(HBO) - Together with maintaining cultural identities of Thai and Mong ethnic groups to develop tourism, Mai Chau district has paid attention to upgrading rural transport infrastructure. Despite a wide terrain and many hills, Mai Chau has a convenient rural road system which meets the travel demand of locals and contributes to welcoming investors to the tourism sector.

Pa Co commune’s roads have been invested and upgraded
to meet travel demand, thus contributing to developing community-based tourism
of the locality (Photo taken in Cha Day hamlet)
Anyone who comes to Mai Chau will be
impressed with the winding roads embracing mountainside villages. Inner-field
and inter-hamlet roads are spacious and clean, with colourful flowers on both sides,
creating a special attraction to tourists. According to statistics, the
district has 608.23 km of roads (excluding national highways and provincial
roads), of which there are 64.69 km of asphalt roads, 333.77 km of concrete roads,
14.29 km of macadam roads, and 195.47 km of dirt roads. The district has seven
communes meeting criterion No.2 in terms of transport in building new-style
rural areas, namely Tong Dau, Chieng Chau, Mai Ha, Van Mai, Mai Hich, Xam Khoe
and Pa Co. Four communes fulfilled three criteria, three communes meet two
criteria and one commune meets one criterion.
The district People's Committee has
directed authorised agencies and People's Committees of communes to mobilise
resources from local people and businesses to implement the project of concreting
rural roads during 2017 - 2020. Up to now, the district has completed and opened
to traffic 10.49 km of 45 roads, while construction is underway on 0.7 km of 2
roads. The total investment is more than 5.4 billion VND, of which more than
3.2 billion VND came from the provincial budget, and over 2.2 billion VND from
the district budget.
The district has paid attention to
implementing disaster prevention and control and ensuring traffic safety, while
focusing on installing danger warning boards at landslide-risk areas and
bridges. The district maintains the implementation of the campaign "All people engage
in upgrading rural transport” in April and November to carry out the maintenance
and repair of rural roads. In 2020, locals have contributed over 115,000
workdays to construct rural roads./.
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