(HBO) - The People's Committee of Hoa Binh Province has just issued a plan to implement the sustainable poverty reduction program in Hoa Binh province in 2019.
Accordingly, the target is to reduce the rate of the households in the whole province from 14.74% at the end of 2018 to 11.74% at the end of 2019. It is necessary to continue synchronously and effectively implementing the programs and projects of the poverty reduction under the national program for sustainable poverty reduction from now to 2020, focusing on investing in essential infrastructure in extremely difficult communes and villages in accordance with the new rural criteria. It is also important to ensure that 100% of the poor households, the poverty threshold households and households who have just escaped from poverty are eligible for preferential credit loans if they are in need.
100% of the poor people and the ethnic minority people living in areas with difficult socio-economic conditions and in areas with particularly difficult conditions and those who are under the state beneficiaries are granted health insurance cards. The poor households, the poverty threshold households and the families under preferential treatment policy are continuously supported to build suitable hygienic latrines, increasing the number of households using clean water to reduce the deficit of the clean water. The income of the households participating in projects supporting production development, diversifying the livelihoods and replicating poverty reduction models have increased by 20% a year or more. On average, each year there are at least 15% of the households have escaped from poverty and poverty threshold.
In order to achieve the set objectives, the People's Committee of the province has required the synchronous implementation of guidelines, mechanisms and policies in accordance with the reality. The province has promoted the achieved results and mobilized the combined strength of the whole political system to successfully implement the poverty reduction target in 2019.
Once a mountainous province facing many challenges, Hoa Binh has, after more than a decade of implementing the national target programme on new-style rural area development, emerged as a bright spot in Vietnam’s northern midland and mountainous region. In the first quarter of 2025, the province recorded positive results, paving the way for Hoa Binh to enter a phase of accelerated growth with a proactive and confident mindset.
Hoa Binh province is steadily advancing its agricultural sector through the adoption of high-tech solutions, seen as a sustainable path for long-term development.
The steering committee for key projects of Hoa Binh province convened on May 14 to assess the progress of major ongoing developments
A delegation of Hoa Binh province has attended the "Meet Korea 2025" event, recently held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassy of the Republic of Korea (RoK) in Vietnam, the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, and the People's Committee of Hung Yen province.
Hoa Binh province joined Vietnam’s national "One Commune, One Product” (OCOP) programme in 2019, not simply as a mountainous region following central policy, but with a clear vision to revive the cultural and agricultural values in its villages and crops.
From just 16 certified products in its inaugural year to 158 by early 2025, the One Commune One Product (OCOP) programme in Hoa Binh province has followed a steady and strategic path. But beyond the numbers, it has reawakened local heritage, turning oranges, bamboo shoots, brocade, and herbal remedies into branded, market-ready goods - and, more profoundly, transformed how local communities value and present their own cultural identity.