Arousing people's strength to build advanced new rural areas in Quynh Luu

Good resource mobilization

Coming to Quynh Thach - an advanced rural commune of Quynh Luu district, the first impression when setting foot in this countryside is the expanded roads, paved with smooth concrete, connecting from one village to another; both sides of the road are planted with flowers and ornamental plants, ensuring the criteria of bright, green, clean and beautiful.

Mr. Nguyen Sy Luc - Chairman of Quynh Thach Commune People's Committee, said: "The locality determines that the sooner the advanced NTM target is reached, the sooner the people will benefit. Therefore, the Party Committee and the commune government have proposed fundamental solutions to accelerate the implementation of the criteria, including mobilizing social resources to invest in building infrastructure and standard works. After only 2 years (from 2020 - 2022), the commune has mobilized over 278 billion VND to invest in building infrastructure; of which people themselves invested in building and renovating houses, developing production and business over 250 billion VND".

In the process of building advanced NTM in Quynh Thach commune, the strength of solidarity and consensus from the people has spread widely. The commune has mobilized nearly 7 billion VND in contributions from the people to build a lighting system and embankment, widen the roadbed and sidewalks, and plant flowers and ornamental plants. Up to now, 100% of the main roads in the commune have been installed with lighting systems, contributing to ensuring traffic safety and security and order in the locality. With the high determination of the entire political system and the people, at the end of 2022, Quynh Thach commune was recognized by the People's Committee of Nghe An province as having reached the advanced NTM finish line.

The socialization movement in building advanced NTM in Quynh Luu district has been supported by all classes of people. Thanks to that, the infrastructure system in the communes has been upgraded and completed, meeting the living needs of the people. Particularly, Ngoc Son commune, after being selected by the district as a point to build a commune to reach the advanced NTM finish line in 2023, rural infrastructure has received investment attention.

Mr. Nguyen Van Chuong - Chairman of Ngoc Son Commune People's Committee, said: "From 2020 to now, with the motto of the State and people working together, taking advantage of the support of superiors, we have invested in renovating and upgrading 14km of rural roads, 6 dams, markets, stadiums... with a total cost of over 90 billion VND. In particular, many villages in the commune have implemented socialization, people have contributed billions of VND to build village cultural houses, campuses at cultural activity sites of the community; actively participate in environmental protection, maintain a general cleaning schedule of village roads, alleys, self-managed roads on weekends, contributing to building a green - clean - beautiful landscape...

Efforts to achieve goals

Quynh Luu is one of the localities that has mobilized large resources to invest in rural infrastructure. Ms. Vu Thi Bich Hang - Head of the district's Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, said: "With the active and drastic participation of the entire political system, 9/9 criteria of the new rural district have been completed and the district was recognized by the Prime Minister as a new rural district in May 2022. The most important factor leading to the success in building a new rural district in Quynh Luu is the consensus of the people. Many communes have had creative ways to mobilize people's resources, encouraging successful children living far away from home to support funding along with capital integrated with programs and projects to build many welfare works in villages and communes".

After more than 10 years of implementing the construction of new rural areas, Quynh Luu district has mobilized a total of more than 19,100 billion VND; of which people contributed cash and labor days of over 853 billion VND. Especially from 2022 - 2023, the total mobilized resources to implement the construction of new rural areas in the district reached over 2,180 billion VND. From socialized resources, mobilized contributions from people and budgets at all levels, Quynh Luu district has upgraded over 32km of roads with a total cost of over 38 billion VND; attracted over 156 billion VND from many different sources of capital to upgrade and build many new hydraulic works, sea dykes, river dykes to serve production and prevent natural disasters; Focus on building cultural facilities associated with advanced new rural criteria, including 11 newly built village cultural houses (Quynh Yen commune 3 houses, Quynh Minh commune 2 houses, Quynh Tho commune 2 houses...) and many village cultural houses have been invested in upgrading and refurbishing...

Up to now, the whole district has 6 communes recognized by the Provincial People's Committee as meeting advanced NTM standards, including: Quynh Doi, Quynh Hau, Quynh Thach, Quynh Van, Quynh Minh, Quynh Luong; in which Quynh Doi commune is one of the first communes in the province to meet model NTM standards; there are 10 villages meeting model NTM standards. To continue to develop plans, roadmaps, and propose implementation solutions, Quynh Luu district focuses on leading and directing the drastic implementation of tasks to build advanced NTM communes and model NTM communes.

The goal by 2025 is that the district will have 2-3 communes meeting the model new rural standards, 15-18 communes meeting the advanced new rural standards, and the remaining communes meeting 10 or more criteria. The district has directed the communes to strengthen propaganda and mobilization so that people understand the purpose and meaning of the advanced new rural construction program. To well implement the grassroots democracy regulations, it is necessary to rely on the people, create consensus, mobilize resources among the people; assign tasks to party members, promote the spirit of setting an example to expand the movement to the community, arouse motivation among the people, speed up the progress of building criteria...".

Comrade: Hoang Van Bo - Chairman of Quynh Luu District People's Committee

Thu Huong