Building new rural areas in the hometown of comrade Phan Dang Luu
(Baonghean) - Sharing in the joy and excitement, these days in Hoa Thanh commune, Yen Thanh district, there is a bustling atmosphere of competition and achievements to celebrate the 117th anniversary of the birth of comrade Phan Dang Luu (May 5, 1902 - May 5, 2019). That is the motivation for the Party Committee, government and people to be determined to build their homeland to be more and more innovative.
Talking about Hoa Thanh is talking about a revolutionary and studious homeland, a place that preserves many cultural features. This is the hometown of comrade Phan Dang Luu - an outstanding revolutionary predecessor of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
Promoting the tradition of a heroic commune of the People's Armed Forces, in recent years, the locality has constantly strived and achieved many encouraging results in many fields.
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Recess time at Hoa Thanh Kindergarten. Photo: Dinh Nguyet |
Recognized as a new rural commune at the end of 2016, the Party Committee, government and people of Hoa Thanh commune continue to promote the spirit of solidarity, realizing the goal of building a sustainable new rural commune. Determining that the development of transport infrastructure plays an important role, creating momentum for socio-economic development, in recent years, Hoa Thanh has taken advantage of cement support from the province and district, mobilized contributions from people and children far from home to complete many key roads; upgraded the intra-field transport system, created conditions for bringing machinery to serve production, planned concentrated production areas and organized production according to the chain.
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Hoa Thanh Commune Headquarters - Yen Thanh. Photo: Thai Hong |
Notably, recently, the commune has invested more than 80 billion VND to build 16 classrooms at the Primary School; completed a 2-storey building for preschool education; upgraded the road to the historical site, the memorial house of comrade Phan Dang Luu and many welfare works to serve people's lives.
In the field of economic development, the locality has made a breakthrough in comprehensive development, many households have boldly produced according to a sustainable quality model, bringing high economic efficiency per unit area. Thanks to that, the annual economic growth rate reached 9.75%, raising the average income per capita to nearly 30 million VND/year.
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A corner of Hoa Thanh commune today. Photo: Thai Hong |
Mr. Nguyen Khac Duc - Chairman of Hoa Thanh Commune People's Committee said: After achieving the New Rural Commune standard, the commune is continuing to consolidate the criteria in a sustainable manner. In particular, it is taking advantage of attracting investment projects to build infrastructure; converting crop structure, building quality rice models; promoting labor export and developing trade services, in order to increase income for people.
Coming to Hoa Thanh commune today, we can truly feel the changes in each hamlet and the lives of the people. Each clean concrete road, each new school, each new cultural house bears the mark of the new rural construction movement.