Over the past years, Mai Chau district has put in place programmes, projects, and policies on ethnic minority groups, in tandem with specific tasks and solutions to improve their material and spiritual life.
Caption: Residents in Mai Hich commune, Mai Chau district, grow bitter gourd that yields high economic values.
Between 2021 and 2023, the district has completed the first phase of the Tau Na resettlement area in Cun Pheo commune, and another in Suoi Nhung hamlet, Son Thuy commune.
Last year, 30 households received support in livelihood change with funding of 300 million VND (12,372 USD), and the numbers are expected to rise to 50 households and 500 million VND this year.
With central, provincial, and district budgets, in the 2021 - 2023 period, the district has launched 173 projects worth 523 billion VND which have contributed to improving local infrastructure, thus gradually meeting socio-economic requirements.
To date, the district People’s Committee has approved investment plans for 29 projects with a total registered capital of over 2.01 trillion VND, of them 16 operational.
Apart from infrastructure development, the district has focused on agricultural restructuring; afforestation, striving to keep the forest coverage at 65.44%; tapping water surface potential for aquaculture; and opening vocational training classes for rural labourers.
Over the past two years, the district has coordinated to open 35 classes with the participant of 1,103 people, mainly in tour guide, brocade weaving, husbandry, farming, agricultural machine repair, and cooking.
Ha Cong Nghi, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the district Party Committee, said Mai Chau will continue to build, develop and replicate livelihood models, and implement the national target programmes for socio-economic development in ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas in the time ahead.
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.