(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.

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