This year, the province has set a target of all districts earning the title of new-style rural area (Photo: )

Quang Ninh (VNA) – The northern province of QuangNinh has rolled out a number of measures to complete its goal under thenew-style rural area building programme for 2022.

This year, the province has set a target of all districts earning the title of new-style rural area, and having two out of seven districts in the provincerecognised as advanced new-style rural areas.

Quang Ninh also aims for 49 out of 98 communes, or 50%,becoming advanced new-style rural areas, and 25% of all communes recognised asmodel new-style rural areas.

To this end, the provincial Party Committee has requesteddistricts and communes across the province mobilise the synergy of the wholepolitical system and the responsible and active engagement of local residentsin the implementation of the programme. This is especially so in criteria relatedto the environment such as sorting waste at source, ensuring environmentalhygiene, and maintaining light, green, clean beautiful and safe residentialareas.

Localities are asked to speed up the disbursement of theprovincial budget for the building of new-style rural areas as well as capitalfor socio-economic development in mountainous, ethnic minority-inhabited,border and island areas. They were advised to make use of favourable weatherconditions to speed up the progress of construction projects, especiallyinfrastructure projects serving production, ensuring their progress andquality.

For transport projects, the localities were requested toensure their long-term efficiency and its connections with urban areas.

At the same time, Quang Ninh will continue to develop newproduction and connections models, promoting the linkage between industry,service and agriculture and between sustainable rural development andurbanisation. Particularly, the province will pay greater attention to productionmodels for households that have freshly escaped from poverty and those that livenear the poverty line, thus avoiding relapse.

Meanwhile, the province will continue to concentrate ondeveloping education-training and health care, while improving theinfrastructure system.

In the first six months of this year, Quang Ninh saw goodprogress in the implementation of new-style rural area building programmethanks to the close coordination among local sectors and departments. Thelocality has reviewed the realisation of criteria for a new-style rural area,thus ensuring the completion of all criteria set for the 2021-2025 period.

Currently, Ha Long city and Van Don district have submittedtheir dossiers to seek recognition as new-style rural areas.

Under a decision on new-style rural areas for the 2021-2025period, a new-style rural commune has to meet 19 criteria in many fields,including planning, socio-economic infrastructure, economy and production,socio-culture and environment. The criteria are specified for different regions.

Specifically, a new-style commune must have 80 percent ofits farming area with active irrigation systems. In general, per capita incomemust be 48 million VND (2,100 USD) per year on the average in 2022. Inparticular, the per capita income is 39 million VND for northern mountainousand north central regions, while it is 53 million VND for the Red River Deltaand Mekong Delta regions, and 63 million VND for the south eastern region.

The communes should have effectively operating cooperativesand production-selling connection models, implementing origin trackingregulations on their major products and developing farming areas meetingVietGAP standards.

At the same time, they must satisfy criteria on health careinsurance coverage, the rate of malnutrition among children under five yearsold, and the rate of residents having electronic medical records.

They must show strong performance in environmentalprotection, especially waste treatment system, along with criteria on foodsafety.

Meanwhile, an advanced new-style rural commune must meet allcriteria of a basic new-style rural area along with higher standards across all19 criteria, according to the decision.

♕ Particularly, the per capita income in an advanced new-stylerural commune is 58 million VND per year on the average in 2022, and variesfrom 47 million VND to 76 million VND per year in different regions./.