people in the area, in which the people's joint efforts and consensus play a key role. The proof is that the total result of mobilizing resources to build a model new rural area in the commune is over 272 billion VND, of which, people contributed and self-invested in building roads, renovating houses, developing production and business over 255 billion VND, accounting for 93.76%...

Not only is the landscape clean and beautiful, the lives of the people of Hung Tan commune have also been improved. Up to now, Hung Tan commune has more than 600 workers working and studying in countries such as the US, UK, Germany, Poland, Japan, Korea... and annually a large amount of remittances are sent back to build their homeland.

In the 4.0 era, Hung Tan commune has also built "smart villages", with fiber optic Internet infrastructure and 4G/5G mobile network covering every household; There are digital technology groups/teams interacting and supporting each other in the village; 100% of individual houses and households in the village are assigned address codes on a digital map platform. Over 70% of adults in the village use smartphones, are instructed, trained, and educated in the skills of installing and using software and digital platforms to support searching, looking up, exchanging information, and making online payments.

Hung Tan is honored to be the second locality in the province to reach the new rural area since 2014. However, the government and people do not "rest on their laurels" but always consider it a driving force to strive to overcome all difficulties, rise further, and improve the criteria. By 2021, the commune has reached the advanced new rural area and the more wonderful thing is that by the end of 2023, it will reach the model new rural area.

Mr. Nguyen Van Tam - Chairman of Hung Tan Commune People's Committee

Bringing "village to the city"

Tang Thanh Commune (Yen Thanh) has just been recognized by the Provincial People's Committee as a model new rural commune at the end of 2023. Welfare facilities have been newly built to be more spacious, and along the main roads, rows of newly planted rosewood trees are neatly arranged...

But according to Mr. Dao Van Khai - Chairman of the Commune People's Committee, the highlight of Tang Thanh in building a model new rural area is the synchronous investment in grassroots cultural and sports facilities.

Accordingly, the hamlets building cultural houses must meet 10 criteria: 180m wide hall²; has a soccer field; volleyball court; outdoor stage; flagpole; walking path; playground for the elderly and children; master plan for the cultural house and gate, surrounding wall and toilet. On average, each cultural house in the hamlet is invested over 2 billion VND, of which the commune budget supports nearly 50%, the rest is contributed by the people and socialized.

Another highlight is that from 2019 to present, the locality has preserved and developed intangible culture, with art forms such as cheo, tuong...

Coming to the Cultural House of Hamlet 5, Tang Thanh Commune, it is easy to see that the campus has been invested in building a spacious surrounding wall. Inside, there are 2 volleyball courts, 1 artificial turf football field for children, a playground for children, the elderly, an outdoor stage... The Cultural House is fully equipped: chairs, speakers... All football fields are equipped with lighting systems, enough light for practicing at night.

Mr. Phan Van Son - Hamlet Chief said that to achieve this, in addition to the commune budget support, it is mostly the consensus of the people and the socialized resources from children studying and working far from home. Since the cultural house has met the model new rural standards, from 5 pm to 10 pm, every day is bustling with children, young people, and the elderly coming to play, exercise, and play sports... the spirit of solidarity of the whole people is even stronger.

With the model new rural commune Son Thanh, the highlight is people's income and bringing "village to the city".

Mr. Nguyen Huu Sau - Chairman of Son Thanh Commune People's Committee said: The highlight of Son Thanh is that many of its children work abroad, with nearly 2,000 people, so the income of the people reaches nearly 84 million VND/year. People have economic conditions, investing in building high-rise houses is increasing, currently more than 50% of the houses have been built solidly, high-rise buildings, garden houses... with beautiful architecture. At the same time, welfare works are also invested in to become more and more modern.

Achievements in building new rural areas, advanced new rural areas, and model new rural areas not only create a new look and vitality in a civilized and modern direction for villages but also create a strong shift from awareness to action of the entire political system and each citizen.

This result is an important premise for localities to continue to strive and mobilize resources to successfully implement Resolution No. 18/2020/NQ-HDND dated December 13, 2020 of the Provincial People's Council.

By 2025, Nghe An aims to have 82% of communes meeting new rural standards (of which 20% of communes will meet advanced new rural standards, 5% of communes will meet model new rural standards) and 11 district-level units will be recognized for completing the task of building and meeting new rural standards (of which, 1 district will meet model new rural district).