Nghi An 70 years - proud marks

The heroic revolutionary land

Receiving the noble award from the Provincial People's Committee in recognition of the efforts to successfully build an advanced new rural commune, the Party Committee, Government and People of Nghi An commune were excited in the atmosphere of celebrating the 70th anniversary of the traditional day; happily reviewing the proud history of the commune, excited with the remarkable changes today...

Nghi An is a land rich in revolutionary traditions, with a heroic history and a rich culture. During the development process, with different names and boundaries, the place name Nghi An has always been present as an important administrative unit, the original land in the history of construction and development of the old Nghi Loc district and Vinh city today. During the struggle for national liberation and through two resistance wars against French colonialism and American imperialism, hundreds of Nghi An's children heroically sacrificed for the independence and freedom of the Fatherland.

Having gone through many ups and downs, historical events, especially during the destructive war of the invading American empire, this place was the main target of fierce destruction by the enemy. Nghi An land has a geostrategic position, the center of economic facilities such as Cua Lo Port and airport, so it had to bear the heavy and fierce burden of the war.

With the indomitable will of courage and patriotic tradition, the Party Committee and the people of the commune have bravely and steadfastly stuck to their land to protect the village, fought back to protect their homeland, continuing the revolutionary tradition of their fathers and brothers, hundreds of outstanding young people of Nghi An commune enthusiastically took up arms to fight on the battlefields. After peace was restored, the government and people of Nghi An commune joined hands and unitedly built their homeland to become increasingly prosperous and strong.

Nghi An commune has National Highway 46 passing through it, which is an important economic development axis of Vinh city and neighboring districts today. The infrastructure after the process of building new rural areas is increasingly spacious. Coming to Nghi An commune today, it is easy to feel the atmosphere of doing business and building a new life. The roads are bustling with the buying and selling of ornamental plants, shade trees, and flowers of all kinds. The landscape is green and brilliant with ornamental gardens, flowers, vegetables, and fruits. Taking care of craft villages, flower villages, and suburban commercial services, this place has gradually formed famous ornamental craft villages of Vinh city named Kim Chi, Kim Phuc, and Kim Binh.

Every little inch of land in the garden, vegetables, flowers, seedlings, each season, traders come to the garden to buy. The most precious thing for people here is clean production, Nghi An commune people pay attention to human health so each specialty made by the people such as eggs, sprouts, sweet potato leaves, custard apples, square persimmons, green chili... is always trusted by consumers.

From the simple agricultural fields in the past, now every corner and hamlet of Nghi An commune is bustling with ornamental garden services, large livestock farm systems with very high economic quality products such as melons, greenhouse cucumbers...

On National Highway 46 through the commune, there are many businesses, workshops making household carpentry, stone products, and traditional, sophisticated scale that are attracting visitors from all over. In the process of building new rural areas, hundreds of households in Nghi An commune are willing to donate land worth hundreds of millions of VND to expand rural roads while the land here is very valuable. Nghi An market is also a bustling place to buy and sell as it gathers many famous specialties.

In the field of culture and education, Nghi An commune is a bright spot and promises to be the new educational center of Vinh city in the future. The entire school system from kindergarten to primary and secondary schools has been invested in building solid, clean, beautiful and airy high-rise buildings.

The quality of teaching and learning is increasing. The number of teachers and students achieving excellent titles in the city and province is increasing. Many primary and secondary school students have won many high prizes in provincial and national competitions. The locality has been recognized by the province and city for many consecutive years as an excellent unit in education, the Nghi An commune education system is always at the top of the city. Many large educational institutions of the city are present in Nghi An commune.

Nghi An Commune Health Station meets National Level 2 standards, infrastructure and medical examination and treatment equipment are gradually invested in and upgraded, the staff of the health station is young, healthy, ethical and professionally qualified; the hamlet health staff system is fully staffed to meet the primary health care needs of the people and promptly and effectively implement national programs and projects, actively contributing to protecting community health.

Promising future

Nghi An commune today has a green - clean - beautiful landscape environment, ensuring the standards of advanced new rural areas. The movement "All people unite to build a new cultural life in residential areas" is always taken care of; cultural, artistic, physical training and sports activities are developed; political security, order and social safety are always maintained. The lives of the majority of people in the commune have grown quite clearly. The average income per capita is currently from 58 - 65 million VND/year, the whole commune has 48.5% of well-off and rich households, 50.78% of average households and 0.72% of poor households, no hungry households.

Talking to reporters, comrade Chu Van Mai - Chairman of Nghi An Commune People's Committee said: "In recent years, the local Party Committee and government have had a policy to orient people to focus on developing diverse occupations, converting crops and livestock to suit the available natural conditions to develop the local economy. With the tradition and industrious qualities of the people, when having the policy, the people of Nghi An commune focused on developing the profession of growing flowers and ornamental plants. In addition to growing and nurturing on the spot, the people also expanded to other localities and imported from abroad to create diversity and richness of flowers and ornamental plants. In addition, many Nghi An specialties are preserved and developed by the people.

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Nghi An is identified as a locality with many potentials and advantages in terms of land, land value is being multiplied per unit area. In the near future, when Cua Lo town and some communes of Nghi Loc district are merged into Vinh city, Nghi An commune will be located as the northern center of Vinh city with the advantage of being on Highway 46, near the 72m road, near Vinh Airport, Cua Lo Port, and major hospitals of the province. In particular, the commune is a locality with schools from kindergarten to university, with new facilities such as Phan Boi Chau High School for the Gifted (new facility); Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities, Vinh University (2nd facility); Huynh Thuc Khang High School, 2nd facility will be available in the near future... These are great potentials and advantages for Nghi An commune to take off and develop".

Mr. Chu Van Mai - Chairman of Nghi An Commune People's Committee

With the existing advantageous conditions, Nghi An commune hopes that Vinh city will pay attention to investing in synchronous traffic infrastructure in a modern and standard direction to change the overall appearance of the locality towards urbanization so that the economy can develop faster and stronger. The city has a mechanism to maintain, preserve and promote the advantages of traditional garden house models, linking the development of experiential tourism to build Nghi An commune into a special commune for eco-tourism, the green belt of the city; has a mechanism to preserve and develop local specialties.

Besides, the city also needs to pay attention to planning a team of leaders worthy of meeting the requirements of the tasks in the coming time and have a long-term direction for Nghi An commune in particular.