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Hanoi takes agriculture and new-style rural development as a key task during the 2020-2025 period, but with higher criteria to meet, standing Vice Secretary of the municipal Party Committee Ngo Thi Thanh Hang has said.

Hanoi now has 13 communes meeting advanced criteria for new-style rural areas, up two communes compared to the end of 2019, according to the city’s coordinating office for the new-style rural area programme.

The HCM City Department of Information and Communications on May 5 launched an application that will help assess COVID-19 transmission risks.

The Ministry of Education and Training (MoET) has set higher standards for schools to ensure they meet the requirements of COVID-19 prevention.

The HCM City Department of Health has established criteria for evaluating the risk of COVID-19 infections at medical facilities around the city.

Up to 92.2 percent of the communes in Hanoi have met the standards of a new-style rural area.

The People’s Committee of the northern port city of Hai Phong has signed a decision to pilot the building of model rural areas in eight local communes with total investment amounting to over 1 trillion VND (nearly 43 million USD).

Viet Dan commune in Dong Trieu township has become the first model new style rural commune in the northern province of Quang Ninh after fulfilling advanced criteria for a new style rural area.

The central province of Phu Yen has sufficient conditions to set up a Global Geopark, Guy Martini, Chairman of the UNESCO Global Geoparks Council, said after a field trip to the site earlier this week.

‘Made in Vietnam’ products are required to have a localisation rate of 30 percent and be partly produced in Vietnam.

As many as 5,458 communes across the country have been recogised as new-style rural areas so far this year, up 620 compared to the end of 2018, according to the Central Coordination Office on New Rural Development.

The EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) is seen as a comprehensive and high-quality trade pact that helps diversify export markets for products originating from Vietnam.

The northern province of Bac Giang is working to remove difficulties in the building of new-style rural areas in order to accelerate the pace of the work in the locality, according to deputy director of the province’s department of agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Van Doanh.

Standards for Vietnamese ecological seaports will help build a professional environment management system, thus raising seaport management units’ awareness of environmental protection, said Dr. Du Van Toan from the Vietnam Administration of Seas and Islands’ Vietnam Institute of Seas and Islands.

Mangoes grown in Yen Chau district, the northern mountain province of Son La, began being exported to the US, UK, Australian and Chinese markets on June 1.

Ho Chi Minh City targets reducing the volume of plastic bags used at supermarkets and business centres by 65 percent, and at traditional markets by 50 percent compared with 2010.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pham Binh Minh has said foreign diplomats and heads of international organisations contributed to Vietnam’s socio-economic development in 2018.

Several universities have included English as one of the criteria in their enrolment plans for the 2019-2020 academic year.

The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee has issued a new set of criteria for rural communes that will be in effect until 2020.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project to replace crumbling classrooms and upgrading educational equipment to create the best conditions for students.