The Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee’s Standing Board organised a conference on June 11 to announce the decision to establish a steering committee for implementing the project on preserving and promoting values of the Muong ethnic group’s culture and the Hoa Binh Civilisation in the 2023 - 2030 period. Following that, the first meeting of this steering committee also took place. Nguyen Phi Long, alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and head of the steering committee, chaired the events.
Nguyen Phi Long, alternate member of the Party Central
Committee and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee, speaks at the
conference.
The provincial Department of Culture, Sports and
Tourism reported that a meeting was held on January 17 to disseminate the
project. The department has coordinated with the Hoa Binh Newspaper and the
province’s Radio and Television Station to boost communications about the
scheme’s targets and focal tasks, along with the values of the Muong culture
and the Hoa Binh Civilisation. Departments, sectors, and the 10 district-level
localities have also built and issued their implementation plans.
At the meeting, the provincial Party Committee’s
organisation board announced the decision to establish the steering committee
for project implementation. Accordingly, the Secretary of the provincial Party
Committee acts as head of this steering committee, a Vice Secretary of the
provincial Party Committee and the chairperson of the provincial People’s
Committee as standing deputy heads, another Vice Secretary of the provincial Party
Committee and the chairperson of the provincial People’s Council as deputy
heads, and leaders of departments and sectors as members.
Participants gave opinions about the working
rules and tasks for members of the steering committee. They also proposed an
advisory group and an assistant group for the committee be set up.
In his remarks, Nguyen Phi Long, Secretary of
the provincial Party Committee and head of the steering committee, said under
the Government and province’s directions, the project on preserving and
promoting the values of the Muong ethnic culture and the Hoa Binh Civilisation
in the 2023 - 2030 period has been carried out methodologically. The
establishment of the steering committee is important to carrying out concrete
tasks.
He underlined the viewpoint that upholding
cultural values is to serve tourism development, people are the main
stakeholders in cultural value preservation and promotion, the preservation and
promotion of good values must be carried out at the same time with eradicating
backward customs, and the values of the Muong culture and the Hoa Binh
Civilisation should be turned into development resources.
The official affirmed that preserving and
promoting cultural values are a long-term task, so members of the steering
committee, sectors, and localities need to build detailed implementation plans.
The advisory group needs to include people with profound knowledge and rich
experience from central agencies and localities, artisans, along with
prestigious persons. Besides, it is necessary to devise appropriate mechanisms
and policies for implementing the project.
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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