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A project financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has helped Vietnamese rural residents better access markets.

Deputy Prime Minister Le Van Thanh signed a decision approving the National Rural Clean Water Supply and Sanitation Strategy by 2030, with a vision to 2045.

All residents in rural areas of the Mekong Delta must have access to clean water, Nguyen Hoang Hiep, deputy minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, said at a seminar held in Soc Trang province on May 27.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc highlighted that there is no such thing as the end for the building new-style rural areas programme while addressing a national conference held in the northern province of Nam Dinh on October 19.

A national conference was held under the chair of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc in the northern province of Nam Dinh on October 19 to review 10 years implementing the national target programme on new-style rural areas.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has described the outcomes of the new-style rural area building in Hanoi as “comprehensive, impressive” while addressing a conference reviewing the 10-year efforts by the capital city on September 21.

Programme 135 has assisted people living in mountainous areas, especially the ethnic minority people, in northern Yen Bai province escape from poverty in a sustainable manner.

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.

About 52 percent of residents in rural areas of Hanoi, or more than 2.23 million people, had get access to clean water by May 2018.

To reduce the use of plastic bags in daily life, people in rural areas across the country have been encouraged to use baskets when going shopping.

Up to 98 percent of the population of the northern province of Bac Ninh has accessed clean water thanks to different sources to water supply projects.

The Prime Minister has approved a list of 2,139 extremely disadvantaged and border communes in 46 provinces nationwide eligible for Programme 135 in the period of 2017-2020.

A month-long general census on rural regions, agriculture and fisheries across Vietnam began on July 1 amidst numerous difficulties facing these areas this year.

All rural residents across the nation will get at least 60 litres of clean water each per day by 2020 under the National Target Programme for Rural Water and Sanitation.

Thai Nguyen leads the northern mountainous provinces in constructing new-style rural areas with 40 out of 140 rural communes, or 27.9 percent, earning the status.

Hygienic water has been supplied for over 85.5 percent of rural population in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, helping increase local life quality.

A joint working programme on bomb accident prevention and control from 2016 to 2020 was enacted on January 15 in Hanoi.

The Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang plans to allocate more than 35 billion VND (1.56 million USD) to bring clean water to local rural residents in 2016.

The World Bank approved a 200 million USD credit to help over 5 million people living in the poorest rural and mountainous areas of Vietnam access gain improved access to sanitation and water supply.

The southern province of Dong Nai targets to ensure adequate clean water supply for 80 percent of its rural residents, or 1.5 million people, by 2020, announced local authorities on September 23.