Bright spot in building advanced new rural areas in Hung Son commune (Anh Son)

Thanh Tien village is a typical residential area in mobilizing Catholics and non-Catholics to buildadvanced new rural. Visiting the family of Mr. Nguyen Viet Hai, one of the pioneers in implementing movements in the village, when he and the villagers were taking care of the flower road.

Mr. Hai shared: During the process of building a new rural commune and then an advanced new rural commune, we, the people, understand that by joining hands, we, the people, will benefit. Therefore, my family and I have actively participated in movements launched by the locality. Recently, when the village launched the construction of 2 volleyball courts, my family was also one of the first households to donate 1 million VND. In addition, when the commune launched the movement to build a model flower road, my family also set an example by planting flowers in front of our house first. Then every day, when we see flowers blooming to beautify the village road, the movement is spread throughout the village, everyone is happy, the village and neighborhood love is strengthened.

Mr. Nguyen Phi Truong - Head of Thanh Tien village, Hung Son commune said: The village currently has 146 households, 565 people, of which more than 23% are Catholics. With the motto "Living the gospel in the heart of the nation", Catholics and non-Catholics in Thanh Tien village always actively participate in patriotic emulation movements,live a good life, good religion, associated with the movement to build advanced rural areas.

The village has mobilized people and benefactors to build charity houses, support families in difficult circumstances in the village with nearly 130 million VND; people have contributed 900 million VND to build cultural houses and roads, currently the stadium, cultural house and sports facilities of the village are the most spacious in the commune. The appearance of the countryside is increasingly improving, the average income per capita of the village is 42 million VND/person/year, the poverty rate is 1.4%, the rate of cultural families in the village is 95%.

Mr. Nguyen Phi Truong - Head of Thanh Tien village, Hung Son commune (Anh Son)

Hung Son - Anh Son tea hills. Photo: Thai Hien

According to Mr. Truong, in order to gain solidarity and consensus among Catholics and non-Catholics in the movement to build advanced new rural areas, the Party Committee, the government, and the village leadership must develop a specific and detailed plan for each specific content that needs to be done, and estimate the amount of money that needs to be paid, then bring it to the people for discussion, understanding, and then implementation. To ensure transparency in construction, the village will widely announce on the mass media and through meetings the names, addresses, and amounts of money donated by individuals and households as well as the costs so that people know. In addition, it is not easy for people to understand and support, so Party members in the Party cell must take the lead in implementing it, going to each house to share the Party's policies so that people understand.

In Quang Tien village, Hung Son commune, every Sunday morning, on all the roads in the village, people enthusiastically participate in cleaning the village roads, alleys, and taking care of the flower roads.

Taking us for a walk on the roads full of purple afternoon flowers, Ms. Dau Thi Huong - Secretary of the village Party cell said: Quang Tien village is the central village of Hung Son commune, merged on the basis of 3 old villages (village 3, village 4, village 5), the village currently has 279 households, 1,083 people, of which 5 households, 23 people are Catholics. Villagers and their children working far away have supported nearly 500 million VND to build cultural and sports facilities, soccer and volleyball fields, and the village cultural house campus. Currently, in Quang Tien village, there are 2 spacious soccer fields; 5 standard volleyball courts; 3 cultural activity spots at the village level that meet advanced new rural standards.

Hung Son commune has promoted the spirit of solidarity, unleashing the combined strength of all classes of people, both religious and non-religious, to build an advanced new-style rural commune. Photo: Thai Hien

Coming to Hung Son commune today, it is easy to see the comprehensive change, the clean, beautiful concrete roads are planted with colorful flowers; many economic development models followproduction value chainLinks have been formed, expanded and brought about high efficiency; high-rise buildings have sprung up close together; cultural institutions are spacious and modern; many trees and electric poles are lit along both sides of the road... All of these have affirmed the determination and efforts of the locality in the process of building an advanced new rural commune.

People and children living far from home contributed to building a martyrs' temple in the commune. Photo: Thai Hien

Mr. Tran Minh Hoan - Chairman of the People's Committee of Hung Son Commune (Anh Son) said: The way to do things in Hung Son Commune is to mobilize the entire political system to join in, to implement persistently, resolutely, to do things firmly, and not to be subjective. During the implementation process, the Party Committee and the government always closely follow the work, discuss together, work together, and share to solve difficulties and obstacles with the people...

Thanks to the efforts and many creative ways in building advanced new rural areas, the rural appearance of Hung Son commune is improving day by day, the average income per capita of the commune reaches 50.15 million/person/year, the poverty rate has decreased to 1.7%. In the past 5 years, the commune has attracted 9.6 billion VND from state capital sources to invest in developing socio-economic infrastructure. In particular, the commune has mobilized contributions from people to build 7 village stadiums with full soccer, volleyball, badminton fields designed to synchronous standards; build a temple to worship the martyrs of the commune on a campus of 1,500 m2.², with a total project cost of over 5 billion VND.

Currently, the traffic system of villages and hamlets in the commune has been concreted to 100%. The lighting system on the traffic routes passing through residential areas has been installed on 97/107 routes. The commune is striving to achieve the status of an advanced NTM commune by 2022.