Nguyễn Hữu Đây (centre) receives Prime Minister’s Certificate of Merit for donating 7,000 square metres of land to build a road in Bình Phước Province. — VNA/VNS Photo

HÀ NỘI – The Prime Minister’s Certificate of Merit has been awarded to an elderly man who donated 7,000 square metres of land to build a road in Bình Phước Province.

Nguyễn Hữu Đây, a resident from Đồng Xoài City, also voluntarily demolished his house to use that land for road construction work.

Nguyễn Bình Minh, chairman of Đồng Xoài City People's Committee said the 1,150m long road was put into use after nearly a year of construction, connecting Tôn Đức Thắng Street in Tiến Thành Ward with Đồng Xoài Industrial Park III.

The project has a total investment of VNĐ60 billion (US$2,550).

Forty-one households affected by construction have voluntarily handed over 3.8ha of land for the project, Minh said.

Many local families also donated hundreds and thousands of square metres of their land to the project.

So far, local households have donated about 42 hectares of land to build roads, worth over VNĐ500 billion ($21.2 million)

At the ceremony, the local People's Committee rewarded ten households for their contributions to the project and launched the activities to plant 8,000 trees, responding to Bình Phước Province's programme of planting one million trees per year. — VNS