RoK foundation to build new rural village in Vietnam

(VNF) - A delegation from the Saemaul Globalisation Foundation (SGF) of the Republic of Korea discussed building a Vietnam-Korea village in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang during a working session with the provincial authorities on March 1^st.

Illustrative image. (Source: VNA)

Mr. An Deok-jang, Director of the SGF Management Board for Africa and Asia, said local people’s effort is crucial to the new rural movement and hoped that the Vietnam-Korea village model in Luong Tam commune, Long My district and Binh Thanh commune, Phung Hiep district would be a success.

The goal of the project is to enable local residents to adopt effective economic models after five years, he said.

Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Truong Canh Tuyen vowed all possible support for the project, which has an investment of more than VND 72.4 billion (USD 3.14 million).

Work on the Vietnam-Korea village will start this year with the hope to complete the village in 2020 in order to multiply the model across the province and the Mekong Delta after 2020.

Between now and 2020, both sides will offer training in household and collective economic management for local residents, build production infrastructure, transfer technology, develop education-health care and cultural exchange, and create a better business environment.

Earlier, on February 28^th, the delegation of the SGF also had a working session with Vice Chairman of Provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Huu Thanh about supporting new rural area construction in Bac Ninh province.

Vice Chairman Thanh and participants took photo with delegation of Saemaul Globalisation Foundation. (Source: snv.bacninh.gov.vn)

According to Mr. An Deok-jang, the Foundation’s experts had conducted surveys new rural area model in Mo Dao Commune, Que Vo district and has been finalizing a draft of supporting program to build new rural area in the province in oder to sign an Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Provincial People’s Committee in the coming time.

On behalf of provincial leaders, Vice Chairman Mr. Nguyen Huu Thanh thanked the Foundation for the supports and assigned relevant departments and sectors to well prepare the contents to implement signing the MOU between the Foundation’s Management Board and the Provincial People’s Committee in April 2017./.

( Compiled by VNF )