Over the past years, Mai Chau district has concretised policies, mobilised resources, and integrated the State’s investment and support programmes into its socio-economic development, aiming to help ethnic minority groups improve their living standards.
Thanks to resources from the national target programme on
socio-economic development in ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas,
residents in Mai Ha Commune, Mai Chau district, have cultivated many high-value
crops.
Minority groups account for up to 88% of Mai Chau population. Over the recent
past, the district has concertedly implemented the national target programme on
socio-economic development in ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas.
Thanks to policies in support of production and infrastructure development,
locals’ living standards have been improved significantly, and the district
given a facelift.
According to Ha Tuan Hai, head of the district Bureau of Ethnic Affairs, the
programmes and policies for ethnic minorities have been put in place with
diverse and practical forms, helping them get out of poverty.
Chairman of the district People’s Committee Pham Van Hoan said apart from the
above-said programme for 2021-2025, the locality has effectively implemented
other national target programmes on new-style rural area building and
sustainable poverty reduction.
Last year, Mai Chau’s average per capita incomestood at 51.3 million VND
(2,073 USD), and the rate of poor households among ethnic minorities decreased
by 3 - 4%. All of its communes have roads usable to automobiles connected to the
district’s centre, and all of schools and medical facilities there have been
consolidated.
Meanwhile, up to 99.8% of the local population have accessed the national power
grid, and 98.8% to safe water. Notably, more than 90% of minority households
are covered by health insurance. The district has opened many vocational training classes on tourism, brocade
weaving, mushroom growing, husbandry, and farming machine repair.
The women's unions at all levels in Kim Boi district have been making significant contributions to the movement of building cultural life in the local community.
The movement helps improve rural look and the spiritual and material lives of local residents.
The Hoa Binh provincial People’s Committee has issued an action plan to ensure food safety, promote processing, and develop the market for agricultural, forestry, and fishery products in 2025.
In recent years, the development of rural handicrafts has not only helped preserve and promote the traditional values but it has also created jobs and improved incomes for the local residents.
By harmoniously combining traditional medicine with modern medical practices, the Hoa Binh Traditional Medicine Hospital is strengthening its role in the province’s healthcare system.
