By promoting the grassroots-level democracy, Toan Son commune (Da Bac district) has covered
over 70 percent of its rural roads with concrete, making it easy for local
residents to travel and transport goods.
Many communication campaigns have been launched
to raise public awareness of the significance and benefits of the new-style rural area building programme, with different methods such as using loudspeaker systems, organising
conferences and meetings, and encouraging the participation of locals, thus
helping create noticeable changes of both awareness and actions. Taking
the traffic as a key task, from 2011 to 2016, the commune has called on local people to donate 30 hectares of,
contribute over 500 million VND and thousands of working days.
In 2017, people in the villages of Tra,
Phu, Ranh and Truc Son donated 2.9 hectares of arable land, and over 24.9
hectares of forest land to build inter-village roads and those to production
areas with 4,200 working days.
In the first six months of 2018, local people contributed 5,000 sq.m of production
land to build a road to Tan Son Hamlet’s production area, raising the rate of
concreted road to more than 70 percent and completing Criterion No. 2 of traffic,
facilitating transportation in the commune.
From 2015 up to no, local people have twice a year proactively cleaned the
inter-commune road from Truc Son and Toan Son communes to Bua Rong of Hien
Luong commune with a total length of 15km.
With the unanimity from the people, the commune has achieved important results
in the new-style rural area building programme. At present, two-thirds
of schools in the commune have been rated as national-standard ones; and 98 percent of households use electricity frequently and safely.
The commune has done away with temporary and dilapidated houses; the rate of
universal education reached 100 percent ; 95 percent of households had access
to clean water; 4 out of the 5 villages had communal houses and 78 percent of households
had been awarded the title of cultural family.
In order to increase the income and reduce the rate of poor households,
the communal authorities have encouraged local residents to actively change
their crop structure.
Prior to 2011, the people mainly grew rice. But since then, the area of rice
has shifted to high-yield vegetables, fruit trees and other crops, including 30
ha of white sugarcane in Rau village; 71 ha of citrus fruits in Tra, Truc Son, and
Tan Son villages (up 25 ha compared to 2017); the area of fishponds in Phu
village was up to 10.5 ha due to the advantage of water surface.
As a result, the percentage of poor households in the commune has been brought
from 51 percent in 2011 to 35.5 percent, while the average per capita income was
20.5 million VND, up 9.5 million VND compared to 2011./.
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