In Hai Duong, many policies and resolutions of the Party have been realized thanks to the joint efforts and consensus of the people. Many difficult tasks have been accomplished thanks to the people's joint efforts.
"Even though it is difficult, the people can still do it"
In 2022, Le Loi commune (Chi Linh city) has a policy to expand and upgrade the commune's martyr cemetery because the old structure was built many years ago and has degraded.
The old martyrs cemetery is located close to Highway 37, so the only way to expand and improve the landscape is to expand the space to the back. Meanwhile, the locality can only allocate resources for construction investment, and does not have funds to reclaim land to have a site.
The working group of Le Loi commune met with the family of Mr. Nguyen Van Tuyet, born in 1954 in Thanh Tao village, who has land next to the cemetery and proposed donating the land.
The task seemed difficult because the land area needed to expand the martyrs cemetery was quite large. However, Mr. Tuyet did not hesitate, agreeing with his family to donate over 1,000m2.2worth billions of dong for the commune to expand the campus and build items in the cemetery.
Mr. Nguyen Van Luan, Secretary of the Party Committee of Le Loi commune, commented: "Thanks to more than 1,000 m2The land donated by Mr. Tuyet's family helped the local gratitude project to be completed smoothly. The cemetery landscape is spacious, clean and beautiful. The cadres, party members and people in the commune are very excited and thank Mr. Tuyet's family.
The noble act of the old farmer Nguyen Van Tuyet's family for the common good was admired by local people and inspired many people. In early October 2024, Mr. Tuyet was one of 33 typical examples honored at the program "Ho Chi Minh - Journey of Aspiration 2024", exchanging typical examples in studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style in the Northern region.
Coming to Lai Vu commune (Kim Thanh), looking at the current school facilities, many people find it hard to believe that just 3 years ago the locality was still very difficult.
Implementing the Resolution of the Commune Party Congress for the 2020-2025 term, Lai Vu commune is simultaneously building an advanced new rural area and a model new rural area. To achieve the above goal, completing the facilities is very difficult because it requires a lot of resources. All 3 schools at all levels in the commune lack classrooms, many classrooms are degraded. The local budget is limited, there are many outstanding debts in basic construction, so the implementation of the resolution is difficult.
To solve the resource problem, the locality has connected and called on a number of businesses and philanthropists from the hometown to support the construction of the projects. Although production and business activities have been affected by the Covid-19 epidemic, many businesses and philanthropists are still willing to help the community.
Typically, Khanh Hoa VN Company Limited supported the commune with 5.7 billion VND to build auxiliary works and a multi-purpose building for the commune's secondary school. The business community in the commune and the people contributed and supported more than 10 billion VND, over 2,000 working days, and donated thousands of square meters of residential land to contribute to building the homeland.
"Thanks to the community's cooperation, in 2021, 5 projects of all 3 levels of education were completed and put into use. At the end of 2021, Lai Vu commune completed the advanced new rural area. In 2023, the commune completed the model new rural area. Currently, the commune is completing the criteria of a type V urban area," Ms. Bui Thi Thanh Thao, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the People's Committee of Lai Vu commune, excitedly told reporters.
Awakening people's strength, helping people overcome difficulties
In late October 2024, the main road of Tinh Cach village, Cam Dong commune (Cam Giang) became a bustling construction site. Nearly 200 local households donated land and voluntarily dismantled their family structures to serve the expansion of the road by more than 1 km from 5.5 m to 7.5 m.
Mr. Nguyen Van Phuc's family demolished the entire surrounding wall and gate and donated nearly 100 m2residential land to widen the road. Mr. Phuc shared: "My two sons' families also demolished and rebuilt the wall themselves to donate nearly 100 m2land for the locality to open roads. It is costly but for the common good, for the long-term development of the locality, we are very happy.
The road in Tinh Cach village is one of the roads built according to the "zero-cost land clearance" model in Cam Giang district. This model is implemented according to the resolution of Cam Giang District Party Committee on strengthening propaganda and mobilizing people to donate land use rights (donate land) to expand traffic routes in the area. Because local resources cannot be allocated for land clearance, the district will invest in building roads where people voluntarily dismantle constructions and clear the land themselves to meet the requirements on road width.
After more than 1 year of implementation, the whole district has mobilized thousands of households to donate a total of nearly 20,000 m2 Land. Communes and towns have implemented construction of 40 roads with a total length of 40 km.
In 2018, Cam Giang was the second district in Hai Duong province to reach the new rural standard. Currently, 5/15 communes of the district have met the model new rural standards, and 9 other communes have met the advanced new rural standards. With the joint efforts and consensus of the people, the district is confidently accelerating its efforts to become the first district in the province to meet the advanced new rural standards by the end of this year.
Mr. Tran Van Quyet, Deputy Secretary of the District Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Committee of Cam Giang District said: "The reality when implementing major policies and tasks in the locality shows that material resources and people's consensus play a decisive role. If we know how to arouse, promote appropriately and promptly according to the motto: people know, people discuss, people do, people inspect, people supervise, people benefit, it will create a solid strength to effectively carry out tasks".
In Ninh Giang, a very difficult task was completed by the locality in August 2024 thanks to the consensus and cooperation of the people. The Dai Phu Giang canal and the T6 canal at Hiep Le pumping station have a total length of 14.2 km, but there are up to 156 bridges and 24 tents illegally built by the people in 6 communes, which have existed for nearly 30 years.
The clearance of illegal constructions to renovate and upgrade canals and roads is very necessary, but it also greatly affects the lives, production and business activities of hundreds of families. For decades, the bridges across the canal to Provincial Road 396 have helped people do business conveniently, creating the main source of income for households.
With the participation of local Party committees, authorities, and socio-political organizations, and with the awareness of the people mobilizing each other to comply with the removal of illegal constructions, difficult and complicated tasks have become easier.
Kien Quoc commune has the most illegal constructions with 93 bridges and 13 illegal stalls, but it is the locality that clears them quickly, without any forced evictions. Mr. Bui Van Cuong, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the People's Committee of Kien Quoc commune, said: "Along with voluntarily and unanimously complying with the clearance of illegal constructions, people also mobilize each other to contribute money and effort to upgrade and widen the roads behind their houses, to soon stabilize their lives."
It is not possible to count all the vivid evidences of the power of “Party’s will, people’s heart” and to measure all the contributions of the people in implementing the Party’s resolutions and policies. Practice in localities in Hai Duong province shows that if we can mobilize the people, even the most difficult tasks will become easy and successful, contributing to the construction and development of the homeland.
Hai Duong is one of the first 5 provinces in the country to be recognized for completing the task of building new rural areas in the period 2010-2020. According to the Hai Duong Provincial Fatherland Front Committee, from 2019 to now, people in the province have contributed 5,461.3 billion VND and 987,000 working days, donating 9,000 hectares of land to build new rural areas. The movement of "free land clearance" for public works has a strong influence.
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