Building Kim Lien into a model new rural commune

(Baonghean) - With the efforts of the Party Committee and people in the commune, the support and assistance of all levels, sectors, enterprises, organizations and individuals at home and abroad, the National Target Program on New Rural Construction in Kim Lien has reached its destination. Kim Lien is the first commune in Nam Dan district to meet the new rural standards. This is the premise and motivation to move towards building Kim Lien commune to become a model new rural commune, worthy of being the homeland of beloved Uncle Ho.

Using a combine harvester to harvest rice in Kim Lien. Photo: Huu Nghia

Implementing the National Target Program on New Rural Construction (NTM), immediately after receiving the policies, resolutions and plans from higher levels, the Party Committee and the communal government identified this as a major policy of the Party and State; a key task throughout all local tasks. The communal Party Committee issued Resolution No. 12-NQ/DU dated November 29, 2011 on "Guiding ideology of the Party Committee and determination of the entire Party Committee on NTM construction". Implementing the above resolution, the Party Committee established a Steering Committee for NTM construction, the People's Committee of the commune established a NTM Construction Management Board and established a Community Supervision Board, action sub-committees with close direction, building a roadmap, assigning specific tasks, so it was positively responded by the people in the commune.

In the planning, Kim Lien has promoted and inherited existing ones, based on the actual situation of the locality. The commune focused on planning for the 2011-2020 period based on 19 criteria and 39 targets. The Party Committee has directed the committees to operate, inspect, review and evaluate the criteria to determine the criteria that have been achieved and the criteria that have not been achieved. From there, a plan was developed to implement the project of building a new rural area reasonably, on the basis of prioritizing the criteria that have not been achieved, consolidating and raising the criteria that have been achieved according to a reasonable roadmap; the tasks and contents were discussed openly and democratically to the people. In order for the policy to be implemented voluntarily and actively, Kim Lien has performed well the role of the Party's leadership, the State's management, the Fatherland Front and departments, branches and organizations in coordinating to propagate and mobilize people to understand the importance of the Program, the role of each family and each person; From there, the people directly do and benefit. When the ideology is clear, the Party and the people unite, enthusiastically compete in the movement to build new rural areas, promote the internal strength of the people, make good use of the help of businesses, and together with all the children far from home contribute to building the homeland.

In the process of implementing the criteria of a new-style rural commune, economic development is one of the tasks that the Party Committee and the government pay great attention to. Determining to promote the advantages of the commune, near Vinh City, convenient transportation, Kim Lien focuses on shifting the economic structure towards goods, promoting intensive farming, joint ventures, and associations with enterprises, increasing production value per unit area. Up to now, the whole commune has completed the work of land consolidation and land conversion according to Directive 08 of the Provincial Party Committee, creating favorable conditions for projects such as "Building high-income fields"; "Building large-scale fields" ... to focus on leading and directing the people to effectively implement. Implement industrialization and modernization of agriculture, farmers and rural areas. Accelerate mechanization in agricultural production; the whole commune has 26 tillage machines, 640 hand-held harvesters, 16 rice threshers and 1 combine harvester. Farm economy is effective, there are 28 models of combined livestock and crop farms providing high and stable income.

Along with increasing the value of agricultural production, Kim Lien also promotes the development of industries, services, and trade, with 26 milling and animal feed processing machines, 275 small-scale trading households, 6 construction enterprises, 36 construction and carpentry teams, 25 transport vehicles, and 11 passenger cars. At the same time, focusing on implementing the Project "Exporting labor, creating jobs". The commune currently has more than 247 people working abroad, bringing in an annual income of 30 - 32 billion VND. Thanks to the right economic restructuring, the average income per capita has continuously increased. The average income per capita in 2014 is estimated at 26 million VND/year; the poverty rate has decreased, from 8% in 2010 to 3.9% now; the rate of well-off and rich households has increased day by day.

Construction of intra-field canals in Kim Lien commune.

Infrastructure construction is one of the contents that requires the concentration of resources and large budgets. Therefore, the Party Committee and the government have made good use of capital sources such as: State budget, Government bonds, People's credit, enterprises and other capital sources. In particular, tens of thousands of working days and hundreds of billions of VND have been contributed by people, children in the commune and philanthropists to build infrastructure. After more than 3 years of implementation, a total capital of 307 billion VND has been mobilized; specifically, the projects include: building 5 new high-rise schools worth 63 billion VND; 20km of commune and hamlet roads, 3.4km of drainage ditches and 25.1km of intra-field roads worth 115 billion VND; Office building worth over 10 billion VND, multi-purpose sports hall worth 23 billion VND, Traditional House, 4 village cultural houses, 1 power station... During the construction process, the people of the whole commune donated 35.25 hectares of land, worth 50 billion VND and contributed tens of thousands of working days.

Economic development and investment in infrastructure construction are the premise for Kim Lien to build a cultural life. The rate of Cultural Families annually reaches 84%; 20/25 hamlets maintain and promote the title of Cultural Hamlet. The quality of teaching and learning is increasingly improved. It is the only commune with 5/5 schools meeting national standards (including 2 primary schools meeting national standards level 2). Children of school age are all able to go to school. Every year, the number of students admitted to universities and colleges is from 120 to 130. Attention is paid to the socialization of education, encouragement of learning, and encouragement of talents. 25/25 hamlets have an Encouragement Fund, many families have an Encouragement Fund, up to now the entire commune's Encouragement Fund is nearly 4 billion VND (of which the commune fund is 3.2 billion VND). Kim Lien is a commune that meets national standards on health in the period 2013 - 2020. Environmental sanitation work is carried out seriously. Along with the issuance of a project to collect and treat waste centrally, up to now, Kim Lien has ensured a green, clean environment, preventing environmental pollution. In addition, the field of national defense and security has been given attention. Political security and social order and safety have been basically ensured.

Kim Lien has built a strong political system. The Party Committee with 630 members has been recognized as a strong and clean Party Committee for many years, and in 2013 achieved the title of exemplary strong and clean. The staff and civil servants are capable, qualified, and have a high sense of responsibility. The government is recognized as strong every year. The Fatherland Front and its member organizations are continuously recognized as excellent. In recognition of the efforts and struggles of the commune's cadres and people in patriotic emulation movements, Kim Lien commune has been awarded the title of Hero of the People's Armed Forces by the Party and State, and the Third Class Labor Medal; for many consecutive years, it has been awarded the flag of the leading unit in the district's emulation movements. Up to now, Kim Lien has achieved 19/19 criteria and has been recognized by the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee as a commune meeting new rural standards.

To achieve the results as today, the most important factor is solidarity, unanimity, the Party's will in line with the people's will, the people have clearly identified their responsibility as the main subject in building the new rural area. Beloved Uncle Ho once said "It is a hundred times easier to endure without the people, and ten thousand times harder to complete with the people". If we know how to promote the democratic regulations and arouse the people's strength, we will create a combined strength to complete the set plan targets. Being recognized as a new rural commune today does not mean that Kim Lien has completed the new rural program, but this is the premise, the motivation for the cadres, party members, and people of the commune to continue to strive to improve, meet the development needs of society, build the homeland increasingly rich and strong, move towards building Kim Lien commune to become a model new rural commune, worthy of being the homeland of beloved Uncle Ho. That is also the requirement, the wish of President Ho Chi Minh during his lifetime and also the aspiration of compatriots and comrades nationwide.

Nguyen Hong Son

(Chairman of Kim Lien Commune People's Committee)