Nearly 5.2 trillion VND will be spent on building new-style rural areas in the southern province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau in 2018-2020, heard a conference in the locality on December 26.
Hanoi (VNA) – Nearly 5.2trillion VND (229.3 million USD) will be spent on building new-style rural areas in the southern province of Ba Ria– Vung Tau in 2018-2020, heard a conference in the locality on December 26.
Priority will be given to promoting agricultural restructuring and povertyreduction, ensuring social security, improving the quality of education andhealth care services, protecting the environment and treating environmental pollutionin rural areas.
The locality aims to have 14 more communes tomeet new-style rural area criteriaby 2020, lifting the total to 37. It also hopes to have three out of sixdistricts and cities to be recognised as new-style rural areas.
To realise the targets, communication campaigns to raise awareness of thescheme will be expanded, as will efforts to call for resources.
Thanks to the programme in 2011-2017, a total of 801 km of rural roads and morethan 315km of canal, 73 cultural infrastructure facilities and 17 rural marketswere constructed and upgraded.
Total investment capital for the programme in the period was estimated to exceed8.7 trillion VND (383.6 million USD).
In the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong, the programme of building new-style rural areas also recorded remarkableachievements in 2017.
The locality mobilised more than 10.8 trillion VND (476.2 million USD) fromvarious sources in the year for the efforts. Dak Nong has five out of 61 communes acknowledged as new-style rural areas. It aims to have more four in 2018.
At a meeting with local officials on December 26, Head of the Central SteeringCommittee of the National Target Programme on New Rural Development Pham Le Tuan asked the locality topay heed to meeting criteria on the environment, including providing morelocals with hygienic water and improving wastewater collection and treatment.
Measures should be devised to expand the coverage of health insurance in the locality,multiply effective production models and promote the role played by private enterprisesin the movement, he said.
The national target programme on buildingnew-style rural areas, initiated in 2010, sets 20 criteria on socio-economicdevelopment, politics, and defence, aiming to develop ruralregions.
The list of criteria includes the development ofinfrastructure, the improvement of production capacity, environmentalprotection and the promotion of cultural values.-VNA
Hanoi’s Dan Phuong and Dong Anh districts have been recognised as new-style rural areas, the municipal Department of Agriculture and Rural Development reported on August 8.
The Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang has recognised Thanh Xuan commune of Chau Thanh A district as a new-style rural area, raising the number of such communes to 20.
Tam Diep city in the northern province of Ninh Binh has received a Prime Minister’s decision recognising that the locality has completed all criteria of the new-style rural area building programme.
The northern province of Quang Ninh has invested over 13 trillion VND (572 million USD) in implementing the national strategic programme on new-style rural area in 2017.
As many as 2,884 communes or 32.3 percent of communes nationwide were recognised as new-style rural areas by the end of November 2017, surpassing the target of at least 31 percent.
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