Nghia Yen Commune (Nghia Dan) is determined to build its homeland to be more and more prosperous and beautiful.

Nghia Yen Commune is located in the Northwest of Nghia Dan District, adjacent to Nhu Xuan District, Thanh Hoa Province, with a natural area of ​​3,466 hectares, an area with an important strategic position in terms of economy, politics, national defense and security. The total population of the commune is 6,937 people, with 2 main ethnic groups: Tho and Kinh, of which ethnic minorities account for 55.7%.

Land rich in revolutionary tradition

Going back in history, in 1885, King Dong Khanh changed the name of Nghia Duong district to Nghia Dan district, Nghia Yen land at that time belonged to Hoa Hop commune, Lam La canton, until mid-1947, implementing the policy of reducing the district level and strengthening the commune level, Nghia Dan district merged 61 old villages into 16 large communes, Nghia Yen land at that time belonged to Tan Lap commune (Lam La canton) - this was the premise for new developments in the revolutionary struggle movement of the masses here. There were many party members of Tan Lap Party Committee who were the predecessors and core of Nghia Yen Party Cell later, a typical, loyal class of people trained and tested through many practical activities.

By the end of 1953, following the policy of dividing large communes into small communes, Tan Lap commune was divided into 5 small communes and Nghia Yen commune was born from there, including the villages: Canh, Chong, Be, Moc, Moi, Nham, Dua, the population was mostly Tho ethnic people. During the resistance wars of the nation, Nghia Yen commune was the base of weapon, vehicle, and artillery repair workshops for the army; was the station of the puppet army reform unit (unit K4), was the evacuation place for people in key areas attacked by the enemy; Nghia Yen children had 249 people join the army, 85 youth volunteers, 165 people participate in the frontline laborers, 72 wounded and sick soldiers and 25 martyrs.

Promoting the revolutionary tradition of Nghia Yen homeland in the struggle for national liberation, implementing the renovation initiated and led by our Party, Nghia Yen commune Party Committee has applied the policies of the Central, the province and the district to issue resolutions to lead and direct the implementation of socio-economic development tasks close to the local reality. Despite the low starting point, along with the difficulties of the commune under Program 135, in any circumstance, under the leadership of the Party Executive Committee of the commune through the periods, the people of all ethnic groups in Nghia Yen commune have always maintained the tradition of solidarity, wholeheartedly following the Party, striving to build Nghia Yen commune with an increasingly developed economy and strong national defense and security.

Efforts to build new rural areas

Entering the period of industrialization and modernization, implementing the Resolution of the Commune Party Congress, under the strong leadership and direction of the Party Committee, Nghia Yen Commune has achieved important and comprehensive achievements in all fields. Mobilizing and effectively using resources to transform the economic structure, invest in infrastructure; promoting economic development.

One of the highlights is in the field of economic development, with the origin of a purely agricultural commune, from the beginning, the Party Committee of Nghia Yen commune has implemented many specialized resolutions, programs, and projects suitable to the potential and strengths of the locality such as: Resolution on converting the structure of crops and livestock towards commodities; building pilot models to introduce high-value crops and animals, applying scientific and technological advances to production, intensive cultivation to increase productivity such as sugarcane, guava... Along with promoting crop conversion, Nghia Yen commune has also effectively implemented the forestry development project. Directing the planting and replanting of more than 300 hectares of raw material forests, mainly hybrid acacia, thereby contributing to changing the lives of farmers. The average production value per capita reached 42 million VND/year. Along with economic development, the commune also pays special attention to investing in rural infrastructure such as: the Nghia Yen - Nghia Hong inter-commune road project, the economic development road in the Western region, the Nghia Yen - Nghia Minh inter-commune road, the commune's office headquarters and projects on education and health, and rural roads in villages.

The mark that has created the success of the Party Committee and the people of Nghia Yen commune over the past 70 years is the National Target Program on New Rural Construction. Thanks to the breakthrough, creativity, flexibility in leadership, direction, and the solidarity and unanimity of the entire population, many resources have been attracted to invest in building rural infrastructure. After 11 years of implementing the National Target Program on New Rural Construction, Nghia Yen commune has mobilized more than 123 billion VND for the New Rural Construction Program, of which the people contributed more than 18 billion VND and thousands of working days, donating thousands of m²land, trees, fences; construction of welcome gates, volleyball courts in villages. In 2022, Nghia Yen commune was recognized as a commune meeting new rural standards.

Not only creating a strong change in economic development, the local cultural and social work has achieved many remarkable results. The commune always maintains universal primary education for the right age and universal secondary education for all 3/3 schools meeting national standards level 1; 8/8 villages have achieved the title of Cultural Village, the rate of Cultural Families reaches 85%; the rate of poor households has decreased to 2.44%. Health care is always concerned, invested in and maintained to ensure the commune meets the national criteria on health. The national cultural identity, especially the gong culture of the Tho ethnic group, is preserved and promoted.

After 70 years of construction and development, with 22 congresses, the Nghia Yen Commune Party Committee has been constantly consolidated and developed in both quantity and quality, steadfast in political ideology and strong in organization. Up to now, the Party Committee has 255 members, operating in 13 Party cells, every year over 80% of Party cells and Party members are assessed to have fulfilled their tasks well or better. The Party Committee has 85 Party members awarded Party badges of various types. For many years, the Party Committee has been classified as having fulfilled its tasks excellently. “Determining economic development as the focus and Party building as the key, in recent years, the Party Committee of Nghia Yen commune has always focused on Party building, associated with studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and lifestyle, effectively implementing directives and resolutions of Party committees at all levels, especially Resolution 4 of the Central Committee (term XI, term XII, term XIII) on strengthening Party building and rectification and the political system, resolutely preventing, repelling and strictly handling cadres and party members who have degraded in political ideology, morality, lifestyle, and manifestations of "self-evolution" and "self-transformation", building a strong and clean cadre and party member team. The Party Committee of the commune directs the People's Committee of the commune to promote administrative reform, build a professional administration, reform and improve management and operation capacity with the spirit of serving the people”.

Proud of 70 years of formation and development, the Party Committee, Government and People of Nghia Yen commune continue to promote tradition, join hands, unite, unify will and action, actively promote the emulation movement to develop socio-economy, maintain national defense and security, build the Party, build a truly strong and comprehensive political system, build the homeland of Nghia Yen to develop more and more sustainably./.