Implementing the National Target Program on building advanced and exemplary new rural areas in the 2021-2025 period according to Resolution No. 06-NQ/TU of the Provincial Party Committee, Nam Dinh pays special attention to developing economic infrastructure in rural areas, creating a solid foundation for people to conveniently expand production and business, improving their lives.
Regarding transportation, the province has supplemented the planning of many important routes and submitted to the Prime Minister for approval a plan to synchronously develop the road, waterway, railway and seaport traffic network in accordance with the regional and national development orientation. The irrigation system from level I to level III has been invested in, renovated and upgraded, ensuring proactive irrigation for 100% of the cultivated area, serving agricultural production and effectively responding to natural disasters and climate change.
Nam Dinh has made a steady breakthrough on the journey of building advanced and exemplary new rural areas.
The rural transport system continues to be renovated, upgraded, and connected seamlessly from villages and hamlets to national highways. Currently, 100% of communes and towns have asphalt or cement roads leading to the commune People's Committee headquarters. Rural electricity infrastructure is also focused on development; the medium and low voltage grid basically meets the daily and production needs of the people.
Along with that, localities focus on vocational training and improving labor quality. The banking sector also proactively provides credit capital for production and job creation.
To date, 97.5% of communes and towns have completed the irrigation criteria in the Advanced New Rural Criteria Set. Seizing new development opportunities, the province has stepped up investment attraction in industrial parks and clusters such as Rang Dong, My Thuan, Thinh Lam, Yen Bang, etc., creating a boost to shift the rural labor structure.
In the 2021-2024 period, 99 classes were organized with 3,397 workers trained in agricultural occupations. The rate of trained workers in the whole province in 2024 reached 78.5% (an increase of 11.5% compared to 2021); outstanding loans in rural areas by March 2025 reached nearly 220 trillion VND.
The province focuses on restructuring agriculture towards modernity and efficiency; supporting investment in processing infrastructure for cooperatives. Farmers focus on implementing mechanized production models, while focusing on forming “large-scale field” models.
Up to now, the whole Nam Dinh province has formed more than 400 "large field" models with an area of 20 thousand hectares, of which 3,000 hectares are linked to production according to the value chain, production efficiency increased by 10-15% compared to traditional farming. Production models using mechanization, tray plating, transplanting machines, drones, organic fertilizers... not only improve productivity and product quality but also gradually "industrialize" agricultural production. In particular, the conversion of over 1,000 hectares of ineffective rice land to other crops and models has increased economic value 2-10 times higher than before.
People of Trung Linh village, Xuan Ngoc commune, Xuan Truong district build rural roads.
The province has 330/390 agricultural cooperatives operating effectively. 127 growing area codes for more than 4,000 hectares have been granted, which is an important step to bring agricultural products to the official export market. The province has also supported investment in processing infrastructure for 19 cooperatives, contributing to increasing income for members and the community.
Not only improving productivity, localities in the whole province also transformed livestock farming models towards safety, biology, technology application and market linkage. Developing occupations, small-scale handicraft villages and rural enterprises associated with the development of agricultural processing industry, expanding raw material areas, building linkage chains in agricultural production.
In the period of 2021-2024, support has been provided for 112 rural industry development projects and 5 high-tech mechanization projects in modern agricultural production; support 20 products of 20 establishments to set up electronic systems, create QRCode stamps to trace the origin of products: Rice, rice, peanuts, fresh vegetables and fruits; pork, chicken eggs, clams; support businesses to successfully build a plan to link production and consumption of Thanh Doan high-quality rice.
Roads are invested in and built to serve people's travel needs.
The "One Commune One Product" (OCOP) program has created a "launching pad" for typical, quintessential products of regions to reach far. Nam Dinh currently has 534 OCOP products with 3 stars or more, including 1 5-star product and 3 potential 5-star products. In particular, the Ecohost - Hai Hau rural tourism product has been recognized by the Central Government as reaching 5 stars. Many products such as Toan Xuan rice, Lenger clam meat, Co Chat silk... have been exported to demanding markets such as Europe and Japan. The value of products after being recognized as OCOP increased by 10-30%, sales increased by 5-20%/year, becoming an important driving force to promote sustainable development of farmer households' economy.
The synchronous and drastic participation of the entire political system, businesses and people in building advanced and exemplary new rural areas in Nam Dinh has brought about positive results. Notably, the average product value per hectare of cultivated land and aquaculture reached 202.5 million VND/ha in 2024; the average income per capita in rural areas increased rapidly, from 52 million VND/year (2021) to over 75 million VND/person/year (2024).
The above growth results not only reflect the depth of rural economic development in a modern and sustainable direction but also demonstrate the development and improvement in income and life of rural people in the area. At the same time, it affirms that Nam Dinh has chosen and gone in the right direction, creating a foundation for the province to firmly step on the path of building a model and advanced new rural area.
Source: https://baolaichau.vn/xa-hoi/nam-dinh-xay-dung-nong-thon-moi-nang-cao-va-kieu-mau-1204591
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