In mountainous areas with a large number of ethnic minorities such as Binh Lieu, Tien Yen, Ba Che, the picture of the new rural area is shining with "happy" colors, existing from the beautiful and clean roads, the golden fields of "rice and honey", the fullness and prosperity in each house, sparkling in the joy of the people themselves when "reaping" the proud achievements from the joint efforts and consensus to build a new and developed homeland. Thereby contributing to beautifying the core values of Quang Ninh with "Beautiful nature - Unique culture - Civilized society - Transparent administration - Developed economy - Happy people".
Rich village
Following the achievement of Ba Che district being recognized as meeting the new rural standards in 2023, 2024 marked a proud milestone in the 14-year journey of building new rural areas in Quang Ninh when Binh Lieu district was honored to be recognized by the Prime Minister as meeting the new rural standards in 2023. Binh Lieu is also the first mountainous, border and ethnic minority district in the country to be recognized as meeting the new rural standards, along with Dam Ha and Tien Yen districts, the first two districts in the country to be recognized by the Prime Minister as meeting the advanced new rural standards according to the National Criteria for New Rural Areas in the period of 2021-2025. By the end of 2024, Quang Ninh province had achieved the contents according to the National Criteria for the province to complete the task of building new rural areas in the period of 2021-2025. The shape and appearance of each new rural village and commune are present in every rural area in the province. People's lives are increasingly improved both materially and spiritually.
In the last days of 2024, the atmosphere at the vermicelli factory of Dinh Trung Development Cooperative (Na Ech village, Huc Dong commune, Binh Lieu district) is even busier and more bustling from early morning to late night. People make rice paper, dry rice paper, cut vermicelli, arrange scales, and package products quickly, rhythmically, and in harmony. Although it is hard work, everyone is excited, because it is not only a job that generates income, but also a source of pride when the OCOP products of the homeland are increasingly loved by diners near and far.
Mr. La A Nong, Director of Dinh Trung Development Cooperative, said: After the recent storm No. 3, vermicelli production facilities in the commune also suffered heavy losses in terms of harvested cassava output, damaged machinery and equipment. However, with the spirit of determination not to miss the Tet vermicelli crop, although input production costs increased, we still quickly restored production, increased labor force to ensure the quantity and quality of vermicelli sold as well as maintain stable prices, affirming the Binh Lieu cassava vermicelli brand. It is expected that from now until the Lunar New Year 2025, about 20 tons of vermicelli will be sold.
Dinh Trung Cooperative was established and put into operation in 2014, which was also the time when the whole province and district started implementing the program of building new rural areas. From the orientation and support policies of the district and the spirit of determination to rise up, Mr. La A Nong boldly innovated his thinking and working methods, bringing Dinh Trung Cooperative to develop more and more, bringing the traditional vermicelli craft towards commodity production, promoting economic development, contributing to creating jobs for local workers.
Not only in Huc Dong commune, people in Binh Lieu district are also actively and proactively converting unsuitable and low-yielding crop areas to growing arrowroot, reaching 152.1 hectares so far. Along with that, the district continues to mobilize and orient people to develop production towards commodities, support preferential loans, and promote the application of science and technology in production. Thereby helping people increase their income, contributing positively to the district's poverty reduction results. By the end of 2023, the district will have no more poor households according to the central multidimensional poverty standards; in 2024, there will be 8 poor households (accounting for 0.1%), 645 near-poor households (accounting for 8.24%) according to the province's poverty standards.
“From the orientation of developing vermicelli into the main OCOP product of the district, many households in the commune have built beautiful houses, bought motorbikes and cars. Especially from the program of building new rural areas, infrastructure and roads are increasingly modern, connected, convenient for product consumption. The appearance of the new rural areas of the commune changes every day, people's lives are improved”, Mr. La A Nong excitedly shared.
Throughout the province's rural areas, more and more OCOP products of farmers are trusted by the market, reaching out to provinces and cities in the country and internationally through fairs, e-commerce platforms, social networks, etc. This is the driving force that gives farmers more strength to confidently enter the market, improve product quality themselves to bring in higher and higher income.
In Cong To village (Tien Lang commune, Tien Yen district), Ms. Ly Thi Van's family is one of the leading households in developing household economy. Instead of maintaining 2 hectares of forest, 6,000 square meters of rice and crops, for many years now, her family has implemented a model of raising Tien Yen commercial chickens, selling an average of 2,000 commercial chickens to the market each year. Total income from the model of growing and raising chickens reaches about 300 million VND/year. Ms. Van shared: "Starting to implement the chicken raising model, I received support from the locality in preferential loans, and was trained in systematic animal husbandry knowledge by agricultural officials. From the chicken raising model, my family has more income to take care of my children's education, have food and savings. I plan to expand the scale of the chicken flock in the direction of a farm in 2025, increasing sustainable income".
Ms. Van's determination is also the will to rise up and create a full and prosperous life for farmers in Tien Yen district. Thanks to that, by the end of 2024, the average income in the rural areas of the district will reach 97.32 million VND/person/year; the whole district will reach 99.87 million VND/person/year.
The goal of the new rural construction program is to improve the material and spiritual life of people in rural areas. Therefore, during the 14-year journey of building new rural areas, advanced and exemplary new rural areas, Quang Ninh has always paid attention to implementing targets related to the form of production organization and rural economic development. Thereby contributing to orienting and supporting people to develop suitable and sustainable production models and increase value, realizing the goal of striving for the average income of people in rural areas to reach over 5,000 USD by 2025, and 8,000-10,000 USD by 2030.
The highest goal is people's happiness
Investing in building socio-economic infrastructure in ethnic minority, mountainous, border and island areas, especially transport infrastructure to create comprehensive connections between regions, opening up new development space for localities, effectively serving people's lives is the top priority identified by the province in the new rural construction program. Up to now, 100% of communes in the province have paved roads to commune centers; 100% of communes maintain national standards on commune health; 100% of households in ethnic minority, mountainous and island areas have safe access to electricity and improved electricity quality; the system of schools and hospitals has been newly invested in according to high-quality standards; the system of cultural institutions has been invested in synchronously and modernly, bearing the imprint of traditional culture, constantly meeting the cultural enjoyment needs of the people.
Realizing the motto "All Quang Ninh people enjoy the fruits of development, inclusive growth and no one is left behind", by effectively integrating central budget capital sources, capital from national target programs of the province and localities, typically Ba Che district has paid attention to investing and building socio-economic infrastructure, focusing on key and focused investments.
Specifically, Ba Che has completed the traffic system connecting from the district to localities, such as: Routes 330, 342, 330B, 329 and the route from the town to Minh Cam commune parallel to provincial road 330. Traffic connecting from the district center to communes and villages is 100% concreted, renovating and upgrading flood avoidance routes in the town center, provincial road 329; upgrading flood points on road 330; building reservoirs to provide clean water and irrigation for people...
Mr. Hoang Van Duc (Zone 3, Ba Che Town, Ba Che District) shared: "In September 2024, the people of the district were extremely excited because the project of connecting Provincial Road 330 with the center of Ba Che Town, combined with the embankment to prevent landslides on the main road and the residential area of the town, was completed and put into use. The project not only meets the increasingly smooth traffic needs, but also contributes to creating a spacious and modern appearance for the locality, encouraging people to continue to join hands to build a rich and beautiful homeland."
Economic prosperity has significantly contributed to the richness of the spiritual and cultural life of the people. In mountainous and ethnic minority areas such as Ba Che, Binh Lieu, Tien Yen, on every occasion of a festival or traditional festival, people are bustling and joyfully singing. Cultural, sports, and traditional folk music and art clubs have developed vigorously throughout villages and hamlets, attracting people to participate in physical exercise, exchange, and improve their spiritual life. From here, people are encouraged to demonstrate their role as the main subject in preserving, maintaining, and promoting traditional cultural values associated with the development of community tourism, contributing to improving the quality of life. Many intangible cultural values such as: The ritual of granting titles, the custom of avoiding wind of the Dao people, the folk performance art of singing Soong co of the San Chi people; the folk performance art of singing Soong co of the San Diu people; Then practice, the new rice celebration of the Tay people in the localities of Binh Lieu, Ba Che, Tien Yen... has been recognized as a national intangible cultural heritage.
Mr. Duong Phuc Thim, Party Cell Secretary, Head of Khe Tien Village (Dong Van Commune, Binh Lieu District) shared: Dong Van has just held a launching ceremony for the Dao Thanh Phan Ethnic Culture Conservation and Development Clubs in 3 villages of Khe Moi, Khe Tien, and Song Mooc, which is the first model of the Dao Thanh Phan Ethnic Culture Conservation and Development Club in the district, aiming to eliminate bad customs, preserve and promote the good traditional values of the Dao Thanh Phan ethnic group, associated with building cultural families, cultural villages and the movement to build new rural areas. Households participating in the Club have the opportunity to learn and share experiences in preserving traditional culture associated with developing community tourism.
Firmly step on the new journey
With the view that building a new rural area is a long-term, regular, continuous process, with a starting point but no end point, Quang Ninh is continuing this journey with synchronous goals and solutions. In particular, implementing Resolution No. 06-NQ/TU (dated May 17, 2021) of the Provincial Party Committee "On sustainable socio-economic development associated with ensuring solid national defense and security in communes, villages, and hamlets in ethnic minority, mountainous, border, and island areas for the period 2021-2025, with a vision to 2030", along with other national target programs, the province has allocated over 118,100 billion VND to invest in this area. In the period 2019-2024, the province will deploy 842 projects and essential infrastructure works in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, creating an important driving force for socio-economic development and improving the quality of people's lives. This is an important driving force to help mountainous and ethnic minority areas continue to develop.
As a bright spot in the construction of new rural areas in the province and the whole country, Tien Yen is continuing to step firmly on the journey to build a typical model new rural district. Comrade Hoang Van Sinh, Deputy Secretary of the District Party Committee, Chairman of the Tien Yen District People's Committee, affirmed: Tien Yen identifies the new rural construction program as a key, regular task of the Party Committee, government and people; there is no end point, no pursuit of achievements; no expectation or reliance on superiors; consistently implementing the motto "People do, State supports". Based on the direction and guidance of the Central and the province, the Steering Committee for New Rural Construction of the district has developed a plan, issued documents directing communes, towns and functional departments of the district to develop a roadmap and specific solutions to maintain and improve the quality of each criterion for building advanced and model new rural areas.
Accordingly, in 2025, Tien Yen will complete the proposal for the Provincial People's Committee to consider and recognize Dai Duc and Ha Lau communes as meeting advanced NTM standards; 100% of villages will be recognized as meeting NTM village standards; submit to the Provincial People's Committee for approval the Plan to build a model NTM district for the period 2026-2030. Communes that meet the model NTM standards will continue to develop plans to maintain and improve the quality of criteria, build model communes with characteristics suitable to the strengths of the locality, such as: Dong Rui, Dong Hai are outstanding models in terms of environment; Hai Lang is outstanding model in terms of production development; Yen Than is a model in terms of security and order; Dong Ngu is a model in terms of education; Tien Lang is a model in terms of culture.
Sharing that spirit, by the end of 2024, Binh Lieu achieved 8/9 criteria, 36/38 targets according to the set of criteria for the district to meet the advanced NTM standards. This is a solid positive result to strive for by the end of 2025, Binh Lieu will meet the advanced NTM standards according to the target set by the Resolution of the District Party Congress for the 2020-2025 term. The district has no more poor or near-poor households according to the multidimensional poverty standards for the 2023-2025 period of the province; average income per capita will increase at least 2 times compared to 2020, reaching 100 million VND/person by 2025.
In 2025, Ba Che district aims for Luong Minh commune to meet the model NTM standard, Dap Thanh commune to meet the advanced NTM standard, bringing the total number of 4/6 communes to meet the advanced NTM standard; 12 more villages to meet the NTM village standard, bringing the total number of 52/58 villages to meet the NTM standard. The district continues to maintain the quality of 4/9 criteria that have been achieved, striving to meet the remaining 5 criteria according to the set of criteria for districts to meet the advanced NTM standard.
The prosperity of each beautiful, rich, civilized countryside imbued with national cultural identity is a testament to the spirit of solidarity and self-reliance of all people on the journey to build a new, civilized and modern lifestyle. People joyfully welcome the new year in warmth and prosperity to multiply motivation, extend faith, and continue to contribute to Quang Ninh's breakthrough in economic growth, joining the development of the country in the era of strong growth.
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