Strengthening solidarity, building strong border areas

Also attending were Colonel Tran Van Hung - Member of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, Commander of the Provincial Military Command; Colonel Le Nhu Cuong - Political Commissar of the Provincial Border Guard; representatives of a number of provincial departments, branches and sectors and comrades in the Standing Committee of the Que Phong District Party Committee.

Efforts from the border

The Provincial Party Committee delegation visited officers and soldiers of Hanh Dich Border Guard Station. Photo: Hoai Thu

At the meeting with Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Nguyen Xuan Son and the working delegation of the Provincial Party Committee, Lieutenant Colonel Tran Quang Trung - Head of Hanh Dich Border Guard Station reported on the results of the work situation, coordination with local authorities in building and consolidating grassroots party organizations, helping people develop the economy, culture - society and maintain security and safety in border areas.

In 2018, Hanh Dich Border Guard Station continued to strengthen 2 comrades as Deputy Secretary of the Commune Party Committee, 6 comrades temporarily worked at village Party cells; assigned 29 party members to be in charge of 135 households.

At the same time, advising the Party Committee of Hanh Dich commune to admit 23 new party members; helping people develop economic models such as growing passion fruit, growing clean vegetables, raising livestock and poultry for high efficiency such as "Tet for the poor", "Spring on the border warms the hearts of the villagers" giving more than 1,200 gifts worth over 640 million VND to policy families and poor households; maintaining security in the border area.

Hanh Dich is a border commune with more than 40% poor households and a population of more than 3,500. In 2018, out of 27 set targets, the Party Committee of Hanh Dich commune exceeded 7 targets, 3 basic targets were achieved and 9 targets were not achieved. The Party Committee of the commune closely coordinated with Hanh Dich Border Guard Station to ensure social security and maintain national defense and security.

At the meeting, Secretary of the Party Committee of Hanh Dich Commune, Lo Van Viet, also made a number of proposals, hoping that relevant levels and sectors would create favorable conditions to help the government and people build roads to the resettlement areas of Qua village and Xang village... and the national grid system to 6 villages without grid electricity.

The delegation presented gifts to poor households in Hanh Dich commune. Photo: Hoai Thu

Speaking at the meeting, representatives of several departments and branches also affirmed the role of border posts in forest protection and building economic development models for people in border areas.

Hanh Dich Commune is a typical commune of the province's border area with many difficulties in socio-economic development with a high forest coverage rate of over 90%. Therefore, relevant agencies and levels need to have specific policies, close to the locality to help people develop a stable socio-economic situation.

At the same time, promote the strengths of cultural identity, natural conditions of scenic spots, forest resources, especially the potential of eco-tourism, preserving cultural identity and growing industrial crops...

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Son and the delegation visited the economic development model of the people of Hanh Dich commune. Photo: Hoai Thu

Currently, economic models in the commune are still few, it is necessary to implement poverty reduction methods in the direction of "giving fishing rods" to ensure sustainability. Attention should be paid to strive to reduce the poverty rate in the whole province from 5.7% to 4%. It is recommended that the District People's Committee synthesize data to submit to the province on priority policies to support border communes in socio-economic development, especially in infrastructure construction. The Department of Planning and Investment will synthesize reports to the Provincial People's Committee to have specific policies to support the locality.

Economic development, national defense and security

Concluding the working session, comrade Nguyen Xuan Son highly appreciated the close coordination and contributions of the border guard station and local authorities in effective working activities to build a stable and developed area, ensuring national defense and security in the border area.

The Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee also acknowledged the role of Hanh Dich Border Guard Station and Hanh Dich commune in coordinating to create positive changes in socio-economic development in the area, especially in building economic models, forest protection and national defense and security.

The Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee visited the Hanh Dich Border Guard Station model to support people in economic development. Photo: Hoai Thu

The Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee requested that Hanh Dich Border Guard Station continue to advise and coordinate with local authorities in propagating the upcoming holidays to create highlights to strengthen military-civilian solidarity, ensure national defense and security, build border self-management teams, improve the quality of legal education and propaganda work, take care of consolidating the grassroots political system, increase border guard party members to temporarily live in difficult villages, improve the quality of party cells and develop party members.

At the same time, coordinate to promote socio-economic development, effectively eliminate hunger and reduce poverty; continue to do well in foreign affairs with Laos. The Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee also reminded departments, branches and localities to pay attention to proposals and consider the commune's requests on infrastructure construction, especially the construction of the road to Qua village and some other contents.

At the meeting, comrade Nguyen Xuan Son and the delegation presented 10 gifts to 10 poor households in Hanh Dich commune; visited economic models in the commune.