Actively building civilized urban areas in Thai Hoa town

A corner of the new urban area in Long Son ward - Thai Hoa town. Photo: Quang Huy

Building a "Ward meeting urban civilization standards"

Returning to Long Son ward today, we are amazed by the modern urban space with new, wide, beautiful traffic routes and many urban and commercial projects that have been and are being completed. Sharing about the development of the locality, comrade Nguyen Van Phuc - Vice Chairman of Long Son ward People's Committee said that in the development planning orientation, Long Son ward is identified as one of the "core" and important urban areas of Thai Hoa.

Therefore, in recent times, the town has prioritized attracting investment in a number of urban, commercial, and transport infrastructure projects associated with tree planting projects. Among them, a number of projects have become urban development highlights, such as: Commercial area, supermarket combined with Shophouse townhouses; Truong Thang commercial service area, auto and motorbike showroom; Toyota product introduction and warranty repair service center; Honda Auto Tay Nghe An dealer; Hung Cuong commercial service complex and event restaurant...

At the same time, there are investment projects in production, contributing to job creation, facilitating people to develop trade and services, aiming to increase the proportion of service economy from 33% to 43% in the economic structure of Long Son ward. Long Son ward has 2 areas: the outer area (old Long Son ward), people mainly do services, gradually getting used to urban life; the inner area (old Nghia Hoa commune), mainly agricultural production, rural lifestyle, sparse population.

Thai Hoa town center. Photo: Quang Huy

From that reality, the entire political system has taken part in propaganda, organizing the signing of commitments with households not to encroach on corridors and sidewalks of roads. Urban beautification is assigned responsibility to the Fatherland Front and organizations that directly mobilize union members, association members, and people to beautify houses, gardens, gates, and alleys associated with the construction of self-managed roads, creating a civilized urban lifestyle in each household and each alley.

Through review and self-assessment, the ward has now achieved 50/52 contents of the 9 criteria of "Ward meeting urban civilized standards" as prescribed in Decision No. 04/2022/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister (criteria of average income per capita and rate of people participating in health insurance have not been met). Long Son Ward is determined to complete all criteria of "Ward meeting urban civilized standards" by 2023.

For Hoa Hieu ward, which was recognized as meeting urban civilized standards in 2016, the task is to continue to consolidate and improve the quality of the criteria. Hoa Hieu ward actively promotes so that people can strive to achieve common interests in maintaining civilized urban areas, from voluntarily cutting roofs, clearing traffic safety corridors, to contributing money to build flag roads, planting trees, making flower beds, removing garbage spots, building civilized streets, building infrastructure, and cultural and sports facilities.

In particular, Hoa Hieu focuses on building cultured people through emulation movements "All people unite to build a cultural life", all people protect national security, prevent crime and drug abuse...; building Hoa Hieu people with culture in behavior, business, law compliance...

Thai Hoa street at night. Photo: Quang Huy

Currently, the other two wards, Quang Tien and Quang Phong, are also resolutely directing with appropriate steps and methods to complete the criteria of urban civilization. Quang Tien Ward strengthens land management, construction management, ensures compliance with planning; mobilizes resources to repair and upgrade markets, upgrade internal roads; installs a community camera system. Quang Tien Ward also deploys the construction and replication of a number of effective economic models, increasing income for people...

Sustainable implementation of criteria

Orientation to develop Thai Hoa town to become a type III urban area by 2025, "green, clean, beautiful, safe"; isCentral urban area of ​​the Northwest region of Nghe AnTherefore, one of the key tasks that the Party Committee and the town government have focused on in recent times is to build urban civilization. Along with directing 4 wards to build "Wards meeting urban civilization standards", the town also implemented 9 criteria to meet urban civilization standards at the town level.

Thai Hoa has been approved by the Provincial People's Committee to adjust the general planning of the town and a construction planning project; land use planning of the town until 2030. The town is also promoting coordination to establish a planning project for the construction of the existing urban center (including Hoa Hieu, Long Son, Quang Phong wards); the expanded urban development area (including Quang Tien ward and Tay Hieu and Nghia Tien communes); Dong Hieu urban area in Thai Hoa town; planning the ecological area on both sides of Hieu river...

The urban area project combined with commerce in Long Son ward, Thai Hoa town is gradually being completed. Photo: Mai Hoa

Sharing the view on the town's planning, comrade Pham Chi Kien - Chairman of the town's People's Committee is to clearly define the strategy, vision and have a basis for implementation, meeting the requirements of developing the central urban area of ​​the Northwest region and the city under the province. The town also promotes investment attraction, creates conditions and supports investors to implement projects, creates jobs; at the same time directs the restructuring of crops and livestock; develops high-tech agricultural production, clean agriculture; promotes labor export, increases income for people.

In addition to the efforts and achievements, through monthly and quarterly assessments, the Standing Committee of Thai Hoa City Party Committee also frankly pointed out many difficulties and limitations, requiring the Party Committee, the government and the entire political system to take more drastic action. In particular, it requires that there be no cases of encroachment or illegal use of public land and public works; no phenomenon of encroachment on roads and sidewalks for business, trading, or violation of traffic safety and order; increase the percentage of households using clean water; increase people's income; build "green, clean, beautiful, civilized" urban spaces...

Thai Hoa town leaders inspect the progress of urban project implementation. Photo: Mai Hoa

A difficult problem today is the resources to build a city that meets the criteria of great civilization, while the guaranteed budget is limited, leading to slow renovation and investment in technical infrastructure; urban planning is not synchronous, illegal private housing construction is still taking place; some roads have not been named... These are the issues that the Standing Committee of Thai Hoa City Party Committee analyzed and discussed solutions to actively implement, based on the foundation of mobilizing all resources from the budget.attracting investment, socialization and people's participation. On that basis, strive to successfully implement the contents of building civilized urban areas to ensure sustainability.