(HBO) – Pa Co commune in Mai Chau district has significantly changed in recent years, with its roads concreted and local residents selling a variety of goods to serve tourism and domestic consumption.
People sell local products to serve tourists in Cha
Day hamlet, Pa Co commune, Mai Chau district.
Pa Co’s Cha Day hamlet now has the appearance of a new-style
rural area. The hamlet has established self-managing groups in residential
areas, built a cultural lifestyle, upgraded the landscape and environment, and
stepped up the development of production, animal husbandry and services
provision. Cha Day has about dozens of households, with women having skills in
weaving, and children allowed to go school.
Pa Co – one of the two communes of Mong ethnic minority
people once known as a hotspot for security issues and drug trafficking – is
gradually changing as a result of attentions and investment from the Party and
State.
Sung A Sia, Chairman of the Pa Co People’s Committee, said
as a difficult area, Pa Co has received attentions of the province and the
district for investment in roads, schools, clinics, electricity grids,
agricultural production and tourism serving its growth.
Located at an altitude of more than 1,000m, Pa Co has a
year-round cool climate, primeval forests, and many popular products such as
Shan Tuyet tea and traditional handicrafts. Such advantages have been tapped
for community-based tourism development. So far, the commune has become an
attractive destination for domestic and international tourists.
The
Hoa Binh Party Committee has directed units to continue implementing Project
No. 09-DA/TU on improving the quality of activities of Party organisations and
administrations at the grassroots levels in association with socio-economic
development in Hang Kia and Pa Co communes. The direction covers a series of
measures to mobilise capital sources for investment in building socio-economic
infrastructure; raise public awareness on the matter; improve the operational
efficiency of the political system; and better the material and spiritual lives
of the people of the two communes.
Hoa Binh is carried out investment projects to upgrade three district medical centres in Lac Son and Yen Thuy districts and Hoa Binh city. The projects are funded by the central budget under the Economic and Social Recovery and Development Programme, aiming to improve healthcare services. The goal is to gradually develop a system of modern and quality district-level healthcare facilities.
To improve the cultural and spiritual life of the elderly, the associations for the elderly at various levels in Hoa Binh province have created many interesting and meaningful activities, attracting the participation of a large number of old people. These activities provide opportunities for them to improve both their physical and mental health, enabling them to live happily and healthily.
The pilot programme for sending Vietnamese workers to the Republic of Korea (RoK) for seasonal agricultural jobs continues under a collaboration between localities of the two countries, running for five years from January 1, 2022.
Staff of the Red Cross Society of Hoa Binh province were deeply moved by a meaningful and humanitarian act by Mr Vu Huu Lung, 86, in Hoa Binh city, to donate his corneas, which brought hopes to those yearning for the light. Before passing away, Lung left behind a noble wish to donate all of his organs, including his corneas, to help patients suffering from blindness and those in need of organ transplants to revive their lives.
In the small house of Bui Van Luong in Bung 2 Hamlet, Thu Phong commune, Cao Phong district, an array of traditional items such as serving trays, woven storage baskets for blankets, sticky rice containers, and bamboo baskets are beautifully and skillfully crafted.
Over the recent past, the education and training sector of Hoa Binh province has paid great attention to reforming management activities, improving teachers’ quality, and innovating teaching methods that focus on quality and efficiency, at the same time with implementing the sector’s emulation campaigns and movements.
