For over 10 years of building new-style countryside, rural areas across Hanoi have gained a facelift, and the capital city is set to push ahead with the efforts in the coming time.
The Ministry of Public Security and the authorities of Nghe An jointly held a ceremony on March 22 to hand over model houses and funding for the construction of more than 2,400 homes for the poor and people with housing difficulties in the central province.
Border guards from the Central Highlands’ province of Dak Lak have built a number of medical clinics in border communes. The most recent one was built in late 2021 in La Lốp commune, making health services accessible to disadvantaged local people.
The southern province of Dong Nai, a leading locality in implementing the national target programme on new-style rural area building, is making efforts to continue to promote the building of exemplary new-style rural areas.
Hundreds of police officers have been deployed to remote and border communes nationwide in a bid to ensure security and social order, support locals to build houses, help ease poverty, and safeguard the border.
Hanoi aims to have 15 communes recognised as exemplary new-style rural areas this year, according to the capital city’s coordinating office for building new-style rural areas.
Nearly 60 years ago, the Rach Kien guerrilla belt in the Mekong Delta province of Long An witnessed a fierce struggle and glorious victory for Vietnamese guerrillas against the US invaders. Today, as a historical relic site, it has made a significant contribution to educating the younger generation about history and national pride.
At least 80 percent of communes nationwide are expected to be recognised as new-style rural areas by 2025, according to the national target programe on new-style rural area building.
A new set of criteria for new-style rural communes and another for advanced new-style rural communes for the 2021-2025 period were issued on March 8 following Decision No.318/QD-TTg.
The national target programme on new-style rural area building for 2021 - 2025 has recently been approved by the Prime Minister, aiming to have at least 80 percent of the communes nationwide earning the status by 2025.
With Ho Chi Minh City remaining at the Level 1 of pandemic risk (low-risk – new normal), 37 out of the city's total 312 wards and communes have seen their risk rise to Level 2 of medium-risk, according to the municipal Department of Health.
The Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang plans to transport goods with stabilised price to its seven island communes for locals on the occasion of Tet (Lunar New Year), according to the provincial Department of Industry and Trade.
Da Nang city’s steering committee for COVID-19 prevention and control has sought measures to fight the COVID-19 pandemic that has spread to four out of its seven districts.
A total of 5,248 out of Vietnam’s 8,267 communes, or 63.4 percent, fulfilled the criteria set for new-style rural areas as of the end of April, according to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Soldiers and people living and working in the island township of Truong Sa and the island communes of Sinh Ton and Song Tu Tay, in Truong Sa district of central Khanh Hoa province, went to the polls on May 16, a week ahead of the official election day, to cast their ballots to elect deputies to the 15th National Assembly and the People’s Councils at all levels for the 2021-2026 tenure.
The People’s Committee of Dong Trieu town in the northern province of Quang Ninh has decided to impose a temporary lockdown on an additional 11 wards and communes from 9:00 am on February 2 until the province issues a new direction.
At present, the two communes of Huong Lap and Huong Viet have not yet been able to access Khe Sanh and Huong Hoa districts, Quang Tri province. Rescuers have to take a detour from Quang Binh, 200 km further with dangerous mountain road, to reach the communes.
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