In the history book of Thanh Lien Commune Party Committee, the name Thanh Lien appeared nearly 600 years ago, from the Le Dynasty (1427) including 2 communes Cao Dien, Cao Mon (later Cao Mon commune changed to Duc Nhuan) belonging to Cat Ngan commune, Thanh Chuong district, Duc Tho prefecture. In the 7th year of Minh Mang (1826), it separated from Duc Tho prefecture and merged into Anh Son prefecture, Nghe An province. At Gieng market, 3 km east of Rang hill - where archaeologists found artifacts of ancient Vietnamese people belonging to Son Vi culture more than 12,000 years ago, that proves that this land has been inhabited for a long time. Today in Khe Su, there are still traces of caves of Muong and Dan Lai ethnic people living in a nomadic way...
In the old Cao Dien and Duc Nhuan lands, people had a studious spirit. Currently, in front of the Thanh Lien Commune People's Committee headquarters, there is still a stele house with 3 stone steles recording the names of 267 doctors, bachelors, and bachelors who passed the exams in the 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. This is considered a miniature "Temple of Literature" of the old Cat Ngan commune. Here, the Party cell was also established early in April 1930, with the task of propagating, mobilizing, developing new party members, educating and training the masses to participate in the revolutionary movement. Notably, on May 1, 1930, the Party cell led the people and communes in the area to protest, fight, and burn down Ky Vien plantation in Hanh Lam - an event that went down in the history of the Soviet - Nghe Tinh movement.
After 2 mergers, Cao Dien - Duc Nhuan changed its name to Cao Duc, Tam Dong; on March 23, 1954, the Nghe An Provincial Administrative Committee issued a decision to divide Tam Dong commune into 3 communes: Thanh Lien, Thanh Tien and Phong Thinh. Since the name Thanh Lien until now, each stage has been a milestone of effort, creativity, overcoming difficulties and rising up of the Party Committee and people of Thanh Lien.
Through two great wars to defend the country, Thanh Lien people have made many contributions in terms of manpower and resources, "all for the front line", "not a single pound of rice is missing, not a single soldier is missing", contributing with the whole nation to regain peace and unify the country. In recognition of the locality's contributions, the Party and State have awarded the commune the title of Hero of the Armed Forces; 82 Gold Honor Boards; 1,128 Glorious Family Boards; 3,429 medals of all kinds to collectives and individuals...
The development of Thanh Lien commune is closely linked to the development of Thanh Chuong district, Nghe An province and the country. After peace was restored, the Party Committee and the people of Thanh Lien commune joined hands to overcome the consequences of war, restore production and life, and carry out the renovation process with new thinking and determination. In particular, in the past 10 years, the Party Committee, Government and people of Thanh Lien commune have renewed their thinking, creativity, promoted the spirit of solidarity, self-reliance and self-improvement to break through and become the leading unit in the emulation movements of Thanh Chuong district. This is the only locality in 10 consecutive years where the Party Committee and the government have been classified as having excellently completed their tasks; in which, the Party Committee has been classified as having excellently completed their typical tasks for 9 years. With that result, the State recognized and awarded the Third Class Labor Medal to the Party Committee and the people of Thanh Lien.
During the development process, it has been affirmed that in Thanh Lien commune, cadres, party members and people have changed their thinking from agricultural production to agricultural economy; from monoculture of rice to diversified agricultural production, with 6 types of production planned by region. Including a stable rice production area of 379 hectares; 40 hectares of concentrated fruit trees, including Dien grapefruit, green-skinned grapefruit, guava, jackfruit, apples, etc.; a commercial vegetable growing area of more than 20 hectares, of which green squash is the main crop, reaching 240 million VND/ha/year; 30 hectares of aquaculture; 13 hectares of lotus growing; a farm and ranch area with 29 models, earning hundreds of millions to billions of VND/year/model.
To achieve today's results, Thanh Lien cadres and people are determined and resolute in investing in improving fields, improving irrigation systems, consolidating fields, exchanging land plots, and converting crop and livestock structures with many experiments, with successes and failures. In these "revolutions", cadres, party members, especially leaders and managers at the commune level are the pioneers in receiving land in remote and poor areas; testing new economic models first and then spreading them among the people.
Typically, to convert simple small-scale livestock farming into concentrated commodity livestock farming, the Standing Deputy Secretary of the Commune Party Committee, Pham Van Dan, took the lead. In the field of cultivation, each type of crop from green beans, squash, watermelon, cucumber, red turmeric and some fruit trees, such as dragon fruit, green-skinned grapefruit, Thai jackfruit... was personally done by the Party Secretary and Chairman of the Commune People's Committee, Phan Ba Ngoc, on his family's land so that people could see, believe and follow. And for each type of crop put into production in Thanh Lien Commune, along with taking care of the output, the commune officials also directly searched for markets and linked to purchase products for farmers. At one point, the Party Secretary and Chairman of the Commune People's Committee, Phan Ba Ngoc, directly hired a car to transport squash to Vinh City to find a seller and when there was a connection, let the people sell.
Currently, on the clean and spacious asphalt and concrete roads in Thanh Lien commune are flower roads, green tree rows, flag roads along with the awareness of preserving the common environment of the people, creating a more civilized and modern countryside landscape.
Mr. Nguyen Xuan Hung - who has worked in the locality for nearly 30 years and is now retired, said: The outstanding feature of Thanh Lien commune is that the economic life of the people has been improved, many households are well-off and rich; there are no households living in makeshift houses. Farmers today use machines to reduce human labor. Infrastructure and welfare works have been invested in and built, meeting the standards of advanced new rural areas and partly model new rural areas. Cultural life in all aspects and the movement of physical training and sports of the people have been improved, becoming a daily need of each family. The community is united, cooperative, and trusts the team of commune and hamlet cadres; especially the trust of children far from home, each person in one way or another has contributed to building the homeland.
Comrade Phan Ba Ngoc - Party Secretary, Chairman of the Commune People's Committee said: To continue building a model new rural commune, during the direction process, the Party Committee and the government have had a specific plan to organize the implementation. We are very pleased that during the implementation process, there is consensus among cadres, party members and the people. Currently, the Party Committee, the government and the entire political system are continuing to direct the improvement of criteria to achieve a model new rural commune by the end of 2024.
From the past practice, the Party Committee and the government of Thanh Lien commune continue to promote the role of each household, each clan, each neighborhood, taking each Party cell and organizations in the political system as factors and foundations to spread, creating new marks and highlights in all fields. First of all, the Party Committee must really get involved, closely, strengthen inspection and supervision work to "transform" the policy to be implemented quickly and effectively, creating a spreading effect in the Party Committee, Party members and Party members' families. The government strengthens management work in all fields; ensures economic development, improves people's material and spiritual life, and maintains national defense and security. Take care to build a high level of solidarity and consensus in the Party, government, Fatherland Front, political and social organizations and the people with the same will and actions for the goal of building Thanh Lien commune to be increasingly developed.
By organizing the 70th anniversary celebration and receiving the Third Class Labor Medal, and announcing the Decision on achieving advanced new rural standards, the Party Committee and People of Thanh Lien commune continue to have more motivation and solidarity to bring the locality to a higher level of development, maintaining the leading "flag" of Thanh Chuong district.
