(HBO) - Yen Thuy district is home to seven ethnic groups living together, including 49,239 ethnic minority people, making up 69.53 percent of the district’s population. In recent years, Yen Thuy has stepped up the implementation of programmes, projects and policies to support ethnic minority areas, including the mobilisation of resources for socio-economic development.
Thanks
to the Government’s Programme 135, many roads in the particularly disadvantaged
commune of Lac Hung in Yen Thuy district have been concretised.
The policy system on sustainable poverty
reduction has been strengthened while many related policies have been brought
into reality and proved efficient such as the Programme 135, the loan policy
for poor households, and the transfer of plant and animal structure.
In the 2014-2019 period, with the total
investment of over 894 trillion VND from central, provincial and district
budgets and the World Bank, the electricity system along with schools and roads
across Yen Thuy have been improved, contributing to promoting socio-economic development
in ethnic minority areas. Besides, the district also promotes the
implementation of the preferential credit loan support policy.
The district has backed the construction of
houses for 203 poor households, offered tuition exemption and reduction for
8,636 needy students, and provided free health insurance cards for 100,607
underprivileged people, as well as supported electricity for 28,189 poor
families with total expenses of 4.143 trillion VND.
Besides, Yen Thuy has supported over 1,426
people with short-term vocational training courses, mainly those from poor,
nearly-poor, and ethnic minority households.
Thanks to the diversification of poverty
reduction activities over the past five years, the rate of poor households in
the district has been reduced by over 2 percent per year to 13.9 percent in
2018./.
In recent times, Da Bac district has paid attention to implementing gender equality work for the advancement of women. The role and position of women in the family and society have been affirmed, making an important contribution to the socio-economic development of the locality.
Despite being situated in remote and underprivileged areas, schools like Tan Dan Kindergarten in Tan Thanh commune, Mai Chau district, have reaped the benefits of digital transformation tools and applications, thanks to support from the education and training sector.
The flower and ornamental plant market for the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival across Hoa Binh province is becoming more vibrant.
On January 18th, the Ministry of Education and Training announced the results of the national exam for excellent students in 2024-2025 school year of 2024-2025.
In the afternoon of January 15th, at the Industrial Park of the Left Bank of Da River, the Trade Union of the Provincial Industrial Parks organized the program "Reunion Tet – the Spring Being Grateful to the Party” in 2025.
On January 9th, the Department of Education and Training held a conference to summarize the school year of 2024, reviewing the semester I and deploy tasks for 2025, semester II of the 2024-2025 school year. There was the attendance of Mr. Nguyen Van Chuong, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee.
