HBO – Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue has signed Decision No.269/QD-TTg recognizing Hoa Binh city’s fulfillment of its new-style rural area building tasks in 2018.
Hoa Binh city considered production development and locals’ income improvement as a lever for new-style rural area building. During 2011-2018, the city carried out measures to develop agriculture and rural areas, with the focus on guiding seven communes to implement projects to expand production and improve people’s incomes on the basis of potential and advantages of each locality in order to form concentrated cultivation areas and create advantageous products and specialties such as cow raising project, vegetable cultivation project, and projects to grow Lingzhi mushroom, guava, longan and citrus, or breed fish in cages in Da river.
Developing production in a correct way contributed to raising locals’ incomes and reducing the poverty rate in rural areas. Per capita income in rural areas increased from 15.8 million VND per year in 2011 to 38.84 million VND in 2018, and the poverty rate was brought down to 1.31 percent.
After eight years of implementing the national target programme on new-style rural area building, Hoa Binh city fulfilled its mission in 2018 when all seven communes were recognized as new-style rural areas.
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.
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