Desolate place where young people started their career, the hope of a time in Thanh land

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In 2007, the Song Chang Youth Village project (youth village) was approved and implemented on an area of 600 hectares in Xuan Hoa commune, Nhu Xuan district. The project has a total investment of more than 32 billion VND, managed by Thanh Hoa Provincial Youth Union.

The project's goal is to bring many young people in the province here to start businesses, with the expectation that their youth and diligence will contribute to changing the socio -economy in a difficult area of Nhu Xuan district.

After announcing the recruitment, the project recruited 141 households, including 34 households that were resettled on-site (formerly workers of Song Chang Forestry). Each household participating in the project will be granted 400m2 of residential land and 3ha of production land.

However, up to now, many households in the project have left the village, leaving behind dilapidated houses, creating a desolate scene.

Mr. Le Van Tuyen, Chairman of Xuan Hoa Commune People's Committee, said that in 2017, the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee decided to assign Xuan Hoa Commune to manage the population of the youth village and establish Thanh Nien village on the basis of the residential cluster of Song Chang Youth Village.

“The list of households in the youth village is 141. However, when recently registering for VNeID, there were only 90 households in the village. Of these, 67 households are permanent residents, 23 are irregular residents, and 51 households do not have VNeID,” said Mr. Tuyen.

Talking to VietNamNet , Mr. Nguyen Dinh Nhat - Head of the Provincial Youth Union Movement Committee and Captain of the Youth Volunteer Team for Economic Development (Song Chang Youth Village) admitted that currently there are many households who do not live permanently in the village.

“In the coming time, we will invite irregular households and households without VNeID to work and listen to their opinions and wishes. If the households do not wish to stay anymore, we will take them back and advise the leaders on how to handle the next steps.

The province has also had a policy of handing over land to local authorities for management. We are completing the documents to submit to the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to issue red books to households that are living there regularly to stabilize their lives and production," said Mr. Nhat.

Some desolate images in the village of young entrepreneurs:

A row of houses in block D, cluster 2 is abandoned and uninhabited. Photo: Le Duong

A dilapidated house, overgrown with weeds. Photo: Le Duong

Mr. Luong Van Tien (born in 1978, cluster 2 of the youth village) said that in lane B there used to be about 15 households, but now only his family remains. Photo: Le Duong

At first, young people like Tien were very enthusiastic about working and producing here. However, when it came to harvest time, the efficiency and productivity of crops were not high, causing households to have no working capital. Since the early years, many households had to return to their hometowns or leave the village to work. Nowadays, when young people come to Song Chang village to start a business, it is not difficult to see abandoned houses like this. Photo: Le Duong

Weeds cover the entire house. Photo: Le Duong

“At that time, the land was not fertile. Electricity, roads, water… were also difficult, people’s lives were extremely difficult. Moreover, in this village, there were no land certificates, leading to people being unable to borrow capital from banks to invest, so almost all households left to do business elsewhere,” said Mr. Tien. Photo: Le Duong

Each hectare of productive forest land only brings in about 10 million VND/year, and if you only rely on this source of income, you cannot support your family. The reason Mr. Tien's family can survive is because his wife works as a factory worker, and he works at a glue factory. Climbing plants and weeds cover the windows of uninhabited houses. Photo: Le Duong

Dozens of abandoned houses in clusters 2 and 3. Photo: Le Duong

The houses hidden under the trees without people creating a desolate scene. Photo: Le Duong

Source: https://vietnamnet.vn/hoang-tan-noi-lang-thanh-nien-lap-nghiep-ky-vong-mot-thoi-o-xu-thanh-2309570.html