In recent years, Thung Nai commune on has undergone significant changes in its appearance, landscape, and lives of local residents. Road 435 from Hoa Binh City to Tan Lac district’s Suoi Hoa commune, passing through the Thung Nai commune, has helped attract many tourists to the area.
Investment has been poured into transportation infrastructure in Thung Nai commune (Cao Phong district), contributing to speed up local socio-economic development.
According to Bui Van Thoa, Secretary of the commune's Party Committee, the commune has 160 party members in nine party cells.
Recently, the commune’s party committee and local administration have innovated their operation methods, focusing on assessing the capabilities of officials, party members, and civil servants through their implementation of political tasks. Currently, 100% of commune officials and civil servants hold university degrees, meeting the job requirements. Especially, the commune underlined the need to enhance the quality of party cell activities, actively innovating leadership methods, gradually improving working regulations, and promoting the pioneering and exemplary role of officials and party members in fulfilling political tasks. Most officials and party members have led the way in implementing policies, striving to complete tasks, and participating in production and new life development movements.
Thanks to the efforts of local Party Committee, administration, and residents, positive changes have been recorded in many aspects.
The commune has focused its leadership on restructuring crops and livestock, promoting the development of trade and services. Regarding agriculture, local residents have shifted to cultivate high-value crops such as oranges and pomelos. In 2023, pomelo grown by Thung Nai Commune cooperative group met VietGAP standards. The group signed a contract with the 3T Cooperative to ensure sales of the product.
The commune has 143 households operating in tourism, of which 43 engage in trading, 89 in transportation and 11 in catering business. Locals have proactively invested in passenger transport, aquaculture, and food services to serve tourism in the Hoa Binh lake area. Many households in villages surrounding the lake, such as Moi, Nai, and Tien, have poured capital in aquaculture and provided tourism services, thus becoming better off.
Responding to emulation movements and the National Target Programme for new-style rural development, local people actively donate land and contribute labour to build roads, welfare facilities and upgrade village roads. With the concerted efforts of the political system, the commune’s poverty rate based on new criteria dropped to 5.45% and the average income per capita reached 43.6 million VND (1,710 USD) last year.
In late March, 29 labourers from Da Bac district were sent to work as seasonal farm workers in Buyeo county, Chungcheongnam province, the Republic of Korea (RoK). Upon arrival, they quickly settled into their jobs, enjoying good working conditions and benefits, with wages aligned with the terms of their signed contracts. The programme is now being expanded, with relevant departments and sectors actively seeking additional seasonal employment opportunities in various localities across the RoK.
Luong Son Industrial Park has invested in standardised wastewater and emissions treatment systems, enforced tight emission controls, reduced noise, dust, and solid waste, and expanded green spaces, contributing to protecting the environment and promoting sustainable development.
Hoa Binh police are collecting public feedback on amendments to the 2013 Constitution via the national identification app VNeID. This innovative approach marks a giant leap towards modernising grassroots democracy and enhancing transparency in public consultation.
A total public investment capital of 113 billion VND (over 4.3 million USD) was disbursed for a project to upgrade infrastructure and stabilise residents in the vicinity of the Da River reservoir between 2021 and the first quarter of 2025, giving a facelift to local rural areas and improving the quality of people's life.
Since the end of 2023-2024 academic year, Cu Yen Primary and Secondary School in Luong Son district has deployed e-study records for all of its 500 primary students, said the school principal Nguyen Thi Tuyen.
The Labour Federation of Hoa Binh city has actively worked to protect the rights and welfare of nearly 8,000 local workers and union members at 152 grassroots unions. Through regular dialogues, education campaigns, and welfare programmes, the federation has helped foster stable, progressive labour relations.