Pleiku builds smart new rural village

The traffic system of Bong Phrao village (An Phu commune) has been built, upgraded, spacious, spacious and clean. Many roads are brightly colored with bougainvillea, portulaca, and five-color flowers planted and cared for by women's and youth members in the village. Other infrastructure works such as cultural houses, sports fields, clean water supply systems, street lights, etc. have also been invested in and completed. People's houses are increasingly spacious and solid. That is the result of implementing the new rural construction program in the village in recent years.

The road to Bong Phrao village (An Phu commune, Pleiku city) is spacious and clean. Photo: KN

Mr. On, Head of Bong Phrao Village, said: The village was recognized as meeting the NTM standards in 2021. Currently, the village has 146 households with nearly 700 people, of which more than 95% are Jrai people. In recent years, thanks to the propaganda and mobilization of the local government, the villagers have united and strived to improve themselves by applying science and technology to production, converting the structure of crops and livestock to suit the development of the family economy . Currently, 97% of the main laborers in the village have stable jobs. The average income is more than 41 million VND/person/year. The village currently has only 5 poor households according to the new criteria.

In Tan Son commune, after Teng 2 village was recognized as meeting the new rural standards, the commune is continuing to strive to have Teng 1 village meeting the new rural standards. Vice Chairman of the commune People's Committee Nguyen Van Tuyen said: "The whole commune has 1,479 households with 6,118 people distributed in 3 hamlets and 2 villages. The proportion of ethnic minorities accounts for nearly 30% of the commune's population. People mainly work in agriculture ; a few do small business and trade. In recent years, people have lived in harmony, solidarity, and complied well with the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's policies and laws, and the village's conventions and regulations. We have implemented the construction of new rural areas to ensure the motto "people know, people discuss, people do, people check, people supervise and people benefit". In addition to investment support from the state budget, the commune has promoted the internal strength of the community in building new rural areas". According to Mr. Tuyen, through propaganda and mobilization, people have promoted the spirit of solidarity, helped each other develop the economy, eradicate hunger and reduce poverty, and enrich themselves legitimately. Currently, the average income per capita of the commune reaches 48.5 million VND/year.

The traffic system in Tan Son commune (Pleiku city) has been invested in, upgraded, and increasingly improved, contributing to the construction of new rural areas. Photo: HD

According to information from the People's Committee of Pleiku City, after more than 6 years of implementing Directive No. 12-CT/TU dated February 13, 2018 of the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, the rural appearance and life of ethnic minorities in the area have changed a lot. Up to now, the city has 9 ethnic minority villages recognized as meeting NTM standards, including: Bong Phrao (An Phu commune), Wau, Chuet Ngol, Mo Nu (Chu A commune), Ia Nueng, Phung (Bien Ho commune), Teng 2 (Tan Son commune), Nhao I, Nhao II (Ia Kenh commune).

Towards smart rural areas

Pleiku City has 14 wards and 8 communes with 175 villages, hamlets, and residential groups, including 37 ethnic minority villages. Mr. Tran Tan Quang, Deputy Head of the Economic Department of Pleiku City, said: “With the aim of improving the quality of criteria of communes that have met the new rural standards, building ethnic minority villages into residential areas with bright-green-clean-beautiful landscapes and environments; preserving traditional cultural identities, the city has implemented many tasks and solutions suitable to the actual conditions of each locality. Party committees and authorities, especially the heads, have clearly defined responsibilities in leadership, direction, organization and implementation, and assigned specific tasks to cadres in charge of building new rural villages among ethnic minorities, considering this a key and regular task”.

The mobilization of the entire political system, agencies, units, and enterprises to support poor ethnic minorities and disadvantaged households in localities and villages to build new rural villages has been effective. In particular, localities have stepped up propaganda and mobilization on the new rural construction program to maximize the role of the people as the main subject in building comprehensively developed residential areas and ensuring security and order.

The spacious road to Teng 2 village (Tan Son commune, Pleiku city). Photo: HD

The City People's Committee issued Plan No. 1362/KH-UBND dated May 5, 2023 on implementing the Digital Transformation Program in New Rural Construction, towards Smart New Rural Construction in the period of 2021-2025. The goal of the Plan is to promote the application of digital technology in New Rural Construction to contribute to promoting the rural economy, improving the quality of people's lives, and gradually narrowing the gap in service quality between rural and urban areas.

Over the past 6 years, the whole city has mobilized nearly 77 billion VND to implement the construction of new rural villages. Of which, direct capital from the National Target Program on New Rural Construction is nearly 1.3 billion VND; city budget capital is 3.5 billion VND; commune budget capital is nearly 39 billion VND; combined capital from programs and projects is nearly 25 billion VND; people contributed nearly 8 billion VND. In addition, localities have mobilized nearly 1,550 working days to repair and upgrade rural roads, build cultural communal houses, houses and other auxiliary works. People have also donated 22,473 m2 of residential land and garden land to build community activity houses, village halls and rural roads.

The “sweet fruit” after many years of implementing the construction of new rural villages in Pleiku is that people’s awareness has been raised; rural traffic infrastructure has been increasingly invested in and improved; people’s income has been gradually improved; spiritual life has been focused on; and security and order have been maintained stably.

“The city continues to focus on mobilizing the strength of the entire political system so that the construction of new rural villages in ethnic minority areas becomes a nationwide movement. The assignment of tasks in charge of each part of the implementation of building new rural villages is associated with emulation and reward work and assessment of the level of task completion of each cadre, party member, union member, and association member. Currently, there are 2 villages being submitted to the City People's Committee for consideration and recognition of meeting new rural standards in 2023: Village C of Gao commune and Village Teng 1 of Tan Son commune,” said Mr. Quang.

Source: https://gialai.gov.vn/tin-tuc/pleiku-xay-dung-lang-nong-thon-moi-thong-minh.79436.aspx