In 2011, the District Party Committee, the People’s Council, the People’s Committee decided to choose 5 communes: Dien Quang, Dien Trung, Dien Phong, Dien Phuoc, Dien Tho and then added 2 communes: Dien Hong, Dien Hoa to building commune with new rural standard in the period 2011- 2015, the remaining communes will be deployed building new rural communes in the period 2016-2020.
The new momentum from the movement
General task is identified as focus on unite strength, mobilize all society resources, the State’s budget of the programs, projects, good implementation in 5 field groups are specified in Decision No 491/2009/QD-TTg dated on April 16th,2009 of the Prime Minister: Making the planning and the Scheme of building new rural; developing infrastructure and social - economy; developing the economy and organizing producttion; developing culture - society - environmental protection; building a strong political system and maintaining security and social order in the countryside.
From the identification of the essential content of building new rural and from Dien Ban rural reality, the characteristics of each commune, the authorities were in active and creative in the implementation direction, achieved the results were quite comprehensive, created changing positive step in agriculture, the recent rural appearance has been in innovation, people's lives are improved.
To achieve a strong effect in the National target of building new rural areas program, since the implementation, all levels and departments in the district focused on promoting the various disseminations, rich content to each local, each object directing in-depth, realistic life to raising awareness for the officers and the people, from which having the consensus, response, implementation, mobilizing the people’s resources to complete objectives on schedule.
One of the priority content in building new rural is attention to the production development, raise incomes for the people. Because the construction of new rural is essential improving the material and spiritual life for the rural people, the rural appearance is changing more advance and prosper. In which, the district built more effective poverty reduction model, conversed varieties plant seeds and cattles appropriately, encourage regrouping of land, mechanized in production, many economic models of farming and breeding for high income has improved, increased the income, brought a prosperous life for the people. Thus, the average production value/ha of cultivated land increased quite clear, reaching over 95 million dong/ha in 2014, increasing more than 10 million dong compared with 2011.
Especifically, the district focused on building the essential infrastructure for agriculture, rural, because this is the lifeblood in socio-economic development. In the last 4 years, the district mobilized more than 600 billion dong of building new rural, including direct fund of the program is 75.165 billion dong (the budge of the Central, the province: 54.850 billion dong, the district budget: 20.315 billion dong). Over 4 years (2011-2014), building new countryside, the people in the district has donated over 100,000m2 land worthing over 15 billion dong and more than thousands of workdays for rural transportation; fertile soil irrigation; concrete canals, bridges; building new and upgrade the culture house - communal culture center, the culture house - hamlet sport area and standard cultural institutions; building new, upgrading schools and colleges... In the people, the residents, gardens, fences, gates, buildings gradually renovated and upgraded spacious and clean.
The district has focused on the synchronized implementation of infrastructure criteria in building new rural. About electricity, colloborating with electric industry building, repairing, upgrading power projects for production and living. Up to now, there are 12/13 communes reaching this criteria, the remaining commune achieved over 70%. About the post office, the district now has 13/13 achieve No.8 criteria for post office, internet access to the hamlets to serving the information needs and entertainment of the people. About residential house, the district implemted the Party’s guidelines and policies and mobilized the individuals and the units to support gratitude and love house construction with the aim at remove temporary housing and building permanent housing for the people. To date, there are 12/13 commune completed this criteria.
Dien Ban has attention to comprehensive care in all aspects: education development, health service, culture, social security, environmental protection. So far in the whole district, 64/68 schools have reached the national standard, 9/13 communes for criteria for schools, 13/13 communes for education standard. Health facility network in the district has been many positive changes. Medical examination and treatment from the district to the local was implemented uniformly, medical network covered with two hospitals, one health center, 16/20 clinics reaching national standard, average 6 doctors/10.000 people, today 13/13 communes have reached health criteria.
District focused on implementation of social welfare policies for the poor, organized consulting jobs, careers, solved employment for the rural people. Poverty reduction is concentrated directing drastically by the district and communes, created favorable conditions for the people to enjoy the supporting policies and access to capital incentive credit to creating jobs, increasing the income and reducing the poverty. Besides that, the associations, organizations have stepped up the movement to help each other out of poverty. The poor households in the end of 2014 was only 3.46%; 13/13 communes have achieved the poor household standard and 13/13 communes have achieved income criteria in standard.
Through building new rural movement, the district has intensified propaganda and education to raising awareness and responsibility to protect the environment for everyone; the whole district has implemented the Scheme to collecting and treating solid wastes. District People’s committee has a guideline that refused to attract the invested businesses affecting environment to the rural communes. There is no polluted manufacting facilities in the building new rural communes. The building movement, improving home garden and building toilets in every household has been changed, currentlty, a number of households has sanitary latrines reaching to close 100%; the rural environment is gradually bright, green, clean and beautiful. There are currently 7/13 communes reaching the environmental standards.
The local political system is consolidated and strengthened, the officials’ capacity training is concerned, gradually rejuvenated, standardized. The organization of the political system is consolidated, clean and strengthened. The social security situation of the rural is basically stable, not cause major incidents; the movements, models “All people protect national security associates with the building new rural movement” continue to be launched and promoted.
The rural appearance in the building new rural communes has clearly changed. In the end of 2014, 3 communes: Dien Quang, Dien Trung, Dien Phong achieved 19/19 criteria are recognized as new rural communes by the Province People’s Committee, before one year for the plan; Dien Quang is the leading commune in building new rural in Quang Nam province. The remaining communes: Dien Phuoc achieved 17/19, Dien Tho: 16/19, Dien Hong: 16/19, Dien Thang Bac: 15/19 and other communes have achieved 13 criteria or more.
The Orientation
The consensus, response, internal power of the people is the key to success in the National target of building new rural areas program in Dien Ban. Continuing to promote and improve the effectiveness of communication, campaign to raise awareness, self-consciousness to take part in building new rural of the people in new rural communes. Focusing on innovate the content and form of communication, focusing on communication and diffuse the mechanisms, new policies and the good ways, the experiences, the effective production model, the typical mirror in all fields, contributing to bulding new rural. To the end of 2015, there will be more 5 communes: Dien Thang Bac, Dien Phuoc, Dien Tho, Dien Hong and Dien Hoa achieving new rural commune with 19 criteria according to the national criteria of new rural. The remaining communes will reach 15 criteria or more;
Each commune makes each plan, intinerary, measure to direct the implementation of the remaining criteria are not achieved and invests, improves the quality standard criteria. Focusing on the integrated mechanism with the capital investment effectively from the diffenrent programs, projects in the local; enlisting investment capital fund from the enterprises, the cooperatives, the credit capital and other legal sources. Building the plan, the itinerary to concentrate investing in key points make a change in the infrastructure system of the communes, building prioriry infrastructure for production, livelihoods such as transportation, irrigation, health service, education, clean water and environment sanitation on the basis of the District People’'s Committee’s schemes have been implemented. The communes will be built new rural in 2015 and prepare for deploying in the period 2016- 2020.
After 4 years in building new rural, the lessons that Dien Ban has, building new rural is a long and continuous process, the power and consent of the people is "the key" to success. Moreover, the strength promotion, the consensus of whole political system are the center to whole people with whole society taking part in building new rural and the more important thing is the leaders of the committee, the government must do drastically with passion. The dynamic and creative way suit with each local; rural development must keep the countryside spirit, keep the land and Dien Ban people’s identity.