Dien Chau district meets new rural standards in 2023: Solidarity and consensus create strength
The national target program on new rural construction has been directed, mobilized and implemented by Party committees, authorities and socio-political organizations in Dien Chau district; has been widely supported by the people and has achieved many outstanding results. To better understand the process of new rural construction in Dien Chau district, Nghe An newspaper had a conversation with comrade Ha Xuan Quang - Secretary of the District Party Committee, Chairman of the District People's Council.
The National Target Program on New Rural Construction has been directed, mobilized, and implemented by Party committees, authorities, and socio-political organizations at all levels in Dien Chau district; has received the support and response of many people from all walks of life and has achieved many outstanding results.
Thanh Thuy (Implementation) • August 16, 2024
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To better understand the process of building new rural areas in Dien Chau district, Nghe An Newspaper had a conversation with comrade Ha Xuan Quang - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Secretary of the District Party Committee, Chairman of the District People's Council.
PV:It is known that in 2010, the whole district started to build new rural areas. It can be said that this is a revolution that changes the face of new rural areas in the whole district. So, to implement this, how has the district given specific and drastic directions, sir?
Comrade Ha Xuan Quang:Identifying the construction of new rural areas as a key and continuous political task of the Party Committee and the People in the district, right from the beginning of implementation, the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee has issued and organized the dissemination of guidelines, policies, and Resolutions on the program at all levels to grassroots Party cells, Party members, and socio-political organizations; The District Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee, Fatherland Front Committee, and socio-political organizations at the district level have focused on researching and synchronously deploying tasks and solutions; issued many documents directing and directing the implementation of the program.
Assign comrades in the Executive Committee and the Standing Committee to be in charge of clusters to guide communes in developing plans and implementation roadmaps in the most appropriate and effective manner. The Standing Committee of the District Party Committee and the Steering Committee for New Rural Development will directly work with each commune that has registered to meet the standards of New Rural Development and Advanced New Rural Development to remove difficulties and obstacles, and at the same time, assign specific tasks to each commune. Assign members of the Steering Committee for New Rural Development to be in charge of fields, clusters, and points to regularly monitor and direct the program. Every quarter and every 6 months, the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee will work with the Steering Committee for New Rural Development to listen to the progress of implementation, remove difficulties, and urge and direct implementation according to the set roadmap and plan.
At the commune level, 100% of communes have established and completed the Steering Committee for New Rural Construction, Village and Hamlet Development Committee. Organize conferences to disseminate the guiding documents of the Central, the province and the district on New Rural Construction; actively propagate the contents of the program. The Commune Steering Committee has developed a plan, roadmap, and specific implementation progress for each criterion, assigned responsible officers to urge implementation. Directed production development; propagated and mobilized people, donated land, cleared the site, contributed labor and money, renovated and upgraded roads, cultural houses, renovated houses, built gardens according to New Rural standards...
Every year, the District People's Committee organizes a preliminary review to evaluate the results of the previous year's program implementation, sets out a plan for the following year, and organizes a preliminary and final review of the program's stages; at the same time, directs the Commune People's Committees to organize a preliminary and final review of the program according to regulations.
In addition, the district focuses on promoting propaganda work by many methods and forms such as: Conferences, meetings, activities; radio and television broadcasting; Dien Chau newsletter; Electronic Information page, social networks, mobile propaganda... The grassroots radio system has increased its duration, produced many news articles, and promoted the movement to build new rural areas; Each commune and town has built a cluster of billboards in the center; hundreds of billboards and slogans on the roads in the commune.
Organize the announcement and publicization of the new rural construction planning at the commune People's Committee headquarters and cultural houses of hamlets so that people know and properly implement the approved planning.
The propaganda results have positively impacted the awareness of cadres, party members and people about building new rural areas, creating a clear change; people are increasingly active and proactive in participating in building new rural areas with many creative ways; building new rural areas is becoming a widespread movement.
In order to improve capacity in building new rural areas, the district has organized the integration of direct budget support from higher levels and other programs and projects to organize training for staff at all levels. The main training content is the guidelines and policies of the Party and the State, of all levels and sectors on building new rural areas; the implementation of rural roads, and the implementation of models. Guidance on planning and projects for building new rural areas, directive documents, and guidelines for implementing criteria.
Over 10 years of implementing the construction of new rural areas, the district has organized 250 seminars on agricultural production models, organized delegations to visit and learn experiences in building new rural areas for Steering Committees at all levels in districts and some localities nationwide. Through the process of visiting and learning experiences in localities in implementing the construction of new rural areas, the awareness of cadres, party members and people has been raised, creating a movement and many creative ways in building new rural areas.
PV:In the process of implementing the construction of new rural areas, the district certainly has many advantages but also many difficulties?
Comrade Ha Xuan Quang:In the process of implementing the National Target Program on New Rural Construction, Dien Chau district has many advantages. That is, it has received regular attention and direction from the Provincial Party Committee, the People's Council, the Provincial People's Committee, departments, branches, the Fatherland Front and socio-political organizations at the provincial level; the drastic direction of the Party Committee, the supervision of the People's Council, the direct management of the People's Committees at all levels, the contribution of the business community, especially the National Target Program on New Rural Construction has created excitement, consensus and support among the people and children far from home. All levels and branches have focused on directing and prioritizing the integration of investment capital sources into key communes. Many departments, branches and organizations have actively specified the criteria in their respective fields; the political system in the communes has really taken part.
During the implementation of the New Rural Development Program in the district, many typical examples have emerged in resource building and in organizing the implementation of criteria. The role of Party organizations, authorities, and socio-political organizations from the district to the grassroots level has been promoted, and democracy in rural areas has been enhanced. People's trust in the policies and leadership of Party committees and authorities at all levels has increased. From the mechanisms and policies issued, the State's support for New Rural Development, the support of enterprises, and the contributions of the people have created the great strength of the program.
However, Dien Chau also faces certain difficulties such as uneven development of communes, some communes with special economic conditions are still facing difficulties, infrastructure serving production and people's daily life such as roads, irrigation systems, electricity, schools, medical stations, markets, cultural facilities... have not met the daily and production needs of the people. Production is mainly organized on a small, fragmented household scale, there are not many models of concentrated commodity production and there are no sustainable links. The rural economy, especially communes in the coastal and semi-mountainous areas, has mainly small-scale production, and low economic efficiency. The district has a large population, many special areas, and uneven educational levels; a number of cadres, party members and people still have conservative thoughts...
In such conditions, the Steering Committee for New Rural Construction in Dien Chau district decided to select 3 communes of Dien Thap, Dien Hong, Dien Phong as focal points for directing the construction of new rural areas in the period of 2011-2015 to focus on leadership and direction. Promoting local democracy and creativity, highlighting the exemplary role of cadres and party members; stepping up propaganda work, promoting the role of the people as the main subject in building new rural areas, creating consensus and support from the people. As a result, by the end of 2015, 13 communes were recognized as new rural communes. From the implementation results in 13 communes, the District Steering Committee organized to draw lessons in directing the implementation in the area. Effectively directing the implementation of many support mechanisms, notably: Support mechanism for cement for rural roads to meet new rural standards; support for building schools to meet national standards; support for building commune health stations to meet national standards; support for building rural markets; Support greenhouses for high-tech agricultural production, support the construction of hamlet cultural houses, commune cultural houses... By the end of 2022, 36/36 communes have met new rural standards (100%); currently, 8/36 communes have met advanced NTM standards including: Dien Lam, Dien Ky, Dien Hong, Dien Thai, Dien Nguyen, Dien Xuan, Dien Thap, Dien Phuc.
On February 7, 2024, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 173/QD-TTgDien Chau district recognized as meeting new rural standards2023.
PV:What is your general assessment of the results that the process of building new rural areas has brought to the people, comrade?
Comrade Ha Xuan Quang:Dien Chau district has a large natural area, a large population, and many commune-level administrative units. However, thanks to knowing how to promote the strength of the entire political system in leading and directing the implementation in a synchronous, close, and drastic manner, choosing the right points, the right communes, and the right criteria to strive for, focusing on many dynamic and creative ways of doing things, suitable to the actual conditions of each locality, after more than 10 years of implementing the National Target Program on New Rural Construction in Dien Chau, comprehensive and outstanding results have been achieved.
Specifically: Building new rural areas has completely changed the awareness of cadres, party members and people in implementing the program.
The economy continues to develop, social security is guaranteed, people's lives are constantly improved: From 2011 - 2023, the average growth rate is >10%; Average income per capita in 2010 reached 15.5 million VND/year, by 2022 it reached 60 million VND (of which, rural areas reached 53 million VND/person/year); in 2023 it reached 65 million VND/person/year; the plan for 2024 is to reach 72 million VND/person/year.
Organizing production and developing rural economy in building new rural areas associated with restructuring crops, livestock, aquaculture, orienting key products, building planting and production area codes associated with food safety, encouraging and supporting the development of OCOP products to increase added value and sustainable development. By May 2024, Dien Chau district had 31 products achieving the OCOP product brand from 3 to 4 stars.
Products achieving 4 stars: Sy Thang lotus peanuts, Van Phan underground fish sauce; Products achieving 3 stars: Sy Thang peanut oil; Dien Chau shrimp; Dien Phong cabbage belonging to THQ Cooperative; Chien Vinh oyster mushrooms, medicinal herbs, Chien Vinh Lingzhi mushrooms (Chien Vinh Company Limited) Dien Ky; Luc Thanh Dien Van cu do candy, An An noodles (Agri Company) Dien Thanh, Dien Nguyen shallots, Dien Thai coriander, VietGAP Dien Trung chicken eggs, Tuyet Hoang pork roll,... All localities have registered that by 2025, 100% of communes will have built at least 1 OCOP product for their locality.
Health and education have developed comprehensively, medical facilities continue to be invested and upgraded to meet the increasing health care needs of the people in the area. The quality of universal education is increasingly improved; the quality of comprehensive education always ranks first in the province; vocational guidance and training are focused on. The Dien Chau Education Sector has been recognized by the Provincial People's Committee for 22 consecutive years with the title "Excellent Labor Collective".
Traditional cultural values are preserved and promoted. In the district, there are 57 ranked relics, of which 14 are ranked as national relics and 43 are ranked as provincial relics. The district has the Cuong Temple Festival, a traditional festival of the district held annually. There is the Memorial Area of Comrade Phung Chi Kien - an excellent student of President Ho Chi Minh, which has become a red address in educating revolutionary traditions, arousing national pride among all classes of people, especially the young generation.
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The political system is increasingly strong, national defense and security are consolidated and maintained.
Investment attraction continues to receive attention and direction in various fields, contributing to promoting labor restructuring and local economic development.
It can be affirmed that: Building a new rural area, in which the people are the main subjects and the State plays the role of guiding and supporting the implementation. Therefore, the movement to build a new rural area has created consensus, support and very active participation of the people. This can be considered one of the successes in building a new rural area in Dien Chau. It is the foundation for the district to continue to strive to build Dien Chau district to achieve a type IV urban area by 2025 and to achieve the criteria of a type III urban area (town) before 2030.
PV:Thank you for the discussion!
