The streets of the capital are bright with flags and banners celebrating the 79th anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day September 2. (Photo: THE DAI)
“Here is Hoan Kiem Lake, Hong Ha River, West Lake. Here is the soul of the thousand-year-old mountains and rivers. Here is Thang Long, here is Dong Do, here is Hanoi,…”.
79 years since that autumn, Hanoi has always carried within itself the crystallized "sediment" of a thousand-year-old culture, with the revolutionary light of the Ho Chi Minh era, the origin of brilliant milestones in the history of the nation and revolution. Yesterday's heroic Hanoi is the driving force for Hanoi to develop today, continuing to write fresh songs.
The place where "the soul of mountains and rivers of thousands of years" is calmed
The lyrics are as if dedicated to Hoan Kiem, the place where the culture and historical traditions of Thang Long-Hanoi converge and crystallize. It is home to 190 famous relics with long-standing historical and cultural values, such as the Hoan Kiem Lake-Ngoc Son Temple-Ba Kieu Temple complex, Bao An Pagoda (Lien Tri Pagoda), Bao Thien Tower, King Le Temple... to the revolutionary relics of Hoa Lo Prison, August Revolution Square, Hanoi Uprising Committee Headquarters, at 101 Tran Hung Dao Street, House 48 Hang Ngang Street..., along with the unique space of "thirty-six streets" converging the quintessence of traditional craft villages.
Although it is the smallest administrative unit in the city, Hoan Kiem district is the center where important political and cultural events of the capital often take place. Preserving and promoting traditional values, promoting socio-economic development, and building Hoan Kiem people in the new era worthy of a thousand-year history are always the concerns of the Party Committee and the local government.
The key to creating motivation, according to comrade Nguyen Quoc Hoan, Permanent Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Hoan Kiem District, is first of all the human factor. Raising the sense of responsibility and discipline of the staff, civil servants and public employees, promoting the effectiveness and efficiency of urban government operations has always been a concern of the Party Committee. Since then, many priority tasks have been resolved, such as overcoming the cramped "one-stop" department in the wards in the district.
In October 2023, the district piloted the model of Public Administration Service Center No. 1 in Tran Hung Dao Ward, based on the combination of "one-stop" departments of three adjacent wards: Tran Hung Dao, Cua Nam, Hang Trong to concentrate human resources, facilities, and better serve people and businesses. Experiencing public services here, Ms. Le Diem Ngoc on Hang Chuoi Street, Hai Ba Trung District happily shared that in just about 15 minutes, she had certified a number of necessary documents in a modern, civilized office space, with a professional working spirit and friendly attitude. From the effectiveness of the model, the district has built two more ward-level public administration centers.
79 years since that autumn, Hanoi has always carried within itself the crystallized "sediment" of a thousand-year-old culture, with the revolutionary light of the Ho Chi Minh era, the origin of brilliant milestones in the history of the nation and revolution. Yesterday's heroic Hanoi is the driving force for Hanoi to develop today, continuing to write fresh songs.
Improving the quality of facilities serving people in areas with limited land and large population is always a hot issue in meetings of the Party Committee and the Hoan Kiem District government. Among them, many schools have small, narrow areas, not meeting the criteria of national standard schools... Sometimes, students have to study in relics and residential areas. Based on that reality, the district proposed that the city reclaim the land after agencies and units relocated to build schools, such as Le Loi Secondary School, which was relocated from 17 Nguyen Thien Thuat to a new location at 18 Hang Khoai Street.
With five floors above ground and two basements; 15 classrooms and modernly equipped subject rooms, meeting the requirements of improving the quality of teaching and comprehensive education. In 2024, the district will clear the land of wooden houses in Chuong Duong ward to build a kindergarten; reclaim land in Ngo Quyen, Tran Hung Dao and Phan Huy Chu streets to implement the project of building Vo Thi Sau Primary School.
Aiming to serve the people, the district government has mobilized social resources, creating conditions for social groups, organizations and people to transform abandoned spaces, encroached upon and indiscriminately dumped waste, into useful spaces serving the community at the lowest cost. Thanks to that, people living in Chuong Duong and Phuc Tan wards outside the Red River dike have two parks of thousands of square meters as places for daily exercise and relaxation.
Civilized office, friendly residents
Since the historical event of September 2, 1945, the place name Ba Dinh was chosen to name the flower garden - where President Ho Chi Minh read the Declaration of Independence, and then became the name of the district. This "spiritual land of talented people" is now the National Administrative-Political Center, where political and foreign affairs activities of the Party and State regularly take place with hundreds of important meetings and events each year. Building civilized offices and loyal residents worthy of the position of Ba Dinh has always been the goal that cadres, party members and people are determined to accompany and join hands with.
At the Department of Receiving and Returning Administrative Documents of Vinh Phuc Ward, the working atmosphere is urgent and professional. Officials wear civil servant badges and enthusiastically guide the declaration of administrative procedures. People take a number, wait their turn and receive an appointment to return the results. According to Party Secretary Pham Thi Thu Huong, the team of officials and civil servants are guaranteed professional qualifications, work with the spirit of administrative service, and seriously implement the code of conduct at the office, in public places and at their residence.
With strict management and supervision of the use of working time, especially right after the holidays, the Party Committee - People's Committee of the ward always urgently deploys work, without delay, which is recognized and highly appreciated by grassroots cadres and people.
Vinh Phuc Ward has become a bright spot of Ba Dinh in administrative reform because of its many initiatives, solutions, and effective ways of serving the people, such as the models of "One-stop-shop for handling civilized, friendly, and professional administrative procedures", "5 procedures - 5 on-site settlements", "Support for activating electronic identification and implementing the settlement of essential online public services"; "One account - thousands of utilities".
Recently, the Ward People's Committee continued to implement the model "VNeID - super application - super utility", to promote the benefits of using the VNeID application to perform online public services on the National Public Service Portal; or the model "Two-zero household registration excerpt" in issuing copies of household registration excerpts.
Two nos (citizens do not declare, officials do not make appointments), meaning that procedures are processed and resolved on the spot, people only come once, complete and receive results immediately. The two models put into application demonstrate the awareness and action of building a service-oriented administration, together with the people to fully enjoy the benefits brought by public services. With continuous efforts, the PAR-INDEX of Vinh Phuc ward has continuously increased, from 93.72%, ranked 8th/14 wards of Ba Dinh district (in 2021), to 98.79%, ranked 2nd/14 (in 2023).
Ba Dinh District Party Secretary Hoang Minh Dung Tien said that, in parallel with creating a cultural environment of solidarity, democracy, discipline, humanity, and dedication to public service, each cadre, party member, civil servant, and public employee of Ba Dinh District always sets an example in communication, behavior, and is exemplary in family and community, and together with the people, spreads the values of Hanoians.
Building a civilized, elegant, serious and loyal Ba Dinh people in the new era is set to meet the requirements of the development of the capital "Cultured - civilized - modern". The system of cultural values, family values and standards of Hanoi people that have been accumulated for many generations are now revived and continue to be promoted.
Along with creating a cultural environment of solidarity, democracy, discipline, humanity, and dedication to public service, each cadre, party member, civil servant, and public employee of Ba Dinh district always sets an example in communication, behavior, and is exemplary in family and community, spreading the values of Hanoians with the people.
Secretary of Ba Dinh District Party Committee Hoang Minh Dung Tien
Accordingly, from the Party Committee to each Ba Dinh citizen, we all aim to raise awareness of family values to nurture, build, and lay the foundation to restore, inherit, and promote the tradition of Thang Long-Hanoi; build a young generation of the Capital that is elegant, civilized, polite, courteous, and values affection and morality.
Students are exposed to the subject of “Hanoi Studies” to complete the criteria for building a “Happy School” in the area. Each citizen of Ba Dinh district strives to become an image ambassador, with refined, friendly, and hospitable behavior, together cultivating the values of Hanoians with high intelligence and beautiful personality, worthy of being citizens of the Capital.
Ready to take off
Focusing on completing the criteria to turn Dong Anh district into a district, many projects and programs have been effectively implemented since the beginning of the term. In particular, in 2022, Dong Anh District Party Committee issued a Resolution on determination and striving to complete "5 yes, 3 no" in villages and residential groups in the district. 5 yes includes: cultural houses; mini parks, community activity areas; football fields; static parking lots combined with tree planting; construction waste collection and gathering points. 3 no includes: no violations of regulations on land management and use, construction order; no environmental pollution and no poor households. During the implementation process, Dong Anh District Party Committee added criteria on traffic infrastructure.
The appearance of the ancient capital on the northern bank of the Red River is changing day by day. Spacious and bustling urban areas and villages with beautiful landscapes, amidst green fields that attract the eye. Dong Anh villages with full cultural institutions, lakes, parks, trees, vibrant cultural and sports activities, visitors can feel the living space of the countryside in the city and the urban lifestyle present right in the village.
Many large industrial parks and clusters operating in the area, such as Thang Long Industrial Park, have achieved a 100% occupancy rate and are the most stable and sustainable industrial parks in the country. Dong Anh has planned concentrated raw material areas for a number of key products such as rice, safe vegetables, ornamental plants, etc. with synchronous investment in infrastructure, assigned area codes, and applied advanced technical processes. Average income per capita increased from 20 million VND/year (2010) to 78.88 million VND (2023). Dong Anh District People's Committee has completed the criteria and proposed to consider and recognize the district as meeting the standards of an advanced new rural district in 2023.
Currently, there are 3 bridges across the Red River and Duong River, namely Thang Long, Nhat Tan, and Dong Tru, connecting Dong Anh with the central urban area of the Capital. Many large national and international projects have been approved as concrete actions to realize the development vision, contributing to the completion of infrastructure and modern urban criteria, ready to make Dong Anh a district of the Capital Hanoi.
According to Nguyen Van Cuong, Deputy Secretary of the District Party Committee, the process of implementing new rural construction has received great support from businesses, organizations, and people, contributing hundreds of billions of VND. Of which, people in 6 communes implementing land consolidation and plot exchange have supported more than 48 hectares of agricultural land for traffic and irrigation; donated 1,519 square meters of residential land and supported more than 302 thousand working days...
The guiding viewpoint of the Hanoi Party Committee is to convert districts into districts and communes into wards, without adjusting administrative boundaries or increasing the number of administrative units at the district and commune levels. The administrative apparatus of districts and wards will be organized appropriately to perform urban management functions to meet the requirements of urbanization and socio-economic development in Dong Anh district in the future.
With the support of the people and the participation of the entire political system, creating an exciting and optimistic atmosphere, it is the driving force for all classes of people to join hands to help Dong Anh district "take off". Up to this point, Dong Anh district has completed the criteria according to regulations, and at the same time coordinated with the Department of Construction and the Department of Planning and Architecture to complete the dossier to submit to the Ministry of Construction for consideration and recognition of the standards and level of infrastructure development, as a basis for submitting to the National Assembly Standing Committee for approval of the project to establish the district.
Hanoi yesterday in Hanoi today, with its potential, outstanding advantages, position, and especially important role in the cause of innovation. At a recent meeting with the Hanoi Party Committee, General Secretary and President To Lam emphasized the factors of dynamism, creativity, daring to think, daring to do to make Hanoi develop more strongly and comprehensively, on 5 pillars: culture and people; 3 transformations (green transformation, digital transformation, circular economy); synchronous, modern, highly connected infrastructure; digital economy, smart city; science, technology and innovation, towards building a civilized, peaceful and prosperous capital, a globally connected city.
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