(HBO) – A great national unity festival was held in Ngoc Lam residential area in Cao Son commune of Luong Son district on November 2.
Vice Chairwoman of the provincial People’s Council Nguyen Thi Cam Phuong presents gifts to representatives of the residential area.
Vice Chairwoman of the provincial People’s Council Nguyen Thi Cam
Phuong, representatives of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Hoa Binh
province, and local departments and sectors attended the event.
Speaking at the event, Vice Chairwoman of the provincial People’s Council
Nguyen Thi Cam Phuong praised the residential area for its achievements,
expressing her hope that local people will continue to promote unity and
overcome difficulties to well perform campaigns and patriotic emulation
movements, thus contributing to further promoting cultural and socio-economic
development and ensuring national defence and security.
Ngoc Lam hamlet is home to 28 households with 135 people. All of them are Dao
ethnic minority people. Local residents are mainly farmers. The per capita
income in the hamlet is 40 million VND per year. Around 14.2% of the households
in the hamlet have yearly income of at least 250 million VND.
All households in the hamlet have earned the title of culture family. All
children of school age have gained access to education. The education and
talent encouragement movements have been promoted to each family.
The percentage of people participating in health insurance reached 100%. Locals
donated about 150,000 sq.m of land worth about 3 billion VND for building rural
roads, contributing to building new-style rural areas.
Organisations and households with outstanding achievements in developing the
residential area have been commended at the event.
The residential area set to lift per capita income to at least 42 million VND,
and maintain the title of culture residential areas./.
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