Tuong Duong district met with agencies and units assigned to help poor communes in the area.

There are 12 provincial agencies and units helping 12 especially difficult communes.

Tuong Duong is a mountainous district with over 90% of the population being ethnic minorities. Natural and social conditions have many difficult factors, especially complex terrain, limited transport infrastructure and production thinking level of the people.

The district has 16 communes and towns, of which 4 are border communes and 93/146 are particularly disadvantaged. The poverty rate at the end of 2022 is still high, accounting for 34.03%, among 74 poor districts in the country.

To accompany and support poor districts in the province in general and Tuong Duong district in particular in sustainable poverty reduction, on July 29, 2022, the Provincial People's Committee issued Decision No. 2209 on assigning agencies and units to help particularly disadvantaged communes in Nghe An province.

Accordingly, in Tuong Duong district, there are 12 departments, branches, provincial agencies, educational institutions, and enterprises that have received assistance for 12 extremely disadvantaged communes. Based on their functions, tasks, and practical research and needs of the localities, over the past time, the departments, branches, and agencies assigned to help extremely disadvantaged communes in Tuong Duong district have been struggling to develop plans and solutions to accompany, support, and help with many specific and practical contents and tasks for the localities.

Focus on supporting the construction of socio-economic infrastructure, especially roads; supporting the improvement of working conditions and equipment for officials and civil servants in communes; supporting livelihood models such as supporting crops and raising cattle, pigs, chickens, bamboo rats, etc., combined with technical guidance on production and accompanying people to promote efficiency.

The units also focused on supporting people to improve their housing, with a total of 91 households receiving support to build new houses and repair houses; supporting localities to implement criteria for building new rural villages and communes...

With affection, responsibility, and sharing; in addition to supporting facilities, the departments, branches, and units assigned to help poor communes also always accompany, support, assist, advise, and orient localities in ways of thinking and directions for economic development and sustainable poverty reduction; at the same time, innovate and improve the quality of operations, effectiveness, and efficiency of the local political system.

With the help and support of provincial agencies and units, along with the internal strength of the localities themselves, poverty reduction work in Tuong Duong district has had many positive changes; contributing to reducing the poverty rate in Tuong Duong district, from 34.03% (in 2022) to 29.25% (in 2023).

Opens up new approaches and support

At the meeting, leaders of agencies and units assigned to help particularly disadvantaged communes in Tuong Duong district shared many experiences on methods and forms of support and assistance for localities in the past time; at the same time, they also suggested many issues to make the support and assistance more in-depth and effective, along with the efforts of the localities themselves to sustainably reduce poverty; contributing to shortening the gap between mountainous areas and lowland areas.

At the meeting, on behalf of the leaders of Tuong Duong district, comrade Le Van Luong - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Secretary of Tuong Duong District Party Committee hoped that agencies, units and enterprises, in addition to supporting in terms of facilities, also need help in terms of thinking, working methods and directions for Tuong Duong district in general and particularly disadvantaged communes in particular.

Along with that is advising the province and creating specific mechanisms and policies so that Tuong Duong district has resources to implement leading projects and works, making breakthroughs in local development in the coming time.

Speaking at the meeting, comrade Nguyen Nhu Khoi - Member of the Provincial Party Executive Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council highly appreciated the creative spirit and the spirit of seeking knowledge of the Party Committee and the government of Tuong Duong district with the goal of helping the district escape from poverty and the hearts of the agencies and units assigned to help the disadvantaged communes in Tuong Duong district.

Affirming that the support of provincial agencies and units has contributed to creating a spiritual motivation for the staff and people of Tuong Duong to rise up, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council also hopes that agencies and units will continue to persistently help Tuong Duong district and 12 particularly difficult communes with methods and approaches based on the functions, tasks and strengths of each unit.

The focus is on supporting vocational training, connecting to job creation; supporting conditions in terms of capital and knowledge for poor and disadvantaged households to build sustainable livelihood models; supporting improving the capacity of health care for people for medical facilities...

Stating the current figures, the whole district of Tuong Duong still has 5,363 poor households, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council suggested that Tuong Duong district and communes need to review and classify specific subjects to coordinate with assigned agencies and units to provide appropriate assistance so that households can escape poverty sustainably; at the same time, he hoped that the Party Committee, Government and People of Tuong Duong district would promote the will of self-reliance and self-improvement to create development with the help of agencies and units.