Nghe An: Rewarding 33 collectives and individuals in new rural construction

(Baonghean.vn) - Integrating programs and projects to focus resources to promote infrastructure construction in new rural construction is the direction of comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee at the conference to deploy the plan of the National Target Program on new rural construction in 2017 on the morning of March 7.

The report of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development shows that in 2016, the total capital mobilized and integrated to implement the New Rural Program was over 3.6 trillion VND. Of which, the state budget directly supported over 915 billion VND; integrated capital from programs and projects was nearly 780 billion VND; people contributed over 785 billion VND, the rest was from other sources.

Overview of the conference. Photo: Xuan Hoang

In 2016, the whole province had 43 communes recognized by the Provincial People's Committee as meeting the new rural standards, exceeding the target assigned by the Provincial People's Council Resolution, bringing the total number of communes meeting the new rural standards to 152 communes, reaching 35.3%; 6 villages were recognized by the District People's Committees as meeting the new rural standards according to the criteria set by the Provincial People's Committee. On average, the whole province reached 13.5 criteria/commune, an increase of 1.23 criteria/commune compared to 2015. There were 43 communes reaching 15-18 criteria, 131 communes reaching 10-14 criteria, 104 communes reaching 5-9 criteria, 1 commune reaching less than 5 criteria, 2 district-level units have completed the task of building new rural areas, namely Thai Hoa town and Vinh city.

The goal for 2017 is to build Nam Dan district to meet the new rural standards, have at least 20 more communes meet the new rural standards, have 10 more villages in mountainous districts meet the new rural standards according to the criteria set by the Provincial People's Committee; the average of the whole province reaching 14.2 criteria/commune, no more communes with less than 5 criteria; continue to direct the construction of 3 model new rural communes according to the approved project.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee chaired and directed the conference. Photo: Xuan Hoang

Speaking at the conference, representatives of some localities presented papers and shared good and creative ways of building new rural areas in the past time. In which, the leaders of Nam Dan district expressed their determination to direct the remaining 5 communes to reach the new rural area, 18 communes that have reached the new rural area will continue to review and develop plans to complete the contents and criteria according to regulations, striving for Nam Dan to reach the new rural area standard by the end of 2017.

Localities requested the Provincial Steering Committee, departments, branches and the Provincial New Rural Area Coordination Office to regularly pay attention and direct the district to promptly resolve difficulties and obstacles in the process of building new rural areas. The province also needs to promptly allocate cement resources during the year so that localities can take advantage of their free time to build rural roads.

Concluding the conference, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Head of the Steering Committee for National Target Programs of the province Nguyen Xuan Duong, said: In recent times, our province has had many new and creative ways in the movement to build new rural areas, from which localities have steadily accelerated the criteria for new rural areas; the movement to build new rural areas has become a movement of the masses.

Collectives received Certificates of Merit from the Provincial People's Committee in the movement of joining hands to build new rural areas. Photo: Xuan Hoang

However, the movement to build new rural areas still has some shortcomings: Many localities have not yet accelerated the exploitation of all potential advantages of their localities. The transformation of crop and livestock structures has not changed much, so people's income is not high. Socialization work in some communes has not had many diverse activities, so the work of mobilizing people's strength is still at a low level. Some leaders of departments and branches who are members of the Provincial Steering Committee for New Rural Construction have not been active and determined in consulting, directing and propagating.

Building a new rural road to the village in Huu Kiem commune, Ky Son district. Photo: Xuan Hoang

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong said that in the coming year, localities will accelerate the progress of building NTM criteria for communes, villages and hamlets. To achieve high efficiency, localities will continue to strengthen information and communication work to all classes of people on mass media. Integrate programs and projects to focus resources to promote the construction of infrastructure in NTM construction. For 27 particularly difficult communes of the province, the Provincial NTM Coordination Office needs to deploy advisory work to build timely support policies and mechanisms. Assign the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development to continue to inspect and urge agricultural production in localities, in order to increase people's income. The Department of Finance will notify the cement targets for localities. Districts and communes that have committed to reaching the NTM target in 2017 need to direct effectively.

On this occasion, 8 collectives and 25 individuals received Certificates of Merit from the Provincial People's Committee for their achievements in the Nghe An movement to join hands to build new rural areas in 2016.

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