Consensus to innovate Quynh Giang hometown

(Baonghean) - Quynh Giang is a purely agricultural commune with a large land area, an administrative area of ​​659 hectares, residents living in 13 hamlets, with National Highway 1A passing through the commune, convenient for agricultural development, economic exchange and development of trade services. In particular, in recent years, the government and people have made many efforts, good practices, creating consensus from the Party Committee, the government to the people to join hands in new construction.

Coming to Hamlet 7, Quynh Giang Commune (Quynh Luu), the village roads, alleys, houses are now wide, beautiful and spacious. Receiving us in the newly built cultural house with capital contributed by the people, Ms. Nguyen Thi Bang - Head of Hamlet 7 shared: Implementing the new rural construction program, the hamlet decided to build a cultural house worth 300 million VND, held a hamlet meeting to donate land to open roads... To build the cultural house and build roads, each household contributed over 2 million VND, except for some lonely elderly households, all contributed together. People also voluntarily contributed working days, donated land, removed fences, and fruit trees to widen village roads and traffic routes, which has reached 99% at present.

Quynh Giang is a purely agricultural commune with a large land area, an administrative area of ​​659 hectares, residents living in 13 hamlets, with National Highway 1A running through the middle of the area. Photo: Thu Huong

Similarly, in Hamlet 6, according to Mrs. Nguyen Thi Tue - Hamlet Chief, when starting to build new rural areas, the hamlet held a meeting, established inter-family groups, each group had about ten people; the people were united and highly unanimous, so it was very favorable, it was one of the hamlets that built new cultural houses early, large and beautiful. Many families boldly invested in building production facilities, building spacious houses...

Mr. Nguyen Xuan Dinh - Secretary of the Quynh Giang Commune Party Committee said: Although the commune was not selected by the province to lead the pilot, but realizing the effectiveness and necessity of building new rural areas, from the government to the people unanimously participated. After building a thematic resolution, widely collecting opinions from the people, we proceeded to build a detailed plan and started implementing the criteria. In 2012, only 6/19 criteria were met, but by 2016, 16/19 criteria were met.

The locality is currently implementing the remaining 3 criteria including: traffic, cultural facilities and environment, striving to reach the finish line by the end of 2017. For criteria where the decision belongs to the people such as environment, the commune is interested in encouraging people to implement; up to now, the rate of people building garbage pits at home is very high, about 90%...

People invest in building houses and wide, beautiful, and spacious village roads. Photo: Thu Huong

In the process of organizing the construction of new rural areas, Quynh Giang commune has a good way of doing things, which is to thoroughly disseminate and propagate to cadres, party members and people about the purpose, meaning, content and importance of the National Target Program on New Rural Construction.

Establish new rural steering committees for communes, villages, and hamlets, committees to mobilize people's contributions, and committees to supervise the implementation of investment and construction projects... The commune takes care of the commune's construction projects; the villages and hamlets mobilize people's contributions to build the village's and hamlets' projects; households take care of renovating their ponds, gardens, yards, and alleys. The family is the nucleus, and the village and hamlet are the basic units to mobilize the construction of new rural areas.

In addition, the commune also launched a movement for the entire population to compete in building new rural areas; clearly defining the roadmap for building new rural areas each year, prioritizing important investment first, less important investment later, and prioritizing investment in production before moving on to other areas, implementing from the fields before returning to the village, from households to hamlets, from hamlets to communes...

Headquarters of the People's Committee of Quynh Giang Commune (Quynh Luu). Photo: Thu Huong

With efforts to mobilize all resources for the new rural construction program, over 5 years the commune has mobilized 386,853 billion VND, of which people contributed 325 billion VND (building roads, cultural houses, building houses, investing in production facilities...) accounting for 76%.

In addition, dozens of households voluntarily donated thousands of square meters of land, including residential garden land, and voluntarily dismantled the surrounding walls. From 2012 to now, inter-commune roads have been asphalted for 7.5 km, inter-village roads for nearly 7 km, and upgraded nearly 5 km, reaching nearly 77%; inner-village roads have been upgraded and newly built for 20.94 km, reaching nearly 74%. Irrigation canals of level 1+2 have been reinforced for 12.39 km, reaching 94%, irrigation canals in residential areas and level 3 irrigation canals have been reinforced for 14 km; new construction of the commune People's Committee headquarters, construction of the campus of the commune Cultural House, upgrading of the hamlet cultural houses; renovation, expansion of campuses and investment in many more facilities of schools.

The commune has over 400 households with newly built houses and upgraded houses to be more spacious and beautiful. The commune has mobilized resources to support people to borrow capital to develop production, support the construction of charity houses for policy beneficiaries, poor households, and houses for poor and near-poor households...

Technical advances and new crop varieties continue to be applied more than in previous years (the area of ​​hybrid rice and high-quality rice is 1,714 hectares, accounting for 90% - 95% of the 2-rice area/year, an increase of 15.5%). Mechanization in agricultural production and rural industries continues to be actively applied by the people. People invest in purchasing machinery to serve production according to the State's 15 - 20% support policy, such as multi-function plows; combine harvesters...

The whole commune currently has more than 60 tillage machines, harvesting by machine increased from 65% in 2010 to 95% in 2016; in 2011 the average income was 14.5 million VND/person/year, by 2016 the average income reached 26.4 million VND/person/year.

Clean house, green garden model. Photo: Thu Huong

The movement of the whole people uniting to build a cultural life, building cultural villages and cultural families has received positive responses from the people. The rate of cultural families reached 86.4%; 10/13 hamlets achieved the title of cultural hamlet. Medical work and primary health care for the people have been well implemented: 100% of households have sanitary facilities; national health programs are all implemented with quality. Security and order are maintained. The political system continues to be consolidated and strengthened... Schools are built spaciously and solidly, the campus is cleaned and beautified, children in the commune are excited to go to school... Thanks to that, the quality of education is increased every year; the mobilization rate of 5-year-old children is 100%.

Promoting the results achieved in Party building, the Quynh Giang commune government has continued to make efforts and join hands to complete the remaining 3 criteria, striving to reach the new rural destination by the end of 2017.

Thu Huong