Cao Son Commune (Anh Son): Creating a new breakthrough
(Baonghean) - Entering the last term (2010 - 2015), Cao Son was still a poor mountainous commune of Anh Son district, with a total natural land area of over 3 thousand hectares, mainly agricultural and forestry land; difficult traffic infrastructure, fragmented during the rainy season, agricultural land was mainly terraced fields, swampy, high acidity, affecting the productivity of crops...
Faced with the above difficulties, the Party Committee and the Cao Son Commune Government have identified economic development as the focus to create comprehensive development in all aspects. Up to now, the economy has developed rapidly and quite comprehensively: the average annual production value increased by 9%, the average growth rate reached 6%. The value of agricultural - forestry - fishery production increased by 15.1% compared to 2011... The value of small-scale industrial - construction production increased by 10% during the term. Up to now, the whole commune has 56 establishments of carpentry, construction, civil welding, agricultural processing (milling, grinding animal feed); there are 86 individual business households, 8 households have purchased cars and excavators for business purposes; the average income per capita reached over 19 million VND/year, an increase of 9 million VND/person compared to the beginning of the term.
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Rural traffic in Cao Son. |
To create momentum for economic development, the Commune Party Committee advocated mobilizing internal and external resources to reach over 15 billion VND, focusing on investing in building roads to socio-economic centers such as Nhan Tai - Gia Giang - Cao Linh roads...; investing in building primary schools, multi-functional classrooms... In the movement of the whole people joining hands to build new rural areas, people contributed over 560 million VND to clear 16.83 km of roads, asphalt 12 km of roads, and 5 km of graded roads from the commune to the villages.
The fields of culture, society and education have achieved many results. Currently, the whole commune has 7/10 villages achieving the title of Cultural Village, nearly 70% of households achieving the title of Cultural Family, 25% of households achieving the title of Sports Family. Village health activities have been promoted, 100% of the annual expanded vaccination has been achieved, the commune has achieved the national health standards in phase 1. Hunger eradication, poverty reduction, and job creation have been directed with attention, 100% of people have health insurance under the program for especially difficult communes. The innovation of teaching methods at all levels and grades has initially achieved quite good results; every year, the commune has 98% of students graduating at all levels, nearly 17% of excellent students.
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Children of Cao Son kindergarten during lunch time |
During the past term, the Party Committee paid attention to directing the specialized Resolutions on local military defense tasks, and for 4 consecutive years, the commune was classified as strong in all aspects. The work of receiving people and resolving complaints and denunciations was given importance, with the annual rate of resolving petitions reaching over 80-85%...
Cao Son Commune Party Committee currently has 206 party members, 10 rural party cells and 4 public service party cells. During the past term, the commune has well implemented the grassroots democracy regulations and government mass mobilization, thereby stabilizing politics. It has strengthened close contact with villages and regularly had direct dialogues with the people. It has innovated and improved the activities of the Fatherland Front, the Youth Union, the Veterans Association, the Women's Association, the Elderly, and Farmers. The Party Committee has organized 28 inspections, including 22 inspections of affiliated party cells, and 6 inspections of cadres and party members with signs of violations. Thanks to that, every year, over 75% of party cells have achieved the title of "strong, exemplary, exemplary" party cells, with no weak party cells. Over 98% of party members are qualified to complete their tasks well; 20% of party members who have completed their tasks excellently have been commended and rewarded.
From the results achieved in the past term, Cao Son has drawn lessons: The most important thing is the drastic efforts of the Party Committee, the government and the people in the spirit of solidarity. Issuing directives and resolutions must be linked to specific projects, programs and plans and assigning responsibilities to the responsible collectives and individuals. Improving the quality of planning and planning work, ensuring scientific and practicality in forecasting and assessing the situation, maximizing internal resources and taking advantage of external resources. Strengthening the effectiveness and efficiency of the direction and administration of the government apparatus. Promoting administrative reform. Linking economic development with cultural development and environmental protection. Implementing social security policies well.
Entering the new term (2015 - 2020), the Party Committee, government and people of Cao Son commune set the following goals: Improve the leadership capacity and fighting strength of the Party organization, build a strong political system. Innovate and improve the quality of activities of the Vietnam Fatherland Front and mass organizations. Develop the economy rapidly and sustainably towards industrialization and modernization, significantly improve the cultural, material and spiritual life of the people, no more hungry households, rapidly reduce poor households. Create strong changes in education, training, application of science and technology; maintain political stability, social order and safety; strive to become a well-off commune of Anh Son district by 2020.
Mai Son