The Resolution of the Son La Provincial Party Congress for the 2020-2025 term sets a target of striving for 83 communes and 01 district to meet the new rural standards by the end of 2025. To achieve the goal of the Resolution, in recent times, the Provincial Fatherland Front, departments, branches and mass organizations of Son La province have focused on leading, directing and implementing the national target program on new rural construction in a fairly synchronous manner, creating consensus and responding to the participation and contribution of the people, thereby achieving many important results.

According to the report, by the end of June 2024, Son La province had 65 communes meeting the new rural standards, 8 communes meeting the advanced new rural standards, Son La city completed the task of building new rural areas; 57 villages and sub-areas were recognized as meeting the new rural standards. Localities have focused on implementing tasks related to planning and building new rural areas; taking advantage of support capital sources, mobilizing resources to invest in building socio-economic infrastructure; restructuring the agricultural sector, developing OCOP products; improving the quality of education, health care and culture; effectively implementing the digital transformation program, administrative reform, etc.
 

Son La builds new rural areas associated with tourism development
(Ban Mong, Hua La commune, Son La city is an attractive tourist destination of Son La province)

In the first 6 months of 2024, the Departments, branches, districts and cities have carried out many propaganda activities about the New Rural Construction Program in many forms such as: Propaganda on mass media, organizing 35 propaganda sessions in the form of dramatization, culture, arts, competitions, performances, mobile vehicles, film screenings; distributing 23 tapes, 50 flags, 81 visual propaganda publications; opening 764 thematic conferences,...

Districts and cities launched the movement "Back to the grassroots day", mobilizing cadres and civil servants to continue to go to the grassroots on Saturdays and Sundays, helping people renovate their houses, remove temporary houses, improve the environment, landscape, living space, build a new cultural lifestyle...

In addition, socio-political organizations have promoted campaigns such as: "All people unite to build new rural areas and civilized urban areas" and "the campaign to build 5 no, 3 clean families associated with building new rural areas" which have attracted a large number of people from all walks of life, members, and members to respond and voluntarily participate.

The results have mobilized and contributed directly in cash over 6.6 billion VND, the people contributed 58,754 m2 of land to build rural traffic routes, cultural houses, along with 765 working days. Many assets and materials continue to be contributed by the business community, cooperatives, and people, opening up many spacious and clean rural roads, many rural cultural institutions are invested and developed, many models of villages, new rural sub-areas, and model new rural areas are built towards livable countrysides such as the model new rural village model in Chieng Thuong village, Quang Huy commune, Phu Yen district, Van Minh village, Muong Bu commune, Muong La district...

In addition, Son La province has opened 83 training courses for over 4,300 civil servants, members and farmers on the implementation of the New Rural Development Program, focusing on training courses on the "Each Commune Has Four Products" OCOP Program and on the Product Value Chain according to Resolution No. 111/2024/QH.

Villages in Son La are increasingly clean and beautiful thanks to new rural construction.

In particular, implementing Resolution No. 14-NQ/TU dated July 26, 2021 of the Provincial Party Standing Committee on building Quynh Nhai district to meet new rural standards by 2025, members of the Steering Committee and Quynh Nhai district have proactively deployed tasks according to plan; strengthened propaganda work, created consensus among the people; focused on overcoming difficulties and obstacles in the implementation process.

By the end of June 2024, the entire Quynh Nhai district had 7/11 communes recognized as meeting the new rural standards, 2 communes meeting the advanced new rural standards. The district met 3/9 criteria, 19/36 targets of the new rural district. Currently, the district is focusing on promoting the work of reviewing, planning, prioritizing resources to build essential infrastructure works, increasing investment attraction for agricultural, fishery and eco-tourism development in the area... Quynh Nhai is striving to complete the construction of 100% of communes meeting the new rural standards, 03 communes meeting the advanced new rural standards by the end of 2024; build Muong Giang commune into a town by 2025.

Promoting the achieved results, Son La province is currently focusing on prioritizing resources to support Quynh Nhai district to meet the standards of a new rural district according to the National Criteria for New Rural Districts in the period of 2021 - 2025. Maintaining Son La city to complete the task of building new rural areas, at the same time continuing to direct localities to synchronously implement the national target program on building new rural areas in 188/188 communes of the province, in which priority is given to 08 communes striving to meet new rural standards in 2024. In addition, consolidating and perfecting the new rural criteria according to the Criteria for communes meeting new rural standards in the period of 2021 - 2025 for the group of communes that have met new rural standards in the previous period and prioritizing resources to implement new rural standard communes, model new rural areas, striving to build communes that meet an average of 13.12 new rural criteria/commune by the end of 2014, with no more communes having less than 5 criteria./.
 

Minh Chau