A dancing performance at the ceremony to announce the new-style rural area status of Ha Giang city on August 3 (Photo: VNA)Ha Giang (VNA) – Ha Giang city of the northernmostprovince of Ha Giang has been recognised as a new-style rural area, which wasannounced at a ceremony on August 3.
Chairman of the People’s Committee of Ha Giangcity Nguyen Danh Hung said his city is the political, economic, cultural,social and defence-security centre as well as the economic driving force of HaGiang province.
After 10 years of building a new-stylecountryside, the city has obtained relatively comprehensive outcomes, he said,elaborating that agriculture has been developed towards higher productivity,quality and effectiveness and ensured food security; the proportions ofindustry and services have increased, helping to create jobs and raise incomefor residents; rural socio-economic infrastructure has been improved, giving afacelift to rural areas; while cultural, educational, healthcare andenvironmental aspects have met standards, helping to improve both material andspiritual lives of the local people.
People’s income from agriculture, industry,handicraft and rural services has been growing, thus contributing to povertyeradication, he noted.
With the viewpoint that building new-style ruralareas has a starting point but never ends, Ha Giang city will step up the workin Phuong Do, Phuong Thien and Ngoc Duong communes so that these threelocalities will become advanced and model new-style rural areas by 2025,according to Hung.
On this occasion, the city’s Party organisation,administration and people were honoured with a third-class Labour Order inrecognition of their outstanding achievements in building new-style rural areasbetween 2016 and 2020.
As a mountainous border locality with numeroussocio-economic difficulties, Ha Giang province had a very low starting point inimplementing the national target programme on building new-style countryside.In 2011, when the programme began, each commune in the province met just 3.5out of 19 criteria for a new-style rural area.
However, thanks to efforts of the whole localpolitical system and support from people, the programme has been carried outstrongly in Ha Giang province over the last 10 years.
The national target programme on buildingnew-styled rural areas, initiated by the Government in 2010, aims to developrural regions across Vietnam. Its 19 criteria cover infrastructure, production,living standards, income and culture, among others.
Statistics unveiled at a conference in late Mayshowed that more than 5,170 communes, or 58.2 percent of total communesnationwide, met standards for new-style rural areas.
The country aims to have at least 80 percent ofall communes recognised as new-style rural areas by 2025, and the remainingcommunes should achieve at least 15 criteria./.
VNA
