HBO – After eight years of implementing the national target programme on building new-style rural areas, with joint efforts of the local Party Committee, government people, the rural face of Ky Son district has changed dramatically.
Particularly,
the district has focused on optimising resources to develop the rural transport
system, considering it a premise for building new-style rural areas. By the end
of 2018, the district had five out of eight communes recognised as new-style
rural area.

The rural transport system in Dan Ha
commune (Ky Son district) has been upgraded to meet the travel and trading
demand of locals.
Defining that
developing rural transport system as one of the important factors promoting local
socio-economic growth, over the years, Ky Son district has mobilised resources
to invest in rural transport with an aim to concretise and complete the bridge and
road system as well as roads connecting communes and towns. Thanks to the
efforts of localities in constructing rural transport infrastructure, the rural
face has been improved.
Statistics show
that the total length of Ky Son roads is 239km, including 13.7km of concreted
road; 68.9km of asphalt roads; 95.4km of cemented road; 52.7km of aggregate
roads; and 5.54km of pathway.
In the 2011-2018
period, the district mobilised over 103 billion VND for road upgrading,
including more than 7 billion VND from the central budget, and 46 billion VND
of local budget, along with 6.8 billion VND mobilised from the community. In
2018, the district spent 7 billion VND to implement the second criteria of a
new-style rural area in transport. By the end of 2018, the district has six communes
completing the criteria.
According to Hoang
Van Minh, Vice Chairman of the People’s Committee of Ky Son said that every
year, the district launches a campaign to call for the whole community to
engage in the construction of rural transport system.
The district has
invested in maintaining and fixing roads in district, commune and village
roads. The transport system in the locality has connected communes in the
district as well as the district and other localities. The ratio of
standardised and concreted district-level roads has reached 100 percent.
For localities
that have completed the criteria in transport system, the district has asked
them to regularly maintaining and restoring the roads, while adding road signs
to ensure traffic safety.
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