The country completed the new rural construction plan before 18 months

Thursday, July 25, 2019  20:28

Following the direction of Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue, Head of the National Steering Committee for Targeted Programs, localities across the country continued to develop the achievements and values ​​of new rural areas, for the purpose of improving life. live rural people. Many localities have had many important initiatives implemented such as model new rural construction in Ha Tinh, building new rural areas at village and hamlet levels to suit investment resources and living habits of people. (in Thanh Hoa, Nghe An), exploiting the potential of rural tourism (Lai Chau and many northern mountainous provinces) ...

After implementing the project to support difficult villages and hamlets to build new rural areas, there were 762 villages and hamlets recognized by the People's Committees of the provinces to meet the new rural standards, 43 localities promulgated the rural criteria new advanced, 15 localities issued new rural model criteria ...

According to the plan to implement the National Target Program in the period of 2016-2020, the whole country must have 50% of the total number of communes meeting the standards of new rural communes by 2020, but by the end of June 2019, there has been 50.1% The total number of communes reached the standard, 18 months ahead of the requirements of the National Assembly and the Government.

However, the progress of program implementation in some localities and regions is still slow and significantly lower than the national average. The gap is quite large in terms of performance between regions and regions, namely: Red River Delta (82.74%), Southeast (70%), and Northern mountainous region (26.45%). , Central Highlands (37.73%), Mekong Delta (42.77%), South Central Coast (45.82%).

Information confirmed by Deputy Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Thanh Thong at the meeting to evaluate the performance of tasks in the first 6 months of 2019 of the Steering Committee for National Target Programs, took place this morning 25/7.

  THE PROGRAM COOPERATED WITH CENTRAL COORDINATION FOR NEW-STYLE RURAL