Hoa Binh province’s Party Committee, administrations at all levels, and people have exerted efforts to preserve and uphold the traditionalcultural valuesofthe Muong ethnic minority people, considering this as an important task to contribute to the locality’s development.
Secretary of the provincial Party
Committee Nguyen Phi Long, and other officials make a field trip to Trai hamlet
cave in Tan Lap commune (Lac Son district).
Khai Ha festival of Muong people in Hoa
Binh in 2023.
The local authorities have paid heed to
promoting activities to popularise the Party's directions, the State's policies
and laws on preserving and promoting the cultural values of ethnic groups, and
the contents of the project on conserving and developing the
traditionalcultural valuesofthe Muongpeople, and Hoa
Binh Culture, towards promoting the historical and cultural values to
international friends, and the education of patriotism and national pride among
people.
Developing culture is also considered a
breakthrough, closely associated with the tasks of people building,
socio-economic development, ensuring national defence and security, and foreign
affairs of the province. Hoa Binh will focus on investing in developing modern
cultural institutions, synchronising the system of grassroots-level cultural
institutions to be suitable to the culture of each locality and each ethnic
group, thus preserving and upholding the heritage and cultural values of ethnic
groups.
Additionally, attention will be also paid to
effectively implementing a project to preserve and promote the
traditionalcultural valuesofthe Muongpeople, and Hoa
Binh Culture in the 2023 – 2030 period.
A project to construct a conservation area of
the Muong ethnic cultural space associated with tourism development will be
implemented in Tan Lac district.
The locality is building dossiers to
seekrecognition for the Vanh village stone shelter in Yen Phu commune and
Trai hamlet cave in Tan Lap commune of Lac Son district as special national
archaeological relics, and UNESCO’s recognition for Hoa Binh Culture as a
cultural heritage of humanity. A scientific dossier for Mo Muong to be included
in the UNESCO List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent
Safeguarding will be completed.
Financial sources from the local budget will be
allocated annually for the preservation work of the traditionalcultural
and heritage valuesofthe Muongpeople and Hoa Binh Culture.
Relevant agencies, sectors and organisations
will work closely to improve the effectiveness of the movement of "All people
stay united to build the cultural life” in the locality.
In recent years, Mai Ha commune in Mai Chau district has been making efforts to restructure its crops and livestock to improve production efficiency, enhance the quality of life, and increase income for local residents. Notably, the cultivation of watermelon in line with Vietnamese Goods Agricultural Practices (VietGAP) standards has helped local people escape poverty.
Hoa Binh province scored 43.5493 points in the 2023 Provincial Governance and Public Administration Performance Index (PAPI), ranking 20th out of the 63 provinces and cities nationwide, up 23 places compared to the 2022 list. The results show people's satisfaction with the effectiveness of implementing State policies and laws, local governance, and providing public services by authorities at all levels in the province.
With the motto of "polite, dedicated, professional, and lawful,” over the years, Phu Cuong commune in Tan Lac district has gradually improved the quality of processing administrative procedures, winning high satisfaction from local people and businesses.
Stretching over 300 meters, valued at hundreds of million dong and built to the new-style rural standards, a concrete road in De hamlet, Bac Phong commune, Cao Phong district, was completed by the end of 2023 thanks to the collective contributions of armed forces at provincial and district levels coupled with the active participation of military units stationed throughout the district.
Over the years, the People’s Committee of Lac Thuy district has issued many plans and programmes to speed up the administrative reform, aiming to better serve local people and businesses.
Kim Boi district is drafting 23 planning projects which are expected to help boost the local socio-economic development, attract investors, and mobilise resources for development, said Vice chairman of the district People’s Committee Tran Tuan Son.
They include the one on Bo urban area development until 2045, 20 zoning, and 12 on rural residential areas in communes.