Nghe An: Nearly 66% of residential areas recognized as cultural

(Baonghean.vn) - On the afternoon of January 5, under the chairmanship of comrade Le Minh Thong - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, the Steering Committee of the movement "All people unite to build a cultural life" and the Steering Committee of "Family work" held a conference to summarize 2016 and deploy tasks for 2017.

Comrade Le Minh Thong requested that all sectors strengthen coordination to direct the movement "All people unite to build a cultural life" to take place in a substantial and in-depth manner. Photo: Minh Quan.

In 2016, the movement "All people unite to build a cultural life" in the province continued to be maintained and well implemented at the grassroots level. The whole province had 82.84% of households recognized as cultural families, nearly 66% of residential areas recognized as cultural residential areas; 13 communes were recognized by the district People's Committee as meeting new rural cultural standards; 19 wards and towns met urban civilized standards; 108 communes met new rural standards, 2 towns were recognized as "Towns meeting urban civilized standards"; 1,350 agencies, units and enterprises met cultural standards; 547 cultural families...

Procession of the statue of Uy Minh Vuong Ly Nhat Quang at the festival at Qua Son Temple, Boi Son Commune, Do Luong District.

The cultural, artistic and sports movements at the grassroots level are increasingly developing, contributing to improving the enjoyment of cultural and spiritual life for the masses. Models of preventing domestic violence and educating about ethics and lifestyle in Vietnamese families are being widely replicated. The number of domestic violence cases has decreased significantly...

At the conference, delegates focused on analyzing the difficulties and problems in the current movement of national solidarity to build a cultural life such as: Violations of cultural lifestyle in weddings are still common; social evils are becoming more and more complicated; school violence tends to increase...

In Vinh City, violations of regulations prohibiting the use of sidewalks and roads for weddings are still common (documentary photo).

Concluding the Conference, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Minh Thong highly appreciated the active participation of members of the Steering Committee of the movement "All people unite to build a cultural life" in 2016; at the same time, he requested the Steering Committee to continue to promote propaganda work, raise awareness of cadres, party members and people about the position, role and importance of the movement "All people unite to build a cultural life" associated with new rural construction.

In addition, strengthen coordination between sectors to direct the movement effectively and in depth; Continue to promote the socialization of cultural activities, build cultural models and typical examples at all levels, select and propagate to expand into movements...

Minh Quan