Nghia Son reached the NTM finish line early thanks to people's trust, people's contribution and people's work.

(Baonghean) - Nghia Son (Nghia Dan) received the New Rural Standard Certificate right at the time the commune celebrated its 20th anniversary. This is a new milestone in the development of the commune.

Since the implementation of the new rural area (NTM) construction in 2011, due to the long-term investment in basic technical infrastructure works, the farm's production land transferred to TH Dairy Food Joint Stock Company, only 7-8 criteria have been met in terms of NTM criteria. Mobilizing resources to implement NTM criteria in the context of limited budget investment has put Nghia Son commune (Nghia Dan) in front of many difficulties and challenges.

Comrade Tran Dang Huy - Secretary of the Commune Party Committee said: In that situation, on the basis of fully absorbing the guidelines and policies of the higher levels, the Commune Party Committee has analyzed and compared with the actual conditions of the locality; conducted a serious survey to build a Resolution and Implementation Project, which clearly stated the implementation roadmap, the NTM destination and solutions. With the synchronous participation, from propaganda and mobilization to drastic implementation solutions of the entire political system from the commune to the hamlet, a real change has been created. People have changed from the attitude of waiting, relying, considering the state as the subject to understand and change to the position of the subject, "people discuss, people do, people enjoy".

Construction of a centralized landfill in Nghia Son commune (Nghia Dan).

Instead of raising general, non-specific issues, the commune chooses practical contents and criteria for people's lives, which will certainly be better after implementation, thereby gaining consensus. Besides, there are criteria that require depth and sustainability, the commune also boldly asks for people's opinions to implement them fundamentally and systematically.

With the above awareness and appropriate approach, within 5 years, Nghia Son completed the remaining 11 criteria. Notably, within 1 year from October 2015 to now, the commune completed the remaining 6 criteria, which are the most difficult, including healthcare, rural transportation, cultural institutions, environment, production organization model and communication.

In the field of transport and irrigation infrastructure, initially only 8.2/30 km of village and intra-field roads were paved and hardened. After 5 years, Nghia Son has mobilized over 15 billion VND, completed 23.44 km of roads, reaching a rate of 91.6%. In addition to contributing nearly 4 billion VND in cash (an average of 2 million VND/person), people also donated nearly 2,500 m2 of land and contributed to clearing roads worth 1.146 billion VND, thereby bringing the rate of village and intra-field roads that were concreted and hardened to 92.8 km and 85.3%, exceeding the set requirements (only 70%). The quality of electricity supply and the environment are the two most prominent problems of Nghia Son when entering the construction of the new rural area; the reason is that the electricity grid invested since 1978 has now seriously degraded.

Therefore, the commune is determined to "resolve" the above two criteria. With the participation of the district, the electricity industry has invested nearly 8 billion VND to renovate the power lines and install some suspension stations, so the electricity criteria have been basically resolved. To deal with environmental issues, on the one hand, the commune boldly registered to be a pilot model of the district Fatherland Front on environmental sanitation, in which each household invested in a garbage pit at home, the commune also invested over 250 million VND to build a centralized landfill to collect garbage before transferring it to the district landfill. At the same time, environmental issues related to TH dairy farms have also been gradually resolved.

Coming to Nghia Son today, we are not only impressed by the fact that most of the village roads and alleys have been concreted, but also by the way the local people have actively changed their economic sectors to adapt to new production conditions. Because most of the production land has been recovered, the commune has a policy to encourage people to make good use of the remaining land fund (about 17 hectares) to develop citrus and other fruit trees, develop beekeeping for honey; on the other hand, it has encouraged people to boldly borrow capital to develop services and secondary industries, rent land from neighboring communes to grow fruit trees, etc.; organize connections and coordinate with TH Dairy Food Joint Stock Company to find jobs for workers or create conditions for workers to go abroad.

With the above diversity of occupations, although the production land is not much, Nghia Son is a commune with diverse and dynamic seedling models with dozens of seedling models generating at least 100-150 million VND/year, the highest is 350-500 million VND/year; at the same time, there is a large investment capital to develop production models with nearly 39 billion VND, of which the credit balance is 26 billion VND.

Thanks to the specific solutions of the locality combined with the dynamism of the people, the commune creates regular jobs for over 92% of the labor force, contributing to a major breakthrough in economic restructuring and increasing people's income. If in 2011, the average income of Nghia Son people was only 17.2 million VND, of which the majority was from agriculture, poor households accounted for 5.15%, then in 2016 the expected income reached 36 million VND/person, of which over 55% came from the service sector; the proportion of well-off households is increasing and the rate of poor households has decreased to only 2.2%; there are no more makeshift, dilapidated houses...

One of Nghia Son's efforts to create a new look here is to build cultural institutions. In the past 2 years, the commune has invested over 2.5 billion VND to rebuild 4 hamlet cultural houses; renovate the commune cultural house and 4 hamlet cultural houses. Thanks to that, the cultural and sports facilities in the commune center and all 9/9 hamlet cultural houses have met the standards, 7/9 hamlets have been recognized as Cultural Villages.

A corner of the New Rural Area in Son Dong hamlet, Nghia Son commune (Nghia Dan).

Comrade Nguyen Huu Quy - Chairman of Nghia Son Commune People's Committee excitedly shared: Within 5 years, the commune mobilized 96.3 billion VND to implement the NTM criteria, in which the people contributed nearly 30%. The reason Nghia Son completed the goal 1 year ahead of schedule is thanks to a strong political system, trusted by the people to determine its role as the main subject. People discussed, worked together, contributed, and joined hands with the government to build common projects such as roads, village cultural houses, and also renovated their residential areas and houses...

After completing 19/19 criteria, the people of the hamlets are actively implementing the construction of village gates. Up to this point, out of 9 hamlets, 6 have completed village gates and 3 are under construction; each gate costs an average of 60-100 million VND.

Nghia Son received the New Rural Standard Certificate right at the time when the commune celebrated its 20th anniversary. This is certainly a new milestone in the development of the commune. Hopefully, from this initial success, Nghia Son will continue to maintain and further improve the quality of the New Rural criteria, so that the old farm town and Nghia Son today will not only have a new appearance and appearance but also truly be the second homeland of the people who were formerly farm households here.

Nguyen Hai