Hoa Binh speeds up verification of Luong Son’s completion of new-style rural criteria

11/15/2019 - 4:50:10 PM

(HBO) – The People’s Committee of HoaBinh province held a conference on November 14 to seek measures to speed up the process of verifying the dossiers and the level of completion of criteria for new-style rural areas of Luong Son district. Nguyen Van Dung, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee chaired the event.

Nguyen Van Dung, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee addresses the conference.

According to a report of Luong Son district, so far, all 19 communes in the locality have completed all 19 criteria of a new-style rural area, a rise of 13.95 criteria over 2010.Local infrastructure system serving socio-economic development has been improved, while the living conditions of local residents have been enhanced.

In early 2019, the rate of poor households was reduced to 3.91 percent, and per capita income reached 38 million per year.

The People’s Committee of Luong Son has evaluated that the district has met all nine criteria of a new-style rural district. So far, Luong Son has met all requirements to submit its dossiers requesting for verification and consideration to be recognised as a new-style rural district in 2019.

The district has built a map of 12 communes for evaluation of roads, while choosing typical cooperatives and organizing booths to introduce major products and products joining the "one commune-one product” programme of the district along the communes’roads.

Addressing the conference, Nguyen Van Dung, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, asked provincial departments and sectors to focus on efforts on helping Luong Son remove difficulties following the district’s proposals, while completing verification work by November 20.

The People’s Committee of Luong Son was asked to strengthen the leadership and direction over local communes in maintaining and promoting the completed criteria, while reviewing the roads for the provincial and central delegations to inspect.

Dung asked the committee to allocate specific tasks for offices and agencies as well as members of the Steering Committee for New-Style Rural Area Building, thus completing the dossiers in December.

He also suggested that the district should pay more attention to communications on the programme, while continuing to strengthen the movement of new-style rural area building, encouraging locals to plant more trees, clean up the environment and local roads, and focusing more on developing production and choosing strong products for development following connection chains and high technology application model./.

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