(HBO) – Hoa Binh has focused on strengthening communications to enhance public awareness of gender equality and encourage local residents to implement measures to control gender imbalance at birth.
Along with the effective implementation of the population and family planning programme and a project on reducing gender imbalance at birth, the province has developed effective models in the work, contributing to enhancing population quality.
As a result, Hoa Binh has seen the sex ratio at birth falling through years from 113.9 boys over 100 girls in 2018 to 111.6 boys over 100 girls in 2021.
Nguyen Thi Thu Hien, Vice Director of the Sub-Department of Population and Family Planning of Hoa Binh, said that although the province's imbalance at birth has decreased, it is still higher than the national average, while the rate of families having at least three children remains high and is on the rise.
Along with encouraging families to have only two children, the sub-department has strengthened communications to enhance public awareness of gender equality and improve the status of girls, she said.
This year, in response to the International Day of the Girl (October 11), the sub-department has issued a dispatch guiding local agencies, organisations and the healthcare system to actively implement communications activities to call for actions to minimise gender imbalance at birth, prevent fetal sex selection, and eliminate gender discrimination.
The efforts aim to generally change the awareness and gender stereotype, enhance the role of women and girls in families, thus bringing sex ratio at birth to a more naturally balanced level.
In the afternoon of January 15th, at the Industrial Park of the Left Bank of Da River, the Trade Union of the Provincial Industrial Parks organized the program "Reunion Tet – the Spring Being Grateful to the Party” in 2025.
On January 9th, the Department of Education and Training held a conference to summarize the school year of 2024, reviewing the semester I and deploy tasks for 2025, semester II of the 2024-2025 school year. There was the attendance of Mr. Nguyen Van Chuong, the Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee.
In the spirit of mutual support, charitable groups and donors in and outside Hoa Binh province have come together and joined hands with local authorities and organisations to hold meaningful, humanitarian activities for the poor, vulnerable, and those in need, spreading love and kindness from the "golden hearts" in the community.
The "Volunteer Youth" movement is the pride of Vietnamese youth. Along with the spread of the movement in Hoa Binh province, the volunteer youth movement in Lac Son district has many imprints, creating a vibrant emulation atmosphere for the youth, contributing to building a rich and civilised homeland.
Kim Boi district, a revolutionary land rich in cultural heritage, is "awakening” with major opportunities to become a tourism and eco-urban hub in Hoa Binh province and the region as a whole.
Thanks to the support of local authorities, Hoa Binh’s education system continues to achieve significant progress, contributing to meeting comprehensive reform targets and students' learning needs as well as supplying high-quality human resources for the province.
