(HBO) – The Vietnam Farmer’s Union on June 27 partnered with Hoa Binh province’s Party’s Committee to host a workshop on how the union contributes to socio-economic development in mountainous areas and areas where ethnic minority communities live.
Present
at the workshop were Party Central Committee member and President of the
Vietnam Farmer’s Union Thao Xuan Sung; Party Central Committee member and Minister-Chairman
of the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs Do Van Chien; and Party Central
Committee member and Secretary of the provincial Party’s Committee Bui Van Tinh,
along with delegates from 21 provinces.
An overview of the
workshop.
The
event provided an opportunity for the central government and cities and
provinces to review socio-economic development in mountainous areas and areas
of ethnic minority groups over the past years. At the same time, delegates
shared experiences and challenges in fulfilling tasks in each locality and how
they can work together to develop these areas in the following years.
After
the 15-year implementation of Resolution No.24, dated March 12, 2003, issued by
the 9th Party Central Committee and the 25-year implementation of
Directive No.45, dated September 23, 1994, of the 7th Party Central
Committee’s Secretariat, infrastructure in mountainous and ethnic minority
people areas have been more developed. The education, healthcare and cultural
services in those areas have also seen progress, improving the ethnic minority
groups’ living standard.
As
of the end of 2018, the poverty rate among ethnic minority households declined
by over 3 percent from the previous year to 25.5 percent. At the same time, the
infrastructure have been significantly improved as 98.6 percent of the communes
have concrete roads leading to communal People’s Committees’ offices and 99.8
percent of the communes and 95.5 percent of the villages have access to electricity.
To
fulfill its tasks in socio-economic development in mountainous and ethnic
minority people areas, the Vietnam Farmer’s Union
has built more than 10,500 demonstration models in VietGAP-based horticulture,
husbandry and aquaculture alongside over 170,000 models of production combining
with distribution in a value chain.
At
the workshop, the delegates made recommendations to more effectively implement
socio-economic development policies in mountainous and ethnic minority people
areas in the north and to help the union scale up projects which encourage
farmers in H’mong ethnic minority villages to engage in tourism.
On November the first, the Provincial People's Committee held a meeting for the reports on the progress of preparations to hold the Ceremony to receive the Certificate of the special national relic ranking for Trai Cave, the Stone Roof of Vanh village (Lac Son district) and the Opening Ceremony of the Culture - Tourism Week of Hoa Binh province in 2024. Mr. Nguyen Van Toan, the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, the Head of the Organizing Committee of Culture - Tourism Week chaired the meeting.
alternate member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Nguyen Phi Long on October 30 had a working session with the Party Committee of the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment on the sector's implementation of political tasks in the past 10 months, and key tasks for the last months of 2024 and in the coming time.
In recent years, the People's Committee of Lac Thuy district has directed units and mass organisations to promote the popularisation of the Party's policies and resolutions and the State's laws, as well as issued guiding documents on local religious affairs.
The Hoa Binh Steering Committee for the organisation of the fourth provincial congress of ethnic minority groups held a meeting on October 29 to discuss the progress of preparations for the congress. Dinh Cong Su, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and head of the Steering Committee chaired the event. The congress is slated for November 14-15 at the provincial Cultural Palace, expecting 250 official delegates.
Despite a low starting point, the mountainous district of Mai Chau has effectively implemented the National Target Programme on New Rural Development, resulting in significant improvements in people’s life and rural look.
Over the past years, Hoa Binh has systematically implemented the one-stop-shop and interconnected one-stop-shop mechanisms in processing administrative procedures, contributing to improving the efficiency of the work while promoting online public services.