(HBO) – The People’s Committee of Hoa Binh province has held a working session on the inspection of natural disaster prevention and control, and search and rescue activities in Hoa Binh city. Nguyen Van Dung, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee presided over the event.
The provincial working team makes a field
trip to some major sites in Hoa Binh city.
The city People’s Committee said the city
has four dyke systems and 17 key hydropower reservoirs and irrigation works as
well as equable lakes.
In order to stay active in preventing and
responding to natural disasters in 2018, the city People’s Committee has
designed key plans and tasks in the work for the year. The plans’ major objectives
to timely prevent and cope with the disasters’ consequences in a prompt and
effective manner, while considering the prevention as main task.
The work will be implementing in the principle
of showing strong performance at site in four aspects: effective direction,
on-the-spot forces, on-site vehicles, and on-site logistics.
The city has asked 15 communes, wards and
authorised agencies in the city to launch the plan for 2018 to suit their real
conditions, while reviewing and ensuring the full reserve of equipment, vehicles,
food, foodstuff, medicine for at least seven days for all locals in the
locality.
At the same time, localities across the
city have been requested to efficiently conduct resettlement to stabilise the
life of households affected by landslides due to the low pressure in October
2017. They have been asked to regularly examine, review and complete the plans
for natural disaster prevention and control as well as search and rescue
activities, and strictly implement the on-duty watching in accordance with
regulations.
At the working session, the provincial
People’s Committee requested the city People’s Committee to direct relevant
agencies to speed up the expansion of drainage tunnel No. 3 of the Quynh Lam
dyke to deal with flood in Hoa Binh city.
The city was asked to give financial
support to the construction of embankments for preventing erosion on transportation
routes, and irrigation canals.
Earlier, Vice Chairman of the provincial
People’s Committee Nguyen Van Van Dung and other senior officials of Hoa Binh city
made field trips to Van Chai commune near Hoa Binh bridge, the banks of Dung
stream and Tri stream in Tan Thinh ward, and a Van Chai docking area for boat in
Thinh Lang ward./.
Over recent years, the Farmers' Union of Mai Chau district has implemented numerous specific programmes and activities to support its members in developing products under the One Commune One (OCOP) programme. These efforts have contributed to enhancing local agricultural branding, increasing goods value, and improving incomes and living standards for residents.
Since 2022, the Hoa Binh Department of Education and Training has provided advice for the provincial People's Committee to issue Plan No. 219/KH-UBND on November 17, 2022, which outlines the implementation of a project titled "Enhancing the application of Information Technology (IT) and Digital Transformation in Education and Training for the 2022–2025 period, with a vision to 2030.” As of now, the local education sector has made significant progress in IT adoption and digital transformation.
Hoa Binh allocated over 30 trillion VND (nearly 1.18 billion USD) to develop infrastructure systems in ethnic minority and mountainous areas during 2019 - 2024. Priority was given to transport and irrigation infrastructure; markets; schools; medical stations; communal houses; and power grid, telecommunication, radio, and television systems.
The Hoa Binh provincial organising committee for anniversary activities on December 17 held a ceremony to unveil a ceramic mural on the local military-civilian ties and release a book on the Party and political work of the provincial armed forces during 1947 – 2024, in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) and 35th anniversary of the All-People Defence Festival.
In recent years, Hoa Binh has allocated significant resources to foster cooperative economy, helping ethnic minorities capitalise on their potential and advantages to escape poverty.
As a mountainous district still facing numerous challenges, Da Bac has made notable progress in advancing administrative reforms across various areas. The district has prioritised reorganising and streamlining its administrative apparatus, operating "one-stop-shop” units, and applying information technology (IT) in the handling of administrative procedures. Efforts have also been directed toward upgrading infrastructure and equipment to enhance service quality for residents and businesses.