The northern province of Hoa Binh has over 74% of its population belonging to ethnic minority groups, who mainly reside in remote, far-flung, and disadvantaged areas. Therefore, the implementation of Project 2 on planning, arranging, and settling residential areas under the National Target Programme for Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas is important in building a better living environment for locals.
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The Lau Bai resettlement area in Vay Nua commune, Da
Bac district, has received investment to enable more than 30
natural-disaster-hit Dao ethnic households to stabilise their lives.
Project 2 aims to facilitate stable arrangements for
households through concentrated, interspersed, or on-site resettlement
according to planning. With broad support coverage and diverse assistance, it
holds significance in providing housing and livelihoods for the local
population.
Nguyen Van Tien, deputy head of the ethnic affairs
committee’s policy office under the provincial People’s Committee said the
majority of ethnic minority people in Hoa Binh live in extremely difficult
areas, with over 90% classified as poor or near-poor households. Additionally,
the province is particularly vulnerable to natural disasters. Currently, it has
143 high-risk landslide areas affecting 3,298 households, 21 areas prone to
frequent floods affecting 167 households, and 70 areas prone to regular
inundation impacting 1,750 households. All of these groups require relocation.
Under Project 2, between 2021 and present, the province has
been allocated a total capital of 78 billion VND (3.12 million USD) to support
the conduction of five residential stabilisation projects, benefiting 168
households in various districts.
Currently, Hoa Binh is implementing five projects of this
kind targeting around 200 households in the districts of Da Bac, Tan Lac, and
Kim Boi.
Bui Thanh Hieu, Chairman of the People's Committee of Cuoi
Ha commune, said the locality is facing many difficulties, with a relatively
high poverty rate among local and numerous sites with a high landslide risk. At
the end of 2023, it began carrying out the resettlement project, which will
provide stable housing for 22 households, minimising damage from natural
disasters, eliminating the situation of undocumented migration, solving
employment issues, and contributing to sustainable poverty reduction in Cuoi
Ha.
In addition to the achieved results, the provincial People's
Committee assessed that there remain many challenges in related management and
implementation work, as well as in ensuring social security. To complete the
plan for 2021-2025, amidst economic difficulties and significant investment
needs, Hoa Binh is determined to mobilise and efficiently utilise resources to
bring about substantial and meaningful changes.
Various emulation movements have been rolled out in Mai Chau district of Hoa Binh province over the past years, encouraging local farmers to promote business and production for sustainable poverty alleviation as well as restructuring of crops and livestock for better incomes. The movements have attracted enthusiastic response from members of the district farmers’ union, particularly ethnic people.
Senior women in rural and ethnic minority areas are considered an abundant labour workforce, as people in the working age have often worked far away from home in recent years. Therefore, many units, departments, sectors and cooperatives in Hoa Binh have worked with enterprises inside and outside the province to generate jobs for the local women.
The World Environment Day (June 5), launched by the UN Environment Programme, has been celebrated in Vietnam since 1982 and become a nationwide movement, helping raise public awareness of environmental protection, biodiversity conservation, sustainable development, and climate change response. This year, the day is themed "Land restoration, desertification and drought resilience”. All-level Party Committees and administrations in Hoa Binh province continue to view improving awareness, restoring land, and fighting drought and desertification as an indispensable part of the socio-economic development plan and an important task during the sustainable development process.
A working delegation from the Ministry of Health led by Deputy Minister Do Xuan Tuyen inspected the provision of vitamin A for children in Cao Phong district on June 1.
Right on the occasion of the 134th anniversary of Uncle Ho's birthday (May 19th, 1890 - May 19th, 2024), the Public Security of Lac Son District organized a donation of breeding cows to the two families in extremely difficult circumstances: Mr. Bui Van Quyet's household from Trang Doi hamlet, Yen Phu commune; Mrs. Bui Thi Dien's household from Com street, Vu Ban town.
In the morning of May 29th, at the Cultural House of Lac Son district, the Provincial Youth Communist Union - Vietnam Youth Union of the province held the launching ceremony of the Volunteering Youth Campaign in the summer of 2024, responding to the peak day of the new rural construction. There was the attendance of Mr. Bui Van Luyen, the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front.