One of the typical new-style rural residential areas, Tan Hoa village, Hoa Son commune (Luong Son) is striving to maintain the achieved criteria, while implementing solutions aimed at building a "smart village" model.

Security camera system installed in Tan Hoa village,
Hoa Son commune, contributes to ensuring security, social order, and safety in
the area.
The village currently has 124 households with 574 members,
divided into four residential groups. selected to build the model, local
authorities have installed three security cameras on main roads, contributing
to preventing, detecting, and promptly combating crimes and social evils, and
increasing the ability to monitor and protect the common property of the
village.
Nguyen The Chuyen, Secretary of the village Party cell, said
that since the camera system was set up, locals’ awareness on maintaining
security, order, and traffic safety has improved, contributing to maintaining
the criteria of a model new-style rural residential area. The village culture
house has free Wifi to serve local residents' information access needs.
Households in the village have also invested in audio-visual
equipment, with 100% owning televisions, 97% of the population using smartphones
and the Internet. The loudspeaker system operates regularly to disseminate the
Party and State's guidelines and policies, and residential area conventions to
raise people's awareness of crime prevention and control, and health care.
With the State's support and the people's joint efforts,
100% of the roads in the village now have electric lighting systems; 98% of the
people participate in health insurance; the rate of cultural families surpasses
98%; defence and security are maintained; social order and safety are ensured;
and the village has no multidimensional poor households. It has also been
recognised as a model new-style rural residential area since 2019; and awarded
a certificate of merit by the Chairman of the People's Committee of Luong Son
district for five consecutive years, from 2019 to 2023.
Its average per capita income increased from 18.2 million
VND (738 USD) in 2014 to 70.83 million VND last year.
In the coming time, Tan Hoa will continue to renovate and
upgrade the infrastructure system, and rural roads to maintain and improve the
criteria of a model new-style rural residential area; and strives to complete
the criteria to be recognised as a "smart village", thus contributing
to turning Hoa Son commune into a ward-level unit of Luong Son town by 2025.
The Standing Board of the Hoa Binh provincial Party Committee has agreed in principle on a proposal by the Standing Board of the Party Committee of Hoa Binh city to gather feedback on the city’s 1:2000 zoning plan, which forms part of its broader urban development strategy.
Hoa Binh province has made notable progress in public administration reform and digital government development, with the satisfaction index among citizens and businesses reaching over 84%, according to recent government evaluations.
Thanks to great efforts by local authorities in recent times, the governance and public administration performance of Mai Chau district has been significantly improved.
In the afternoon of June 6, the Party Committee, the People's Council, the People's Committee and the Fatherland Front of Lac Son district solemnly held a meeting to celebrate the 139th anniversary of the district's founding (1886–2025) and the 79th anniversary of the establishment of the district's Party Committee (1946–2025). There was the attendance of Mr. Bui Van Thang, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Mr. Quach Tat Liem, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Ms. Dang Bich Ngoc, the Deputy Head of the National Assembly Delegation of the province; as well as the former leaders of the province and district through various periods, who are the natives of the district.
Implementing the Politburo’s Resolution No. 57-NQ/TW on breakthroughs in science – technology, innovation, and digital transformation is a golden opportunity for the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh to renew growth model, improve competitive edge and shorten digital gap.
Resolution 57-NQ/TW, issued by the Politburo on December 22, 2024, identifies sci-tech, innovation, and digital transformation as strategic breakthroughs to build a developed and prosperous nation. In Hoa Binh province, this spirit is not just a slogan, it’s being put into action through concrete initiatives that form a "new development triangle”: digital citizenship, digital economy, and digital administration.