Located about 9km from the centre of Lac Son district, Vu Binh commune is home to 20 hamlets with 2,581 households and 11,925 people, more than 90% of whom are Muong ethnic people. Implementing the movement of "All people stay united to build a civilised lifestyle”, it has obtained many encouraging results, thus contributing to local socio-economic development.

Chairman of the communal People’s Committee Bui Van Dan said that over the recent past, Vu Binh has encouraged locals to strongly take part in emulation movements, comply with the Party and State’s guidelines, policies and laws, develop livelihoods, and preserve traditional culture.

In 2023, all the 20 hamlets were recognised as "residential zones of culture” and 2,267 of the 2,581 households as "households of culture”, equivalent to 87.8%. Among them, 716 households, or over 27.7%, obtained the title for three consecutive years.

Movements and campaigns have been carried out with diverse contents and in various forms, helping promote the strength of the great national solidarity, give a facelift to rural areas, and improve people’s life quality. Outstanding movements and campaigns include those calling for solidarity in building new-style countryside and civilised urban areas, encouraging farmers to boost agricultural production and trade, assisting the youth to start careers, and engaging war veterans in the building of new-style rural areas. As a result, many effective crop cultivation, animal farming, and handicraft production models have taken shape, generating good profit and income for people, Dan noted.

In addition, the commune has paid attention to repairing and upgrading roads and mobilising local residents’ participation in cleaning roads and dredging gutters. Partly supported with resources from the public, it has completed concreting the roads within and linking many hamlets. People’s consensus and all-level authorities’ attention have helped Vu Binh make considerable improvement and better people’s life quality.

So far, the rate of concreted roads across hamlets has reached 80.5% while concreted and paved canals and ditches now account for 67.08%. There are no longer makeshift houses in the commune. Per capita average income this year is estimated at 48 million VND (nearly 2,000 USD) while the multidimensional household poverty rate has been brought down to 12.8%. All local households have also gained access to hygienic water and the national power grid.

Besides, cultural and social aspects have recorded improvement, the political system been ensured, and security and social order firmly maintained. Cultural, musical, and sport activities have also been held frequently, helping better people’s spiritual life, according to the official.