(HBO) - On these days, if there is a chance, come to the communes under 135 region of Kim Boi district, you will feel the real change. The rugged and muddy inter-village, inter-communal roads have been hardened with cement and concrete. From the movement of renovating the mixed gardens, all hamlets and villages have established the gardens of fruits, chicken and pig raising farms with a large and high economic value.
The officials from the Department of the Ethnic Minorities in Kim Boi district have been coordinating with the authorities and the local people to closely monitor the progress and quality of the underground constructions in Vo village, Cuoi Ha commune, which are invested from the capital of Program 135.
On the sports ground, there are exciting folk games, cultural exchange activities, the friendly competitions of football, volleyball ... The spring colors are bustling throughout the villages and hamlets of the ethnic minorities in the locality throughout the district.
With the attention and the support of the Central Committee and the province, many guidelines and policies have been implemented in the district, especially in the areas of the ethnic minorities.
Thanks to the effective integration of programs and projects, up till now 100% of the district’s roads, the roads to centers of communes in the district and 70% of trunk roads of villages, hamlets, inter-villages and hamlets in the district have been asphalted and concreted according to the technical level of the Ministry of Transport. More than 57% of alleys and the roads in the villages are clean and not muddy in the rainy season; 80% of the main infield roads have met the requirement of the convenient transportation all year round.
Along with the investment in the infrastructure, the training, retraining and developing the human resources for the ethnic minorities have achieved positive results. The contingent of officials of the ethnic minorities at grassroots level has gradually developed in both quantity and quality.
From the capital to support production development and diversify livelihoods, in 2019 Kim Boi district allocated over 4.5 billion VND to provide plant varieties, fertilizer, support plowing machines, water pumps, pesticide spraying machines, technical training to build the models of animal husbandry, cultivation ... with thousands of beneficiary households and groups. In addition, in the whole district there were 217 households in 12 communes which supported over 325 million VND to install a distributed living water system.
Effectively deploying tasks on the ethnic affairs, infrastructure, the appearance of the rural areas in Kim Boi district has been more and more spacious. The people of all ethnic groups have renewed their mindset, the way of working, working harder and harder for economic development. Up to now, the district poverty rate has decreased to 14.77%, the average income per capita is about 31.8 million VND a year.
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