Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has emphasized the need to mobilise allsocial resources for building new style rural areas besides investmentfrom the State budget.
Addressing a May 16conference of the steering committee for the national target programmeon building new rural areas, the PM said building new rural areas is animportant policy that has won the support of people nationwide.
Noting that the country’s rural areas have seen many positive changesduring the three years implementing the policy, he said however,investment for the programme remains limited, while many agencies andlocal administrations still fail to grasp the importance of the policy.
Greater efforts are needed in order to achieve theset target of having 20 percent of all communes nationwide meet all thecriteria for new rural areas by 2015, he said.
ThePM instructed that priority should be given to building infrastructureof transport, irrigation, power supply, health care, education andtelecommunications in target areas.
He also askedlocal authorities to adopt policies to attract more investment in theirrural areas with a view to developing industrial production andservices, thus creating more jobs and increasing income for rurallabourers.
The conference heard that thanks to thepolicy, infrastructure in many rural areas has been upgraded, whileincomes and living conditions of rural residents have been improvedremarkably. At the present, 185 communes have achieved all 19 criteriafor new rural areas and nearly 600 others have met between 15-18criteria. On average, each commune has so far fulfilled 8.47 criteriacompared to 4.7 in 2011.
Reports at the conferencenoted that the revision of the criteria to suit the specific situationin different regions has contributed to the positive outcomes.
Production planning and new production models are the bright spots inthe implementation of the new rural area building programme. Mostprovinces and cities have built large-scale fields and promotedmechanization in agricultural production. Many localities havesuccessfully established economic models combining agriculture andtourism, or traditional craft village and tourism.
Infrastructure building also received due attention, with nearly 5,000projects now underway aiming to build 64,000 km of rural roads.
There are 19 national criteria for new rural areas, which coverbuilding infrastructure, improving production capacity, building publicworks, protecting landscape and environment, and promote localtraditions and cultural identities.-VNA
Addressing a May 16conference of the steering committee for the national target programmeon building new rural areas, the PM said building new rural areas is animportant policy that has won the support of people nationwide.
Noting that the country’s rural areas have seen many positive changesduring the three years implementing the policy, he said however,investment for the programme remains limited, while many agencies andlocal administrations still fail to grasp the importance of the policy.
Greater efforts are needed in order to achieve theset target of having 20 percent of all communes nationwide meet all thecriteria for new rural areas by 2015, he said.
ThePM instructed that priority should be given to building infrastructureof transport, irrigation, power supply, health care, education andtelecommunications in target areas.
He also askedlocal authorities to adopt policies to attract more investment in theirrural areas with a view to developing industrial production andservices, thus creating more jobs and increasing income for rurallabourers.
The conference heard that thanks to thepolicy, infrastructure in many rural areas has been upgraded, whileincomes and living conditions of rural residents have been improvedremarkably. At the present, 185 communes have achieved all 19 criteriafor new rural areas and nearly 600 others have met between 15-18criteria. On average, each commune has so far fulfilled 8.47 criteriacompared to 4.7 in 2011.
Reports at the conferencenoted that the revision of the criteria to suit the specific situationin different regions has contributed to the positive outcomes.
Production planning and new production models are the bright spots inthe implementation of the new rural area building programme. Mostprovinces and cities have built large-scale fields and promotedmechanization in agricultural production. Many localities havesuccessfully established economic models combining agriculture andtourism, or traditional craft village and tourism.
Infrastructure building also received due attention, with nearly 5,000projects now underway aiming to build 64,000 km of rural roads.
There are 19 national criteria for new rural areas, which coverbuilding infrastructure, improving production capacity, building publicworks, protecting landscape and environment, and promote localtraditions and cultural identities.-VNA
