PM to chair national conference reviewing 10 years of new rural development

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The event will also be attended by Deputy PM Vuong Dinh Hue, head of the central steering committee for the NTPs, and 600 delegates.

A number of activities are scheduled to be held on the sidelines of the conference, including a ceremony honoring exemplary individuals in the emulation movement “The whole nation joins hands to build new-style rural areas” in the period of 2011-2020, and an exhibition on the achievements throughout 10 years of implementing NRD associated with agricultural restructuring.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, after more than 9 years of implementation, building new-style rural areas has really become a movement that has a strong spillover effect and is enthusiastically responded to by the whole political system and the people nationwide.

By the end of September 2019, 4,665 communes across the country (52.4%) were recognized to have met the standards of a new-style rural area, with an average of 15.32 criteria per commune. There were no communes with below five criteria, and 93 district-level units were recognized by the PM to have met the new-style rural area standards or to have completed the NRD tasks.

Particularly, reports of localities showed that seven provinces and cities have had 100% of their communes meet the standards of a new-style rural area, namely Ha Nam, Nam Dinh, Thai Binh, Da Nang, Dong Nai, Binh Duong and Can Tho.

In general, the NRD task has achieved the five-year target (2016-2020) nearly two years ahead of schedule, compared to the target assigned by the Party, National Assembly and Government (50% of communes meet new-style rural area standards by 2020).

By Vien Nhu