Solidarity and efforts to build a new homeland of Nghia Lam

Promoting 70 years of heroic tradition

Before 1930, Nghia Lam commune was in Lam La commune of 6 Nghia Dan district communes. In 1947, it was separated into Tan Lap commune. In 1953, according to the policy of the superiors, large communes were divided into small communes. Tan Lap commune at that time was divided into 5 communes (Nghia Thinh, Nghia Yen, Nghia Mai, Nghia Minh, Nghia Lam).

Also from here, the Party Committee and the government of Nghia Lam commune were born. The first Party Secretary and Chairman of the Administrative Committee was comrade Le Minh Chinh. At that time, Nghia Lam commune had 13 villages with 3 ethnic groups living together. In 1965, more households from communes of Do Luong, Quynh Luu, Dien Chau, Yen Thanh, Thanh Chuong, Nam Dan districts... joined the villages, and in 1967, they welcomed 50 households from Hung Chinh commune, Hung Nguyen district to reclaim the new economic zone according to the Party's policy and were named Nghia Chinh hamlet.

In 1995, implementing Decree No. 83/1995/ND-CP, Nghia Lam commune continued to receive 5 more production teams of Farm 19/5, merging into 4 hamlets. At that time, Nghia Lam commune had a total of 17 hamlets. Implementing the Resolution of the Provincial People's Council on merging communes and hamlets, by 2019, Nghia Lam commune had 7 villages: Trung Chinh, Nam Lam, Yen Lam, Yen Phu, Minh Lam, Nguyen Lam and Hop Thanh.

In the period of 1953 - 1955, with the participation of 33 party members, the Congress set out a specific task in this period, which was to concentrate human and material resources together with the army and people of the whole country to win the strategic counter-offensive of Winter - Spring 1953-1954.

In 1965, the US imperialists mobilized many groups of bombers to the Northern region, including Nghia Lam commune, a key location with National Highway 15A - a strategically important route to support the South, with Farm 19/5 and the C20 unit of the army stationed. During the two resistance wars against the French, the Americans and to protect the border, hundreds of Nghia Lam children participated in combat service, hundreds of people joined the militia; Nghia Lam commune had 44 children who heroically sacrificed to regain independence and freedom for the nation.

New look with proud achievements

Over the past years, under the leadership and direction of the District Party Committee, People's Council - People's Committee, the Party Committee and people of Nghia Lam commune have united, strived to rise up, creating a new look and new position for the locality.

From a purely agricultural commune, the people's lives mainly depended on agricultural production. Thanks to the people's acumen and daring spirit, the Party Committee and the commune government have led the people to be proactive and active in innovating economic production models. In particular, focusing on developing the economy of gardens, ponds, barns, and forests. Since then, specialized areas for fruit trees, raw materials, and farms and livestock farms have been formed, earning an income of 200 - 500 million VND/year.

At the same time, promoting the trading of goods, consuming agricultural products combined with developing commercial and mechanical services, creating jobs to increase income for rural workers, contributing to increasing the annual economic growth rate to 8-9%; the poverty rate reduced to 2.8%, in 2022 the average income of the commune reached more than 40 million VND/person/year. Achieving that achievement is partly due to the significant contribution of companies such as TH Dairy Food Joint Stock Company and companies and enterprises located in the area that have contributed to economic development, poverty reduction, and social security work.

The mark that created the success of the Party Committee and people of Nghia Lam commune over the past 70 years is the National Target Program on New Rural Construction (NTM). With a low starting point, in 2010 the commune achieved 3/19 NTM criteria, but thanks to the breakthrough, creativity, flexibility in leadership and direction, the joint efforts and consensus of the entire population, over the past 10 years, Nghia Lam commune has attracted nearly 278.5 billion VND in investment in building rural infrastructure.

Regarding Nghia Lam commune today, the clearest evidence for "the Party's will and the people's heart" is the investment in building modern and spacious rural infrastructure, people's lives are increasingly improved, people's knowledge and culture are developed, security and order are ensured, and the living environment is clean.

Economic development has created momentum for Nghia Lam commune to pay more attention to investing in the fields of culture, medical education, and health care for the people in the area. Social security issues have also been effectively implemented. The education and training career has been gradually and comprehensively innovated towards improving quality, meeting the educational requirements in the current period. Up to now, all 3 schools have maintained the title of National Standard Schools. The medical field has also well met the health care needs of the people.

The movement “All people unite to build a cultural life” has been promoted, 100% of villages have built cultural villages. The movement of culture, arts, physical education and sports has been widely developed, gradually going into depth.

Mr. Ho Ngoc Thanh - Yen Phu village, Nghia Lam commune happily said: "With the support of the State, people in our village donated land to build roads, contributed more to build infrastructure, people are very excited and have built many works to serve people's lives, develop the economy in the area. Our children today have a full education and many of them are excellent students, passing the entrance exams to universities and colleges".

Along with the achievements in the economic, cultural and social fields, national defense and security work has also achieved many results. As a locality with an important strategic position and is considered to have potential complexities in terms of security and order, in recent years, the Party Committee and the communal government have focused on leading and directing the tasks of local defense and military work, annually performing well the work of recruiting and assigning troops to achieve the plan; focusing on building a strong militia and self-defense force, reserve mobilization, ready for combat; proactively developing plans and solutions to fight and suppress crime, building a clean locality free of social evils.

Strongly develop emulation movements among the people, typically the movement of All people participating in protecting national security, movements of preventing and denouncing crimes... have been actively responded by the people. The police force and the Commune Military Command regularly coordinate closely with the armed forces and units stationed in the area to maintain patrol organization. Focus on building a solid defense area.

In the work of Party building, the Party Committee has regularly paid attention to building a strong Party organization in terms of politics, ideology and organization. Maintaining the study and following of Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style. Constantly improving the leadership capacity and fighting strength of the Party organization and Party members to meet the requirements of the tasks in the period of promoting industrialization and modernization of agriculture and rural areas and building new rural areas. Every year, the Party Committee and the communal government are recognized as "Clean and Strong". The Fatherland Front and organizations with good and excellent results are commended by the superior unions and associations, the Party Committee and the government.

After 70 years of construction and development, with many ups and downs and changes, today, Nghia Lam commune has taken on a new look with very proud achievements. The land and people here are confidently stepping on the path of integration and development every day.

Promoting tradition, the Party Committee and people of Nghia Lam commune vow to unite, promote the revolutionary tradition of their homeland, exploit all potentials and strengths, and strive to realize the aspiration to soon turn Nghia Lam into a rapidly developing commune, make breakthroughs and become an advanced new-style rural commune in the period 2025-2030./.