Speaking at the ceremony, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said the new rural development program achieved outstanding results, reaching the goal nearly 2 years ahead of the schedule. In addition to 4,665 communes (accounting for 52.4% of the total number of communes) meeting the new rural standard, 109 district-level units (accounting for 16.5% of the districts) are recognized to meet new rural standards, with two provinces: Dong Nai (133/133 communes, 11/11 districts) and Nam Dinh province (209/209 communes, 10/10 districts).
The program has been implemented drastically, synchronously and nationwide, with the enthusiastic participation by the people, there are many good and effective ways to make a big change in both quantity and quality for the villages and hamlets of Vietnam. The electrical infrastructure, roads, schools and stations are built synchronously in many localities. The organizational system of production and business in agriculture and rural areas is more synchronized with commodity production in large scale. Along with that, the activities of research, transfer and application of science and technology have made many advances and gained many good results.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc speaks at the ceremony
EVN is a key player in the implementation of Criterion No. 4 on electricity; ensuring grid engineering standards and requirements on the proportion of households supplied with power. The corporation has identified it as one of its important political duties.
Since 2008, at the request of localities, EVN has been handed over rural low-voltage grids from rural electricity management organizations with insufficient management capacity. From the status of selling power directly at 2,126 communes, over the past 10 years, EVN has received rural low-voltage grids in nearly 6,000 communes. Up to now, EVN is managing electricity sales in 8,122 communes, accounting for 92% of communes and more than 93% of households.
In order for the rural power grid to meet Criterion No. 4, each commune needs to be invested between VND 5-10 billion. EVN has been seeking for, working with foreign sponsors, using ODA loans, EVN capital and state budget capital as the main resources to implement the Program. EVN's total investment in power distribution for rural areas in 10 years is more than VND 89,200 billion.
Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc awards the First-Class Labour Medal to Vietnam Electricity. EVN’s President Duong Quang Thanh receives the medal
In addition, meeting Criterion No. 4 on electricity in the New rural development Program in islands in the period 2010-2019 has been given special attention to by EVN. Up to now, EVN has received and managed electricity sale in 11/12 island districts.
After receiving and selling electricity directly on island districts, EVN has invested in power generation and grids; increasing generation hours, instead of 6 hours/day to 24/24h and sell electricity to households on the island at the price set by the Government.
As a result, over the last 10 years (2010-2019), the percentage of communes supplied with power has increased by from 98.69% (in 2010) to 100% (in 2018) and the number of households supplied with power increased from 97.31% (equivalent to 19 million households - in 2010) to 99.47% (equivalent to 27.41 million households - June 2019).
As of 30 June 2019, there were 8,072/8,902 communes meeting Criteria No. 4, accounting for 90.7% of the total number of communes in the whole country, an increase of 45.94% compared to that of 2010 and an increase of 8.32% compared to that of the same period of 2015.
Mr. Vo Quang Lam - Deputy General Director of EVN said: EVN's direct electricity sale to households and investment in rural electricity development in the past 10 years has significantly changed the situation of rural power supply, from meeting basic power demand such as serving daily lighting and a small part of production to meeting power demand for daily life and developing production with better quality, increasingly making an important contribution to socio-economic development, tourism, raising people's income, ensuring national defense and security in rural areas.
The Prime Minister awards the Third-class Independence Medal and the First-class Labour Medal to the provinces and central cities, ministries, departments and branches with outstanding achievements in the Emulation Movement. In the photo, EVN’s Chairman Duong Quang Thanh is at the leftmost
To achieve this achievement, EVN has always received close and prompt guidances from the Government. The Government has created an effective mechanism to mobilize capital sources for the rural electrification program. In particular, the mobilization of diverse and effective use of financial resources under the motto "the Central level and the local levels work together, the State and the people work together" is the unique creativity of Vietnam in the rural electrification program. countryside.
At the same time, the Government has harmonized the goals of the rural electrification program with a number of National Millennium Goals that Vietnam has signed with the United Nations such as: Eliminating extreme poverty and hunger, Ensuring environmental sustainability, Gender equality and women empowering, etc. Therefore the rural electrification program is supported by international organizations, receiving huge technical assistance projects and huge development assistance funds from the governments of Finland, Sweden, Japan and France, Germany and international financial institutions of WB, ADB, etc., VN's power supply projects are designed, built and organized effectively thanks to good implementation from the stage of preparation to the stage of putting projects into use. In the process of implementing the power supply to rural areas, the localities have actively implemented tasks, propagated and mobilized households in the project areas, especially households benefiting from the project, to contribute to the implementation by self-clearing the site and committing to prepare costs for connection as soon as the project has been completed.