Tien Giang province recognized for completing new rural construction

(Chinhphu.vn) - Deputy Prime Minister Tran Hong Ha has just signed Decision No. 1038/QD-TTg dated May 30, 2025 recognizing Tien Giang province as completing the task of building new rural areas in 2024.

A corner of My Tho city, Tien Giang province

The Deputy Prime Minister assigned the People's Committee of Tien Giang province to be responsible for announcing and rewarding according to regulations; continue to maintain and improve the quality of criteria, focusing on economic and environmental criteria to ensure sustainability in new rural construction.

* According to the report of Tien Giang province, after 5 years of building new rural areas, the whole province of Tien Giang has 135/135 communes meeting new rural standards, of which 68 communes meet advanced new rural standards and 14 communes meet model new rural standards. 100% of district-level units (8 districts, 3 towns/cities) have completed the task of building new rural areas. Infrastructure has been invested synchronously, with 100% of communes having asphalted or concreted roads to the center; the rate of hardening of commune and hamlet roads has reached over 85%. Regarding the environment, the rate of collection of rural household waste has reached over 90%; 100% of communes have bright-green-clean-beautiful landscapes and environments.

In particular, cultural and sports institutions to improve the spiritual life of the people are of interest. The province has built 135 commune-level cultural and sports centers and 397 hamlet cultural houses. Over 25% of the population participates in regular physical exercise and sports, each commune maintains at least 5 sports clubs with regular activities.

Total capital mobilized for new rural construction in the 2010-2024 period reached over 58,000 billion VND, of which people and businesses contributed more than 15,000 billion VND.

Tien Giang province strives to maintain and improve the NTM criteria by 2025 (including NTM, advanced NTM, and model NTM communes); have 7 more communes meeting the standards of advanced NTM communes and 7 communes meeting the standards of model NTM; average income per capita in rural areas reaches from 85 to 85.5 million VND/person/year; the multidimensional poverty rate according to NTM criteria is below 0.74%; the rate of people participating in health insurance reaches 95% or more; the rate of people using clean water and hygienic water reaches 100%; the rate of waste collection and treatment in rural areas reaches 90% or more.

Minh Hien

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