Long Thành - Xã An Phước : Socio – economic reality Long Thành - Xã An Phước
 

Socioeconomic Facts

 

I. Economic development:

1.1 Economic structure:

- Gradually shifting the economic structure of the commune to a commune of industry-services, and trade-agriculture with sustainable growth, as follows:

- The income value of industry-construction increases on average 15.81 percent (at the 2010 price). Industry is gradually attracting investment to the locality, accounting for a large proportion, mainly private enterprises producing and trading building materials. There are several foreign-invested companies and joint ventures in operation, attracting thousands of local and outside workers, contributing to improve the average income of the commune.

- The added value of the trade and services (at current price) increases by 19.15 percent. Types of services have been more and more diversified, attracting branches of big names in electronics retails, electronics, telecoms, fashion, etc. Besides market services, inns, motels, processed commodities, small businesses, and so forth have occupied a higher proportion, attracting many unskilled and unemployed labors.

- The income value of the agro-forestry and fishery (at the 2010 price) increases by 2.92 percent. Total rice arable area is maintained, orchard replacements with the capital funded by the province help create jobs for over 800 households to improve their income. Environmental service cooperatives and cooperation groups for fruit seedling production have been effectively maintained.

1.2 Financial budget revenue and expenditure and tax:

- The State budget revenue in 2016 reached VND23.07 billion (out of VND5.18 billion) reaching 445.64 percent; in 2017, VDN16.64 (VND6.16 billion), 270 percent; in the first 6 months of 2018, VND8.20 (8.46 billion), 96.91 percent, with annual tax collection and payment of over 125 percent of the assigned target.

1.3 New Countryside construction

- Reviewing and completing the new Rural criteria; improving the quality of criteria for comprehensive development of rural appearance to satisfy the criteria for building an exemplary New Countryside in Dong Nai; in 2018, the Advanced New Countryside Rural criteria were basically completed according to the provincial criteria set.

1.4 Management of land, natural resources and environmental protection:

- The management of land and natural resources has been reviewed, checked and included in the State management list. So far, most of the public land authorized to the commune such as project land, graveyard land, communal land and public offices and facilities have been monitored and managed tightly so that they will not be encroached upon or misused. The total public land currently under management is 675,310.7 sq. m, with a total of 88 plots. Particularly land occupied by households in the old Ba Xuyen Bac Lieu cemetery and their use situation are examined to suggest the province to consider and adjust the decision.

- The rate of households registering to collect and committing treating garbage through cooperatives reaches 96.59 percent; 100 percent of hazardous waste is brought to right disposal facilities; trees cover over 41 percent of the area, the rate of forest cover is over 8 percent to prevent environmental degradation.

II. Social and cultural development:

2.1. Education and training:

- Organizing the implementation of the plan for the school years according to the sector’s program, strengthening the socialization of education to serve the promotion of talent, building and repairing schools. Teaching and learning has gradually improved in quality combined with the education of student morality through the program to promote learning and following Ho Chi Minh's ideas, moral and style. Planned summer activities for children have been held with a good effect.

- Maintaining national standards on universalization of secondary school, the rate of 6-year-old children going to school reaches 116 percent; preschool: 99 percent; kindergarten: 50 percent; filing applications for funding for repair and supplements of standard school equipment and standards to propose re-qualify An Loi Primary School, Thanh Nghia Kindergarten and the secondary school as national standard schools.

- Educational results of the academic years in both academic and ethical terms were raised to over 99 percent, especially, the rate of secondary school student graduation in 2017 -2018 reached 100 percent.

- All preschool teachers have 100 percent of pedagogical standards, of which over 36 out of 38 reach 94.7 percent; 18 out of 23 primary school teachers 78 percent; secondary teachers have above-standard training qualifications; 9 out of 9 management teachers gain intermediate level of politics. The proportion of university and college students hits the goal of 30 students per 1,000 people.

2.2 Culture, information and sports:

- Loudspeaker system was consolidated and upgraded to an FM radio system with loudspeaker clusters covering all hamlets. 100 percent of the hamlet’s headquarters have loudspeakers. The average 3-hour-a-day broadcasting feature contents serving the propaganda of the Party's policies, State laws, and internal news in the locality. 100 percent of hamlets have been equipped with portable speaker systems for mobile propaganda. There are TV sets and DVD players to support the province's online programs to Party members, union members and culture and performance activities in the hamlets.

- The movements of building culture family, maintaining cultured hamlets are a task that covers all the tasks, so it has been paid attention and directed by the Party Committees and authorities. The Vietnam Fatherland Front has propagated and mobilized all classes of people to participate enthusiastically. The rate of cultural households average in 2017 reached 99.05 percent out of 5,786 households; 100 percent of hamlets and zones maintain the title of cultured hamlets; 100 percent of agencies and units have a good cultured life. The title commune meeting the standards of a new rural cultured commune has been maintained since 2016;

- The All-People Movement to train their bodies according to Uncle Ho's example has been participated by a large number of people. Various types of physical training and sports activities are regularly held at the communal Cultural Center and on the occasion of major national holidays. The national unity festival of all levels and the Grassroots Sports Congress are well organized. Also, hamlet’s roads are concreted, installed with adequate lighting system, safe and clean, facilitating people daily walking, exercise and sports, raising the rate of participants to 50 percent of the population.

2.3 Healthcare and population:

- Continuing to maintain the natural population growth rate of 0.94 percent; keeping 10 criteria according to the national set of criteria for communal health in the 2010-2020 period; 100 percent of households using 3 standard sanitary constructions and 100 percent of hygienic water including 2.62 percent of tap water; malnourished under 5-year-old children by weight accounting for 4.52 percent, by height 8.31 percent.

2.4 Labor, employment, poverty alleviation and social policies:

- Over 150 employees are sent to training and employment each year; the rate of poor households shrinks to 0.28 percent of the total 6,915; households with electricity access reach 100 percent.​

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