After nearly 10 years of carrying out the National Target Program on New Countryside Construction, central and local authorities have focused to bring it into life, helping narrow the gap between rural and urban living standards. Infrastructure, prioritized for construction investment, has initially changed the face of the countryside.

According to National Assembly Member Vo Dinh Tin (Dak Nong province), up to now, about 52.5% of communes across the country have reached new countryside standard, with many advancing to an enhanced model. However, due to diverse characteristics of Vietnamese countryside in topography, ethnicity, culture, customs and habits, a lot of communes have not achieved this standard, accounting for 47.5%, with many viewed to have extreme difficulty. In order to create a new driving force for socioeconomic development in general and the National Target Program on New Countryside Construction in the 2021-2025 period, with a vision to 2030, he proposed the Government soon approve the legal framework for the implementation of the program to lay the groundwork for localities to launch consistent and effective actions.

Besides, the government should consider promulgating a set of criteria for new countryside construction after 2020 to add general criteria and orientations, including the execution of contents assigned to regions and the introduction of specific criteria to localities to study and issue solutions for locally specific conditions; comprehensively integrate contents of individual programs and projects into the National Target Program on New Countryside Construction and establish mechanisms of management, coordination, support, encouragement and promotion of people’s roles in this cause.

Dinh Bao

         THE PROGRAM COOPERATED WITH CENTRAL COORDINATION FOR NEW-STYLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT