Attending the event were Politburo member and Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue; member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Bui Van Tinh; permanent Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Council Tran Dang Ninh; Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Van Quang.

After eight years of implementation of the new rural building programme, Hoa Binh city achieved comprehensive and outstanding results: 100 percent of communes met transportation and irrigation criteria, accessed to safe power, had standard cultural houses and rural sport areas; 86 percent of schools met national standards; 100 percent of communes met rural market criteria and did not have dilapidated shelter houses, 91.96 percent of them had standard houses; 98.5 percent of rural residents used clean water. Local lives improved, average income in rural areas reached 39 million VND per year while the rate of poor households was reduced to 1.05 percent.

Under the authority of the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue presents a certificate recogning Hoa Binh city’s completion of new rural development task 2018, and member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Bui Van Tinh presents congratulatory flowers.

In honour of the Hoa Binh city Party Committee, authorities and people’s efforts, the Prime Minister decided to grant a certificate recognising Hoa Binh’s completion of the new rural development task for 2018. Hoa Binh city was the first district-level unit to have completed the new rural development task with all seven communes meeting criteria for the 2016-2020 period, including one commune in Hoa Binh lake area previously lived in poor condition. It is an honour and pride of Hoa Binh province and Hoa Binh city in particular.

During the 2019-2020 period, Hoa Binh city set the goal of continuing to maintain and improve the quality of new rural development criteria. At least one commune will have one model residential area and garden while one commune will become a model new-style rural area (Yen Mong commune).