(VOVworld) – Hoa Vang district in Da Nang is one of 41 districts nationwide that have received the Prime Minister’s certificate recognising it as a new-style rural area ahead of schedule.  

Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam hands over the Prime Minister’s certificate to representatives of Hoa Vang district. (Photo: KS)

Hoa Vang was remarkably improved thanks to the national new rural development program.

By the end of last year, its poverty rate had fallen to just 2.3%. All of its communes have met all criteria for quality of education, healthcare, and culture and all rural residents are now covered by health insurance.

The new face of Hoa Vang.

Truong Tan Manh, Deputy Chairman of Hoa Lien commune’s People’s Committee, said: “Urbanization has made the local environment dusty, so we prioritized the program’s criterion on the environment.”

Dang Phu Hanh, Deputy Chairman of Hoa Vang district’s People’s Committee, said the local authorities will seek every way possible to sustain the fulfilled criteria.

 “We’ve proposed that municipal authorities work with factories to minimize noise and environmental pollution. We need to take drastic action to moderate companies which excavate soil and stones for city construction,” according to Hanh.

Considering economic development a spearhead target, Hoa Vang has focused on restructuring, industrializing, and modernising agricultural and rural areas and prioritizing high-tech, safe, and clean agricultural products of high economic value.

Hoa Vang has stepped up its application of technology to production and attaches great importance to linking, production, and consumption and promoting chain-based development to raise annual per capita income to 1,700 USD by 2020.

The road to Hoa Phu commune, Hoa Vang district.

Total investment in the new rural program in Hoa Vang district until 2020 is expected to be about 93 million USD.

Tran Thanh Nam, Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development and vice head of the national steering committee of the national target program on building new-style rural areas, said: “Hoa Vang should continue to review and improve the quality of each criterion, especially the criteria on income, public order, rural landscapes and the living environment of rural people.”