Phu Yen (VNA) – The People’s Committee of central Phu Yen province held aceremony on July 22 to receive the Prime Minister’s Decision recognising its TayHoa district as a new-style rural area 2018.

Speaking atthe event, Vice Secretary of the district Party Committee and Chairman of thedistrict People’s Committee Nguyen Tan Chan said since the launch of theNational Target Programme on New Rural Development eight years ago, thedistrict has raised over 696 billion VND and became the first in meeting newrural development criteria in Phu Yen.

ViceChairman of the provincial People’s Committee Tran Huu The lauded 10 communesin the district for meeting the criteria for new-style rural areas.

He asked TayHoa to focus on administrative reform and building e-government, rallyresources to build socio-economic infrastructure, contributing to improvingmaterial and spiritual lives.

Last year,Tay Hoa was home to over 6,200 production facilities with more than 10,600workers, up 39.9 percent from 2010. Its industrial manufacturing and handicraftvalue rose by 42.2 percent from 2010 to 811.9 billion VND (35.2 million USD).

The districtbuilt and upgraded 595.4 km of rural concrete roads, 88.09 km of dykes, and otherschools, medical stations and cultural houses. The rate of rural householdsaccessing clean water reached 98.3 percent while the rate of poor householdswas reduced to 3.44 percent.

During2019-2020, it will strive to raise annual income per capita to over 45 millionVND and have at least one model new rural area and three rural residentialareas achieving the status.

On theoccasion, the government working delegation and Vietcombank presented 10 housesworth 500 million VND to local beneficiary households.-VNA