Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Committee receives and works with the Saemaul Globalization Foundation (Korea)

18/09/2018 08:39

(BNP) - In the afternoon of September 14th, Mr.  Nguyen Huu Thanh, Member of Provincial Party Standing Committee, Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Committee met and worked with Mr. Kwak Busung, Chief Representative of the Saemaul Globalization Foundation in Vietnam to evaluate the results after one year of implementation of the New village model in Mo Dao village, Mo Dao commune, Que Vo district.

Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Huu Thanh discusses with Mr. Kwak Busung Chief Representative of the Saemaul Globalization Foundation in Vietnam

At the meeting, Mr. Kwak Busung said that the Saemaul Globalization Foundation has chosen and carried out the “New village” pilot project in Mo Dao village for 5 years (2017 - 2022) with the total budget of VND 15 billion. It aims to improve the living environment, promote agricultural mechanization, and increase people's income, thereby changing their awareness in the spirit of diligence, self-help, and collaboration.

After 1 year of implementation, the Saemaul Globalization Foundation has supported the renovation and repair of the Communal House, the Office of Cooperative and agricultural machines; organized training courses on community development, planning household economic development, trading and seed potato production under VietGap standard... with a budget of nearly VND 4.4 billion.

Mr. Kwak Busung wished to receive the next supports and assistance of the leaders at all levels and the enthusiastic participation of local residents in order to successfully build the model of New village in Bac Ninh province. It is needed to connect and share information related to the results of the project on a quarterly basis, he noted.

On behalf of the provincial leaders, Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Huu Thanh expressed his gratitude to Mr. Kwak Busung and the Saemaul Globalization Foundation for the interest in helping Bac Ninh to build the “New village” pilot project in the province.

Vice Chairman Nguyen Huu Thanh emphasized that this is an important project contributing to supporting the local people to bring into play the advantages of the locality, branding the agricultural product, developing stable output for the product and raising high income, the life of the people. Therefore, in addition to consolidating the Advisory Board of the project in Mo Dao village, the Vice Chairman of Provincial People's Committee requested the relevant units and localities to continue cooperating closely with the Saemaul Globalization Foundation to launch the project more effectively and expand to other localities in the province, helping to change the face of new countryside of Bac Ninh province.