Attending the conference were Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Le Minh Hoan; Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam; Secretary of Hai Phong City Party Committee Le Tien Chau and representatives of leaders of ministries, central agencies and representatives of the NTM coordination office in 63 provinces and cities.
The conference assessed and analyzed the strengths, difficulties and limitations in the work of advising, directing, operating and guiding the implementation of NTM construction in recent times. At the same time, propose solutions and plans to strive to achieve the guidelines and directions of the Party Central Committee, the National Assembly and the Government.
Minister Le Minh Hoan and other delegates visited OCOP booths on the sidelines of the conference. Photo: Nguyen Luyen
According to the report presented at the Conference by Mr. Ngo Truong Son – Chief of the Central New Rural Coordination Office at the Conference, as of February 2023, the whole country had 6,001/8,211 communes (73.08%) meeting rural standards, in of which, there are 958 communes meeting the standards of advanced rural areas and 113 communes meeting the standards of model rural areas; the national average reached 16.9 criteria/commune. There are 255 district-level units in 58 provinces and centrally-run cities that have been recognized by the Prime Minister to complete their tasks/ meet NTM standards (accounting for regarding 39.6% of the total number of district-level units of the country).
18 provinces and cities directly under the Central Government have 100% of communes meeting NTM standards, and 5 provinces (Nam Dinh, Dong Nai, Ha Nam, Hung Yen and Hai Duong) have been recognized by the Prime Minister to complete the task of building rural areas. NTM construction.
Results of the implementation of the One Commune One Product Program: The whole country has 63/63 provinces and cities to evaluate and classify OCOP products, by the end of 2022 there have been 8,867 OCOP products with 3 stars or more, in which 65.9% 3-star products, 33.2% 4-star products, 0.7% 5-star potential products and 20 5-star products. There have been 4,586 OCOP subjects, of which 38.1% are cooperatives, 25.6% are enterprises, 33.5% are production establishments/business households, the rest are cooperative groups.
The results of meeting the standards of rural communes in some regions still have a large gap, typically (Red River Delta: 100%, Southeast: 92.6%, while the Northern Mountains only reached 47.5. %, Central Highlands 57.8%); there are still 04 provinces8 in the Northern Mountainous region, where the percentage of communes meeting rural rural standards is less than 30%. In particular, up to now, there are still 16 poor districts in 12 provinces that are still “white rural commune”9, of which, Muong Lat district (Thanh Hoa province), Mu Cang Chai district (Yen Bai province) has only reached 6.9 on average. chi/communal. 3.6. The standard quality and the sustainable maintenance of the results of some communes following meeting the standards are still limited, especially the criteria of environment, income, security and social order… Quality of basic works After meeting the standards, some localities showed signs of deterioration due to lack of attention and regular maintenance.
Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Tran Thanh Nam spoke at the conference.
Regarding the results of resource mobilization to implement the Program in 2022, by December 2022, the whole country has mobilized regarding VND 621,324 billion from resources to invest in the implementation of the Program (up 1.3 times compared to 2021). ), in which, the State budget has directly allocated for the Program regarding 77,397.8 billion VND. Specifically: Central budget support is 11,000 billion VND (accounting for 1.8%), of which: Investment capital: 9,000 billion VND and non-business capital: 2,000 billion VND.
The reciprocal capital from the local budget that has been arranged to implement the Program is regarding VND 66,397.8 billion (accounting for 10.7%); Integration from other programs and projects: VND 49,967 billion (accounting for 8%); Credit: 436,738 billion VND (accounting for 70.3%); Enterprises: 35,503 billion VND (accounting for 5.7%); Community and people voluntarily contribute: 21,848 billion VND (accounting for 3.5%).
However, some localities have not actively reviewed and developed investment capital needs and prepared investment preparation procedures at the beginning of the year, so it took a long time to complete the project approval procedures. investment projects according to regulations. Therefore, affecting the disbursement progress of the central budget capital plan assigned in 2022. According to the Ministry of Finance’s data, the disbursement rate of the Program’s investment capital plan will not reach the end of December 2022. 47.3%.
In order to achieve the target of 2023, the whole country has regarding 78% of communes meeting the standards of rural areas, of which, regarding 25% of communes meet the advanced standards and models; there are at least 270 district-level units recognized as meeting new rural standards (an increase of at least 15 district-level units compared to 2022), and there are 7-8 provinces/cities recognized to complete the task of building new rural areas; regarding 9,500 products are standardized according to the OCOP product criteria set (an increase of regarding 1,000 products compared to 2022).
In order to achieve the goal of 2023, the new system of Rural Coordination Offices at all levels should focus on advising on the implementation of the following key tasks and solutions:
The first is to focus on completing the task of advising and helping the Steering Committees at all levels (central and local) and the Working Group to well implement the 2023 Work Program of the Central Steering Committee; urge and guide localities to effectively implement the goals and tasks of the 2023 Program assigned by the Government, contributing to the accomplishment of the overall goal of the whole Program in the 2021-2025 period; advising on consolidating the system of New Rural Coordination Office at all levels in a unified and synchronous manner in accordance with the law and the Prime Minister’s direction in Decision No. 263/QD-TTg dated February 22, 2022, that is: Inheriting the apparatus that was built in the period 2016 – 2020; ensure uniformity and consistency in positions, functions and tasks, ensure full-time, professional, stable and sustainable but do not give rise to the total assigned staff, in which, special attention should be paid to seconding officers. department to perform the task.
The second is to continue to further promote propaganda, unify awareness, and change the mindset of officials and people regarding the implementation of new rural construction in association with the construction of “Ecological agriculture, modern countryside, civilized farmers”, especially developing the rural economy in the direction of shifting from single-valued to multi-valued; continue to coordinate with Vietnam Television Station and localities to build and broadcast the column “Country worth living” on VTV1; improve the quality of emulation movements to build new rural areas, especially the movement “The whole country joins hands to build new rural areas” for the period 2021-2025 launched by the Prime Minister and the campaign “All people unite to build new rural areas” in the period 2021-2025. new rural areas, civilized cities” increasingly in-depth, creating a wide spread throughout the political system and all classes of people.
The third is to strengthen the training and training to improve the capacity of the staff working in the construction of new rural areas at all levels, especially grassroots officials on agricultural economic development, environmental protection, Digital transformation in building new homes, developing rural tourism, developing OCOP products in association with promoting potentials and advantages, preserving the values and traditional cultural identity of the nation…
Fourthly, continue to coordinate with relevant units to research, review and perfect the system of mechanisms and policies to support the construction of new rural areas in order to promptly remove difficulties and obstacles for the locality, ensure compliance with the law. in accordance with the actual conditions to accelerate the progress and effectiveness of the Program. In particular, the Provincial New Rural Coordination Office focuses on coordinating with relevant departments and agencies to advise competent authorities to complete and promulgate documents concretizing mechanisms and policies of the Central Government, especially is to stipulate the norms and criteria under the National Criteria for Rural Development in the period of 2021-2025 according to decentralization; actively research and promulgate specific policies to support speeding up and improve the quality of the Program’s implementation to ensure it is consistent with practical and sustainable conditions.
Fifth, the Provincial NTM Coordination Office focused on advising the Provincial Steering Committee and People’s Committee to complete the promulgation of the implementation plan of 06 thematic programs. At the same time, continue to effectively implement the components, especially thematic programs to support the construction of new homes in the period of 2021 – 2025, in order to improve the quality of life of rural people and solve problems related to rural areas. pressing issues, existing in the construction of rural areas at grassroots level. The Central NTM Coordination Office shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with relevant units in, continuing to urge and guide localities to effectively implement the contents and tasks of the thematic program (by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development). and Rural Development assigned to preside over) has been approved by the Prime Minister.
Sixth, the Provincial Office of Rural Development Coordination focuses on coordinating with relevant units to advise the competent authorities to soon approve the plan for allocation of central budget capital (domestic development investment capital) , foreign capital, non-business capital) in 2023, in which priority is given to allocating funds to implement the central guidance models under thematic programs; accelerate the disbursement of central budget funds assigned in 2023 (including capital sources in 2022 to be continued until the end of 2023) ensuring efficiency and compliance with regulations; actively advise on balance and arrangement of reciprocal capital from local budgets at all levels (province, district, commune); effectively integrate the capital sources of the remaining 02 National Target Programs and other programs and projects to prioritize the allocation of state budget funds to support disadvantaged areas, contributing to narrowing the gap in building new rural areas between regions. , domain; effectively implement investment credit policies for agriculture and rural areas; continue to encourage trust lending through the social policy bank; strengthen mobilizing local supporting economic organizations (districts and communes) to build new rural areas; mobilizing people to continue to contribute to the construction of new rural areas on a voluntary basis for specific content, approved by the Commune People’s Council.
Seventh is to continue strengthening activities to mobilize international donors, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), businesses to support resources and share experiences in implementing the Program’s contents.
And finally, the new system of the Rural Coordination Office should actively advise the Steering Committees at all levels to organize working groups to inspect, supervise and evaluate the implementation of the Program; advising on the implementation of tasks assigned in the National Assembly’s thematic supervision plan in 2023 to ensure quality, efficiency and schedule. At the same time, actively preside over and coordinate with relevant units to organize conferences and seminars to evaluate, share experiences in implementing the Program and thematic programs under the Program.
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