Nam Dan district audited to meet advanced new rural standards

Comrade Nguyen Van De - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, Chairman of the Provincial New Rural Area Appraisal Council and Comrade Phung Thanh Vinh - Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Chief of the Provincial New Rural Area Coordination Office chaired the meeting.

Also attending were representatives of departments, agencies and branches who are members of the Provincial New Rural Area Appraisal Council, the Steering Committee for New Rural Area Construction of Nam Dan district and representatives of 19 communes and towns in the area.

The first district registered to build advanced new rural areas

Nam Dan district was recognized by the Prime Minister as meeting the new rural standards in 2017. Immediately after meeting the district-level new rural standards, with the attention and support of the Central and the province, Nam Dan immediately started implementing the district's criteria to meet the advanced new rural standards. Thanks to the synchronous leadership and direction measures and especially the mobilization of the high determination of the entire political system, the new rural areas in Nam Dan have created a clear change. Along with maintaining the quality of the criteria, the communes after the merger were also reviewed for criteria to continue to supplement and improve as a basis for recognition of meeting the new rural and advanced new rural standards.

In total, after 5 years (up to December 31, 2023), Nam Dan mobilized over 3,022 billion VND to implement the Advanced New Rural Area target, of which the central budget supported 64.08 billion VND; accounting for 2.12%; the provincial budget 232.35 billion VND; accounting for 7.69%; the district budget 1,295.76 billion VND; accounting for 19.4%; the commune budget 417.07 billion VND; accounting for 0.4%; the combined capital 179.92 billion VND, accounting for 5.95%; investment attraction 318.67 billion VND, accounting for 10.54%; mobilized capital from enterprises 224.02 billion VND, accounting for 7.41%; capital contributed by people and other mobilized capital 290.91 billion VND; accounting for 9.62%.

Along with investing in nearly 500 essential infrastructure projects, thereby changing the face of the district's rural areas, the cultural and spiritual life and income of the people have been improved.
From 2018-2023, production value increased by an average of 9.34%/year; average income per capita increased from 43 million VND in 2018 to 65 million VND in 2023.
Notably, a number of key transport infrastructure projects continue to be invested in and put into use, meeting the needs of trade, travel, and developing experiential tourism for the people. In addition, national defense, security, politics, and social order and safety are maintained, and the activities of the political system are increasingly strong...

Thanks to the efforts, after 5 years, compared with the Advanced New Rural Criteria for the period 2021-2025, the district has conducted an inspection and proposed the province to recognize 15/18 communes in the district meeting the Advanced New Rural Standards, reaching 83%. Currently, Nam Dan district has met 9 criteria according to the Advanced New Rural District Criteria for the period 2021-2025; 07 communes have met the Model New Rural Standards and Nam Dan town has met the civilized urban standards.

Supplement and complete the criteria

At the working session, from the actual inspection and survey of some criteria and items at the site and localities, units, representatives of departments and branches who are members of the appraisal basically agreed with the district's proposed report on considering recognition of meeting the Advanced New Rural standards. However, the departments and branches also gave some additional comments for the district to consider and supplement.

Specifically, the Departments of Construction and Transport requested the district to clarify some details on planning, review the province's new rural planning with the provincial planning for the period 2021-2030, with a vision to 2045, which has just been approved, to supplement and update accordingly; new investment projects and works must be updated to ensure legality; develop documents and arrange funds for maintenance and repair of roads managed by districts and communes; strengthen and monitor the management of roadsides, sidewalks, corridors, and traffic safety markers; fully arrange speed bump warnings at intersections to ensure safety...

Representatives of the New Rural Coordination Office and the Provincial Department of Cooperative and Rural Development also noted the criteria for clean water standards in the new phase; currently, the district has 15/18 communes meeting the Advanced New Rural standards, but only 10 communes meeting the Advanced New Rural standards have centralized clean water production systems, while 5 communes meeting the Advanced New Rural standards and 3 communes meeting the New Rural standards do not have centralized clean water systems. In addition, the district needs to review ineffective cooperatives to have a solution; add some planting area codes for some strong raw material plants...

At the conference, giving suggestions to the district, the representative of the Department of Industry and Trade also suggested that the district review the planning of industrial clusters to supplement to support land funds for production and business development, and continue to consider planning markets to ensure food hygiene and safety criteria.

Meanwhile, the Department of Culture and Sports, Department of Education and Training, Department of Tourism, Department of Information and Communications suggested that the district pay attention to supplementing equipment for cultural and information institutions at the grassroots level, especially in communes in the 5 South region; need to pay attention to allocating resources to preserve and promote historical relics and intangible cultural heritage; increase investment in accommodation facilities to meet tourism facilities, corresponding to the level of recognized relics...

Concluding the working session, Comrade Nguyen Van De - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee praised the working spirit and gave frank, dedicated and focused comments from the departments and branches. Basically agreeing with the comments from the departments and branches, he further emphasized that Nam Dan is the hometown of President Ho Chi Minh, so the goal and task of building a new rural area has received great attention and priority from the Central and the province. Although there are still many difficulties due to the low starting point, because of the political task of the province, we must try.

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Currently, Nam Dan is one of less than 10 districts nationwide registered to build advanced New Rural Areas in the period of 2021-2025. This is not only the task and responsibility of Nam Dan district alone but also the support and companionship of the province.

Based on the opinions of departments and branches on each specific criterion, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee assigned Nam Dan district to direct departments and communes to continue to supplement and improve the quality of criteria that are not yet stable and sustainable and have been pointed out by departments and branches; at the same time, request departments and branches to closely follow the criteria and regulations of the Central Government to support and guide the district to complete the dossier and soon submit the dossier for recognition for the Central Government to inspect and appraise.