A Government delegation led by Deputy PM Truong Vinh Trong visited to Dien Bien to inspect a pilot project aimed at building a new model for rural areas in Thanh Chan commune and a rubber tree development programme.

To boost rural development, provincial leaders need to pay closer attention to the lives of local people by encouraging them to work together to implement the pilot project on schedule. In terms of economic development, government agencies should choose suitable and effective saplings to introduce high value products to the market, bringing more benefit to farmers.

Thanh Chan is the poorest out of the 11 communes, which are introducing the pilot project. However, with the 300 billion VND project underway in Thanh Chan, local people hope that they will be able to enjoy a better standard of living and this new model will be expanded to other communes in the future.

In regard to the development of rubber trees, Trong asked the province to research on how to develop rubber trees in a proper and effective manner, expand cultivated areas to grow other subsidiary crops and increase animal husbandry.