New day in Xuan Thuong

This time too, during the administrative reorganization phase, we rode our motorbikes along the gravel road from the commune People's Committee headquarters to Thau village 2 with the Party Secretary - Co Van Chuong. Along the way, Secretary Co Van Chuong told us a lot about the changes in this place.

Xuan Thuong is not far from the district center (ie Pho Rang town), only about 4 km. The natural conditions of the commune are much more favorable than some localities in the district, such as fertile land, Chay River and a dense stream system, providing irrigation water for agricultural production... However, for a long time, Xuan Thuong has been struggling with the problem of economic development, while neighboring localities have made breakthroughs. The basic reason is that people are only used to living self-sufficiently, waiting and relying on the support of the State, while the local Party Committee and government have not really done a good job of policy planning, guiding and orienting their own localities.

The big turning point was created from the Commune Party Congress for the 2015-2020 term, with very specific goals and practical solutions. Two of the key tasks set were developing rural transport and growing winter crops.

At that time, making these two issues the local key tasks for the whole period, those who did not understand Xuan Thuong deeply would find it funny, especially the winter crop planting. Many people think that winter crop planting is "as old as the earth", other places have done it for a long time. Even through the seasons, many places have planted different types of winter crops to choose the ones with high yield, high quality, wide consumption market... to achieve high economic efficiency. However, for the people of Xuan Thuong, winter crop planting is still a "luxury".

The “origin” leading to the resolution raising this issue is from the idea that “to get rich, there must be roads”, “the richer you want to be, the bigger the roads must be”; growing vegetables and crops is to exploit the maximum advantages of soil, climate, and natural conditions of the commune, more importantly, to “hit” hard on the inherent, conservative ideology that is deeply ingrained in the people’s thinking…

Secretary Co Van Chuong stopped his motorbike at the head of the combined spillway bridge of Thau village 3. About 30 meters away is a bridge made of iron bars belonging to Thau village 2. Mr. Hoang Van Dieu, who lives right at the head of the iron bridge, said: This bridge was built in 2016 and from that year until 2023, it was almost the only way for people in Thau village 2 and Thau village 3 to travel and transport goods, especially during the rainy season. "Now the State has paid attention to building a combined spillway bridge right below, making it convenient and safe for people to travel, but some households with forests above still transport forest products, especially planted forest wood, over this iron bridge. The iron bridge is very sturdy, trees on the hill just need to be cut down and then pulled down, pulled over the bridge to reach this side, very convenient" - Mr. Dieu said.

The iron bridge in Thau 2 village is one of 11 bridges connecting villages and hamlets of Xuan Thuong commune. Due to the fact that the local population is not concentrated, transportation is not convenient, the roads to the villages and hamlets of the commune are divided by streams and small streams, leading to limitations in the exchange of goods, children going to school, and ensuring national defense and security... The most difficult is Vanh village, from National Highway 279 to reach this village, you have to wade through the stream 7 times. The commune has 11 villages and hamlets, and needs 11 bridges. Closely following the Resolution of the Party Congress of Xuan Thuong commune for the 2015 - 2020 term, in early 2016, Mr. Nguyen Van Dung, at that time Chairman of Xuan Thuong commune People's Committee, proposed the idea of ​​mobilizing people to build 11 bridges and was approved by the Standing Committee of the People's Committee, the Party Committee of the commune, and agreed by the district.

To get materials to build the bridge, Mr. Dung directly went to the district to ask for the iron and steel of the Coc Leu bridge that had been liquidated. Mr. Nguyen Van Dung recalled: After getting the iron and steel, I ran around mobilizing local people and asking some businesses to help with vehicles and machinery to transport the iron and steel and build a bridge across the stream. It was very hard, iron and steel were very difficult to transport, while the terrain was complicated, not many people had experience in constructing bridges with iron and steel. Mr. Dung and his comrades in the commune researched on many channels such as newspapers, radio, internet... asking friends who had expertise in bridge construction, including professional contractors.

“My colleagues and I had to calculate very carefully. Right at the assembly site in the district, we sorted iron and steel, selected large bars to make bridge beams, and sold the excess ends and tails that could not be used for anything, using the money to hire transportation of bridge beams to the construction site. Then we mobilized support organizations, officials, civil servants, and local people to support the purchase of a total of 2 tons of cement, and at the same time participated in labor days. We took advantage of the natural conditions near the Chay River to exploit sand and gravel ourselves. We asked businesses to support machinery...” - Mr. Dung smiled.

In 2016, all 11 bridges (the longest 30 m, the shortest 4 m) were completed, connecting 11 villages with the commune center, with National Highway 279, ensuring that trucks weighing 8 tons or less can pass safely. Thanks to that, Xuan Thuong has had a fundamental change, breaking the vicious cycle of self-sufficient livelihoods, opening up opportunities for people to develop the economy, improve people's knowledge, and build new rural areas. Just like that, 11 bridges have accompanied the locality on the path of development until 2023, when the state invests in a series of combined spillways in Xuan Thuong commune, those bridges will end their "mission"...

After a while of being immersed in contemplation about a historical period of the locality in which the bridges played a very important role, Mr. Co Van Chuong, Secretary of the Commune Party Committee, suddenly remembered about winter crop planting. Pointing around, he said: You see, wherever there is land that can grow vegetables, people grow vegetables and colors. In particular, winter crop has become the main crop of Xuan Thuong, bringing high economic efficiency to the people and the locality. "The afternoon before, when the district meeting ended, I walked around Pho Rang town market, and roughly counted and saw nearly 40 people from Xuan Thuong selling all kinds of green vegetables. When asked, I learned that they were households directly selling their own vegetables" - Mr. Co Van Chuong said.

According to the Party Secretary of the commune, the Resolution of the Party Congress of the commune for the 2015-2020 term has initiated the development of winter crop production in Xuan Thuong. From not growing winter crops at all, by the 2024-2025 winter crop, Xuan Thuong will have more than 40 hectares, mainly corn and various green vegetables.

Indeed, on the land along the river, along the stream, in the home garden, people grow vegetables, in rows, some types of vegetables and crops are made into trellises, clearly showing the professionalism in commercial vegetable cultivation. On a field of about 0.5 hectares along the Chay River in the 3 La village, Mrs. Nong Thi Phai is taking care of vegetables. Seeing us, she stopped and said: My husband and I, along with 4 members of my son's family, live by growing vegetables on this field. We grow vegetables all year round, each season, especially the winter crop, and bring them to Pho Rang market to sell or supply to restaurants and hotels in town upon order.

Having said that, Mrs. Phai spoke to Secretary Co Van Chuong for a while in Tay language, and then both of them laughed out loud. Secretary Co Van Chuong said: She boasted that thanks to growing vegetables for the past few years, her family had a savings book worth nearly a hundred million dong...

Xuan Thuong has resolved the concerns and worries about what to raise? What to grow? The result is a process of persistent and persistent efforts, especially from the 2015 - 2020 term with the setting of seemingly normal but decisive goals. Moving steadily step by step, Xuan Thuong is ready to merge with some neighboring communes so that the locality can expand in scale, stature, potential, confidently entering a new stage of development...

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