THE PRIME MINISTER
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SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIET NAM
Independence - Freedom - Happiness
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No. 800/QD-TTg
Hanoi, June 04, 2010
 
DECISION
APPROVING THE NATIONAL TARGET PROGRAM ON BUILDING A NEW COUNTRYSIDE DURING 2010-2020
 
THE PRIME MINISTER
 
Pursuant to the December 25, 2001 Law on Organization of the Government;
Pursuant to the Government's Resolution No. 24/2008/NQ-CP of October 28, 2008, promulgating the Government's action program for implementation of Resolution No. 26-NQ/TW on the task to formulate a national target program on building a new countryside;
At the proposal of the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development,
 
DECIDES:
 
Article 1. To approve the national target program on building a new countryside during 2010-2020 (below referred to as the program) with the following principal contents:
I. GENERAL OBJECTIVES
To build a new countryside with gradually modern socio-economic infrastructure, rational economic structure and forms of production organization; to associate agriculture with quick development of industries and services, and rural with urban development under planning; to assure a democratic and stable rural community deeply imbued with national cultural identity; to protect the eco-environment and maintain security and order; and to raise people's material and spiritual lives along the socialist orientation.
II. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
1. By 2015,20% of communes will reach new countryside standards (under the national set of new countryside criteria).
2. By 2020,50% of communes will reach new countryside standards (under the national set of new countryside criteria).
III. DURATION AND SCOPE OF PROGRAM IMPLEMENTATION
Duration: from 2010 to 2020.
Scope: rural areas nationwide.
IV. PROGRAM'S CONTENTS
The program is an overall socio-economic development, political and security and defense one, covering the following 11 activities:
1. Planning to build a new countryside