Taking us on a tour around the wide concrete roads with load-limit signs, covered drainage ditches, and automatic public lighting systems to ensure safety and beauty, Party Cell Secretary and Hamlet Chief 1 (Nam Giang) Tran Huu Hung shared: "That is thanks to the consensus of "Party's will - people's heart" in the determination to build a "bright - green - clean - beautiful" countryside, journalist."
This was confirmed when we had short conversations with the people in the village. Mr. Nguyen Ngoc Hue, 75 years old, said: Responding to the movement to build a "bright - green - clean - beautiful" village, group 7, consisting of 17 households, has mobilized people from old to young to join in, not only keeping their own area clean but also the common road of the group and the village. In front of each house, each house must sweep clean, plant ornamental trees and flowers to beautify the landscape. The village also invested in vivid murals on the fences, which are both beautiful and promote the movement to build new rural areas. "I have lived to this age, and I have never seen a village and a village as beautiful as this. On holidays and Tet, flags and flowers flutter, and at night, electric lights are brightly lit, very exciting. Therefore, I often remind my children and grandchildren in the family and the surrounding houses to keep the common environment clean," Mr. Hue shared.
Leaving Hue's house, we met Mrs. Thai Thi Bay in group 8 who was busy sweeping the street. When we asked her, she happily replied: The wind blew hard, many leaves fell, the neighbors were not home so I swept them clean. Here, we are very self-conscious, everyone keeps the street in front of their house clean. Any house with trash is reminded by the village cadres who pass by. Daily household trash is collected and classified by each family, some is sold as scrap, some is self-destructed in the garbage pit at home, the rest is collected on designated days of the month and brought to the front door for the commune's garbage collection department to pick up. So even though it is in the countryside, there is no littering, no buffaloes or cows defecating on the street.
Not only keeping the environment inside the house, outside the alley clean, the hamlet also assigned the branches of the mass organizations to propagate to their members, build garbage collection points in the fields, do not throw pesticide packaging into the fields affecting the environment. 3 times a month, the hamlet calls on the loudspeaker to simultaneously launch a general environmental cleaning campaign on the village roads, alleys, weeding, taking care of flower beds, ornamental plants, and renovating gardens. Up to now, the crossroads and alleys in hamlet 1 are all beautiful, clean, spacious, many flower roads compete to show their colors, at night the electric lights are bright, ensuring security and order, beautifying the hamlet and village. People also voluntarily remind each other not to let raw materials encroach on the roadway, sidewalk, affecting the traffic and the general landscape.
Talking about the reason for choosing Hamlet 1 as the first unit among 6 hamlets in the area to build the "bright - green - clean - beautiful" hamlet model, Mr. Nguyen Trong Phu - Vice Chairman of Nam Giang Commune People's Committee said: Hamlet 1 has 264 households, 1,257 people, the Party cell has 34 party members; although it is a purely agricultural hamlet, the cadres and people have high solidarity and consensus.
Therefore, according to Secretary and Hamlet Chief Tran Huu Hung, when there was a policy of the commune, the Party cell reviewed each criterion to issue a resolution on building a "bright - green - clean - beautiful" hamlet, directed the hamlet command to hold a meeting with the people, collect people's opinions on implementing each criterion, and invited the Vice Chairman of the Commune People's Committee in charge of the hamlet to attend. Combine propaganda work with mass mobilization skillfully so that people understand the policy and voluntarily participate. First is to upgrade the traffic routes, assigning 8 self-management groups to proactively implement them on the basis of hamlet supervision.
Initially, they chose a difficult point, a road about 124m long with 2 poor households to do first, mobilizing households in the hamlet to support the cost for these two households and at the same time proposing to the commune to support cement for households to build fences after straightening the road, building covered ditches. After the road was completed, the hamlet consulted with the self-management team to invite representatives of other routes to visit and share experiences. They competed to replicate it throughout the hamlet, completing the upgrade of a model road nearly 800m long and many branches and alleys. Many people proactively donated land and moved the fence to make the road wider and straighter. A typical example is Mrs. Vo Thi Luu's family who donated nearly 30m2 and moved the fence to widen the road.
Talking to us, Mrs. Luu shared: "When the neighborhood mobilized families to donate land to widen and straighten the traffic roads, my son discussed with his mother about knocking down the fence to donate land, I completely agreed because if the village is beautiful, then our house will also be beautiful." Not only donating land, Mrs. Luu's family also invested tens of millions of dong to build a road that was a dead-end road running in front of the house, creating an open landscape.
In the process of building a "bright - green - clean - beautiful" hamlet, Hamlet 1 Party Cell assigned tasks to each party member in charge of each road and each self-management group. First of all, party members, heads and deputy heads of mass organizations and families must be exemplary in compliance before they can propagate and mobilize the people. A typical example is the family of Ms. Pham Thi Mui - Head of the Women's Union, who is at the forefront of the movement to build a model garden to grow vegetables, flowers and ornamental plants. Ms. Mui said that the model has been implemented for 3 years, not only creating a landscape but also increasing the family's income. Whoever buys it, sells it, on average each year her family earns more than 100 million VND from flowers and ornamental plants.
Or the family of party member Tran Van Tu, 84 years old, despite his old age and poor health, responded to the movement to build "green - clean - beautiful neighborhoods". Mr. Tu and his wife, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Minh, have been exemplary in maintaining environmental hygiene in the house and outside the alley, improving the landscape, making model gardens to grow vegetables, fruit trees, flowers, and ornamental plants that are green all year round. Some main roads in the neighborhood assigned to the branches of mass organizations for care and management have signs attached to attach responsibility and create a competitive atmosphere.
Thanks to promoting democracy "people know, people discuss, people do, people benefit", attaching importance to "setting an example", from the previous situation, the environmental landscape in hamlet 1 was not clean, people's awareness in environmental protection work was still limited, only a short time after launching, the model has attracted the participation of a large number of people. People have proactively contributed an average of 300 thousand VND per household (households on main roads contributed more) to install lighting systems, hang dozens of propaganda billboards, place dozens of flower pots, ornamental plants along rural traffic routes, and plant flowers on both sides of village roads. In 2022, hamlet 1 received a Certificate of Merit and a bonus of 15 million VND for the second prize in the district in the clip contest on the movement to build "bright - green - clean - beautiful" hamlets.
Having worked as a village and hamlet cadre for decades, Mr. Tran Huu Hung said that he, as well as the Party cell and hamlet command committee, always kept in mind that "whatever is beneficial to the people must be done". During his lifetime, President Ho Chi Minh paid great attention to raising environmental awareness among the people. He advised, "We must propagate practically and widely among the people... to make people understand clearly: We must maintain hygiene, eat clean food, drink clean water, wear clean clothes, and live cleanly to be healthy; the healthier we are, the faster our labor and production will be". The movement to build a "bright - green - clean - beautiful" hamlet is not only beneficial to the people but also contributes to bringing Nam Giang commune to the finish line in building a model New Rural Area. Therefore, the determination of cadres, party members and people in the hamlet to build a "bright - green - clean - beautiful" hamlet is also the most practical way to learn and follow Uncle Ho.
In addition to the efforts of the hamlet, there is the support of the Party Committee and the commune government. Not only supporting cement, Nam Giang commune also supports hamlet 1 to build a cultural house and a spacious and airy campus with a total investment of 3.5 billion VND. Every day, at 5:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., people invite each other to the cultural house to play sports and exercise. In the evening, women participate in folk dancing, creating a united and joyful atmosphere.
Coming to Hamlet 1, Nam Giang Commune today, we can feel the fresh, prosperous and peaceful rural picture. Officials, party members and people in this livable countryside share what they wish and are determined to do, which is to make the movement of preserving the landscape "bright - green - clean - beautiful" a daily routine in the thinking and working habits of the entire residential area.
