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Dak Nong accelerates new style rural area building

The Central Highlands province of Dak Nong launched a national target programme on building new-style rural areas for 2017 in Dak Rlap district on February 6.
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Dak Nong (VNA) – TheCentral Highlands province of Dak Nong launched a national target programme onbuilding new-style rural areas for 2017 in Dak Rlap district on February 6.

Chairman of the Dak Rlap districtPeople’s Committee Le Van Thi said the district was selected as the keylocation for implementing the programme, aiming to have all its communes meetall the criteria.

The district will focus on improvinglocal people’s income and their living conditions while developinginfrastructure facilities and services.

In 2017, Dak Rlap aims to have two newcommunes recognised as new style rural areas, Thi said.

According to Le Van Sinh, Vice Headof the provincial Office for the national target programme on buildingnew-style rural areas, in 2016, the province poured nearly two trillion VND (88million USD) into the programme, of which more than 1.4 trillion VNA (61.6million USD) was covered by other local projects.

Despite being a mountainous disadvantagedprovince, all communes in the province have completed planning for new stylerural area building, Sinh said.

The locality has assisted localfarmers to change their crops, and breed high-value animals while promotingvocational training for rural labourers to increase their income.

On average, the province’s communeshave completed 11 out of the 19 new style rural area building criteria, Sinhsaid, adding that the provincial Steering Committee for the programme has urgedall localities to mobilise resources for the work.

In 2017, the province aims to haveadditional five communes meet all the criteria of the programme, raising thetotal to 10 communes, he said.-VNA
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