General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam and President Nguyen Phu Trong joined a great national solidarity festival with locals in Dur Kmal commune, Krong Ana district, the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, on November 11.
Property developer FLC Group said it will inject 1.5 billion USD into agricultural development across 15,000 hectares of lands in Vietnam during 2018 – 2019.
Hanoi has invested greatly in building new-style rural areas over the past few years, helping improve the living standards of rural residents, said a municipal official.
The National Target Programme on New-style Rural Area Building for 2018 has achieved its set targets three months earlier than planned, said Nguyen Minh Tien, head of the programme’s Central Coordination Office.
Politburo member and permanent member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee Tran Quoc Vuong and a Vietnamese delegation visited Vientiane province of Laos on November 10. This came within the framework of their visit to the neighbouring country.
Vietnam is witnessing natural disasters hitting all of its regions throughout the year, with strong intensity, wide coverage and increasing extremity and abnormality.
Tran Quoc Vuong, Politburo member and permanent member of the Secretariat of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee, on August 22 asked China’s Shaanxi province to enhance cooperation with Vietnamese localities and improve the efficiency of collaboration in economy, trade, tourism, and culture.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has commended Army Corps 16 under the Ministry of Defence on its role in local socio-economic development and defence-security maintenance during his visit to the military corps in the southeast province of Binh Phuoc on August 20.
Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh on August 6 presented gifts of the National Fund for Vietnamese Children (NFVC) to policy beneficiaries, families of Agent Orange/Dioxin victims and poor children in the Mekong Delta province of Ben Tre.
Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh has urged the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang to further promote infrastructure development, personnel training and administrative reform in order to attract more big and strategic investors to the locality.
Vietnam has to date had 3,370 communes, or 37.76 percent of the total, recognised as new-style rural areas, according to the Central Coordination Office for New Styled Rural Development.
Nearly 2 million dignitaries and followers of Hoa Hao Buddhism from 17 provinces and cities attended a ceremony at An Hoa temple, Phu My town, Phu Tan district of southern An Giang province on July 1 to celebrate the sect’s 79th founding anniversary (the 18th day of the fifth lunar month).
PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc has approved a project to develop new-style rural areas in extremely difficulty and insecurity-prone communes and those meeting less than five new-style rural criteria in Bac Kan from 2018 – 2020.
Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has handed over the Prime Minister’s decisions recognising four districts of the northern provinces of Nam Dinh as new-style rural areas.
Improving quality and efficiency should be the focus of the National Target Programme on New-style Rural Area Building in the 2018-2020 period, stated Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) Tran Thanh Nam.
The Mekong Delta province of Long An expects to raise 11 trillion VND (484 million USD) in funding for new-style rural building projects in 2018 as the province aims to have nine more communes and one district earn the status this year.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on March 28 visited the Bat Trang ceramics village in Hanoi’s Gia Lam district, one of the famous trade villages in the capital city and the country.
The Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh will spend 179 billion VND (7.16 million USD) to bolster efforts in new-style rural area building and sustainable poverty reduction this year.
