Over the last four years, the central province of Ha Tinh mobilised over 560 billion VND (25.7 million USD) from social organisations, enterprises and individuals for its new-style rural building programmes.

Donors actively worked with communal authorities to develop plans and roadmaps on completing the necessary requirements in order to be recognised as new rural development communes .

Meetings were held regularly to review the use of financial resources and the implementation of programmes.
According to Tran Huy Oanh, deputy chief of the coordination secretariat of Ha Tinh’s National Target Programme on New Rural Development, the locality is home to numerous communes that meet the 19 criteria for new-style rural development due to support from donors and sponsoring agencies.

The National Target Programme on New Rural Development, launched in 2010, sets out 19 criteria for new-style rural areas, covering infrastructure, production, living standards, income and culture, among others.-VNA