Building Cau Giat town (Quynh Luu) to soon meet urban civilization standards

Strongly shifting economic structure towards services

Entering the 2015-2020 term, like many localities, due to the reduction of public investment, the Town Party Committee determined from the beginning that in order to accelerate economic growth, there must be solutions to mobilize and focus resources for investment and development. Based on the set targets, the Party Committee issued 4 key programs throughout the entire term and had solutions to organize implementation. Thanks to that, after nearly 5 years, the town's appearance has many positive changes.

Giat Market is the largest commercial hub in Quynh Luu district and is being gradually upgraded and expanded. Photo: Nguyen Hai

The most prominent in the economic field is that the town maintains an average 5-year growth rate of 12.5%; the economic structure has shifted positively and in accordance with the town's area. In 2020, commercial services accounted for 80.2%, small-scale industry and construction accounted for 19% and agriculture only 0.8%; in 2020, the average income is estimated at 67.7 million VND/person; businesses continue to grow in number and scale, contributing to creating jobs for thousands of workers.

Effective motorbike service business in Cau Giat town contributes to creating jobs and revenue for the town budget. Photo: Nguyen Hai

In addition, as a central urban area, the town's financial and budgetary work and environmental resource management have also achieved many positive results. In 2020, the budget revenue is estimated at 5.2 billion VND, an increase of 73% compared to the beginning of the term and an average increase of 18.6%. Currently, along with the development and submission to superiors for approval of the 2011-2020 land use plan; land use plan for the period 2015-2020, the town has effectively exploited the land fund, thereby creating revenue to reinvest in development; land and environmental management work is becoming more and more systematic. Currently, the town has implemented a plan to classify waste at households, installed trash bins at public places and the waste collection rate has reached nearly 99%.

In addition to contributing thousands of tons of cement to renovate and upgrade the roads and drainage system of the block, people also planted flowers and trees along the internal roads. Photo: NH

In the cultural and social fields, the town has also made a new qualitative change when 100% of the town's cadres and teachers met 100% of the standards and above. During the term, the town focused on investing resources and upgrading facilities so that Hoa Mai Kindergarten was recognized as meeting national standards level 2 and the Primary School maintained national standards level 2; over 86% of households met the standards of cultural families and 8/9 blocks achieved and maintained the title of Cultural Village; the town achieved and maintained the national criteria on health, the Medical Station was recognized as a green-clean-beautiful Medical Station...

Step by step improvement of infrastructure and urban appearance

As the district center, for a long time, the urban infrastructure of Cau Giat town has revealed many weaknesses and inadequacies. Therefore, entering the 2015-2020 term, the Party Committee is very determined to make urban beautification one of the tasks and priority criteria in mind. Immediately after issuing Resolution No. 10, the town has an action program, the town launched a movement for cadres, party members and people of the town "unity, discipline, responsibility - building a civilized urban area" to mobilize the participation and response of organizations in the political system and the people.

Street blocks decorated to welcome the Town Party Congress for the 2020-2025 term. Photo: Nguyen Hai

Along with mobilizing people to donate land and property to build, expand and upgrade internal traffic routes, the Party Committee also issued a Resolution on strengthening leadership in ensuring traffic safety corridors; synchronously implementing propaganda, mobilization and commitment signing work; linking the work of launching campaigns to clear and handle traffic corridors with the work of self-management of routes that do not violate traffic corridors; the situation of placing advertising signs and selling goods that violate traffic safety corridors has significantly decreased; mobilizing people to equip standard plastic trash bins at households and groups of households.

After 5 years, people of Cau Giat town contributed nearly 12.47 billion VND, donating 4,272.6 m² land, the town supported 1,400 tons of cement to build 85 internal traffic routes, 11.2 km long; the town invested 54 billion VND to build 33 essential works; mobilized people to plant 646 m of flower roads and over 1,000 trees on the town's roads

Building a united and strong political system

Since the beginning of the term, the Town Party Committee has issued 62 resolutions, 8 projects, 15 programs, 39 plans, 95 decisions and many other documents to concretize policies, resolutions and directives from higher levels in implementing local political tasks.

The town's administrative headquarters is decorated to welcome the Party Congress for the 2020-2025 term. Photo: Nguyen Hai

The Party Committee also develops action programs, plans to implement resolutions, projects, and conclusions of higher-level Party organizations; directs the People's Committee, the Fatherland Front, organizations, and Party cells to mobilize people's strength to develop the economy, improve the quality of cadres, management and operation capacity, and administrative reform; builds and consolidates the political system of the religious region; and manages well planning, land, and construction...

To serve and promptly resolve administrative procedures for the people, the town is making efforts to reform administration and strictly maintain the on-call regime at the One-Stop Department. Photo: NH

Along with consolidating and perfecting the political system, to maintain Party discipline, the town has inspected 47 Party organizations and 30 Party members, supervised 37 Party organizations and 29 Party members; built 68 models and typical examples of skillful mass mobilization; the supervision activities of the People's Council, the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee and mass organizations continued to be strengthened and innovated. Besides the above outstanding results, the Town Party Committee also realized that in the past term, there were still some limitations when the economic development was not commensurate with the potential and advantages, service and trade activities, although developing, were still small and spontaneous; 8 socio-economic targets were not achieved according to the resolution...

The urban landscape is increasingly being renewed and the town is trying to increase green space for the city. Photo: Nguyen Hai

Entering the new term, to achieve an annual growth rate of 13-15%, doubling the current average income per capita, continuing to improve the quality of type V urban criteria and striving to build a town that meets urban civilization standards by 2023.

To successfully implement the goals of Resolution 2020-2025, the town will need breakthrough solutions, which are to effectively mobilize the participation of the political system, enhance the responsibility and daring attitude of civil servants, especially leaders; resolutely implement urban planning discipline; develop commercial services on a larger scale, and form streets specializing in trading a type of goods.

Ho Sy Nguyet -Secretary of the Town Party CommitteeCau Giat town

In addition, the town will have to review and overcome the omissions that cause budget losses; continue to mobilize resources to build urban infrastructure, raise awareness and responsibility of people in building increasingly civilized and clean urban areas and neighborhoods./.