Dong Thanh Commune (Yen Thanh) celebrates its 70th anniversary and receives recognition as a commune meeting advanced new rural standards.

Attending the ceremony were comrades: Major General Le Khac Thuyet - Director of the Department of Telecommunications - Cryptography; Nguyen Viet Hung - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Director of the Department of Home Affairs; Representative of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development; Provincial New Rural Area Coordination Office, comrade Le Thi Hoai Chung - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of Yen Thanh District Party Committee and leaders of the District Party Committee and People's Committee of Yen Thanh district.

Dong Thanh is a mountainous commune in the Northwest of Yen Thanh district, with 2,206 households and 8,480 people. Determining that building "New rural areas has only a starting point, not an ending point", immediately after receiving the decision to recognize the commune as meeting new rural standards in 2017, Dong Thanh commune continued to implement many solutions to maintain and improve the quality and effectiveness of the criteria with the destination of advanced new rural areas, model new rural areas in production organization.

Up to now, Dong Thanh commune has had a synchronous infrastructure and cultural institutions. The rural traffic system has been asphalted and concreted to ensure meeting the traffic and travel needs of the people. The irrigation canal system and internal traffic have been invested in upgrading and solidifying to ensure good service for production.

The school system has been invested in fundamentally, the medical station has been upgraded, providing good services for medical examination and treatment. To create jobs and increase income for the people, in recent years Dong Thanh commune has transformed the structure of crops and livestock, applied scientific advances in production, focused on economic development, and expanded the scale of household economic development. The commune has mobilized people to take advantage of over 200 hectares of basalt land around the mountains and rocky cliffs suitable for growing citrus trees such as oranges, grapefruits, etc.

The whole commune currently has more than 125 hectares of Vinh oranges, mainly delicious orange varieties such as Xa Doai long vang, Van Du... Of these, over 60 hectares of oranges have been granted VietGAP standard certificates. The estimated harvest is 1,400 tons of oranges, bringing in over 50 billion VND in revenue.

In 2023, the village's Treo Vong honey product was recognized by the People's Committee of Yen Thanh district as a 3-star OCOP product. In 2021, Dong Thanh orange product was recognized by the People's Committee of Nghe An province as a 3-star OCOP product. The economic growth rate is increasing, the total average income per capita has reached 62 million VND/year.

Over 70 years of construction and development, Dong Thanh Commune Party Committee has been constantly consolidated and developed in both quantity and quality, steadfast in political ideology, and strong in organization. For many years, the Party Committee has been classified as having excellently completed its tasks.

Speaking at the ceremony, comrade Nguyen Van Duong - Vice Chairman of Yen Thanh District People's Committee acknowledged the efforts of the Party Committee and people of Dong Thanh commune to achieve many achievements in the process of construction and development, reaching advanced new rural standards.

At the same time, it is recommended that the Party Committee and the government of Dong Thanh commune continue to improve the quality and promote the role of political and social organizations in building new rural areas, to build, maintain and improve the quality of the achieved criteria. Continue to effectively exploit the potential strengths to build a commune that meets the model new rural standards in the coming time.

On this occasion, comrade Nguyen Viet Hung - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Director of the Department of Home Affairs, comrade Le Thi Hoai Chung - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of Yen Thanh District Party Committee, authorized by the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee to award the Certificate of Recognition of the commune meeting the advanced new rural standards in 2022; awarded Certificates of Merit of the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee to 2 collectives and 4 individuals; awarded Certificates of Merit of the Chairman of the District People's Committee to 3 collectives and 5 individuals with outstanding achievements in the movement to build advanced new rural areas./.