Tens of thousands of Con Cuong residents participate in 'Saturday of joining hands to build new rural areas and clean up the environment'

People of Lang Khe commune participate in "Saturday to join hands in building new rural areas and environmental sanitation". Photo: XH

From July 2022,Con Cuong districtofficially launched the movement "Saturday to join hands in building new countryside and environmental sanitation".

Accordingly, every Saturday, all levels, sectors, agencies, units and organizations have organized working groups to go to localities and grassroots levels to grasp the thoughts and aspirations of the people; inspect, guide and discuss solutions to remove difficulties for localities; and specifically implement each content in the Resolution.National Criteria for New Rural Construction.

In addition to cleaning village roads, people also dredged water canals. Photo: XH

In particular, the movement "Saturday to join hands in building new rural areas and environmental sanitation" has become a widespread movement from district to village, for changing people's lives.

Mr. Lu Van Vy - a farmer in Ke Me village, Mau Duc commune said that every Saturday, if the husband is away, the wife stays home with the villagers to participate in cleaning the environment on the village roads, dredging ditches... Every Saturday, there is only one session, but everyone actively and voluntarily participates, so the environment is cleaner and the roads are more open.

Mr. Lo Van Ly - Head of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of Con Cuong district said: The content of the implementation of "Saturday to join hands to build new rural areas andenvironmental sanitation" is to carry out environmental sanitation work and build urban and rural landscapes; Repair and upgrade degraded roads, expand and renovate small, narrow roads that affect the transport of goods and people's travel.

Public areas are cleaned, creating an airy space to ensure the environment. Photo: XH

Dredging sewers, digging drainage ditches to prevent road erosion and flooding in low-lying areas. Restoring, maintaining and conserving national cultural values ​​(daily life; labor, production; cultural, artistic and sports activities; costumes; festivals, cuisine; behavioral culture; culture of great solidarity, helping each other in times of hardship, etc.).

Develop and replicate traditional cultural and artistic club models; exploit models of preservation, promotion and introduction of traditional cultural values ​​to serve local tourism development.

The main rural roads in Con Cuong district have become cleaner since the district launched the "Saturday to join hands in building new rural areas and environmental sanitation". Photo: XH

The results showed that 13/13 communes and towns implemented the project, attracting over 100,000 participants, clearing over 2 million square meters of traffic corridors.², thousands of meters²The canals were dredged… the estimated cost of implementation was over 7 billion VND.

Thanks to that, many rural roads in Con Cuong district have been repaired and cleaned, sewers and ditches have been cleared, and the environment has been increasingly improved./.