(HBO) - Hoa Binh City is the first district-level locality of Hoa Binh province to have satisfied standards for new-style rural areas, with all the seven communes having received recognition for meeting all the criteria of the programme in the period of 2016-2020, including one particularly disadvantaged commune in the Hoa Binh reservoir area.
Over the past eight
years, the city has made prominent and comprehensive achievements in its programme
of building new-style rural areas, helping improve
the spiritual and material life of locals.
The traffic and irrigation systems in communes have been built and
upgraded, facilitating locals’ travel and production activities.
Local residents are
provided with safe electricity. All the communes in the city have facilities
serving cultural and sport activities. Up to 91.96 percent of households in the
city have houses meeting prescribed standards; and 98.5 percent of rural
residents have access to hygienic water.
The living conditions of locals have been improved. The per capita income in
rural areas in the city reaches 39 million VND/year; the rate of poor household
is at 1.05 percent; and 90.3 percent of the locality’s population has bought health
insurance.
Traffic system in Su Ngoi (Hoa Binh City) has
met locals’ demand of travel and goods transport.
Authorities of Hoa
Binh city has mobilised over 862 billion VND for its new-style rural area building programme, including more than 94 billion
VND contributed by locals.
Rural
infrastructure in the locality has been invested and upgraded in a concerted
and modern manner, effectively serving production and daily activities of local
residents.
Agricultural production has been improved in the direction of strengthening linkage
of commodity production in combination with promoting development of industry,
tourism and services, along with creating close links between rural development
and urban development in line with the master plan.
As a result, local people's material and spiritual life has been better. The
quality of education, health, culture, and environment has been improved, and
the national cultural identity preserved and developed.
The locality has also paid attention to maintaining political security and
social order. The political organization
system of the locality is increasingly strong, and the implementation ofgrassroots democracypromoted.
Over recent years, the Farmers' Union of Mai Chau district has implemented numerous specific programmes and activities to support its members in developing products under the One Commune One (OCOP) programme. These efforts have contributed to enhancing local agricultural branding, increasing goods value, and improving incomes and living standards for residents.
Since 2022, the Hoa Binh Department of Education and Training has provided advice for the provincial People's Committee to issue Plan No. 219/KH-UBND on November 17, 2022, which outlines the implementation of a project titled "Enhancing the application of Information Technology (IT) and Digital Transformation in Education and Training for the 2022–2025 period, with a vision to 2030.” As of now, the local education sector has made significant progress in IT adoption and digital transformation.
Hoa Binh allocated over 30 trillion VND (nearly 1.18 billion USD) to develop infrastructure systems in ethnic minority and mountainous areas during 2019 - 2024. Priority was given to transport and irrigation infrastructure; markets; schools; medical stations; communal houses; and power grid, telecommunication, radio, and television systems.
The Hoa Binh provincial organising committee for anniversary activities on December 17 held a ceremony to unveil a ceramic mural on the local military-civilian ties and release a book on the Party and political work of the provincial armed forces during 1947 – 2024, in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) and 35th anniversary of the All-People Defence Festival.
In recent years, Hoa Binh has allocated significant resources to foster cooperative economy, helping ethnic minorities capitalise on their potential and advantages to escape poverty.
As a mountainous district still facing numerous challenges, Da Bac has made notable progress in advancing administrative reforms across various areas. The district has prioritised reorganising and streamlining its administrative apparatus, operating "one-stop-shop” units, and applying information technology (IT) in the handling of administrative procedures. Efforts have also been directed toward upgrading infrastructure and equipment to enhance service quality for residents and businesses.
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