Yen Thanh speeds up the progress of building advanced new rural areas

Yen Thanh homeland is increasingly prosperous. Photo: Nguyen Book.

After nearly 10 years of implementing the New Rural Program, the districtYen Thanhhas promoted the strength of the entire political system in leading and directing the implementation in a synchronous, close, and drastic manner, identifying the right methods, choosing the right content and breakthroughs; focusing on many dynamic and creative ways of doing things, suitable to the actual conditions of the locality.

Up to now, Yen Thanh has had quite comprehensive development, the face of the countryside has changed clearly, rural infrastructure has been invested synchronously and met standards.

To increasingly improve the quality of life for the people, Yen Thanh continues to build the district to meet advanced new rural standards.

According to the roadmap, Yen Thanh strives to have 23-27/38 communes in the district meeting the advanced new rural standards by 2025 (accounting for 60%) so that by 2028, the district will achieve the advanced new rural standards. In particular, by the end of 2021, it strives to have 6 communes meeting the advanced new rural standards, including: Son Thanh, Tan Thanh, Long Thanh, Tang Thanh, Hoa Thanh and Vinh Thanh.

On this occasion, we visited Long Thanh commune (a commune striving to achieve the status of an advanced new rural commune by the end of 2021) and witnessed the remarkable changes. Village roads and alleys are all concreted, with high-rise buildings lining the streets.

According to information from the People's Committee of Long Thanh commune, this locality reached the NTM target in 2014. From 2020 up to now, Long Thanh has implemented the construction of an advanced NTM commune, up to this point the whole commune has achieved 15/15 NTM criteria as required.

An Hung Garment Factory is operating effectively. Photo: Van Truong.

In particular, Long Thanh commune has built and completed a synchronous infrastructure, 100% of village roads are concreted, the commune has built key routes such as National Highway 48E to Hoang Ta Thon Secondary School, National Highway 48 E to Ru Dat Parish, Lam Xuyen Parish route to Ru Dat Parish. Newly built a multi-purpose gymnasium for the secondary school, upgraded the items of the commune People's Committee headquarters, upgraded the power grid system, currently 100% have insulated wires.

The irrigation system and internal roads have been invested synchronously. The commune is currently building a craft village for processing eels in Van Thanh hamlet with 200 households following this profession. People's lives are increasingly improved, with average income per capita reaching 46 million VND/month.

Son Thanh commune also reached the NTM target the earliest in the province in 2013. From 2020 to 2021, the commune continued to implement the construction of advanced NTM. With efforts, up to now, Son Thanh commune has achieved 15/15 advanced NTM criteria. The commune has made efforts to attract investment to build a tunnel brick factory in the area, maintaining the number of labor exports.

At the same time, Son Thanh commune focused on investing in the construction of a number of important infrastructure projects. The commune allocated budget to contact factories to promptly supply cement to hamlets to continue pouring concrete on the main roads of the hamlet and alleys with a quantity of 650 tons. Son Thanh commune has built nearly 8 km of concrete roads; along with upgrading and expanding a number of bridges and culverts, and building 10 km of new lighting lines.

Melon growing model in Van Thanh commune (Yen Thanh). Photo: Van Truong.

According to the 2021 roadmap, the above 6 communes will meet the standards.advanced new rural areas, The Standing Committee of Yen Thanh District Party Committee has directed (together with the Steering Committee for New Rural Areas of Yen Thanh) to determine the content and roadmap for the above communes to ensure progress towards the advanced new rural area; remove obstacles, as well as propose specific solutions, encourage the spirit of the Party Committee, the commune government and the people. Up to now, the two communes of Son Thanh and Long Thanh have completed the dossiers to submit for appraisal to the relevant levels and sectors of the advanced new rural area.

To build the district to meet the advanced new rural standards, Yen Thanh continues to effectively implement a number of programs and projects. Directing the implementation of the OCOP Program in combination with attracting businesses to invest, link production and consume products. Organizing production according to VietGAP standards, building product brands with traceability stamps, aiming to build the district's key products with the brand of Nghe An province.

Promote the development of craft villages, develop high-tech production models, and link production with product consumption. Fully implement support policies for the 2021-2025 period, proactively improve the criteria for new rural areas at the commune and district levels to ensure sustainability, and invest in upgrading the infrastructure system to ensure synchronization and efficiency.

Son Thanh Commune (Yen Thanh) has more and more rich households thanks to labor export. Photo: Van Truong.

In 2021, Yen Thanh district strives to have 6 OCOP products with 3 stars or more, build and recognize at least 5 standard gardens in 2021. At the same time, the district has implemented investment attraction projects such as: Climate change project (completed), TH Group's rice processing factory project (groundwork completed), An Hung Group's garment factory (put into operation); upgraded and repaired National Highway 7B, National Highway 48E, provincial roads 537, 538D, built Ben Hang bridge, test bridge, important traffic routes, schools...

In the coming time, Yen Thanh district will continue to synchronously implement the new rural construction program in all communes of the district. Maintain the achieved criteria, strive to improve the quality of the criteria to consider recognizing communes that meet the advanced new rural standards according to the plan.

Consider adding to the 2021-2022 plan, some communes meet the criteria according to the set of 19 National criteria on advanced NTM expected to be issued in the 2021-2025 period such as: Lien Thanh, Tho Thanh, Nhan Thanh. For communes not included in the plan to meet advanced NTM standards in 2021, continue to direct to improve the quantity and quality of each NTM criterion of the communes (strive to increase the average of 1-3 criteria per commune/year), no more communes meet less than 6 criteria).

Continue to arouse and promote the role of the people as the main subject, step up propaganda and mobilization work to ensure awareness and ideology are not subjective to the achievements that have been achieved. At the same time, it is necessary to continuously innovate and innovate to further improve each group of criteria on production, income, poverty rate, education, health, culture, environment, security and order... in building advanced new rural areas.

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