Vinh Phuc devotes in building a model cultural village

According to Resolution 08/NQ-HDND, Vinh Phuc advocates building model cultural villages to make a place worth living while developing synchronously, comprehensively and sustainably in terms of economy, culture and society. 

The goal is to maintain ecological balance, harmony with nature, national cultural identity. It is also important that people have a stable, prosperous and happy life, soon complete the objectives of building a new and enhanced rural model.

To implement the project, Vinh Phuc issued Resolution 06/2023/NQ-HDND specifying that the subjects of application that are selected to build a model cultural village including villages, hamlets, residential groups, quarters, street blocks and sub-zones.

This resolution includes 16 specific support policies, including 1 support policy through the form of entrusted capital lending through the social policy banking system, and 2 support policies to implement public investment projects. The remaining policies mainly provide one-time support after the supported subjects have completed the model and are recognized by the competent state agency to be eligible.

For the commercial service business model, each village is supported with 2 models for organizations, households and individuals to deploy at the place where the model cultural village is built.

To be more specific: support VND 200 million/model of newly built mini supermarket; VND 50 million/convenience store, new construction general business store; VND 100 million/station for the introduction and sales of OCOP products, typical rural industrial goods, specialties of the province and the locality; VND 50 million/food service business.

Farmstays (which offer guests to stay and experience indigenous cultural values ​​at the farm) combined with new construction agricultural experience has an area of ​​at least 0.5 ha and has an investment scale to meet the needs of 30 guests or more are supported VND 300 million/facility, given that in each village has no more than 2 models.

Support VND 50 million/model for households and individuals to implement the newly created production garden model (growing fruit trees, growing medicinal plants, growing clean vegetables, growing flowers and ornamental plants) scale over 1.000 m² or more. Each village has no more than 3 models. Newly created gardens with the scale from 500 m to 1.000 m are supported VND 30 million/model, and no more than 5 models are supported in one village.

Households and individuals with permanent residence in the village contribute in building a model cultural village are supported with loans to develop production, business and services through the branch of the Bank for Social Policies with lending interest rate equal to the preferential lending interest rate for poor households according to regulations.

For households and individuals who are ethnic minorities in poor households, near-poor households or people with disabilities, the lending interest rate equal to 50% of the preferential lending interest rate for poor households is applied.

Maximum loan term is 60 months. The specific loan term is based on the capital source, the purpose of using the loan, the business cycle of the borrower, and the customer's debt repayment ability. For households and individuals that need to borrow capital to carry out production, business and services, a maximum loan of VND 200 million is allowed. Organizations, households and individuals that borrow capital to implement the model of production, business and service development in villages implementing Model Cultural Villages may borrow up to VND 2,000 million.

In addition, communes whose villages have built the Model Cultural Village, if there is no planning, will be supported with 100% of the funding for the detailed planning for the construction of rural residential quarters approved by the competent authorities. At the same time, support the district budget with a capital of no more than VND 25 million/village to implement investment projects on construction of socio-economic infrastructure (except for projects under the management of the province), of which cultural institutions, sports and community activities are supported no more than VND 15 million.

Support 100% of funding for renovation, embellishment and promotion of the value of relics ranked at provincial and national levels (including main architectural works and halls, gardens, gates, fences and technical infrastructure within the synchronous campus). Support to restore, embellish and promote the value of ranked relics are also being given.

In order to maintain the infrastructure, landscape and environment regularly, the People's Committee of the commune where the model village is located receives the support of VND 100 million/village/year to buy sorting bins or build tanks and products for domestic waste treatment at households.

Agencies and units tasked with restoring, preserving and promoting traditional festivals as intangible cultural heritages in the inventory list at places where the construction of model cultural villages is implemented are supported with 100% of funding for the restoration, preservation and promotion of traditional festivals which are intangible cultural heritages in the inventory list approved by competent authorities.

With 100% of funding for the restoration, preservation and promotion of traditional festivals, support for the improvement of institutional, cultural and sports systems, the funds also help to gather individual graves to the village cemetery to build a model cultural village, as well as rearranging power poles, low voltage power lines to ensure traffic safety and landscape; and training village health workers, residential groups up to the standards prescribed by the Ministry of Health.

Households raising cattle and other animals in livestock production (except raising ornamental animals, raising animals in the laboratory without causing environmental pollution) voluntarily stop raising livestock husbandry activities in residential where the model cultural village is built, change to renting livestock barns in areas where livestock are allowed to continue to produce livestock.

Vinh Phuc province strives to have at least 60 villages built by the end of 2030 with the basic features of spatial structure, landscape architecture preserved and embellished in a harmonious combination between tradition and modernity; synchronous socio-economic infrastructure; reasonable economic structure and production organization form; the landscape environment is bright, green, clean, beautiful, safe, civilized, rich in traditional cultural identity; the cultural and spiritual life of the people is healthy, rich and imbued with national identity; clean, strong, self-governing political system.

Estimated capital for the project is VND 2,610 billion, of which the state budget at the provincial level is VND 2,475 billion; district and commune budgets and socialization sources: VND 135 billion.