The Prime Minister issued Decision 318/QD-TTg promulgating the national set of criteria for new rural communes and the national set of criteria for advanced new rural communes for the 2021-2025 period.
Set of criteria for new rural communes for the period of 2021 - 2025 (Illustration image)
1. National set of criteria for new rural communes for the period of 2021-2025
According to Appendix I issued together with Decision 318/QD-TTg , the national set of criteria for new rural communes has 19 criteria, specifically:
- The Planning group has 01 criteria: Planning;
- Socio-economic infrastructure group has 08 criteria: Traffic; Irrigation and natural disaster prevention and control; Electricity; School; Cultural facilities; Rural commercial infrastructure; Information and communication; Residential housing;
- Economic group and production organization have 04 criteria: Income; Multidimensional poverty; Labor; Organization of production and rural economic development;
- The Culture - Society - Environment group has 06 criteria: Education and Training; Medical; Cultural; Environment and food safety;
- Group of political system has 02 criteria: political system and access to law; Defense and security.
In which, for each criterion, specify the general criteria as well as the criteria for each region: Northern Midlands and Mountains; Red river delta; North Central; South Central Coast; Highlands; South East; Mekong Delta. For example:
- In terms of per capita income in 2022, the general target is 48 million VND/person or more; and for each region as follows:
+ The Northern Midlands and Mountainous Areas and the North Central Region are from 39 million VND/person or more;
+ The Red River Delta region is from 53 million VND/person or more;
+ The South Central Coast, Central Highlands is from 44 million VND/person or more;
+ The Southeast region is from 62 million VND/person or more;
+ The Mekong Delta is from 53 million VND/person or more.
- Medical criteria have 4 contents:
+ Percentage of people participating in health insurance (applicable to both men and women);
+ Communes meet the national standards on health; rate of children under 5 years old with stunting (height for age);
+ Percentage of population with electronic medical records.
2. Newly enhanced set of criteria for rural communes for the period 2021-2025
According to Appendix II issued together with Decision 318/QD-TTg , newly enhanced rural communes in the 2021-2025 period are communes:
- Meet new rural standards (fully meet the standards required by the set of national criteria for new rural communes for the 2021-2025 period in Section 1).
- Reaching the criteria of newly-advanced rural communes for the period of 2021 - 2025, including 19 criteria as follows:
+ Planning;
+ Traffic;
+ Irrigation and natural disaster prevention and control;
+ Electricity;
+ Education;
+ Culture;
+ Rural commercial infrastructure;
+ Information and Communication;
+ Residential houses;
+ Income;
+ Multidimensional poverty;
+ Labor;
+ Organization of production and rural economic development;
+ Medical;
+ Public administration;
+ Access to the law;
+ Environment;
+ Quality of living environment;
+ Defense and Security.
In which, in terms of income per capita in 2022, the general target is from 58 million VND/person or more; As for regions:
+ The Northern Midlands and Mountainous Region, the North Central Region is from 47 million VND/person or more;
+ The Red River Delta and the Mekong River Delta are from 64 million VND/person or more;
+ The South Central Coast, Central Highlands is from 52 million VND/person or more;
+ The Southeast region is from 76 million VND/person or more.
Note: For extremely difficult communes, safe communes in poor districts and districts that have just escaped poverty in the 2018-2020 period, the level of meeting the new rural standard or the newly enhanced rural standard shall be applied according to regulations. standards for the Northern Midlands and Mountains.
For details, see Decision 319/QD-TTg effective from March 8, 2022.
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