(HBO) - The national target programme on building new-style rural areas has created a facelift for Da Bac district. However, with a low starting point, the process of new-style rural area building in this mountainous district still faces a lot of difficulties.
A resident in Trung Thanh commune (Da Bac) farms ramie instead of maize and cassava for higher income.
Trung Thanh is one of the extremely difficult communes of Da Bac district. In recent years, through the new-style rural area building programme, this rural commune has been given a facelift. Local Party committee, authorities and people have exerted efforts to change the economic structure to increase income. In addition to afforestation, tea, corn and cassava, over the past two years, the commune has focused on planting ramie with an area of more than 50 hectares. By the end of 2022, the commune's per capita income reached 23 million VND (980 USD). However, the building of new-style rural areas in this commune still faces many difficulties. At the end of 2022, Trung Thanh was one of six communes in Da Bac district that had achieved 10 out of the 19 criteria.
With a low starting point, not only Trung Thanh but many other communes in the district have difficulties in this work, and traffic is a case in point as only six out of the 16 communes meet this criterion. There are five criteria that are more difficult than traffic, including cultural facilities, residential housing, income, poverty rate and health, with each criterion having only four communes meeting it.
In order to remove difficulties and accelerate the implementation of these criteria, Da Bac has taken a lot of solutions. Bui Khac Vinh, head of the district Office of Agriculture and Rural Development, said that right from the beginning of 2023, the district People's Committee has issued documents directing and guiding the implementation of the national target programme on building new-style rural areas to relevant agencies of the district and the People's Committees of communes, while continuing to promote dissemination and encourage locals to embellish the landscape and environment, and donate their land and property for the implementation of civil works.
Vinh stated that from now to the end of 2023, the district will strive to maintain the communes that have met new-style rural area building criteria, and have one reaching the advanced standards. The remaining communes each achieve one more criterion or more and maintain the achieved criteria. The average number of criteria reached in the district will be 14 per commune.
Da Bac will move to standardise and upgrade the rate of two provincial OCOP (one commune one product) products, continue to perfect and standardise rural infrastructure works in localities, and improve the quality of life of rural residents by creating production models associated with stable jobs for locals./.
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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