A delegation of the Korean Workers’ Party led by head of its Central Committee’ Commission for International Affairs Kim Yong Il, has visited the northern province of Thai Binh to study the model of rural area development.

At a working session with the delegation on June 12, Tran Cam Tu, Secretary of the Thai Binh Provincial Party Committee, said that the province is accelerating the development of new rural area in line with the National Target Programme on New Rural Development from 2010-2020.

Thai Binh expects to fulfill the programme in all communes by 2020, so that the province meets all the standards for a new rural province, he added.

Tu, who is also member of the Party Central Committee, stressed the solidarity and friendship between the two Parties and peoples of Vietnam and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea .

He said that Thai Binh province’s Party Committee and people always keep in mind the valuable assistance from the DPRK’s Korean Workers’ Party and people to the Vietnamese people in the past struggle for national independence and reunification as well as national construction and defence at the present.

For his part, Kim Yong Il, who is a member of the Party Central Committee’s Secretariat, spoke highly of Thai Binh’s economic development, especially in agricultural production, poverty reduction as well as employment and social welfare.

He attributed the achievements to the sound policy of the Communist Party of Vietnam.

Later in the day, the delegation made a fact-finding tour of a rural area model in Thanh Tan commune, Kien Xuong district.-VNA