Hoa Binh province has 145 out of the 151 communes, wards, and towns which are ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas, 506 communes facing extreme difficulties, and more than 74% of its population being ethnic minority people.
People in Doan Ket commune, Yen Thuy district invest in a commercial eel farming model along the value chain, thereby increasing their income.
With the locality’s socio-economic characteristics, the government’s three national target programmes on rural development, promoting potential and strengths of regions to produce goods in accordance with value chain, under the umbrella of the National Target Programme on promoting socio-economic development in ethnic minority areas has a significant meaning.
In Hoa Binh, the capital of the National Target Programme during 2021-2025 is allocated to the implementation of many important and practical contents to serve investment needs of ethnic minority areas, such as shortage, domestic water, planning, population settlement; investment in essential infrastructure for production and life; developing education and training, improving the quality of human resources; and building cultural life; medical development, and people's health care.
In particular, the province also prioritises resources integration to raise the implementation efficiency in an attempt to improve agricultural and forestry production development and life of local ethnic minority people.
According to the provincial Committee for Ethnic Minorities, the project has been implemented in the right direction, right subjects with appropriate contents and forms to utilise potential and advantages of each locality in the direction of crop and livestock restructuring, helping create jobs and increase income for people in ethnic minority areas.
By the end of 2023, the rate of poor households in the province, communes in ethnic minority areas and those facing extreme difficulties remained 9.2%, 9.8% and 21.27%, respectively.
Currently, six communes facing extreme difficulties have been recognised to have completed the goals of building new-styled countryside, bringing the total number of communes recognised as meeting the new rural standards and exiting the category of communes facing extreme difficulties in the period of 2021 - 2023 to 14.
These are positive results in efforts to stabilise livelihoods, improve incomes for people in ethnic minority areas, and effectively contribute to creating a facelift for agriculture, farmers and rural areas in the province.
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.
