Me Town builds urban areas in a civilized direction

Chairman of Me Town People's Committee Pham Ngoc Ha said: To complete the 9 civilized urban criteria according to Decision No. 04/2022/QD-TTg dated February 10, 2022 of the Prime Minister , the Party Committee and the town government focus on directing the development and promulgation of detailed and specific plans close to the actual situation. At the same time, propaganda is needed for cadres, party members and people to raise their sense of responsibility and actively participate in the movement to build civilized urban areas.

In order to meet the standards of a synchronous infrastructure system in the direction of urbanization, from budget sources and mobilizing resources from the people, the town has paid attention to investing in building infrastructure, creating an increasingly spacious and modern urban appearance, the traffic network is planned, invested and managed in accordance with regulations.

In the first 6 months of 2023 alone, the town has renovated, repaired and upgraded Primary School B and Secondary School; paved the asphalt road of the district's central stadium; built community activity areas in My Trung and Thong Nhat streets.... The high-voltage power system has been invested in upgrading, 100% of the roads and alleys in Me town have been installed with lighting systems, convenient for people's travel and daily activities.

In addition, street trees are renovated, renovated and newly planted to create a bright - green - clean - beautiful urban landscape. Neighborhood groups regularly promote and encourage households to plant flowers and trees in their family premises to create shade and urban landscape.

Associations and organizations have launched the construction of self-managed roads and launched many models in residential areas such as: Clean House, Beautiful Street, Clean Saturday, Clean Sunday, collecting plastic bags, waste treatment...

Enterprises, establishments, production and business households, and households in the area strictly comply with environmental sanitation regulations; waste, wastewater, and garbage are collected and treated in accordance with regulations. The locality also regularly organizes campaigns to restore order in sidewalk corridors, propagate and mobilize people to maintain urban order, and beautify and ensure urban beauty...

Along with urban construction and beautification, the Party Committee and government of Me town focus on propaganda to raise people's awareness in building a civilized and cultural urban lifestyle.

In recent years, the movement "All people unite to build a cultural life in residential areas" associated with building new rural areas and civilized urban areas in the town has developed extensively. Many cultural and sports activities are regularly organized to create a joyful and healthy playground for the people.

Currently, there are 20 cultural, artistic and sports clubs in the area that operate regularly and effectively; over 95% of households practice a civilized lifestyle in weddings, funerals and festivals. The movement "Prevention of social evils" is promoted, neighborhoods launch "Residential areas without crime and social evils" associated with the campaign "All people unite to build civilized urban areas".

Crime prevention work has been seriously deployed and effectively implemented, creating positive changes in people's awareness and responsibility for preventing and combating crime and social evils, thereby contributing to building an increasingly healthy cultural life in residential areas.

The town's health and education are of interest, currently all 3 schools have met national standards level 2; 95% of the town's population participates in health insurance. Digital transformation work is implemented promptly, through the 2022 assessment, Me town has the highest score and ranks first among 21 communes and towns of Gia Vien district.

Identifying economic development as one of the important tasks, the town encourages people to shift the economic structure to the fields of services, trade, industry, and handicrafts; creates favorable conditions for businesses and business households to invest in expanding production; at the same time, mobilizes production and business households to establish enterprises to create jobs and increase income for people.

The whole town has 62 enterprises, 1,030 households producing and providing services effectively. Along with industry, handicrafts, services and trade, the town has focused on promoting the restructuring of the agricultural sector, developing agriculture towards safety, clean agriculture, high-tech agriculture, gradually reducing the area of low-efficiency cultivation to grow crops with high economic value. Currently, the average income per capita of the town reaches 71.3 million VND/person/year; the poverty rate has decreased to 1.54%.

Chairman of the Town People's Committee Pham Ngoc Ha said: To realize the goal of building a civilized urban area, the town has mobilized a total investment of over 332 billion VND. Up to now, Me town has achieved 5/9 criteria for building a civilized urban area, but has not achieved 4 criteria: urban planning, urban traffic, urban environment and food safety, urban culture and sports.

In the coming time, the town will closely follow the achieved and unachieved criteria, continue to implement the contents, tasks and solutions suitable to the actual conditions of the locality, strive to complete the criteria and be recognized as a civilized urban area by the end of 2024, contributing to the goal of building Gia Vien district to meet advanced new rural standards by the end of the term according to the Resolution of the 22nd District Party Congress.

Hong Giang - Truong Giang

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