Homeland engraved with Uncle Ho's teachings
(Baonghean) - Besides the sacred Testament left for the entire Party and people; Nam Dan hometown is also honored to receive letters and instructions from President Ho Chi Minh during his visits to his hometown, which are currently considered as a personal Testament for the Party Committee and people of Uncle Ho's hometown to consider and make efforts to build a model new rural district...
Do as He wishes
During his revolutionary life, despite being busy with national affairs, his homeland was always a "heavy duty and great affection" to President Ho Chi Minh. On his two visits to his homeland and through letters sent back home, Uncle Ho always gave his homeland encouragement, entrustment, and the wish that his homeland would organize a patriotic emulation movement that was vibrant, widespread, practical, and persistent, making Nam Dan a model district and Nam Lien commune (today's Kim Lien) a model commune, and the same for other communes in Nam Dan district.
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| View of Nam Dan town. Photo: Thanh Cuong |
In the letter sent to the people and cadres of Nam Lien commune on February 13, 1962, Uncle Ho advised“Conservative ideology is like a rope that ties people’s hands and feet. We must throw it away. To progress, we must have a bold spirit, dare to think, dare to do. In this as in all other matters, if cadres, party members and union members volunteer to go first, then the people will follow.”He also often reminded cadres and party members to uphold democracy, take the people as the root, "more actively practice democracy with the people", and take great care of people's lives...
President Ho Chi Minh's wishes for his homeland are considered by generations of cadres, party members and people of Nam Dan district and Kim Lien commune as his personal testament for his homeland. Therefore, since the day President Ho Chi Minh passed away, in addition to implementing his testament for the entire Party and people and his instructions to the Party Committee and people of Nghe An, Nam Dan district and Kim Lien commune have always been concerned, made efforts and been creative in order to realize his wishes, making Nam Dan a model district, with all communes in the district being exemplary.
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| Road to Kim Lien commune (Nam Dan). Photo archive |
It cannot be denied that there is still a small number of cadres, party members, and people who are still conservative and expectant; the rest still have the will to strive to develop the local movement more and more.
As proof of his assertion, Secretary of the Commune Party Committee Phan Van Canh said that the support from the State and local enterprises has long focused on large projects such as headquarters, commune cultural houses, schools, and medical stations; the remaining basics such as upgrading and renovating the rural traffic system, intra-field traffic, canals, hamlet cultural houses, automatic on/off lighting systems in each residential area; propaganda systems, relocation of electric poles on the road due to rural traffic expansion, power grid renovation, etc., all come from the people's strength, through good implementation of democratic regulations, promoting the exemplary leading role of cadres and Party members.
Coming to Kim Lien today, the landscape has improved a lot and in residential areas, there is a movement to build a new model rural area, striving to reach the finish line by 2020. Chairman of the Commune People's Committee - Comrade Tran Le Chuong, shared that the most difficult thing in Kim Lien now is to build awareness of environmental protection. Currently, the locality and residential areas are focusing on propaganda and mobilization to create a change in action among the people, we cannot let the infrastructure be synchronized but dirty due to the people's awareness of littering.
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| New rural standard garden model in Kim Lien, Nam Dan. Photo: Document |
Along with that, the commune is focusing on encouraging people to change crop structure and build high-tech agricultural models. Currently, in Kim Lien land, in addition to traditional rice, corn and peanuts, there have appeared some models of growing melons, flowers and clean vegetables, fruit trees, such as Mr. Chu Anh Hung's household (Sen 1 hamlet), Mr. Bien Van Thao's household (Mau 6 hamlet), Mr. Pham Duc Binh's household (Mau 6 hamlet)...
The locality has also established the Uncle Ho's Hometown Lotus Cooperative to develop the lotus growing area associated with research to create lotus products and has now expanded by 12 hectares of lotus. This is a new direction for Kim Lien, associated with encouraging households to develop large-scale and high-quality food and accommodation services to serve tourists to Uncle Ho's hometown...
Building a model new rural district
On the occasion of the 129th anniversary of President Ho Chi Minh's birthday and the 50th anniversary of his Testament, every locality in his homeland continues to raise the will, efforts and strength of solidarity to build and develop the homeland. Nam Kim commune, located in the south of the district, adjacent to Duc Tho district (Ha Tinh province), has unfavorable natural and social conditions, but thanks to promoting the people's mastery with the motto "people know, people discuss, people do, people inspect", this locality has had and is having equal development compared to other localities in the district.
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| Agricultural and handicraft production in Nam Dan develops in a technological direction. Photo: Archive |
Comrade Pham Quyet Thang - Secretary of the Party Committee of Nam Kim commune said: With the advantage of mountainous land and lemon trees as the main crop with more than 200 hectares, the locality is promoting the establishment of Lemon Cooperative to create a chain of links in production, preservation and consumption, building the Nam Kim lemon brand.
Along with that, it is to encourage people to expand the scale and develop hill chicken farming with more than 30 models with hundreds of hill chickens combined with pig farming; build a production model of 70 hectares of Bac Huong 9 rice variety; create opportunities for businesses to recruit workers at factories and enterprises in and outside the province to increase income for people and currently the poor households of the commune are only 1.88%, all of whom are elderly, lonely or sick and unable to work.
After achieving new rural standards at the end of 2016, Nam Kim continued to set goals to improve criteria, focusing on prioritizing leadership and direction of economic development and increasing people's income.
The locality is also continuing to promote the role of self-management groups in residential areas to propagate and mobilize people to continue donating land, dismantling fences and solid structures without compensation, to upgrade and expand rural traffic routes, from 3-4 m to 5-6 m, ensuring 2 lanes for cars. Since the beginning of 2019, people have continued to donate more than 3,000 m2land and self-demolish and rebuild 5,000m of fence and 30 solid structures.
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| Nam Cat Commune, Nam Dan. Photo courtesy |
According to comrade Vuong Hong Thai - Head of the Propaganda Department of Nam Dan District Party Committee, in order to build the district into a model district according to Decision No. 17/QD-TTg, dated January 4, 2019 of the Prime Minister on approving the Pilot Project "Building Nam Dan district, Nghe An province into a model new rural district in the direction of cultural development associated with tourism, period 2018 - 2025", the Party Committee, government, Fatherland Front and political organizations from the district to the grassroots level are continuing to promote the spirit of solidarity and unity from will to action; promoting democracy, arousing the strength of solidarity, intelligence, and the role of the people in the process of building a model new rural area, from renewing thinking in economic development to creating a civilized lifestyle, cultural behavior, building the character and unique beauty of the people in President Ho Chi Minh's homeland.
