Thach Giam Commune (Tuong Duong) reaches the New Rural Finish Line: A proud achievement

(Baonghean) - This September, the ethnic people of Thach Giam commune (Tuong Duong district) received the Certificate of recognition for meeting new rural standards (NTM) with the pride of being the first locality of the 3 poor districts (according to Resolution 30a) of the province to achieve the above achievement.

Comrade Mac Van Nguyen, Chairman of the People's Committee of Thach Giam commune, said: The process of building new rural areas in the locality has always received attention and support from superiors, especially in investing in infrastructure systems to promote socio-economic development, improve the appearance of mountainous rural areas, and improve all aspects of people's lives.

Thach Giam Primary School (Tuong Duong).

In the process of building the new rural area, the difficulty of Thach Giam is that no commune in the three poor districts of the province has met the new rural standards to come and learn from their experiences. Therefore, the locality chose easy criteria first, while doing, they explored, learned, and drew their own practical experiences; from there, they realized that the important factor is the solidarity and high consensus from cadres, party members to the masses. When the locality launched the new rural construction movement, at first people were still vague, considering it the responsibility of the Party and the State. But when the locality did a good job of propaganda, people understood that building the new rural area first of all was for them to benefit, so every person had to be responsible. When people understood and agreed, during the implementation process, the locality encountered many advantages, especially in building rural roads; in addition to being willing to contribute money to buy sand and gravel, spending days working to build roads, people also voluntarily cut down trees, dismantled fences, donated land to widen the roadbed...

Thus, this village competes with other villages, so every road is completed on schedule, ensuring quality. Up to now, Thach Giam has 11 km of inter-commune roads, of which 100% of the length has been asphalted, the road surface is 12m wide, and the asphalt is 6.5m wide; from implementing the motto "The State and the people work together", the entire 15.61 km of village and inter-village roads and 85% of the village lane system have been concreted according to the new rural standards... In total, out of nearly 62 billion VND spent on building the new rural areas of Thach Giam, the people contributed about 17 billion VND.

Hunger eradication and poverty reduction are also criteria that Thach Giam commune is concerned with in finding a direction suitable to the local reality, from which the poverty rate has decreased rapidly each year; up to now, it is only 9.87%. The important issue that the Party Committee and the government of Thach Giam commune are concerned with is how to prevent people from falling back into poverty after achieving the new rural standards. According to the Chairman of the People's Committee of the commune, first of all, in the area there are many civil construction teams, each team employs dozens of skilled and healthy workers, which is a condition for young workers to have regular jobs. In addition to increasing income, it also limits the situation of young people falling into social evils, making a legitimate living from their own labor. Along with that, it is necessary to renovate mixed gardens, plant trees with high economic value; continue to mobilize the force of commune cadres to guide people in the way of "holding hands and showing how to do" fences, renovating soil, growing vegetables, tubers, fruits, improving life, making goods, increasing income. In particular, in recent years, the district has implemented a pilot model of growing pink bananas in Chan village, bringing about quite good economic efficiency; many families have taken advantage of garden land, carefully fenced it, and expanded the area. From nearly 1 hectare of the initial model, Chan village now has more than 4 hectares of pink bananas.

The advantage of Thach Giam commune is that many villages have fertile land in their home gardens, but for a long time people have not exploited it to grow vegetables and fruits for sale; or encouraged people to intercrop cucumbers in their fields. Cucumbers grown in the fields are considered clean, very popular with customers, no need to go far to sell, but every day there are traders coming to buy wholesale, or selling along National Highway 7, no matter how much is sold. These are advantageous crops of the locality, need to be interested in expanding the area and increasing the output.

Secretary of the Chan village Party cell - Mr. Vi Van Lip, proudly said: The movement to build new rural areas in Chan village has been strongly supported by the people since the locality started to build new rural areas. Therefore, most of the village's traffic routes have been concreted, the village's community houses have been invested in and built quite solidly, the campus is guaranteed, and there is even a sports and recreation area. The movement to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty has also been actively responded to by families, up to now the village has only 9/110 poor households. Therefore, Chan village is considered a typical village in building new rural areas in the commune...

Despite many socio-economic difficulties, Thach Giam commune has made efforts to complete 19 NTM criteria. This will be a model for localities in the 3 poor districts of the province to learn from in the process of building NTM.

Xuan Hoang