Hung Thong land was formed quite a long time ago and has gone through many divisions and changes in administrative boundaries and names. At the beginning of the 20th century, today's Hung Thong commune belonged to two villages, Lang Thon and Dong Thon, of Thong Lang commune, Hung Nguyen district, Nghe An province.
In 1945, after seizing power, two villages Lang Thon and Dong Thon (Thong Lang commune) and Yen Nau village (formerly Do Le commune, now Hung Dao commune) were merged into Thong Yen commune. In 1947, Thong Yen commune continued to be merged with Trung Muu and Minh Tan communes to form Hung Thong commune. On December 18, 1953, Hung Thong commune was divided into four communes: Hung Thong, Hung Thang, Hung Tien, and Hung Tan.
The ancient land of Hung Thong had a tradition of studiousness and revolution. Before the August Revolution of 1945, the commune had people who passed the Bachelor's and Bachelor's degrees, and worked as teachers of Chinese and Vietnamese characters. Here, people also soon became aware of the revolution; some houses and family temples became meeting places for revolutionary bases, places to print and copy documents and leaflets; many people directly participated in the historic demonstration on September 12, 1930 in Hung Nguyen.
During the Nghe-Tinh Soviet movement, many Hung Thong children were enlightened, participated in revolutionary activities, became party members, revolutionary cadres, a typical example was General Secretary Le Hong Phong. The Party cell was also established early, from a combined cell, by the end of 1930, Thong Lang cell was established and led the local revolutionary movement to develop strongly.
After more than 70 years of separation, Hung Thong commune has had stability in its administrative boundaries. The Party Committee and people in the homeland of the late General Secretary Le Hong Phong have always promoted the tradition of revolution and studiousness, solidarity, attachment, diligence, and creativity in labor; and have been steadfast and brave in the struggle against colonialism, feudalism, and imperialism, to protect the homeland and the country.
During the two long resistance wars of the nation, Hung Thong was an important rear base of many agencies of Inter-Zone IV, the Provincial Party Committee, agencies, enterprises of the district and army units marching through the homeland; it was a solid base for the important strategy of the resistance war against the US of the district and province. Hung Thong's hometown also contributed a lot of human and material resources to support the Southern battlefield in the resistance war against the US to save the country with 530 young people joining the army; 150 young volunteers; 100 young people joining the armed police... The whole commune has 144 martyrs; 300 wounded and sick soldiers; 12 mothers were awarded the title of Vietnamese Heroic Mothers.
During the development process, the Party Committee and the People of Hung Thong have had many appropriate solutions, gradually overcoming the consequences of war and implementing the renovation process with many positive results. The mark of building new rural areas and now advanced new rural areas has affirmed the strength, the spirit of overcoming difficulties, solidarity and unanimity of the Party Committee, Government and People of Hung Thong.
From monoculture rice production completely dependent on nature, up to now, Hung Thong commune has a fairly synchronous irrigation system, ensuring proactive irrigation in production; combining the transformation of crop, livestock, aquaculture structure and application of science and technology, increasing production value to diversify products, increasing the value of agricultural production.
In particular, with the advantage of the transportation system, such as roads 542C and 539C running through the area, the tourist road connecting Kim Lien Relic Site (Nam Dan) with the Memorial Site of General Secretary Le Hong Phong, Le Xuan Dao Street, and inter-commune connecting roads; Hung Thong promotes development and increases the proportion of trade, services, and industries in the local economic structure.
The whole commune has a total of 150 service and commercial establishments; including a number of large grocery stores, bicycle and electric bicycle stores, 5 construction material stores, 7 businesses, 2 industrial sewing establishments... Many professional groups have also been formed in the area, such as: masonry, carpentry, painting, iron, cooking services..., creating jobs and income for hundreds of workers. In Hung Thong commune, a large labor force participates in businesses and labor export with more than 700 people working in European countries, Japan, Korea..., sending tens of billions of dong back to the locality each year.
Comrade Nguyen Huu Phuc - Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Hung Thong commune said: In the process of building new rural areas and advanced new rural areas, the Party Committee and the people have always paid attention to economic development and increasing people's income. Up to now, the average income has reached nearly 52 million VND/person/year; the poverty rate has decreased to 1.08%. The Party Committee, government, Fatherland Front and mass organizations in Hung Thong commune have focused on attracting external resources, combining democracy promotion, mobilizing internal strength of the people to build infrastructure and works serving people's lives. Currently, all 3 kindergartens, primary schools and secondary schools have met national standards, of which 2 schools have met level 2 standards; the commune health station has met national standards on level 2 health.
In particular, in the 4 years of building advanced new rural areas (2020 - 2023), the locality has mobilized nearly 260 billion VND; of which, more than 220 billion VND is from people and socialized sources to upgrade and renovate residential houses, roads associated with renovating the rural landscape "Bright, green, clean, beautiful", building cultural houses, cultural - sports and entertainment areas in hamlets...
Coming to Hung Thong commune today, we travel on expanded asphalt and concrete roads, synchronous investment in lighting systems, flag roads, flower beds, and ornamental plants, creating a more beautiful, civilized, and modern rural appearance. Mr. Le Sy Nam, in Hong Thai hamlet, who has been a local official for 26 years, said: The current team of officials and civil servants are capable, dedicated, and responsible to the locality and the people.
In the construction of advanced new rural areas, the heads of Party committees, authorities, cadres, civil servants of sectors and commune organizations personally go to the hamlets to propagate, mobilize and work with the people. In particular, they go to each household that has not yet fully understood the policy to explain and persuade them to agree to contribute their efforts and money to open roads, make concrete, flag roads, drainage ditches, plant flowers and expand and upgrade hamlet cultural houses in conjunction with synchronous investment in cultural and sports facilities. In Hung Thong commune today, the movement of arts, physical education and sports takes place very enthusiastically in residential areas, becoming a useful daily activity of the people.
During the historical May days, sharing the joy of the entire nation celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu Victory "famous in five continents, shaking the earth", the 134th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh's birthday; each cadre, party member and resident of Hung Thong commune was more joyful and excited to organize many activities to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the commune's founding and receive the decision to recognize the commune as meeting advanced new rural standards.
Looking back at the past and present to feel more proud, creating motivation to move forward on the way forward, as shared by comrade Nguyen Huu Trang - Party Secretary of Hung Thong commune: "The locality continues to set the determination to build the hometown of General Secretary Le Hong Phong into a model commune".
To realize this goal, comrade Nguyen Huu Trang - Secretary of the Party Committee of Hung Thong commune said: "The Party Committee, the government and the entire political system continue to build a high level of solidarity and unity within the Party and among the masses. Promote the people's mastery "people know, people discuss, people do, people inspect" in all fields. In the process of leading and directing the implementation of movements and tasks, promote the exemplary leading role, "words go hand in hand with actions" of the cadres and party members, creating a spread among the people".
The Party Secretary of Hung Thong commune also shared his determination to continue training and fostering professional expertise and working skills for cadres, civil servants and workers, in order to improve the Party's leadership capacity, government management and administration, and the active and practical participation of the Fatherland Front and mass organizations; creating a resonance of intellectual strength, further developing the homeland.
