(HBO) – The Prime Minister has issued Decision No. 1719/QD-TTg dated October 14 approving the National Target Programme on boosting socio-economic development in ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas in the 2021-2030 period, with its first phase spanning from 2021 to 2025. The approval of the progamme has specified the Party, State and Government’s policies on ethnic affairs, while giving solutions to boost socio-economic growth in association with the implementation of the policies, meeting the expectations of ethnic minority groups.
Photo: Thanks to investment from programmes and projects, a
number of schools in Nanh Nghe commune in Da Bac district of Hoa Binh province
have been built to meet locals’ demand.
The programme has ten component projects, focusing on solving the shortage of
land for housing and farming as well as clean water; arranging and stabilising
the living conditions of residents in difficult areas; developing sustainable
agricultural and forestry production; building essential infrastructure system;
improving the quality of education and training to develop human resources;
preserving and promoting the traditional cultural values of ethnic minorities
in association with tourism development; improving health care services for
people; implementing gender equality; investing in the development of ethnic
minority groups with very few people and groups facing many difficulties;
strengthening communications in the ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous
regions.
Hoa Binh has 145 out of 151 communes, wards and towns which are ethnic
minority-inhabited and mountainous areas with 86 villages and hamlets facing
extreme difficulties. In the past years, the province has prioritised the
allocation of human resources to investment programmes and projects for ethnic
minority-inhabited and mountainous areas, especially those with extremely
difficult conditions. The efforts have made positive impacts on people's lives,
creating a motivation for the development of ethnic minority-inhabited and
mountainous areas, gradually narrowing the development gaps among
regions.
Mountainous areas have seen many positive changes. However, according to the
provincial Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs, due to a low starting point,
the living conditions of people from ethnic minority groups in the villages and
communes with extremely difficult economic conditions remained poor. They
mostly live on small-scaled agricultural and forestry production. Their
livelihood remains unstable, and their access to social service is still
limited. Although the ratio of poor households has decreased, the risk of
falling back into poverty is high, while the quality of human resources is low,
with modest capacity of local officials. In addition, gender equality remains a
problem among ethnic minority groups, along with outdated customs such as child
marriage, consanguineous marriage, social evils, and socio-economic development
gaps among regions.
In this context, the building and approval of the National Target Programme on
socio-economic development in ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas
in the province has an important and urgent significance, aiming to promote
sustainable development, consolidate and enhance people's confidence in the
Party and State.
The objectives of the ten component projects in the period of 2021 - 2025
include doubling income of people from ethnic minority groups in 2020; reducing
the ratio of poor households by 2.5-3 percent each year; bringing 50 percent of
communes and villages out of the list of areas with extremely difficult
conditions; building roads for automobiles to 100 percent of communes,
concreting 90 percent of roads connecting the centres of communes and villages;
upgrading 100 percent of schools and health care stations; and establishing
public internet service supply centres in all communes./.
The Hoa Binh provincial People’s Committee held its monthly conference in virtual form on April 2 to review draft documents to be submitted to the standing board of the provincial Party Committee and others under its management along with some other important issues. Vice Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Bui Van Khanh chaired the event, which was connected with the people's committees of districts and cities in Hoa Binh.
Smokeless 'Hoang Cam' kitchen was a small yet extremely significant initiative of a soldier chef named Hoang Cam in the Hoa Binh campaign in 1951 – 1952. This legendary stove, later named after him, accompanied the nation in the 1954 Dien Bien Phu Campaign, and during the resistance war against the US.
The 15th meeting of Hoa Binh province’s 17th-tenure Party organisation was held on March 26. Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Nguyen Phi Long, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People's Council Bui Duc Hinh, and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Bui Van Khanh co-chaired the event.
Nguyen Phi Long, alternate member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee, chaired a meeting of the provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board on March 21 to review the leadership over the implementation of tasks in the first quarter, identify focal tasks and solutions for the second quarter, and discuss some important draft reports.
Over the years, the Party Organisation of Doc Lap commune in Hoa Binh city has shown strong performance in leading the implementation of many measures to boost production, enhancing the living conditions of locals and promoting the locality’s internal strengths as well as potential and advantages.
Bui Van Khanh, Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People's Committee, on February 28 presided over a monthly meeting of the provincial People’s Committee to assess the implementation of the socio-economic development plan in the first quarter of 2024.
