(HBO) – The People’s Committee of Hoa Binh province recently organised a conference to review 15 years of implementing preferential credit policy. The event was attended by Bui Van Tinh, member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee; Bui Van Cuu, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and head of the representative board of the provincial Bank for Social Policies and Bui Quang Vinh, Deputy General Director of the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies.
Photo: Bui Van Cuu, Vice
Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and head of the representative
board of the provincial Bank for Social Policies, presents certificates of merit
to excellent individuals.
Bui Quang Vinh, Deputy General Director of the Vietnam Bank for Social
Policies, hands over certificates of merit to typical individuals.
After 15 years of carrying out the preferential
credit policy, the provincial Bank for Social Policies has deployed 15 credit
programmes with total outstanding debts of nearly 2.7 trillion VND and overdue
debts of 3.5 billion VND, accounting for 0.13 percent of total outstanding
debts. In the past 15 years, more than 426,000 impoverished households and
policy beneficiaries have been provided with loans by the bank. These loans
have helped over 90,000 families get out of poverty (poverty rate dropping by 3
percent on average annually), create jobs for 73,000 labourers and support the
poor in building 19,000 houses as well as 90,000 clean water and environmental
sanitation works.
Nearly 1,000 labourers were provided with soft loans to work abroad. Some
35,000 disadvantaged students were enabled to go to school thanks to the loans,
while more than 8,000 ethnic minority households were assisted in production
and business activities.
During 2017-2020, the province has set a target of providing vital products and
services of the Bank for Social Policies for all of poor people and policy
beneficiaries.
Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Bui Van Tinh stressed that the
credit programme has affirmed its role in the province’s socio-economic
development, ensuring social security and implementing the national target
programme on sustainable poverty reduction and new style rural area building.
Tinh hoped that in the coming time, the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies will provide
more funds for the poor to step up production, making contributions to
effectively implementing Instruction No. 40-CT/TW of the Party Central
Committee’s Secretariat on enhancing the Party’s leadership in social policy
credit programmes and promoting communication works for credit activities to
ensure sufficient capital for the beneficiaries.
On this occasion, the Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee granted certificates
of merit to 10 organisations and 15 individuals and the General Director of the
Vietnam Bank for Social Policies bestowed certificates of merit to 30
organisations, 62 individuals and four families for their contributions to the
implementation of poverty reduction and social security programmes in the
province./.
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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