Appraisal process to recognize Hoang Mai town for completing the task of building new rural areas

On the morning of December 19, a working delegation from the Central Office for New Rural Development Coordination visited Hoang Mai town for inspection and assessment. Comrade Nguyen Minh Tien - Director, Chief of the Central Office for New Rural Development Coordination was the head of the delegation; accompanied by representatives from central ministries and branches.

Working with the delegation, on the side of Nghe An province, there was comrade Hoang Nghia Hieu - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee.chaired; with members representing the Provincial Steering Committee for New Rural Construction, the Provincial New Rural Coordination Office, leaders of Hoang Mai town and Quynh Luu district.

A corner of the new rural area of ​​hamlet 6, Quynh Lien commune, Hoang Mai town that the delegation came to inspect and evaluate. Photo: Nguyen Hai

Entering the implementation of Program MNational target of new rural construction, Hoang Mai town has made many investment efforts and achieved many results. At the time of separation in 2013, from 5/5 communes that did not meet the new NTM standards, after 8 years of investing in building NTM and building civilized urban criteria, the town invested in 78 traffic infrastructure projects, up to now there are 3 national highways: 1A, 48D, 48E and 2 provincial roads with a total length of 64 km; in the near future there will be 19 km of roadNorth-South Expresswayand 9.5 km of coastal road.

After 8 years of building investment resources with 1,635 billion VND. Thanks to that, up to now, 5/5 communes of Hoang Mai town have met the new rural standards; the economic structure has shifted increasingly positively. In 2021, the average income per capita is expected to reach 68.9 million VND/person; the poverty rate is only 0.92%; in the period 2013 - 2020, the town has many policiessupport investment in production development,Agricultural production value in 2020 reached 2,010 billion VND; 10 products/23 cooperatives met OCOP standards...

The representative of the New Rural Development Coordination Office, a member of the Inspection and Appraisal Team, gave comments at the conference. Photo: Nguyen Hai

After the field inspection, speaking at the working session, the representatives of the Central New Rural Area Coordination Office acknowledged the town's efforts in building new rural areas, especially the criteria on traffic infrastructure, increasing people's income, environmental sanitation, the mass movement to protect national security and fishery safety; actively supporting production models, applying technology to production...

The members unanimously agreed to propose that the Central New Rural Area Appraisal Council consider recognizing Hoang Mai town for completing the task of building new rural areas in the 2015-2020 period.

However, in a constructive and frank spirit, the representative of the Central New Rural Area Coordination Office noted that, at the same time as building criteria to complete the New Rural Area task, Hoang Mai town is also building civilized urban criteria, so the province and town need to pay attention to updating and clarifying some indicators and appendix tables on the rate of households using clean water and average income between rural and urban areas to make it more suitable and easier to understand.

Before starting work, the working group inspected and assessed the safe vegetable production model in Quynh Lien commune, Hoang Mai town. Photo: Nguyen Hai

Visit the store displaying typical products and OCOP products of Hoang Mai town. Photo: Nguyen Hai

Comrade Hoang Nghia Hieu - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee reported on the acceptance and assigned departments and branches to continue to support Hoang Mai town in completing the new rural criteria in the coming time. Photo: Nguyen Hai

On behalf of the Provincial Steering Committee for New Rural Construction, comradeHoang Nghia Hieu– Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghe An province respectfully acknowledged the comments and contributions of members of the Central Office for New Rural Development Coordination on new rural construction.

Based on the direction of departments and branches to explain and clarify some information raised by the Central working delegation, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee said that in the coming time, he will continue to supplement and complete the information as noted by the delegation with the town.

Comrade Nguyen Minh Tien - Chief of Office of the Central Steering Committee for New Rural Areas recorded the opinions, compiled and submitted to the Central New Rural Areas Appraisal Council to recognize Hoang Mai town for completing the task of building new rural areas in the period of 2015-2020. Photo: Nguyen Hai.

Concluding the working session, comrade Nguyen Minh Tien - Director, Chief of the Central Office for New Rural Area Coordination shared the difficulties and efforts of Hoang Mai town in completing the New Rural Area criteria, but also requested that the town continue to supplement the New Rural Area criteria for completeness and sustainability.

In the spirit of agreeing with the members' proposed opinions, the working group synthesized to submit to the Central Council for New Rural Area Appraisal to consider recognizing Hoang Mai town as completing the task of building new rural areas in the 2015-2020 period in the coming time.