According to the southwestern regional steering committee, so far, Mekong River Delta provinces have invested nearly VND92 trillion in implementing the program on building new style rural areas across 1,300 communes.
The program on building new style rural areas focuses on rural road construction. (Photo: Nhan dan newspaper)
During an interview granted for Vietnam News Agency, Nguyen Phong Quang, deputy head of the steering committee, said that the capital had mainly been spent on building traffic, irrigation and electricity systems; schools; rural markets; cultural, educational and medical foundations; and houses.
He added that the effective program and the shifting of the rural economic structure had brought a new face to rural areas and improvements in people’s living standards.
Specifically, as of late 2013, the regional economic growth rate increased by 9% compared to 2012, with rice productivity reaching 24.8 million tons and agricultural product exports gaining USD10.6 billion.
The production helped lift the per capita income to VND34.6 million per year, an increase of VND2.3 million compared to 2012.
In addition, nearly 2,700 new classrooms were built, the drop-out rate reduced to 0.69%, the number of schools reaching the national standard increasing to 1,348, and the number of pupils coming to school at their school-age increasing to between 54.8% and 97.5% at the primary to high school education levels.
The medical station network at the grassroots level was upgraded, contributing to increasing rural residents’ healthcare index.
Poverty reduction programs and policies, including those in educational support, healthcare, housing, vocational training, preferential loans and labour export, were carried out on a large scale, helping over 43,000 families escaping poverty in 2013, reducing the poverty rate to 7.2%.
Poor ethnic minority people who did not have residential or cultivated land were assigned land or given loans worth VND30 million each at maximum to redeem land which had been transferred or mortgaged./.
Đăng ký: VietNam News