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.
Nguyen Phi Long, an alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee, and head of the steering committee for the province's key projects, chaired a conference on March 25 to discuss measures for implementing the project on constructing the Hoa Lac - Hoa Binh road and upgrading the Xuan Mai - Hoa Binh section of National Highway 6 under the public-private partnership (PPP) model.
Administrative reform has been identified as a key priority in enhancing state governance, improving the business environment, and facilitating services for citizens and enterprises.
The Standing Board of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee met on March 18 to review and guide major investment projects aimed at boosting local socio-economic development.
The air is thick with the hum of drills and the clatter of machinery as the Hoa Binh – Moc Chau expressway takes shape amid the rugged terrain. Welding sparks illuminate the faces of workers, and concrete mixers churn relentlessly, laying fresh pavement on the newly-carved road. The construction site buzzes with a palpable sense of urgency, particularly in Hoa Binh province where the expressway's future is being forged.
The northern province of Hoa Binh, with over 467,000 hectares of natural forest and more than 100,000 hectares of production forest, holds significant potential for carbon credit market development.
Replacing substandard houses with more sturdy ones by June 30 is the direction given by Nguyen Phi Long, alternate member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee, at a meeting held in early March by the provincial Steering Committee for the programme to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses for the needy.
