Vietnam accelerating digital transformation in new-style rural building
The Government has approved a national programme on digital transformation in building new-style rural areas, towards smart rural development, for the 2021 – 2025 period.
Digital transformation will be promoted in building new-style rural areas, towards smart rural development, for the 2021 – 2025 period (Photo: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development)
Hanoi, (VNA) – The Government has approved a national programme on digitaltransformation in building new-style rural areas, towards smart rural development,for the 2021 – 2025 period.
The programmewill be implemented in all rural areas across Vietnam by the end of 2025, including extremelydisadvantaged communes in ethnic minority and mountainous and coastalregions.
It aims toaccelerate digital transformation to enhance the effectiveness of the nationaltarget programme on new-style rural building, contributing to boosting ruraleconomy, improving rural living standards, and bridging gap in service qualitybetween rural and urban areas.
A goal by 2025 is to have at least 90% of central, 80% of district-level and 60% communalpublic documents handled online and at least 97% of communes meeting the new-stylerural criteria on information and telecommunications.
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It alsoplans to promote digital economy in an effort to better develop the ruraleconomy. Accordingly, at least 70% of communes will have cooperatives and 70%of districts will have agricultural business models which connect production and distribution of key farming product, which apply digital technology.
In addition, at least 40% of communes and districts should be able to provide at least one essential public service in healthcare, education, community surveillance, security, environment and culture) and collect feedback on people’ssatisfaction regarding rural development on a virtual platform.Each and every centrally-run city and province should have at least one trial smartrural commune model in the field which it holds advantagesof, for example economy, rural tourism, environment, and culture.
The models will serve as reference for the development of a new set of criteria for new-style rural building forthe 2026 – 2030 period./.
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Digital transformation will be promoted in building new-style rural areas, towards smart rural development, for the 2021 – 2025 period (Photo: Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development) 
Illustrative image (Source: organifarm.vn) 
