Nghe An achieved an average of 16.83 new rural criteria/commune.

The hamlet cultural house in Tang Thanh commune (Yen Thanh) was invested in and built to meet advanced new rural standards. Photo: Xuan Hoang

The National Target Program on New Rural Construction in the first months of 2022 has been resolutely implemented by all levels, sectors and localities, continuing to create strong changes, changing the face of rural areas and being identified as a key program for the 2021 - 2025 period.

The latest report from the Provincial Office of the National Target Program on New Rural Construction shows that from the beginning of the year until nowNghe Anmobilized over 8.5 trillion VND for investment in new rural construction. Of which, the largest amount is credit capital of over 6.1 trillion VND, the rest is state budget capital, enterprise capital, and people's contributions...

From that capital, localities invest in implementing new rural criteria. Therefore, the average criterianew rural areasin the province has been raised: 299 communes met 19 criteria, accounting for 72.74%; 18 communes met from 15 to 18 criteria, accounting for 4.62%; 50 communes met from 10 to 14 criteria, accounting for 12.17%; 44 communes met from 5 to 9 criteria, accounting for 10.7%; there are no more communes with less than 7 criteria. The average criteria for the whole province is 16.83 criteria/commune (an increase of 0.03 criteria/commune compared to the end of 2021).

Rural traffic road in Tan Huong commune (Tan Ky). Photo: Xuan Hoang

Notably, in the first 7 months of the year, the whole province built an additional 410 km.rural roads, bringing the total number of kilometers of traffic built and upgraded in the whole province to 10,887.4 kilometers, with a total cost of more than 13 trillion VND. Currently, the Department of Finance is continuing to speed up the bidding process and is expected to supply cement to localities to continue building new rural concrete roads by the end of the third quarter of 2022./.