Resolution No. 25/2021/QH15 approve of the national target program on new-countryside building 2021 – 2025

The President of the National Assembly promulgated Resolution No. 25/2021/QH15 approving the investment policy for the national target Program on new-countryside building for the 2021 – 2025 period. This Resolution is passed by 15th National Assembly of Socialist Republic of Viet Nam at the first session on July 28, 2021, with the following contents:

Target of implementation Program:

a) Overall objectives:

Continue to implement the program in association with the effective implementation of agricultural restructuring, the process of urbanization, going into depth, efficiency and sustainability; implement the standards new-style rural, the model new-style rural and the new-style rural at village level. The material and spiritual life of rural people are improved, boost gender equality. The infrastructure of the socio-economic rural are built consistent and modern step by step, ensure environment, rural landscape bright, green, clean, beautiful, safe, rich in traditional cultural, adapt to climate change and sustainable development.

b) Specific objectives to 2025:

- Strive for at least 80 percent of the communes recognized as new-style rural areas on the whole country, with at least 10 percent of communes being model areas, without communes being below fifteen criteria; continue building the advanced standards new-countryside and the model new-countryside with communes, districts, provinces recognizes as new-style rural; the average income of rural people increase at least 1.5 times compared with 2020;

- Strive for at least 50 percent of districts, town, provincial city recognize as new-style rural areas on the whole country, complete the mission of new-countryside building, in which, at least 20 percent of standard district recognized as advanced standards new-style rural districts, model new-styles rural districts. Each province, centrally-run city have at least 02 unit of district-level meeting the new-style rural areas;

- Strive for at least 15 provinces, central cities recognized for completing the mission of new-countryside building.

- Strive for 60 percent of hamlets, villages (hereinafter referred hamlet) in extremely difficult communes in border areas, mountainous areas, coastal areas and islands are recognized as new-style rural areas according to the criteria of new-countryside regulated by People’s Committee of Province.

Scope and Time of implementation Program:

a) Scope of implementation: in the rural areas of the country, included: hamlets, communes, districts, provincial towns and cities with communes of 63 provinces, centrally-run cities, provinces;

b) Time of implementation program: from 2021 to the end of 2025.

The cost of implementation Program:

The minimum State budget for the program is VND 196,332 billion, in which:

a) The central budget: VND 39,632 billion, included:

- Development and investment capital: VND 39,632 billion;

- Career capital: VND 9,632 billion.

b) The local budget: VND 156,700 billion.

In operating process, the government continues to balance the central budget to prioritize additional support for the Program in accordance with actual conditions and have solutions to reasonably mobilize all legal capital sources for implementation.

Allocating principle of central budget to support the implementation of Program:

a) The investment have the focus and sustainability; prioritize resources for communes, districts not been met as new rural standards, especially in safe communes, communes being below fifteen criteria; support communes that have met as new rural standards to continue to improve the criteria of new rural met the standards but the criteria are still low in order to enhance the quality of criteria and ensure sustainability;

b) Allocate capital to support the Program, projects approved by competent authorities;

c) The central budget support local budget to implement the Program according to principle:

- In 2021, support mechanism continue to be implemented as the 2016 – 2020 period;

- The 2022 – 2025 period, pursuant to State budget estimate in 2022 (the first year of the new budget stabilization period), according to the implementation principle:

+ The central budget does not support the localities that have central budget regulation (unless Quang Nam, Quang Ngai);

+ The central budget only support the localities to receive balance revision from the central budget and Quang Nam, Quang Ngai, in which: prioritize to support the local of mountains, Tay Nguyen, the localities receiving balanced revision from the central budget of 60 percent or more;

Pursuant to the principle above, detailed by the Prime Minister.

d) Pursuant to the total capital supported by the central budget, together with the local budget, People’s Council of province decides to allocate, ensure uniformity, no overlap, duplicate with the national target Program on reducing of sustainable poverty for the 2021 – 2025 period and the national target program on developing of socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas for the 2021 – 2030 period;

dd) Increasing inspection, supervision, assessment of the implementation of Program at all levels, branches. There are measures to prevent, promptly eliminate negative, waste of budget, strictly impose penalties for violations during the implementation of program.

Solution and mechanism for managing and operating the Program:

a) Solution of raise capital and execution:

- The solution of raise capital must be implemented consistent, ensuring fully, promptly according to the prescribed structure; localities are responsible for allocating fully local budget capital to implement the program; encouraging entrustment borrowing through social policy banking system; increasing the encouraging of economic organizations to register to support localities implementation of the new rural building;

- Reviewing, investment phase, prioritize focusing on investment, avoid spreading and arrears for capital building, ensure regulations of the Law on public Investment.

b) Mechanism for managing and operating:

The management, operating the Program must be implemented according to the Point b, Clause 4, Article 1 of Resolution No 24/2021/QH15 dated July 28, 2021 of the National Assembly approving the national target Program on reducing of sustainable poverty for the 2021 – 2025 period.

Source:  A Chau Environment Co., Ltd