Nghia Khanh Commune (Nghia Dan): Aiming for a model new rural area

(Baonghean) - Nghia Khanh is a mountainous commune located in the southwest of Nghia Dan district, with a natural area of ​​over 2,700 hectares and a population of 10,278 people. With 247 party members operating in 21 party cells, Nghia Khanh is one of the cradles of the revolution when the first party cell of Nghia Dan district was established here.

After nearly 70 years of construction and development, generations of cadres, party members and people of Nghia Khanh have made many contributions to the cause of national liberation, defending the Fatherland as well as building and renewing the homeland. With that precious tradition, entering the cause of innovation, under the leadership of the Party, all classes of people in Nghia Khanh have always united, joined hands and competed to develop the economy - society, maintain national defense - security, and build an increasingly strong political system. For many consecutive years, Nghia Khanh has been one of the communes with a fairly comprehensive movement in Nghia Dan district; material and spiritual life has been constantly improved, the face of the countryside has been increasingly renewed. In particular, after 5 years of striving, Nghia Khanh has completed the goal of reaching the new rural area (NTM) with 19/19 criteria.

Thuy Sen cake factory in Nghia Khanh commune (Nghia Dan).

Realizing that building a new rural area means comprehensive economic development and is an opportunity to improve people's lives, the Party Committee and the communal government have developed a very specific plan and implementation roadmap with high determination. Based on local conditions, along with planning to have an investment plan to upgrade according to new criteria, Nghia Khanh advocates inheriting and effectively exploiting the achievements; launching the movement "All people join hands to build a new rural area", maximizing all resources...

First of all, the commune directed departments, branches and organizations to closely follow the guidelines and policies of the Party and State to propagate to the people the importance of the new rural construction program; each responsible cadre and party member was assigned to each residential community to analyze the content of the 19 criteria; present methods, ways of doing, and the role of the people... With the above proactive participation, Nghia Khanh not only took advantage of and integrated many investment projects from superiors but also effectively mobilized people's strength to build new rural areas. Of the total budget of 438.5 billion VND that the commune mobilized to implement the criteria, the commune took advantage of integrating 111.3 billion VND of capital from the programs; people spent 287.3 billion VND to renovate houses, build village roads, build cultural houses and village stadiums according to the new criteria.

After 5 years of investing in NTM, agricultural production, farmers and rural areas of Nghia Khanh have changed quite comprehensively, most of the agricultural production stages have been mechanized; rural technical infrastructure has been invested in and upgraded fundamentally. Early identification of the advantage of the commune having convenient traffic routes, Nghia Khanh focused on shifting the economic structure towards goods, promoting intensive farming, building large-scale fields to increase production value per unit area. Up to now, in addition to completing land consolidation and plot exchange, the commune has created conditions for businesses to implement the Project of Building High-income Fields, Large-scale Fields; the whole commune has 18 farm and family farm models with high economic efficiency.

Nghia Khanh has also strongly developed industries, services and trade. Up to now, there are 36 milling and animal feed processing machines, 312 small-scale trading households, 4 construction enterprises, sand and gravel mining, wood processing; dozens of construction teams; dozens of trucks providing services creating jobs for hundreds of workers; the whole commune currently has 376 people working abroad, sending home tens of billions of dong each year. Thanks to the right economic restructuring and strong development of industries, the average income per capita increased from 14 million VND/year in 2011 to 21 million VND/year in 2015; the number of poor households decreased to only 4.91%; the rate of well-off and rich households increased day by day; the commune also created regular jobs for over 91% of workers...

The cultural and social fields have many improvements, 100% of households have audio-visual equipment, and a cable system providing Internet connection. Most village roads and alleys have electricity; 17/17 hamlets have cultural houses and sports areas to ensure community activities. The movement to build a cultural life in residential areas is increasingly developing and going into depth; currently, the commune has 84% ​​of households achieving the title of Cultural Family and 14/17 hamlets maintain and promote the title of Cultural Village... Education, learning encouragement, and talent encouragement are given attention; 17/17 hamlets and many clans have learning encouragement funds. All 3/3 schools have facilities that meet national standards. Children of universal age are able to go to school; the number of students passing university and college entrance exams is increasing. Medical work and primary health care for the people are increasingly strengthened, to date the commune has met the national criteria for health. Regarding waste treatment and the environment, there is no longer any pollution or indiscriminate littering; 90% of households have access to clean, hygienic water...

Comrade Le Viet Xuong, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Nghia Khanh commune shared: To achieve the results of building new rural areas like today, in addition to the timely and effective support of the Central, the province and the district, the first important factor that makes the success is solidarity and unanimity; implementing the construction of new rural areas is the Party's idea in line with the people's will; when the people identify their responsibility as the subject in building new rural areas and the locality knows how to effectively promote the democratic regulations at the grassroots level, arousing the people's strength, creating a combined strength, reaching the new rural area's finish line exceeding the plan and set targets.

Excited and proud, the leaders and people of Nghia Khanh commune determined that being recognized as a new rural commune is a premise and motivation to continue striving to improve the quality of the criteria; building Nghia Khanh commune into a model new rural commune, worthy of the tradition of the revolutionary homeland in Western Nghe An.

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