PM attends opening of exhibition on new-style rural area development
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended the opening of an exhibition on 10-year achievements in new-style rural area building in the northern province of Nam Dinh on October 18.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (centre) and other officials cut the ribbon to open the exhibition in Nam Dinh province on October 18 (Photo: VNA)
Nam Dinh (VNA) – Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phucattended the opening of an exhibition on 10-year achievements in new-stylerural area building in the northern province of Nam Dinh on October 18.
The event was part of a national conference reviewing 10 yearsof implementing the National Target Programme on New-style Rural Area Building forthe 2010 – 2020 period.
Speaking at the event, Minister of Agriculture and RuralDevelopment Nguyen Xuan Cuong said in compliance with the Resolution onagriculture, farmers and rural areas adopted by the seventh plenum of the 10th Party Central Committee, the programme achieved positive results, with half ofcommunes nationwide being recognised as new-style rural areas.
He said over the past more than nine years, as many as 4,665communes have met criteria for new-style rural areas, accounting for 52.4percent of the total while 109 district-level units, or 16.5 percent of thetotal, gained the status.
In eight centrally-run cities and provinces, all communes fulfilledall the criteria set by the programme, Cuong said.
On October 18 and 19, fact-finding trips to Nam Dinh, ThaiBinh and Ha Nam provinces will be organised to learn about rural construction effortswhile a ceremony will be also held to honour individuals and collectives in theemulation campaign “The whole nation joins hands to build new-style ruralareas”.
The exhibition introduces achievements in the effort andoutstanding products in the One Commune, One Product Programme from 63 citiesand provinces, and several businesses./.
Nearly 30 percent of the communes in the northern mountainous provinces will be recognised as new-style rural areas by the end of 2019, one year ahead of the target assigned by the Prime Minister, an official has said.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc attended a ceremony in the central province of Binh Dinh on August 20 to recognise An Nhon township and Hoai Nhon district as meeting new rural development criteria.
As many as 604 out of total 1,424 communes, or 42.4 percent, in the south central coastal and Central Highlands regions have been recognised as new-style rural areas, according to the Central Coordination Office on New Rural Development.
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc (centre) and other officials cut the ribbon to open the exhibition in Nam Dinh province on October 18 (Photo: VNA) 
