(VOVworld) – Mong ethnic people in Sin Sui Ho hamlet, Lai Chau province, have been developing community-based tourism to leverage its natural beauty and unique cultural values. The village has become a popular tourist destination in Vietnam’s northern mountain region.

(VOVworld) – Nga Bay town is the first new-style rural area in Hau Giang province. It has become a role model in new rural development in the Mekong Delta.

(VOVworld) – Lai Chau has been one of 3 leading provinces in building new-style rural areas in the northern mountain region. 15 of its communes have achieved all the 19 new rural development criteria, of which Ban Giang has been considered a role model in the northwestern region.

(VOVworld) – Ben Tre province has 5,500 hectares under green-skin grapefruit cultivation for domestic consumption and export. Green-skin grapefruits have increased local incomes and boosted new rural development.

(VOVworld) – Quang Ninh province basically completed the national new rural development program by the end of 2015. Rural infrastructure has been upgraded and the number of poor households in rural areas has been reduced significantly.

(VOVworld) –Duy Son, a former disadvantaged mountain commune, has taken the lead in new rural development in Quang Nam province. VOV’s Hoai Nam reports…

(VOVworld) – HCM city has been providing local farmers with loans to increase their production as part of the national target program on new rural development. Thousands of farming households have escaped poverty thanks to the city’s fund to support farmers.

(VOVworld) – Tea growing has long been the main source of income for people in Ham Yen district, Tuyen Quang province. They are now applying VietGap standards to turn out safe, high quality products.

(VOVworld) – Can Tho City’s Farmers’ Association is supporting a number of agricultural collective models to help the local people escape poverty and contribute to the local implementation of a national new rural development program. Khiet Tam collective is one such model.

(VOVworld) – New rural development is a major policy of the Vietnamese Party and state. Each community has its own way of implementing the program but social consensus is always the most important element.