Striving to build rural Vietnam into livable countryside

The Vietnamese countryside is associated with green bamboo hedges, banyan trees, ferry wharves, "palm forests, tea hills, fragrant green fields"... which are the love and nostalgia of children far from home every time Tet comes and Spring returns. The Vietnamese countryside is where people mainly live by farming (currently accounting for about 62.4% of the country's population).

Nowadays, rural areas have had clear changes in all socio-economic fields, promoting the industrialization and modernization of agriculture and rural areas, significantly improving the lives of farmers, consolidating and strengthening people's trust in the Party and State.

The new rural development program is assessed to have achieved “great, comprehensive and historic results”. By December 2023, the whole country had about 78% of communes, 42% of district-level units, 20 provinces and centrally-run cities.new rural standards. Average income per capita is constantly improving (in 2022 it reached nearly 3.86 million VND/person), the poverty rate has decreased significantly compared to before.

According to President Ho Chi Minh, building a new countryside is to innovate rural society, “change the way of eating, dressing, living, traveling, working” and improve the material and spiritual life of the people so that the working people can have a prosperous, civilized and happy life. Building a new countryside is to make the countryside green, clean and beautiful, contribute to protecting the environment, developing community relations, preserving national cultural identity, connecting solidarity, and being the driving force of national development…

On June 16, 2022, the Party Central Committee issued Resolution No. 19-NQ/TW on "Agriculture, farmers, rural areas to 2030, vision to 2045". The Resolution identifies "Farmers as the subject and center of the process of agricultural development, rural economy and new rural construction". Closely linking sustainable rural development with the urbanization process in the direction of "ecological agriculture, modern rural areas, civilized farmers". The content of modern rural construction is to effectively implement the National Target Program on new rural construction for the period 2021-2025 and the following stages.

To build modern rural areas, first of all, Party committees at all levels must lead the entire political system to promote people's mastery, exploit all resources to effectively implement the Criteria for New Rural Communes and the National Criteria for Advanced New Rural Communes for the 2021-2025 period.

Modern rural construction must have appropriate planning in line with the socio-economic development orientation with a long-term vision, with functional residential areas, industrial parks, small-scale industries and services to ensure many high-income jobs for rural residents, contributing to the goal of "leaving agriculture but not leaving the countryside" associated with good protection of the ecological environment.

Strengthening the direction of implementation according to planning and effective planning management... exploiting and promoting all resources to build socio-economic infrastructure such as transportation, irrigation, electricity, cultural facilities, trade, information and communication, and rural residential housing in a step-by-step synchronous and high-quality manner. Building modern rural areas is associated with progress in implementing income criteria, multidimensional poverty reduction, having a high rate of trained workers, developing diverse linkage models, cooperative models, agricultural extension, craft village development, etc. for effective production and business. Building modern rural areas must be associated with socio-cultural development such as education and training, health care, culture, environmental protection and food safety.

Building a modern countryside requires people to organize and implement it, therefore, strengthening the construction of a strong political system in rural areas,Building a team of leaders, managers, civil servants, and public employees with moral qualities, knowledge, experience, and close ties with the people. At the same time, continue to research and perfect the system of mechanisms and policies to support the construction of new rural areas, attract businesses to invest in agriculture and rural areas, especially deep processing industry to consume all raw materials for farmers to produce, increase export turnover. Strengthen inspection, examination, supervision, and evaluation of implementation at all levels, sectors, etc.

Striving to build the Vietnamese countryside increasingly green, clean, beautiful, preserving the tradition of "village love, neighborly affection", each person is warm, happy, it will be a peaceful countryside, a countryside worth living.