Constructing rural transport road in Bac Giang (Source: VNA) The money will be allocated for 15 communes registered to finish the programmeand 80 others registered to join the scheme.
This year, the province willpay attention to developing infrastructure facilities for transport, irrigationand waste treatment, and promoting application of advanced technology inproduction in order to increase locals’ incomes.
It aims to increase the number and quality of criteria completed by communesand strives to fulfill more criteria in the coming time. All the communes ofBac Giang city are expected to be recognised as new-style rural areas this year.
To realised the goals, the local authorities will intensify campaigns to raiseawareness of the work as well as expand creative methods and successful models inthe field.
Bac Giang has so far had 49 communes getting the new-style rural area status,with the average number of completed criteria being 13.2.
Since 2016, the locality hasspent hundreds of billion VND on the programme, focusing on implementing 186agricultural production models such as cultivating fruit trees, high-qualityrice and flower, and breeding.
The set of criteria for a new-style rural commune inthe 2016-2020 period covers 19 different fields with specific targets in planning,socio-economic infrastructure, economy and production, as well as culture,society and environment.
General and specific targets in each criterion aredesigned to suit particular regions: northern midland and mountainous, RedRiver delta, northern central, south central coastal, Central Highlands, southeastern and Mekong Delta regions.
The socio-economic infrastructure group compriseseight specific criteria for transportation, irrigation, electricity, school,cultural infrastructure, rural trade infrastructure, information andcommunications, and residential housing.
The economic and production organisation groupincludes four criteria on income, poor households, employed labourers, andproduction organisation, while the socio-cultural and environment group aims atobjectives in education and training, health care, culture, environment andfood safety, political system and law access, and defence and security.
A new-style rural communemust have asphalt or concrete roads to the district downtown allowing cars totravel in all seasons. Per-capita income of locals is at between 36-50 millionVND depending on each region while the poor household rate is at 6 percentunder the multidimensional poverty line.-VNA
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