Over the past years, Mai Chau district has put in place programmes, projects, and policies on ethnic minority groups, in tandem with specific tasks and solutions to improve their material and spiritual life.
Caption: Residents in Mai Hich commune, Mai Chau district, grow bitter gourd that yields high economic values.
Between 2021 and 2023, the district has completed the first phase of the Tau Na resettlement area in Cun Pheo commune, and another in Suoi Nhung hamlet, Son Thuy commune.
Last year, 30 households received support in livelihood change with funding of 300 million VND (12,372 USD), and the numbers are expected to rise to 50 households and 500 million VND this year.
With central, provincial, and district budgets, in the 2021 - 2023 period, the district has launched 173 projects worth 523 billion VND which have contributed to improving local infrastructure, thus gradually meeting socio-economic requirements.
To date, the district People’s Committee has approved investment plans for 29 projects with a total registered capital of over 2.01 trillion VND, of them 16 operational.
Apart from infrastructure development, the district has focused on agricultural restructuring; afforestation, striving to keep the forest coverage at 65.44%; tapping water surface potential for aquaculture; and opening vocational training classes for rural labourers.
Over the past two years, the district has coordinated to open 35 classes with the participant of 1,103 people, mainly in tour guide, brocade weaving, husbandry, farming, agricultural machine repair, and cooking.
Ha Cong Nghi, Permanent Deputy Secretary of the district Party Committee, said Mai Chau will continue to build, develop and replicate livelihood models, and implement the national target programmes for socio-economic development in ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas in the time ahead.
A delegation from the Fund for Natural Disaster Prevention and Control and the Hero of the People’s Armed Forces Phan Trong Binh Social Work Fund on April 22 had a working session with leaders of Hoa Binh province.
The Hoa Binh Food Safety Sub-Department – the standing agency of the provincial Steering Committee for Food Safety on April 15 launched the action month for food safety in the province in 2024.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on April 13 held a working session with key leaders of Hoa Binh province on its implementation of the Government Office’s Notice No. 95.
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