Vietnam’s countryside has gained a facelift during the five-year implementation of a national target programme on building new-style rural areas, an achievement greatly contributed by businesses and entrepreneurs nationwide, said Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh on July 25.
At a Hanoi ceremony, the official said the programme, initiated by the Government in 2010 to boost rural regions of Vietnam, has become a strong movement with the participation of all-level authorities and people.
It has helped cut the household poverty rate down by 2 percent annually and increased income of rural residents twice compared to the first year of the progamme implementation. Up to 889 or about 10 percent of the total communes and five districts have been recognised as new-style rural areas.
Those outcomes were reached partly thanks to businesses and entrepreneurs’ contributions, which were their funding for road, school and hospital building as well as promotion of agricultural production and job creation, Ninh said.
He noted an array of challenges to increasing the rate of new-style rural communes to 20 percent by the end of this year as targeted. Localities will be unable to tap into their agricultural potential and improve local material and spiritual life unless concrete actions are made.
He asked ministries, sectors and localities to seriously review the implementation of the programme and propose measures to attract business investment in agriculture and rural areas.
The official also expressed his hope for more practical contributions by companies and entrepreneurs to rural development and the national industrialisation and modernisation.
Also at the ceremony, the Prime Minister’s certificates of merit were presented to 65 companies and 31 entrepreneurs to honour their efforts to carry out the rural development programme.
The national target programme sets 19 criteria for new rural areas covering infrastructure, production, living standards, income and culture, among others. A district must have at least 75 percent of its communes meeting all the 19 criteria in order to receive the title of new-style rural district.-VNA
At a Hanoi ceremony, the official said the programme, initiated by the Government in 2010 to boost rural regions of Vietnam, has become a strong movement with the participation of all-level authorities and people.
It has helped cut the household poverty rate down by 2 percent annually and increased income of rural residents twice compared to the first year of the progamme implementation. Up to 889 or about 10 percent of the total communes and five districts have been recognised as new-style rural areas.
Those outcomes were reached partly thanks to businesses and entrepreneurs’ contributions, which were their funding for road, school and hospital building as well as promotion of agricultural production and job creation, Ninh said.
He noted an array of challenges to increasing the rate of new-style rural communes to 20 percent by the end of this year as targeted. Localities will be unable to tap into their agricultural potential and improve local material and spiritual life unless concrete actions are made.
He asked ministries, sectors and localities to seriously review the implementation of the programme and propose measures to attract business investment in agriculture and rural areas.
The official also expressed his hope for more practical contributions by companies and entrepreneurs to rural development and the national industrialisation and modernisation.
Also at the ceremony, the Prime Minister’s certificates of merit were presented to 65 companies and 31 entrepreneurs to honour their efforts to carry out the rural development programme.
The national target programme sets 19 criteria for new rural areas covering infrastructure, production, living standards, income and culture, among others. A district must have at least 75 percent of its communes meeting all the 19 criteria in order to receive the title of new-style rural district.-VNA
