Phu Thanh (Yen Thanh) towards a civilized and livable countryside

Phu Thanh commune is located in the northeast of Yen Thanh district, adjacent to Dien Lien and Dien Thai communes of Dien Chau district. Phu Thanh has a total natural area of ​​663.59 hectares, of which the rice area accounts for nearly 413.2 hectares, the total population of the commune is 8,228 people.

Regionlandrich in revolutionary tradition

Phu Thanh Commune was established in 1954, this is a land with a rich historical and cultural tradition. Throughout the 70 years of construction and development, the Party Committee and people of Phu Thanh Commune have always promoted the spirit of solidarity to overcome difficulties and challenges, together with the whole country to establish glorious achievements.

Right from the first day of its establishment, the Party cell identified the top task as building a strong rear in all aspects, contributing to supporting the resistance wars and defeating the French colonialists.

During the resistance war against the US, the Party Committee of Phu Thanh commune led the people to contribute manpower and resources to the whole country to win, excellently fulfilling the locality's duty to the frontline "not a pound of rice was missing, not a soldier was missing".

Many of our homeland’s children have enthusiastically joined the army, volunteer youth, and frontline laborers. There have been hundreds of martyrs, wounded soldiers, and sick soldiers infected with toxic chemicals. These great contributions have been recognized by the Party and the State and have been awarded many noble prizes.

Promoting the tradition of solidarity, creativity, and efforts to overcome difficulties, despite being a commune in a low-lying area, mainlyAlthough agriculture is still facing many difficulties, in recent years, local authorities have been proactive in directing and exploiting economic development potential, with many solutions to transform the structure of crops and livestock to suit local conditions. For example, the commune has diversified its economic sectors to suit the socio-economic development trends of the district and the province...

With those efforts, in 2015, Phu Thanh commune was honored to be recognized as a commune meeting new rural standards, and in 2024 it was recognized as an advanced new rural commune.

Efforts to build advanced new rural areas

After being recognized as a commune meeting new rural standards, Phu Thanh continued to focus on propaganda and mobilizing resources to join hands in building an advanced new rural area. The commune reviewed and re-evaluated each criterion to develop a roadmap and implementation plan for each stage.

Identifying production innovation, income improvement and people's living standards as important goals of new rural construction, the commune promotes the transformation of crop and livestock structure, applies scientific and technical advances in production, and increases economic value.

With 413.2 hectares of rice, the commune has built a concentrated rice production area associated with consumption according to the chain; thereby, contributing to reducing costs, creating quality products, increasing economic efficiency. The commune promotes labor export to other countries, currently the whole commune has nearly 1,000 workers working in other countries, creating a fairly large source of income.

Over the years, the commune has built the brand "Phu Thanh wild duck" which is recognized as a 3-star OCOP product. The commune has 230 individual production and business households, 1 cooperative, 1 People's Credit Fund, companies, enterprises, and individual business households. Thanks to promoting production development, people's income has increased. In particular, the People's Credit Fund of Phu Thanh commune annually creates conditions for people to borrow 115 billion VND to do business in family farms, ranches and other types of production with high efficiency.

Mr. Pham Minh Chuan - Chairman of Phu Thanh Commune People's Committee said: In the process of implementing the construction of advanced new rural areas, the Party Committee and the people's government of Phu Thanh Commune have always been in agreement, proactive and creative in thinking and doing, thanks to which, the whole commune has mobilized total resources to effectively build advanced new rural areas. In particular, the commune's rural infrastructure has been invested in upgrading synchronously and spaciously, effectively serving the production and daily life of the people.

During the advanced new rural construction phase, the commune has built a model road in the commune center, a road to the primary school, a 1.6 km long N14 dike road through Bac Tien and Nam Tien hamlets, with both sides of the road paved with bricks, a green, clean, beautiful landscape and an electric lighting system. The school system and medical stations have all been upgraded and modernized.

During 7 years of implementing the National Target Program on building advanced new rural areas, Phu Thanh commune has mobilized more than 440 billion VND, of which people contributed more than 292 billion VND and thousands of working days, donating thousands of m²land, trees, fences; construction of welcome gates, volleyball courts in villages.

Not only focusing on economic development, the local cultural and social work has achieved many remarkable results. The commune always pays attention to building cultural institutions, developing cultural and artistic movements, physical education and sports to improve the spiritual life of the people.

Phu Thanh commune is always at the top of the district in terms of universal education, with an outstanding number of excellent students and excellent teachers at all levels. The work of protecting and taking care of people's health has been strengthened, with facilities and equipment ensuring the requirements for medical examination and treatment.

The movement of "all people unite to build a cultural life" associated with the campaign of "all people unite to build new rural areas and civilized urban areas" continues to develop, bringing practical results, contributing to building a civilized lifestyle, healthy cultural life, and repelling social evils.

Environmental protection work has seen many changes in awareness and action, especially in the issue of residential waste treatment and rural landscape improvement to be bright - green - clean - beautiful. Up to now, 100% of households have access to clean water according to regulations, the rate of solid and domestic waste collection in rural areas has reached about 97.3%...

Over 70 years of construction and development, Phu Thanh Commune Party Committee has been constantly consolidated and developed in both quantity and quality, steadfast in political ideology, and strong in organization. For many years, the Party Committee has been classified as having excellently fulfilled its tasks.

Over the years, the Phu Thanh Commune Party Committee has always focused on Party building and developing new Party members, improving the quality of Party members. The leadership has built a strong political system, creating trust from the people. Since then, cadres, Party members and the masses have actively participated in economic development, and people's lives have increasingly improved.

The comprehensive results that the Party Committee, government and people of Phu Thanh commune have achieved over the past 70 years have fully demonstrated the vision, thinking and leadership capacity of the entire political system. That is the luggage for the Party Committee, government and people of Phu Thanh commune to continue their efforts to build their homeland increasingly prosperous and soon become a model new rural commune./.