Hung Tan is the first commune in Hung Nguyen district to be recognized by the Provincial People's Committee as meeting the model new rural standards at the end of December 2023. The commune currently has 150 farms and livestock farms; the area for commercial rice production accounts for over 50%; a model of high-tech garlic cultivation, untended cucumber cultivation on 2-rice land, building 3-star OCOP products, the brand "Hung Tan Countryside Cake" with 1/5 of households in the commune participating; labor export brings more than 20 billion VND to the locality each year.
Party Secretary of Hung Tan Commune Nguyen Trong Hoang added: The locality is continuing to build Hung Tan Commune into a community tourism and sightseeing destination, in which the direction of "promoting traditional values, building dynamic, affectionate and hospitable Hung Tan people" is determined.
In Hung Thong commune, through the construction of new rural areas and advanced new rural areas, cadres, party members and people have the same will, determination and consensus to contribute human and material resources to build a prosperous homeland in terms of rural appearance, richer in economy and stronger in cultural and spiritual life.
Comrade Nguyen Huu Trang - Secretary of the Party Committee of Hung Thong commune, said: Average income per capita increased to more than 51 million VND/year; people's economic thinking gradually changed, focusing on converting crop structure towards commodity production, focusing on building production models applying high-tech agriculture; diversifying industries and services, increasing labor export. This is an important basis to continue to increase people's income, improve living conditions, and move towards building a model new rural area, smart new rural area...
Implementing the National Target Program on New Rural Construction, with the efforts of the entire political system from the district to the grassroots level, social forces and the response and joint efforts of the people, Hung Nguyen district has created comprehensive development in all fields and evenly between regions and localities. Up to now, the whole district has had 17/17 communes meeting the new rural standards and Hung Nguyen town has completed 9 civilized urban criteria. Of the 17 communes meeting the new rural standards, 4 communes have been recognized as meeting the advanced new rural standards and 1 model new rural commune.
As for the 9 criteria for the district to meet the new rural standards, by the end of 2023, 5/9 criteria had been completed; including planning criteria; transportation; irrigation, natural disaster prevention; electricity and economy. Of the remaining 4 criteria with 24 criteria, only 11 criteria have not been completed, such as cultural facilities, town environmental landscape; works belonging to the District Cultural Center; centralized clean water supply infrastructure; contents of environmental criteria, living environment. These criteria are being focused on by Hung Nguyen district to drastically direct, speed up the implementation progress, and strive to submit them to the province and the Central Government for appraisal in the second quarter of 2024.
The development in Hung Nguyen district, according to comrade Le Pham Hung - Deputy Secretary of the District Party Committee, Chairman of the District People's Committee, has clearly defined the direction of safe, high-quality and high-economic value agricultural economy. Specifically, in the total 5,100 hectares of rice area, the locality has structured high-quality rice varieties to cover more than 60% of the area, associated with building the Hung Nguyen rice brand.
The area of hilly land, copper-colored land, and alluvial land focuses on developing advantageous crops such as lemons and ornamental peaches with hundreds of hectares in 2 communes of Hung Yen Nam and Hung Yen Bac; developing Xa Doai orange trees in Hung Trung commune with more than 20 hectares; building many high-tech agricultural models, such as growing peony grapes and melons in Hung Thanh commune; growing medicinal plants such as burdock ginseng in Long Xa commune; growing hydroponic and organic vegetables in Hung Linh commune; a model of raising and semi-free-range hill chickens with thousands of chickens/batch in Hung Yen Nam commune... In the district, there are currently 8 products recognized as meeting OCOP standards, such as banh ca, candy cu do, shrimp paste, cha ruoi, turmeric starch...
Along with agriculture, Hung Nguyen district promotes the development of industry, handicrafts, trades and services. The whole district currently has more than 300 enterprises with many business lines; especially VSIP Industrial, Service and Urban Area invested with a total area of nearly 750 hectares, of which 43 projects have been invested and of which 27 projects have come into operation, creating jobs for more than 16,000 workers. This result demonstrates the dynamic development, promoting the local economic growth in 2022 and 2023, the locality achieved a growth rate of 15.7 - 16.5%.
The rural appearance of Hung Nguyen district is developing towards modernity, the economic and social infrastructure is invested synchronously. Currently, there are more than 83km of national highways, provincial roads and more than 130km of district roads all paved with asphalt and concrete. The system of communal roads, urban roads and main roads of blocks and hamlets with thousands of kilometers are basically concreted.
Some new routes are being implemented (such as the route connecting National Highway 46 with Provincial Road 542C through Hung Dao Commune; the route connecting National Highway 46 with Provincial Road 542B in Hung Thinh Commune and Le Xuan Dao Road in Hung Thong Commune...) and the system of river dykes, canals, and lakes are being renovated and upgraded; contributing to expanding rural space and promoting development.
In particular, the district resolutely directed the completion of a number of items, such as gardens, monuments, reliefs, and roads at the Nghe Tinh Soviet Square; completed and put into use the Youth Park and the 12/9 Relic Site; contributing to creating a new highlight for the more spacious and modern appearance of Hung Nguyen countryside.
