Hanoi’s rural development efforts improve local living standards
Hanoi has invested greatly in building new-style rural areas over the past few years, helping improve the living standards of rural residents, said a municipal official.
A road in Lien Trung, a new-style rural commune in Dan Phuong district, Hanoi (Photo: hanoimoi.com.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi has invested greatly inbuilding new-style rural areas over the past few years, helping improve theliving standards of rural residents, said a municipal official.
Building new-style rural areas is a nationaltarget programme launched in 2010 that aims to promote the development of ruralregions of Vietnam.
At a meeting on October 16, Deputy Secretary ofthe municipal Party Committee Ngo Thi Thanh Hang lauded the programme’soutcomes across the capital city.
Hanoi has invested more than 26.8 trillion VND(1.14 billion USD) in building new-style rural areas since 2016, includingnearly 10 trillion VND (427.9 million USD) in the first nine months of 2018.That has helped improve people’s living conditions, ensure security in ruralareas and boost the city’s agricultural development and economic growth.
Four districts and 294 communes, or 76 percentof total communes in the capital city, have been recognised as new-style ruralareas so far.
According to the Department of Agriculture andRural Development, Hanoi has 126 models using high technology in agriculturalproduction, up 20 from 2017.
It has also paid attention to forming valuechains from production to consumption in agriculture, raising the number ofthese models to 118, up 47 from last year.
Local farmers’ living standards have beenimproved, with per capita income estimated at 43.17 million VND (more than1,800 USD) per annum as of June 2018. Notably, this figure reaches 52 millionVND (more than 2,200 USD) in Thach That district and 47 million USD (2,000 USD)in Dong Anh district.
In rural areas, the rate of households livingunder the poverty line has dropped to under 2 percent, even 0.48 percent inQuoc Oai, 1 percent in Gia Lam and 1.41 percent in Thanh Tri district.
In Vietnam, 3,542 communes, or 39.7 percent ofthe total nationwide, have qualified for new-style rural area status.Meanwhile, 55 districts in 28 provinces and cities have achieved all criteriaand completed their mission in new-style rural building, according to thenational target programme’s Central Coordination Office.–VNA
Khuon Ha is a rural commune in Tuyen Quang. It was one of the most poverty-stricken localities in Tuyen Quang seven years ago. Yet after building a new-style rural area, the commune is a better place.
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Hai Hau district of the northern province of Nam Dinh has become a model of the national target programme on building new-style rural areas, with an average economic growth rate of 7.22 percent a year
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A road in Lien Trung, a new-style rural commune in Dan Phuong district, Hanoi (Photo: hanoimoi.com.vn) 
