Da Nang (VNA) – The central city of Da Nang hasapplied various measures to encourage locals to take part in the movement ofbuilding new-style rural areas and civilized urban areas and reaped fruitfuloutcomes.

The municipal Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) Committee, forits part, has conducted movements to protect the environment, while launchingthe “Four-Safety City” programmes and strengthening communications on contentsand methods to build new-style rural areas and civilized urban areas in thecommunity.

At the same time, the committee has also called for theinvolvement of socio-economic organisations in these movements.

In the first six months of 2019, the VFF committees at alllevels in the city built a number of new and creative models, including “onegood deed each week, one model each month,” “green and clean home gardens,” and“Catholic residential areas friendly to environment, adaptive to climate change”.

For activities to raise fund for the poor, the committee hasdiversified methods of mobilising resources. As of May 31, 2019, the city hasraised over 18 billion VND (774,000 USD) for the fund.

The fund has been used to build 74 houses worth 2 billionVND (86,000 USD) for poor households, support three people facing fataldiseases, present gifts for the poor in special occasions, and provide charitymeals for disadvantaged patients in treated in hospitals in the city.

For the Lunar New Year 2019 festival celebration, the municipalVFF Committee mobilised nearly 2 billion VND (86,000 USD) from organisations,businesses and individuals to present 4,432 gift packages to poor households inseven districts and wards, as well as local Agent Orange/dioxin victims andpolicy beneficiaries.

A delegation of city leaders visited and offered Tet giftsto households from the Co Tu ethnic minority group in Hoa Bac and Hoa Phucommunes, and the Hoa ethnic minority group in Hoa Ninh commune.

Regarding rural area building programme, so far, 100communes of the city has completed all criteria set in the programme.

The NationalTarget Programme on New-style Rural Area Building, initiated by the Governmentin 2010, sets 19 criteria on socio-economic development, politics, and defence,aiming to boost rural regions of Vietnam. 

The number of criteria was increased to 20 in2015.    

The list of criteria includes the development ofinfrastructure, the improvement of production capacity, environmentalprotection, and the promotion of cultural values.

According toNguyen Minh Tien, head of the central coordination office for the programme,currently, 46.48 percent of the communes, or 4,144 communes, have beenrecognised as new-style rural areas. In addition, 61 districts have won thetitle.

Tran Viet Dung, Vice President of the Da Nang VFF Committeesaid that programmes in the city have been effectively integrated into eachother towards the success of the movement to call for locals’ solidarity inbuilding new-style rural areas and civilized urban areas.

Localities across the city have actively engaged inpopularizing the need to join hands in protecting the environment and preventplastic waste.

At the same time, local organisations have enthusiastically engagedin assisting the poor, he said.

Dung said that in the future, the city VFF Committee willcontinue promoting the movement of joining hands to build new-style rural areasand civilized urban areas in association with the “Four-Safety City” programmeas well as other programmes on environmental conservation, safeguardingsecurity and traffic safety as well as health care protection.

In parallel, the committee will strengthen communications onthe national target programme on sustainable poverty reduction.

A month for the poor will be launched, along with support for the group inhousing and scholarships for disadvantaged students.

In the coming Lunar New Year festival, the committee plans to present gifts forthe group, added Dung.-VNA