Long Son Ward (Thai Hoa Town): Breakthrough from trade and services

(Baonghean) - Implementing the Resolution of the 1st Congress, term 2010 - 2015 in the context of a newly established unit of Thai Hoa Town, despite facing many difficulties and challenges, the Party Committee and people of Long Son Ward have made efforts and determination to basically successfully achieve the set goals.

Long Son Ward is one of the newly separated central administrative units of Thai Hoa Town. In the 2010 - 2015 term, the ward strives to achieve an average economic growth rate of 14.1%; total production value in 2014 reaches 184 billion VND; economic structure shifts in the right direction: the proportion of agriculture tends to decrease to only 10.2%, currently only maintaining 50 hectares of sugarcane, 100 hectares of rice, creating a stable food output of over 625 tons, agricultural production value reaches over 21 billion VND; industry - handicrafts - construction has formed a number of production facilities that promote advantages, creating brands for development strategies such as wood furniture production, garment, incense production, vermicelli, rice noodles... actively contributing to creating jobs for workers after land recovery and career conversion. During the past term, taking advantage of the State's investment support and mobilizing people's contributions, many projects were invested in, built and put into effective use such as roads to blocks 2 and 7, medical stations, kindergartens, secondary schools, auxiliary works for primary schools... with a total investment value of over 20,555 million VND.

View of Long Son ward (Thai Hoa town).

The trade and service sector has a fairly fast growth rate such as: transportation services, repair, rental of houses, offices, restaurants... The total average annual service production value reaches over 110 billion VND, accounting for 55.5% of the economic structure. Budget revenue in the past 5 years reached over 26 billion VND, the average annual revenue growth rate is over 30%. Urban order management and land management have changed positively; regularly inspect and handle violations, guide people to apply for permission to build and repair houses; coordinate with competent authorities to compensate for land clearance and clearance of projects according to regulations, focusing on the issuance and exchange of land use right certificates.

Long Son ward health station doctors take care of people's health

Cultural, information, artistic, physical education and sports activities take place widely, contributing to effectively preventing and repelling social evils. Regarding education, the quality of teaching and learning has been improved, and facilities have been gradually improved and upgraded. The ward has maintained standards for universal preschool, primary and secondary education. During the term, 2 schools have met the National standards (level 1) and the secondary school is striving to meet the standards in 2015. Social security has been taken care of, with regular visits and encouragement to war invalids, families of martyrs, and policy beneficiaries; with practical solutions, departments, branches and organizations have been assigned to help poor households, introduce jobs, and create conditions for poor households to borrow policy credit capital for business with a total amount of nearly 7 billion VND. Thanks to that, the poverty rate has decreased by an average of 2% per year. Regularly pay attention to promoting the socialization of medical activities, improving equipment and facilities for medical examination and treatment to effectively implement national health programs.

In 2013, Long Son ward was recognized as meeting national standards in healthcare... Taking care of Party building work, consolidating and building internal solidarity, creating solidarity and consensus... It can be said that, in the past term, Long Son ward has achieved quite comprehensive results in all fields, thanks to the Party Committee's proposals, resolutions, and specific projects suitable to the local situation and actual conditions, while focusing on leadership and direction to resolutely carry out political and ideological work to create trust among cadres, party members and people, creating solidarity and consensus in society.

Recess time of children at Long Son Primary School

Entering the implementation of the Resolution of the 2nd Ward Party Congress, term 2015 - 2020, Long Son ward has some advantages: projects and infrastructure systems built in the area will be completed and put into operation, as one of the central wards, it continues to receive the attention and direction of the town....

With the goal of becoming a fairly developed unit of Thai Hoa Town by 2020, the basic targets that Long Son ward must strive to achieve are: Average annual growth rate of added production value reaching 14.7%; total production value reaching 316.18 billion VND; average income per capita reaching 63.9 million VND; economic structure of agriculture - forestry - fishery sector with a proportion of less than 7%; industry - handicrafts - construction 24%; trade - services 69%; budget revenue by 2020 reaching 25.0 billion VND... To achieve the above goals and targets, the Party Committee and people of Long Son ward need to focus on implementing the following solutions:

For the trade and service sector: Develop a variety of business and service establishments to meet the needs of the people, especially transportation services, construction material supply, trading and repair. Encourage and mobilize people to develop trade and services along the traffic routes and Dong Lay commercial service area.

For industry - handicrafts - construction: Encourage and facilitate the development of the private economy, invest in expanding production scale, innovating equipment, improving product quality and design. Create a favorable investment environment for economic sectors inside and outside the ward, expand occupations to contribute to job creation. Prioritize occupations such as making incense for export, processing agricultural products, civil carpentry, manufacturing materials, and garments. Encourage the formation and development of economic types in small-scale industry with diverse forms, suitable to local occupations and customs. Encourage young workers to boldly switch from farming to other more effective occupations.

For agriculture: Focus on directing the conversion of new crop varieties, improving intensive farming techniques to increase productivity, quality and economic efficiency and protect the ecological environment. Increase the provision of information on scientific and technological advances in agriculture; organize annual agricultural extension and animal and plant protection classes. Maintain stable areas for planting rice, crops, vegetables, tubers and fruits. Develop areas for fruit trees such as grapefruit, oranges, tangerines, watermelons, hybrid gac and high-value agricultural products. Develop grass planting for raising buffaloes, cows, goats and beekeeping.

At the same time, strengthen urban management, propagate to the people to raise awareness of urban civilization, be responsible for building, preserving and promoting the functions of public works such as: traffic system, water supply and drainage, electricity network, street lights, trees, schools, clinics, strictly handle cases of intentional damage, illegal construction, encroachment on roads and sidewalks. Improve the efficiency of land use management to serve socio-economic development, national defense and security. Implement well the collection, transportation of waste, and wastewater treatment in residential areas.

Lo Van Loi

(Secretary of Long Son Ward Party Committee)