Quynh Luu supports 70 million VND for the parish to build a cultural house.

(Baonghean) - Thanks to innovation in leadership and promoting the spirit of democracy, communes in Quynh Luu district have created positive changes in the emulation movement to build cultural villages.

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Extensive deployment

Previously, in village 4A, Quynh Chau commune, people were not enthusiastic about participating in activities launched by the hamlet and commune. Therefore, in Party Committee, government and village meetings, they were reminded and criticized. In order to revive the movements, the village Party cell held meetings to discuss and unify solutions, propose specific plans, and at the same time strengthen the activities of mass organizations. Before carrying out any work, all contributions were discussed and made public.

Thanks to that, the people agreed, responded positively, mobilized households and children far from home to receive 800 million VND to concrete rural roads; build a new spacious cultural house, spacious campus worth hundreds of millions of VND. Currently, the village has established an art troupe with 35 members, a volleyball team, and a women's soccer team with 28 members. The activities of the teams are drawn from the volunteer support fund of the whole village from 40 - 50 million VND per year.

In addition to the increasingly developing cultural, artistic and sports movements, households have also actively developed a variety of occupations and services, thus increasing the total average income per capita to 28 million VND/year. With these results, at the end of 2016, village 4A was awarded the title of Cultural Village for the period 2014 - 2016.

Thousands of people participate in the Cau Ngu festival at Lach Quen port - Tien Thuy commune, Quynh Luu district, Nghe An province. Photo: Archive.

In order for the movement to build cultural villages to be increasingly widespread, the Party Committee and the government of Quynh Chau commune have stepped up propaganda and mobilization work, raising people's awareness of the role and importance of the movement to build cultural families and cultural villages in rural life today. At the same time, based on the criteria for evaluating the title of cultural village, the commune has a close direction for grassroots organizations to implement.

Among them, the most important thing is to increase people's income. Therefore, in different forms, the locality has supported households to develop diverse industries such as transportation, services, cultivation, and livestock. Thanks to that, in the past few years, Quynh Chau has had models of growing high-quality oranges with an income of 250 - 300 million VND per year.

With timely guidance from the Party Committee, the government, and the dynamism of the people, the average income per capita in Quynh Chau has reached nearly 31 million VND/year. Life is increasingly improved, and people in the commune have voluntarily contributed funds to build inter-village roads, cultural houses, sports grounds, etc.

To date, 21/21 villages have cultural houses to serve the needs of community activities. Each village has mediation teams so that when something happens, the team will directly come to verify, find out the cause, assign members to meet and persuade the people involved, so that incidents arising in the area are promptly resolved, not allowing complicated problems to occur.

Along with Quynh Chau, currently, other localities in Quynh Luu are also actively promoting the movement to build cultural villages. For example, in Quynh Giang commune, thanks to the harmonious coordination in propaganda work, the movement to build cultural villages in Quynh Giang has gradually penetrated into the awareness of each person, creating favorable conditions for the commune to promote its internal strength to build infrastructure, making village roads and alleys increasingly spacious, clean and beautiful.

With the motto of the State and the people working together, the whole commune has asphalted 7.5 km of inter-commune roads, concreted 5.3 km of village roads, and 12/13 hamlets have completed the construction of a network of cultural institutions at the grassroots level. Currently, Quynh Giang is making efforts to complete 19 criteria for new rural construction in 2017.

The mass art movement has developed widely in villages and hamlets in Quynh Luu district. Photo: Hong Dien

Specify policies

Mr. Pham Van Giang - Deputy Head of the Department of Culture and Information of Quynh Luu district said: "Every year, the department advises the Steering Committee of the movement "All people unite to build a cultural life in residential areas" of the district to issue documents directing localities to organize for villages and households to register, implement and evaluate emulation titles.

The district also has a policy that when villages in religious areas build cultural houses, they will be supported with 70 million VND/house. The district also encourages the development of cultural, artistic and mass sports activities, and the building of a civilized lifestyle in residential areas...

Besides, during the implementation process, localities and establishments link the construction of cultural life with the implementation of political tasks and people's lives, creating a widespread movement among the people.

Especially in rural areas, the criteria in the movement are linked to the tasks of economic development, hunger eradication, poverty reduction, and ensuring social security issues, thereby making the movement more practical in life.

Up to now, the whole district of Quynh Luu has 300/406 villages and hamlets recognized as cultural hamlets, contributing greatly to the movement of building new rural areas and developing the local economy and society.

Among them, some communes have 100% of their villages recognized as cultural villages and continuously maintain the title such as Quynh Doi, Quynh Hau, Quynh Nghia, Quynh Minh, Quynh Luong, Quynh Dien...

Many typical cultural villages such as: Nghia Phu village (Quynh Nghia commune), Tien Thanh village (Quynh Thang commune), village 3 (Quynh Hau commune), village 7 (Quynh Thach commune), Phu Thanh village (Quynh Long), village 5 (Quynh Doi commune) ... have created a solid foundation in building cultural villages.

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(Quynh Luu Radio)