Quy Hop: Mobilizing people to build new rural areas

(Baonghean) - In recent years, the new rural construction movement in Quy Hop has achieved positive results, the face of the countryside is increasingly improving. In addition to the support of the State, localities in the district have promoted their internal strength well, completing the criteria...

After 3 years of concentrating and unanimously building the new rural area, Nghia Xuan commune of Quy Hop district has had many obvious changes. Village roads and alleys have been basically concreted, many production and livestock models of the people have brought high economic value... The people of the hamlets have donated 12,789m2 of land to clear 19.12 km of inter-commune and inter-village roads. Tens of thousands of working days have been mobilized, dozens of excavator shifts have been hired to dig and fill the roads... Up to now, the commune has mobilized 28.5 billion VND to build the new rural area, of which, the people contributed 15 billion VND; 17 criteria have been completed, in 2015, the commune strives to complete 19/19 new rural criteria.

In the movement to build new rural areas in Nghia Xuan, many typical examples have appeared, creating a great influence in the community. In Khe Do hamlet, there are 5 families: Nguyen Ngoc Tam, Nguyen Van Bat, Vo Thi Huong, Nguyen Thi Hai and Nguyen Thi Thu, each household donated 200m2 of agricultural land to expand the inter-hamlet road. Ms. Vo Thi Huong (Khe Do hamlet) said: When the locality promoted the construction of new rural areas, I, like other families, realized that it was the right of each person, each family, so I was willing to donate land to open roads, contribute sand and gravel to pour concrete on the road surface.

Road construction in Muong Ham village, Chau Cuong commune.

To create jobs and increase income for people, over the past 3 years, Nghia Xuan commune has increased its mobilization and support for households to eliminate mixed gardens and plant fruit trees for commercial purposes with high economic value. Walking on straight, clean concrete roads, we came to Mr. Cao Dinh Son's family in Coc Chat hamlet. Mr. Son's Thai-roofed house is nestled in the green of a lush fruit garden. He boasted: "My garden has nearly 100 red-fleshed dragon fruit trees, last year we harvested nearly 1 ton of fruit. 40 apple trees, heavy with fruit, last year each tree yielded 500,000 VND. 800 orange and tangerine trees, although they have just produced fruit for the first time, were sold for tens of millions of VND during the last Tet holiday. For convenience in care, he invested in installing an electric irrigation system right in the garden. With investment in fertilizer and technical care, the garden grows well, bringing in an annual income of about 100 million VND".

Up to now, the whole district of Quy Hop has mobilized 1,139,765 million VND to build new rural areas. Of which, the state budget capital is combined with the implementation of project programs, Program 135, the national target program for sustainable poverty reduction, the national target program for building new rural areas, 984,310 million VND. Enterprises in the area contributed 2,594.3 million VND. The total value contributed by the people to build new rural areas reached 152,860 million VND. In addition, local people also donated 152,128m2 of agricultural land, garden land, residential land and 539m of house walls, 10,712m of fence walls, 34,531 trees, and contributed 89,696 working days. From 2011 to 2014, the district received support from the Provincial People's Committee with 17,100 tons of cement, and with the contribution of the people, 97,656 km of rural roads were built. The movement of people joining hands to build new rural areas has contributed significantly to many communes such as Minh Hop, Dong Hop, Tam Hop, Chau Quang... achieving 15 or more criteria.

Xuan Hoang