(HBO) – Pa Co commune in Mai Chau district has significantly changed in recent years, with its roads concreted and local residents selling a variety of goods to serve tourism and domestic consumption.
People sell local products to serve tourists in Cha
Day hamlet, Pa Co commune, Mai Chau district.
Pa Co’s Cha Day hamlet now has the appearance of a new-style
rural area. The hamlet has established self-managing groups in residential
areas, built a cultural lifestyle, upgraded the landscape and environment, and
stepped up the development of production, animal husbandry and services
provision. Cha Day has about dozens of households, with women having skills in
weaving, and children allowed to go school.
Pa Co – one of the two communes of Mong ethnic minority
people once known as a hotspot for security issues and drug trafficking – is
gradually changing as a result of attentions and investment from the Party and
State.
Sung A Sia, Chairman of the Pa Co People’s Committee, said
as a difficult area, Pa Co has received attentions of the province and the
district for investment in roads, schools, clinics, electricity grids,
agricultural production and tourism serving its growth.
Located at an altitude of more than 1,000m, Pa Co has a
year-round cool climate, primeval forests, and many popular products such as
Shan Tuyet tea and traditional handicrafts. Such advantages have been tapped
for community-based tourism development. So far, the commune has become an
attractive destination for domestic and international tourists.
The
Hoa Binh Party Committee has directed units to continue implementing Project
No. 09-DA/TU on improving the quality of activities of Party organisations and
administrations at the grassroots levels in association with socio-economic
development in Hang Kia and Pa Co communes. The direction covers a series of
measures to mobilise capital sources for investment in building socio-economic
infrastructure; raise public awareness on the matter; improve the operational
efficiency of the political system; and better the material and spiritual lives
of the people of the two communes.
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