A craft village making traditional wooden
artworks in Doan Ket hamlet, Lam Son commune (Luong Son district) creates jobs
and stable incomes for many locals.
joining hands to build new-style rural
areas
Luong Son district started the new-style rural building programme from scratch
in 2011. Understanding the situation, the district People’s Committee issued a
plan to implement the campaign "Luong Son joins hands to build new-style rural
areas” across the district.
It also worked to raise public awareness of the contents and the significance
of the national programme made the best use of investments to improve rural
infrastructure.
However, to the locals here, "new-style rural area” does not mean new clean
concrete roads, completed cultural facilities and decent medical stations but
the development of many effective production models.
According to Vice Chairman of the district People’s Committee Nguyen Van Danh,
the district has a great advantage in agriculture so that it required a
breakthrough in the field to improve local incomes and living standards, the
key factors to measure the success of the programme.
The district has directed authorities at commune-level to carry out
agricultural reforms and assist local farmers in applying advanced technology
and develop large-scale farms.
It has helped the farmers expand clean and organic vegetable farms and other
effective fruit farming and livestock breeding models.
The district People’s Committee has signed an agreement with the
The district now has 13 groups for growing organic vegetables and three organic
farming cooperatives with about 200 members in total.
The total area for organic vegetables in the district has spread across
By the end of 2016, the district fulfilled 16 out of 19 criteria set for a
new-style rural area, with its income per capita reaching 38 million VND and
the poverty rate dropping to 6.43 percent.
The quality of education, health care, culture and environment has been
improved while the socio-political system at grass-root levels has been
consolidated and developed. Social security and order in communes have been
kept stable.
Efforts made to realise new style rural
area goals
Local authorities and people have made huge contributions to rosy
achievements in building new style rural areas. However, the decisive factors
are the leadership and strategic development plans. Based on the province’s
master plan on socio-economic development by 2020 with vision to 2030, Luong
Son district has launched plans for sectors, localities, industrial zones and
new-style rural areas. It has focused on taking measures to realise the project
on agricultural restructuring in combination with new-style rural building. In
addition, it also pays attention to branching out information and technology,
trade, service and tourism.
According to Luong Son district’s steering board for national target
programmes, the district needs nearly 950 billion VND (41.8 million USD) to
meet its new-style rural area building targets for 2016-2020.
"To realise the set goals by 2020, the district will continue to enhance
communication work as well as provide training for communal officials to carry
out the programme. It will use capital for production development efficiently
and develop key products. Meanwhile, financial resources for essential
infrastructure will be prioritised in communes registering to fulfill targets
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Dinh Thang