Good practices in building model new rural areas in Nam Dan
(Baonghean) - The Government's Project to Build Nam Dan into a Model New Rural District in the direction of cultural development associated with tourism in the period of 2018 - 2025 is both a great honor and a challenge requiring high responsibility of Nam Dan district in particular and Nghe An province in general.
Spreading people's power
Model gardens, country roads full of blooming flowers and lit up at night... are the results of the joint efforts of the people of Kim Lien commune to build a model new rural commune. For example, in Tru 1 hamlet, in 2018, the hamlet launched a movement to build a bright - green - clean - beautiful residential area, each household contributed nearly 1.9 million VND to upgrade roads, build drainage ditches and lighting systems.
“People not only contributed money and labor, but also donated land and walls to build Kim Lien into a livable countryside.”
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| Model road of the New Rural Area in Sen 3 hamlet, Kim Lien commune, Nam Dan. Photo: Nguyen Hai |
Kim Lien focuses on improving the criteria for building a model new-style rural commune, from building model residential areas. Besides upgrading infrastructure and beautifying the landscape, the commune focuses on promoting the development of high-tech agriculture. The whole commune currently has 75 model gardens, nearly 60 farms and ranches. The commune also pays special attention to developing tourism and services such as establishing the Sen Que Bac Agricultural Cooperative to create Kim Lien's own characteristics; developing local specialties and traditions including specialty agricultural products, traditional craft village products, handicrafts... to increase people's income.
At the same time, Kim Lien commune is very interested in mobilizing people to preserve cultural identity in building a civilized, polite, friendly and hospitable lifestyle.
“Kim Lien is focusing on exploiting its potential advantages, creating a breakthrough in service and tourism development, thereby strongly changing the economic structure. Along with economic development and infrastructure construction, preserving and promoting the cultural identity and people of Kim Lien is the core issue in building a model new rural area.”
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| Chili pepper growing model in Kim Lien commune (Nam Dan). Photo: Thanh Le |
With the Resolution "Continuing to maintain, consolidate and improve the criteria for new rural construction in the period of 2017 - 2020" of the Commune Party Committee, the movement of donating land, dismantling surrounding walls to build rural roads, and improving the criteria continues to receive the full support of the people of Van Dien Commune. The Commune continues to widen the main roads from 3.5 to 5m, and upgrade 1.5 km of degraded hamlet roads.
"Thanks to the solidarity and unity of the people, although it is a semi-mountainous hamlet with a large area, Ho Son has completed the completion of a closed concrete road in the hamlet, the residential areas have contributed to building a lighting system, planting flowers on the roads, and contributed over 100 million VND to purchase equipment and facilities for the hamlet's cultural house" - Secretary and Head of Ho Son hamlet, Van Dien commune, Nguyen Van Binh proudly shared.
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| Quy Chinh rice vermicelli craft village in Van Dien commune (Nam Dan) creates jobs and increases income for local people. Photo: Thanh Le |
Creating a tourism style
The goal of Nam Dan is to become a model new rural district in "cultural development associated with tourism" by 2025. The District Party Committee has established a Steering Committee headed by the District Party Committee Secretary, established steering groups in 7 units selected by the district to build advanced new rural communes (Nam Anh, Nam Nghia, Nam Cat, Nam Thanh, Nam Giang and Kim Lien); assigned responsibilities to the Standing Committee members of the District Party Committee as regional leaders, 7 members of the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee as heads of points, and members of the District Party Committee Executive Committee in charge of groups.
Accordingly, there are 2 days a month according to the Party Committee's schedule for the comrades in the Steering Committee to spend time at the grassroots level to directly grasp and direct the construction of model new rural areas. The Standing Committee of the District Party Committee meets once a month to listen to progress reports and deploy solutions to build model new rural areas. In addition, the district directs departments and offices to closely follow the provincial departments, offices and branches assigned tasks in the province's plan to implement the project.
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| The road to Kim Lien Relic Site is planted with many lotuses, contributing to the unique landscape of Uncle Ho's hometown. Photo: PV |
Starting from tourism, Nam Dan has done propaganda and promotion in a more systematic and in-depth manner, such as: installing wifi at the Cultural Houses of hamlets in Kim Lien commune; launching the website with the domain name: www.dulichnamdan.com.vn from the end of April 2019. The district put the Nam Dan Tourism Information Center in Uncle Ho's hometown into operation to introduce and display products and publications promoting Nam Dan destination to connect tours from the hometown to other tourist attractions in the area; organizing training on cultural behavior for service businesses at Kim Lien Relic Site. The famous relics in the area continue to be preserved, embellished and promoted in value.
According to the Standing Deputy Secretary of the Nam Dan District Party Committee, Nguyen Lam Son, the construction of advanced NTM criteria requires a large budget while local and people's resources are limited. The support from the Central and the province has been concretized. The general planning of Nam Dan district as well as the planning of Kim Lien commune, the expansion of Nam Dan town and key projects under the Government's Project 17 to celebrate the 130th birthday of President Ho Chi Minh are still slow to be implemented.
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| The face of Nam Dan rural area has changed.. Photo: Thanh Le |
Besides the objective factors, the subjective cause is that the district's direction to the grassroots is still confused; some localities have not resolutely implemented the project, and the capacity of some cadres in directing the project is limited. "The Party Committee and authorities at all levels of Nam Dan district have foreseen the difficulties and have solutions to overcome them. In particular, propaganda work to help people understand their role and responsibility in building a model new-style rural district is given top priority," the Standing Deputy Secretary of Nam Dan District Party Committee proposed a solution.
Nam Dan District Party Committee issued Project 07 on building self-governing groups in residential communities in the area. Accordingly, the district established 2,055 self-governing groups, each group from 15 to 20 households. All residential areas in the district have self-governing groups, and all families participate in self-governing groups. This model has been promoting the internal strength of residential communities in building model new rural areas and promoting emulation movements in the area.
