The 12th National Party Congress discussed the criteria for Party Central Committee members and the structure of the 12th Party Central Committee during its fourth working day in Hanoi on January 24.
The central coastal province of Khanh Hoa will allocate over 2.15 trillion VND (about 93 million USD) for its new-style rural area building from now to 2020.
A new set of criteria relating to education, health, employment, social insurance, living conditions and access to information will be applied to determine poor and near-poor households from 2016-2020
The northern mountainous province of Yen Bai reviewed five-year outcomes of forming new-style rural localities and set out tasks for 2016-2020 during a conference on December 30.
Dong Nai is moving fast on the path to the new-style rural province status by 2020 when its six more communes have satisfied all the 19 countryside development criteria.
A total of 61 communes in the Central Highlands region have met new-style rural area standards, 45 communes of which have been recognised as new-style rural areas.
Infrastructure development appeared as the most outstanding achievement of the national target programme on new-style rural area building in the 2010-2015 period
The northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang mobilised 7.25 trillion VND (322 million USD) from different resources for its new-style area building from 2011 to 2015.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Van Ninh on October 28 presented a certificate recognising Dan Phuong as the first new rural district in the capital city of Hanoi.
Ho Chi Minh City will speed up its new-style rural building programme towards enhancing the quality of criteria to suit the specific characteristics of the city.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will issue a set of criteria for small-scale incinerators burning daily household waste in October, an official said.
The northern mountainous province of Thai Nguyen has allocated over 1 trillion VND (46 million USD) from the State budget so far this year for its new-style rural area building.
Criteria related to environmental conservation has become the most
difficult to achieve among the 19 criteria of the national target
programme on building new-style rural areas, with only 26 percent of the
communes under the programme currently meeting this requirement
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