Vinh Long urgently handles landslides and plans to evacuate people in Thanh Long islet.

Photo caption — Secretary of Vinh Long Provincial Party Committee Tran Van Lau and the working delegation surveyed the landslide situation at Thanh Long islet, Quoi Thien commune. Photo: Le Thuy Hang/VNA

The survey team went directly to the landslide area, grasped the actual situation and met and discussed with the people to listen to their thoughts and wishes. The team visited the health and encouraged the affected households, and also gave gifts to 6 households living on the islet.

According to the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Vinh Long province, the landslide is about 15m long, water from Co Chien river overflowed, flooding houses and orchards of people. Currently, there is still a state of cracks here, the risk of landslides in two other adjacent sections with a length of about 500m more, the possibility of continuing to affect production and the lives of people in the area.

Through discussion and understanding the situation, Secretary of Vinh Long Provincial Party Committee Tran Van Lau said that recently, high tides and heavy rains have caused serious flooding, affecting the lives, activities and safety of people. Local authorities have promptly deployed timely response measures, contributing to limiting damage.

He suggested that in the coming time, the locality needs to urgently reinforce the dike lines, especially at vulnerable locations, to protect fruit orchards and people's production land during upcoming high tides.

The Secretary of the Vinh Long Provincial Party Committee shared the difficulties of the people and encouraged 6 households living on Thanh Long Islet to relocate to safer areas on the mainland. The Provincial Party Committee and the Provincial People's Committee will continue to research and develop resettlement plans, support job conversion, and create conditions for people to stabilize their lives in the long term. The local government affirmed that it always cares for, looks after, and prioritizes the interests of the people, ensuring conditions for people to settle down, find jobs, and feel secure in production.

On this occasion, Vinh Long Provincial Party Secretary Tran Van Lau had a working session with the People's Committee of Quoi Thien commune to grasp the leadership and direction of the implementation of tasks after deploying the two-level local government model and disaster prevention work in the past time.

Provincial Party Secretary Tran Van Lau assessed that Quoi Thien commune has the characteristics of being an island commune, isolated from the mainland, so there are still many difficulties. However, the locality has proactively overcome and gradually removed obstacles to effectively operate the two-level government model. The commune has focused on implementing socio -economic development goals and improving people's lives.

In particular, the commune has proactively reviewed, performed well the leadership, direction, management and support for people to promptly respond to natural disasters, contributing to stabilizing people's lives. In the coming time, the locality needs to focus resources to perform well the tasks of the last months of the year, striving to achieve the set socio-economic targets.

Regarding natural disaster prevention and control, Quoi Thien commune needs to continue to survey and assess the situation in the area, prioritizing handling of high-risk areas, taking preventive measures, and proactively responding early and from afar.

For areas that have experienced landslides and are at risk of affecting people's homes and lives, the commune needs to propose to the Provincial People's Committee and the Steering Committee for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control to consider declaring a state of emergency to promptly deploy remedial solutions. In addition, the locality needs to review households outside the dike at risk of landslides and encourage people to move to safer areas inside the dike to ensure the safety of people's lives and property.

Regarding Thanh Long islet, the Provincial Party Secretary assigned relevant units to research and develop a project to submit to the Provincial Party Standing Committee for consideration of the policy of relocating people from the islet to the mainland to ensure safety of life, conditions for education, health care and long-term livelihood for the people. The locality needs to step up propaganda and mobilization work to create consensus among the people to soon have a suitable resettlement plan.

Quoi Thien Commune Party Secretary Nguyen Thi Dieu Hien said that recently, natural disasters have seriously affected the lives and production of the people. In the past two months alone, 25 landslides have occurred in the commune, greatly affecting the lives and production of households. For the dikes at risk, in the immediate future, the Commune People's Committee will continue to implement the "4 on-site" motto, mobilizing means and human resources to make temporary repairs in order to promptly respond and limit damage.

The locality requested the People's Committee of Vinh Long province to promptly consider and decide to declare an emergency landslide situation due to natural disasters for the Thanh Long islet dike and Rach Sau hamlet dike in order to have funds for timely handling and to protect people's lives and property. For the ongoing projects, the commune has also requested the Department of Agriculture and Environment of the province to provide funds soon to facilitate the implementation.

On this occasion, the Standing Committee of Vinh Long Provincial Party Committee supported Quoi Thien commune with 100 million VND to overcome difficulties in local operations.

Source: https://baotintuc.vn/xa-hoi/vinh-long-khan-truong-xu-ly-sat-lo-len-phuong-an-di-doi-dan-o-con-thanh-long-20251027194404505.htm