(HBO) - Together with maintaining cultural identities of Thai and Mong ethnic groups to develop tourism, Mai Chau district has paid attention to upgrading rural transport infrastructure. Despite a wide terrain and many hills, Mai Chau has a convenient rural road system which meets the travel demand of locals and contributes to welcoming investors to the tourism sector.

 

Pa Co commune’s roads have been invested and upgraded to meet travel demand, thus contributing to developing community-based tourism of the locality (Photo taken in Cha Day hamlet)

 

Anyone who comes to Mai Chau will be impressed with the winding roads embracing mountainside villages. Inner-field and inter-hamlet roads are spacious and clean, with colourful flowers on both sides, creating a special attraction to tourists. According to statistics, the district has 608.23 km of roads (excluding national highways and provincial roads), of which there are 64.69 km of asphalt roads, 333.77 km of concrete roads, 14.29 km of macadam roads, and 195.47 km of dirt roads. The district has seven communes meeting criterion No.2 in terms of transport in building new-style rural areas, namely Tong Dau, Chieng Chau, Mai Ha, Van Mai, Mai Hich, Xam Khoe and Pa Co. Four communes fulfilled three criteria, three communes meet two criteria and one commune meets one criterion.

The district People's Committee has directed authorised agencies and People's Committees of communes to mobilise resources from local people and businesses to implement the project of concreting rural roads during 2017 - 2020. Up to now, the district has completed and opened to traffic 10.49 km of 45 roads, while construction is underway on 0.7 km of 2 roads. The total investment is more than 5.4 billion VND, of which more than 3.2 billion VND came from the provincial budget, and over 2.2 billion VND from the district budget.

The district has paid attention to implementing disaster prevention and control and ensuring traffic safety, while focusing on installing danger warning boards at landslide-risk areas and bridges. The district maintains the implementation of the campaign "All people engage in upgrading rural transport” in April and November to carry out the maintenance and repair of rural roads. In 2020, locals have contributed over 115,000 workdays to construct rural roads./.


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