Gia Lai strives to have 80 more new rural communes
Gia Lai (VNA) – The Central Highlands province of Gia Lai has made effort to have additional 80 new-style rural communes by 2020, or 43 percent of the total communes.
After
five years, 21 communes have been recognised as new-style communes in the
locality.
Vo
Ngoc Thanh, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee affirmed that Gia Lai
will prioritise infrastructure development in rural areas.
The province will continue raising public awareness of the campaigns like “All
people stay united to build new rural areas and civilised urban areas”.
The
national programme on building new-style rural areas, initiated by the
Government in 2010, includes 19 criteria on socio-economic development,
politics and defence, aiming to boost rural areas of Vietnam.
The
criteria cover infrastructure development, production capacity improvement,
environmental protection and cultural value promotion.-VNA