In just nearly 2 years, Hung Yen Nam has changed surprisingly for us. The dirt roads that were dusty when sunny and muddy when rainy before have now been widened and concreted with a total length of more than 48 km, connected with electric lines, flag roads, and planted with beautiful, spacious trees. The commune administrative center, from a single row of 2-storey houses standing alone in the sun and rain, has now been renovated and invested in synchronously. In particular, 7/8 newly built cultural houses and 1 upgraded cultural house all ensure uniformity in the same model of houses, campuses, and institutions. The school system at all 3 levels of preschool, primary, and secondary schools has been upgraded meticulously; the medical station is being completed for early use...
What resources, where to carry out such a large volume of works and tasks in such a short time? Our question was answered by comrade Phan Anh Nam - Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Hung Yen Nam commune with the number of people's contributions, with typical examples. In Hung Yen Nam, Mr. Dinh Huu Diem - one of the children far from home has supported the locality with more than 10 billion VND to build roads, build cultural houses, cemeteries, and build clean water systems to the hamlets. Or also a child far from home, Mr. Dau Van Thuc has supported 1.5 billion VND to build roads, build cultural houses...
We visited Mr. Phan Van Can's family living on the hill, separate from the residential area. Mr. Can said that the road from the end of the residential area to his house is nearly 500m long, originally a small dirt road, when it rains, rocks from the hills and mountains flow down, making it muddy. With the propaganda and mobilization of commune and hamlet officials, at the end of 2021, although the "land title" was mortgaged at the bank for his children to work abroad, but with the thought that building a new countryside is an opportunity to receive cement support from the State, he and his wife decided to borrow more than 200 million VND to buy sand and gravel, rent a road leveling machine and pour concrete. "Currently, the family still owes a few tens of millions of VND and will pay it back gradually, no worries; having a clean road, cars running right up to the gate is the most exciting thing" - Mr. Can shared.
In addition to arousing the enthusiasm of people and children far from home to join hands in building new rural areas, the Party Committee and government of Hung Yen Nam commune have attracted and taken advantage of a number of integrated programs and projects from the province to complete the headquarters, upgrade 3 schools and clinics. From not having a standard school (early 2021), now the primary school has reached level 1 standards and two kindergartens and secondary schools are completing the standards. Many traffic works, village cultural houses, and green tree-lined roads in the locality all have the mark, support, and contribution of departments, offices, and units at the district level.
Not only the infrastructure and rural appearance but also the material and spiritual life of the people of Hung Yen Nam have been improved. In addition to promoting the labor export movement (about 50% of households in the commune have children working abroad); on the basis of orientation, direction, guidance combined with support conditions from the Party Committee and the government, the people here actively exploit the advantages of the semi-mountainous area to transform the structure of crops and livestock to bring economic value with vibrant models of growing ornamental peaches, free-range chickens, Hung Yen Nam lemons (now with some areas of seedless lemons), Xa Doai oranges, grapefruit, guava, apples, mushroom growing... In just 6 years, people's income has doubled, from more than 20 million VND (in 2016) to more than 43 million VND (in 2022). A typical model is growing 3 hectares of Xa Doai oranges of Mr. Luu Van Chinh's family, earning about 400 million VND each year; Mr. Vo Kim Hung's family's model of growing straw mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, and lingzhi mushrooms earns more than 120 million VND each year after deducting expenses.
Looking back, at the end of 2020, Hung Yen Nam was the last commune that had not met the new rural standards in Hung Nguyen district. With the spirit of concentrating all efforts and determined to bring Hung Yen Nam to the finish line in 2022, Hung Nguyen District Party Committee mobilized and strengthened 2 experienced district officials to take on the positions of Party Secretary and Chairman of the Commune People's Committee. The district also has a special mechanism to support cement for road construction, support funding for building a separate hamlet cultural house for Hung Yen Nam; associated with assigning specialized departments, offices, and district-level organizations based on their functions, tasks, and strengths to join the commune in implementing each criterion.
To bring the commune to the new rural finish line, the Party Executive Committee of Hung Yen Nam commune issued a thematic resolution focusing on leadership and direction of new rural construction, striving to reach the finish line by 2022. However, the time of directing new rural construction coincided with the complicated developments of the Covid-19 epidemic, so this difficult task became even more difficult, because at the same time, the locality had to carry out two tasks, both fighting the epidemic and mobilizing resources to build new rural areas.
In that reality, according to comrade Hoang Duc An - Secretary of the Commune Party Committee, the Party Committee and the government have been proficient in leading, directing, operating, and mobilizing the entire political system to join in the fight; each cadre, civil servant, and worker regularly sticks closely to the grassroots, works closely with the people, and works with the people in a spirit of dedication and service to the people. In the implementation process, the key factor is identified as ideological work; the locality does a good job of religious work, closely coordinates with the parish priest, the pastoral council of the parishes and the congregations to mobilize and create consensus among the people to join in communion and work together for a better life; at the same time, arouses pride and generosity among the people, creating the strength of national unity, solidarity between Catholics and non-Catholics (80% of the commune's population is Catholic).
The method of directing and selecting essential contents and directly affecting the people to do first in a "rolling" manner, from building cultural houses, traffic roads, flag roads, tree-lined roads... Associated with construction investment is promoting the use value so that people can clearly see the practicality, such as cultural houses in hamlets, after investing in construction, the locality increases the organization of cultural and sports activities (in 2022, for the first time, Hung Yen Nam commune participated in the district-level Lotus Village Singing Contest and won first prize); the cultural house is not only a place for residential activities but also a place for religious activities of the people.
From the results of more than 530 peak days of directing the construction, bringing the commune to the new rural finish line (from June 22, 2021, the Party Committee of Hung Yen Nam commune issued a specialized resolution focusing on leadership and direction, to the date of appraisal and completion of the new rural criteria on December 15, 2022), the Party Secretary of the commune - Hoang Duc An emphasized: People's trust in the Party Committee and government is consolidated and raised. That is the greatest gain in Hung Yen Nam through new rural construction. This will also be an important foundation for the locality to build advanced new rural areas and model new rural areas in the coming time.
