Party General Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong has called on Mường Lát border mountainous district of central Thanh Hóa province to actively seek ways to surmount difficulties and eliminate poverty to become a new rural area.
The Party chief made the point yesterday at his two-day working visit to Mường Lát district, one of the most disadvantaged districts in the country, to inspect its implementation of the Party Central Committee’s Resolution 26 NQ/TW on agriculture, farmers and frural areas.
Party General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng (1st from R) and pupils in Mường Lát district, Thanh Hóa province, September 3, 2011 – Photo: VNA
Mường Lát district has a population of almost 34,000 with the majority being Thái ethnic people (46.2%) and Mong ethnic people (39.8%. It shares 100 km of borderline with Hua Phan province of Laos.
Thanks to the implementation of the Resolution 26 NQ/TW, eight out of nine communes and towns of Mường Lát district have been connected to the national grids, all communes have medical clinics and re accessible by cars.
For its future development, Mường Lát district has proposed the central agencies prioritising capital for its programmes, particularly transport projects, and issuing preferential policies for public employees working in disadvantaged areas as well as distinctive criteria on new rural area.
During his working visit to the province on September 2-3, the Party leader made a fact-finding tour to Trung Lý and Mường Chanh communes, visited and presented gifts to a number of outstanding families of social beneficiaries and called at officers and soldiers of Border Guards 495 and 489./.
By Khánh Phương
(Theo website Nguyễn Phú Trọng)
