Nghe An is honored to receive the Third Class Labor Medal for new rural construction.

On October 18, in Nam Dinh province, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc chaired the National Conference to review 10 years of the National Target Program on New Rural Development (NTM).

Attending the conference on behalf of Nghe An province were comrades: Nguyen Dac Vinh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Thai Thanh Quy - Alternate Member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee.

After 10 years of implementing the National Target Program on New Rural Construction, Nghe An has achieved many outstanding results, clearly changing agriculture and rural areas, contributing significantly to promoting socio-economic development and ensuring national defense and security of the province.

Politburo member and Standing member of the Secretariat Tran Quoc Vuong presented the Third-class Labor Medal of the President to Nghe An province and other provinces and cities. Photo: VNA

Nghe An has mobilized more than 56 trillion VND from the Central Government, programs, projects, units, enterprises... to implement the National Target Program on New Rural Construction. With the strong direction from the province to the grassroots level, the investment of resources in the right focus and key points, the results of New Rural Construction that Nghe An has achieved are even and comprehensive. The average of the whole province currently reaches nearly 16 criteria/commune, with no communes below 5 criteria.

In addition to 3 district-level units, 225 communes and 674 villages meeting new rural standards, Nghe An now has 1 more district (Yen Thanh) and 35 communes completing 19/19 criteria; the ability to achieve and exceed the target of 61.5% of communes meeting the standards this year - finishing 1 year ahead of the plan assigned by the Prime Minister. In 2020, Nghe An continues to strive to have 25 more communes meeting the standards, bringing the total number of communes meeting the standards in the whole province to over 65%.

Results of implementing some basic indicators: Average income per capita in rural areas is estimated to reach over 28.5 million VND/year; the poverty rate has decreased to about 4% so far, and is estimated to decrease to 3% by the end of 2020; The rate of people participating in health insurance reached nearly 89.79%, an increase of 8.4% compared to the end of 2015; The rate of rural people using clean water according to the standards in Decision No. 2570/QD-BNN of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has reached 84.5% so far; Clean water according to QCVN 02/2009/BYT reached 45%.

Changing rural areas of Nghe An. Photo courtesy of Nguyen Book

In recognition of these results, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc awarded the Third Class Labor Medal to the Party Committee, government and people of Nghe An for their outstanding achievements in the emulation movement "The whole country joins hands to build new rural areas" in the 2016-2020 period, contributing to the cause of building socialism and defending the Fatherland.

In addition, Nghe An province also has 2 collectives, Vinh City and Nam Dan District, awarded the Third Class Labor Medal by the Prime Minister and 3 individuals awarded Certificates of Merit by the Prime Minister for their outstanding achievements in the emulation movement "The whole country joins hands to build new rural areas", period 2016 - 2020.

The Prime Minister issued Decision No. 800/QD-TTg dated June 4, 2010 approving the National Target Program on New Rural Construction for the 2010-2020 period; at the same time, launched the emulation movement "The whole country joins hands to build new rural areas" to propagate, mobilize, and mobilize all levels, sectors, social components, and people nationwide to join hands and contribute to building new rural areas.

Xuan Hoang