Earlier, in mid-July the provincial Assessment Council for the New Countryside convened a meeting to assess and recognize the above five communes meeting met to consider proposing and the improved new countryside criteria. Assessment indicated that all five communes  have seen significant development and changes compared to the time when they met requirements for the new countryside .

The highlight is that these five communes’ average income per capita in 2018 attained more than VND61 million/person/year (much higher than the average income of VND51.59 million of the province’s rural communes.

Up to now, 31 communes in the province have satisfied all the improved new countryside criteria with 11 out of 11 districts and cities meeting the new countryside criteria.

Duy Minh (L. Van)

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