Thanh Lien Commune (Thanh Chuong) strives to achieve model new rural area

Colors of the new homeland

Returning to Thanh Lien commune (Thanh Chuong) after only a few years, we saw a new countryside before our eyes. On the clean and spacious asphalt and concrete roads were rows of green trees and flowers; some clusters of billboards and flagpoles were built like urban areas. The system of schools, clinics, and lighting were planned and invested synchronously. In particular, surrounding the roads, schools, clinics, etc. were fruit-laden orchards; lush vegetable plots and rice fields, creating a landscape of a strongly developing countryside.

Thanh Lien Commune received the New Rural Standard Commune and the Emulation Flag from the Provincial People's Committee for being the leading unit in the patriotic emulation movement in 2016. Photo: Mai Hoa

Not only are visitors surprised by the changes in Thanh Lien commune, but the people living here also clearly feel the transformation of their hometown.

Mr. Khuong Xuan Truc - Secretary of Lien Khai Party Cell shared: Since the commune and hamlet roads were concreted, along with the Commune People's Committee investing in a system of garbage bins in the fields and having a mechanism to support people in making garbage pits at home; promulgating regulations on protecting welfare works and protecting the environment; installing 10 camera clusters for management, the awareness and responsibility of the people in preserving the environmental landscape have been raised, together creating green, clean and beautiful landscapes on each road and alley and continuing to build "Model roads, clean - beautiful - peaceful hamlets".

Not only creating a green, clean and beautiful rural appearance so that every child who goes far away always wants to return and those who stay in their hometown are proud to have contributed to building the image of their developing hometown; during the past term, the Party Committee and the government of Thanh Lien commune continued to consider transforming the structure of crops and livestock in the direction of increasing value and economic efficiency.

Photos from left to right, top to bottom: Mr. Ho Sy Phuong's family's Dien grapefruit model earns hundreds of millions of dong each year; Commune leaders inspect the development of green-skin grapefruit trees on converted land; Thanh Lien has converted and formed a number of commercial crop models. Photo by Mai Hoa

Mr. Ho Sy Phuong's family in Lien Yen hamlet was an early convertor, planting Dien grapefruit trees on a total of more than 2 hectares; of which more than 1 hectare with about 500 trees has yielded harvests, with a good harvest year bringing in an income of 500 - 600 million VND, and a bad harvest year also bringing in more than 300 million VND.

From the Dien grapefruit model of Mr. Ho Sy Phuong, up to now, Thanh Lien commune has had many more households growing it with a total of nearly 27 hectares. And not only Dien grapefruit, on the land of Thanh Lien commune today there are also many other fruit trees such as green-skin grapefruit, guava, jackfruit, red-fleshed dragon fruit... with dozens of hectares. On the area of ​​​​colored land converted to commercial vegetables, including green beans, cucumbers, various green vegetables; especially green squash that can be grown all year round, especially green squash on 2-rice land, bringing in an income of 109 million VND/ha/crop.

Some ineffective 2-rice land areas were also converted to concentrated chicken and pig farms applying science and technology combined with fish farming and lotus planting with a total of 25 farms... Thanks to that, the total pig herd, although African swine fever occurred in many places, Thanh Lien commune still maintained a total herd of nearly 3,300 heads, an increase of more than 1,000 heads compared to the beginning of the term; a herd of nearly 3,000 heads of buffalo and cows; and more than 100,000 heads of poultry, an increase of nearly 25,000 heads compared to the beginning of the term.

Thanh Lien Commune has introduced mechanization into agricultural production from land preparation, sowing and harvesting rice. Photo: Mai Hoa

With economic development, people's quality of life has been improved both materially and spiritually with a system of cultural houses in the hamlets associated with sports facilities, soccer fields, and volleyball courts invested synchronously in the hamlets, creating a vibrant movement of physical activities, sports, and health training in the locality. Security and order are focused on through promoting the role of self-management groups in residential areas.

Party building work has received synchronous attention; the leadership and direction capacity of Party committees continues to improve; the management and operation of the government are increasingly effective; the role of the Fatherland Front and mass organizations is increasingly clear. Thanh Lien Commune Party Committee has achieved the title of exemplary Clean and Strong for 6 consecutive years.

Lessons learned and development orientation

Thanh Lien is a poor commune of Thanh Chuong district; each year there are only two rice crops, the spring crop is a sure thing, and the summer-autumn crop, with half of the area often lacking water, the other half is prone to flooding and losing everything. That said, it is not easy to have a Thanh Lien like today, but it is the tireless efforts of the cadres and people, first of all the exemplary work of cadres and party members. For each policy put forward in Thanh Lien commune, cadres, party members, especially leaders must be the ones to do it first.

Standing members of the Thanh Lien Commune Party Committee reviewed and completed the political report to present to the congress. Photo: Mai Hoa

Comrade Phan Ba ​​Ngoc - Party Secretary and Chairman of the Commune People's Committee shared: "The leaders of the commune agree with each other, as cadres, we must know how to grow rice, raise pigs, grow fruit trees, and prevent diseases; and if we want to know, we must get down and do it. Therefore, in the leadership division, each person "shoulders" a spearhead, one spearheads cultivation, one spearheads livestock, one spearheads services..., with the purpose of discussing or making any policy, it must be very deep and close, the one who is deep in this field will help the one who is deep in that field and vice versa, from there everyone is deep in all spearheads. When the cadres have a deep understanding, they can speak to the people, the people will believe, and the people will follow."

With that mindset, Thanh Lien commune currently has good cadres and farmers, such as the Secretary and Chairman of the Commune People's Committee who has 2 hectares of fruit trees and annually harvests over 30 tons of green squash. Or comrade Pham Van Dan - Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman of the Commune People's Council who owns a farm with a scale of 25 sows; 250 - 300 pigs/batch and 0.7 hectares of fish farming; 0.5 hectares of fruit trees.

Or comrade Luu Cong Hiep - Head of the Commune Agriculture Committee in charge of fattening cattle, raising pigs and providing output services for agricultural products. There is also comrade Nguyen Xuan Dac - Head of the Agricultural Cooperative specializing in land preparation services, machine harvesting of rice and tray seedling making...

Along with setting an example for cadres and party members, Thanh Lien commune also has a policy that the Fatherland Front, organizations, unions and party cells "take on work". For example, the veterans' association is responsible for grasping the social situation to reflect to the Party Committee and government; the ultimate goal is to grasp information and handle information when it first arises, especially social conflicts. The Farmers' Association takes charge of production, restructuring crops and livestock, and building effective economic models. The Women's Union takes charge of environmental collection and sanitation. The Youth Union takes care of the landscape and cultural, artistic, physical education and sports activities...

People transact at the Thanh Lien Commune One-Stop Center (Thanh Chuong). Photo: Mai Hoa

In addition to the above factors, in the process of implementing political tasks in the locality, the Party Committee and the government always promote the democratic regulations of "people know, people discuss, people do, people inspect". Thanks to that, in addition to the consensus in implementing the policies and plans set forth by the Party Committee and the government, in the past term, the cadres and people of Thanh Lien commune have contributed with other resources to synchronously upgrade the irrigation canal system, roads, schools, lighting, cultural works, and sports facilities in a civilized direction.

Total social investment attraction during the term reached more than 78 billion VND. Along with the people's strength, according to Party Secretary and Chairman of the People's Committee Phan Ba ​​Ngoc, the Party Committee and the government have mobilized the intelligence, enthusiasm and responsibility of the core retired cadres in the area and children living far away from home in the regions who always aim to contribute to their homeland. This is an extremely important resource contributing to the development of the locality, especially bringing Thanh Lien commune to meet the new rural standards in 2016 and continuing to build advanced new rural areas.

The face of the new countryside in Thanh Lien is changing day by day thanks to the correct policies of the Party Committee and the consensus and response of the people. Photo: Mai Hoa

The results achieved and lessons learned during the term will be an important premise for the Thanh Lien Commune Party Committee to confidently set out its determination for the new term 2020 - 2025, bringing the locality to comprehensive sustainable development; striving to achieve a model new rural area by 2024.