(VOVworld)- The Voice of Vietnam (VOV), People’s Committee of Co To island, and Quang Ninh’s new rural development board co-chaired a seminar on Sunday on the topic: "Building new rural area: Success by awareness and method." After more than 3 years of implementation, the new rural development program in Quang Ninh province has mobilized approximately 1.2 billion USD, with more than 34 communes achieving the new rural development criteria, the most of any of Vietnam’s 15 northern mountain provinces. Farmers’ income per capita increased from approximately 660 USD per year in 2012 to 785 USD in 2013. Most of the people in Quang Ninh now have regular access to the national electricity grid. Truong Cong Ngan, Head of Quang Ninh’s new rural development board said the most important success Quang Ninh has achieved is to mobilize and communicate with people and gain their support. He said: “We need to collaborate further with enterprises through specific policies to resolve pending issues to encourage them to invest in agriculture and contribute to the new rural development program. The province will soon have more specific ways to assist enterprises and collaborate with them in building the new rural landscape”. Quang Ninh will continue to promote the new rural development program in its communes and to involve every individual district in the national target of building a new rural landscape.