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35. What is a “vibrant countryside”?

Develop a vibrant countryside with synchronous and modern
infrastructure and services, with an essential quality of
life like urban areas; preserve and promote good cultural
tradition; security and order are maintained; a green and
clean environment is developed with beautiful landscape

Rural development in the direction of services, demanding a basic living standard
modernity is the Party and State’s political quality approaching urban areas; preserve
determination to improve the rural population’s and promote good cultural traditions; security
living standards faster, making the rural area is maintained; environmental friendly
more involved and contributing to the country’s development, green, clean and beautiful
comprehensive development. The vibrant landscape”.
countryside is generally understood as a rural The perspective of vibrant countryside
area with a developed economy and society, development in the Strategy is to the civilized
rich in national cultural identity, protected rural area with modern and synchronous
environment, and working, income and living infrastructure and services and a basic quality of
conditions not lower than that of the urban area. life close to urban’s. On the other hand, vibrant
A vibrant countryside must have a developed countryside will ensure to preserve and promote
economy, infrastructure, and services that are good cultural traditions and maintain security
approximately similar to urban standards; and order, environmental friendly development,
people’s lives are improved; healthy social and green, clean, beautiful landscapes. The
relations and traditional cultural identities main contents of modern rural construction in
are preserved and promoted; a healthy living the Strategy include:
environment highly resistant to climate change, • In terms of goals, by 2030, among the
natural disasters, epidemics and other adverse communes and districts meeting the
fluctuations; stable political systems; security, new rural standards, 50% of communes
safety and social order are ensured. and 35% of districts will meet advanced
In the Strategy, the vibrant countryside is new rural standards. The communes
mentioned in the development perspective and districts that meet advanced rural
as: “Building the vibrant countryside, with standards are the localities that aim
synchronous and modern infrastructure and to become a modern rural model. The

74 Guidelines for the Strategy for sustainable agriculture and rural development
in the period 2021-2030, and vision to 2050