Family is the home of each person and the cell of a society. It also plays a significant role in the formation and development of each person’s personality. On May 4, 2001, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 72/2001/QD-TTg, designating June 28 as the Vietnamese Family Day. Over the past years, Hoa Binh province has carried out a number of activities to honour the family traditions and help develop prosperous, progressive, equal, happy "cells of society”.
A play by trade union members of Ngoc My commune, Tan Lac district, at a forum held in response to the Vietnamese Family Day 2024 (June 28).
There are 220,509 households in Hoa Binh province at present, including 23,582 comprising fathers or mothers and children, 18,520 comprising one generation (only husbands and wives), 96,639 comprising two generations, 77,043 comprising at least three generations, and 4,725 households of other types, according to the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Over the past years, the culture, sports and tourism sector has advised the provincial People’s Committee about plans, projects, and programmes on family affairs.
To popularise the message of building happy families to local residents, the provincial Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the culture and information divisions of district-level localities have boosted communications by hanging banners; holding forums on the occasion of the International Day of Happiness (March 20), the Vietnamese Family Day (June 28), and the National Action Month for Domestic Violence Prevention and Control; disseminating the family code of conduct and the criteria for ensuring a happy family; and spreading information about family affairs at meetings and activities of local Party cells, residential areas, and groups.
In particular, the communal-level People’s Committees have maintained anti-domestic violence models. There are now 170 anti-domestic violence models according with the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism’s standards, along with 1,488 anti-domestic violence groups in Hoa Binh. All the 151 communal-level localities have also established steering boards for family affairs and clubs of families of sustainable development. Those efforts have helped honour and spread the good traditional values of Vietnamese families, and improve public awareness of building prosperous, progressive, and happy families.
However, it is a fact that today’s families have to face numerous difficulties and challenges. Many ethical values of families are being eroded and show signs of degradation. Some families have been affected by social vices. Domestic violence is growing while the bonds among family members are becoming loose.
To improve the quality of family affairs in the coming time, the province’s steering board for this issue released a document in April this year to promote the organisation of communications activities in response to the International Day of Families, the Vietnamese Family Day, and the National Action Month for Domestic Violence Prevention and Control 2024. These are occasions for sectors, all-level authorities, and organisations to call on families to join hands in preserving, upholding, and bringing into play the good traditional cultural values and conduct in each Vietnamese family, promoting gender equality, and preventing domestic violence.
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.
