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Khanh Hoa works hard for new-style rural area building

The central province of Khanh Hoa has mobilised nearly 15 trillion VND (705 million USD) from different sources for its new-style rural area building programme in 94 communes throughout the locality over the past four years.
The central province of Khanh Hoa has mobilised nearly 15 trillion VND(705 million USD) from different sources for its new-style ruralarea building programme in 94 communes throughout the locality over thepast four years.

According to the provincial steering committeefor the programme, the amount was spent in building key infrastructuralfacilities such as roads, irrigation works, and those serving education,cultural activities and environmental protection.

Khanh Hoa alsofocused on developing agricultural production models, helping raiseincome and improve living standards for rural locals.

Theprovince now has 10 communes meeting all 19 new-style rural areacriteria, namely Ninh Quang (Ninh Hoa town), Vinh Ngoc and Vinh Hiep(Nha Trang city), Dien An, Dien Lac, Dien Phuoc and Dien Phu (Dien Khanhdistrict), Cam Hai Tay (Cam Lam district), Cam Thanh Nam and Cam Binh(Cam Ranh city).

The number of communes meeting from 15-18requirements of the programme is five, while those that satisfied from10-14 criteria and from 5-9 criteria are 31 and 44, respectively.

The province hopes to add another 12 communes to the list of those satisfying all 19 criteria in 2015,

Thenational target programme on building new-style rural areas, initiatedby the Vietnamese Government in 2010, includes 19 criteria onsocio-economic development, politics, and defence, aiming to boost ruralregions of Vietnam.

The list of criteria includesthe development of infrastructure, the improvement of productioncapacities, environmental protection, and the promotion of culturalvalues.

The country aims to have 20 percent and 50 percent of allcommunes nationwide meet all the requirements by the end of 2015 and2020, respectively.-VNA
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