(HBO) - Yen Thuy district is home to seven ethnic groups living together, including 49,239 ethnic minority people, making up 69.53 percent of the district’s population. In recent years, Yen Thuy has stepped up the implementation of programmes, projects and policies to support ethnic minority areas, including the mobilisation of resources for socio-economic development.
Thanks
to the Government’s Programme 135, many roads in the particularly disadvantaged
commune of Lac Hung in Yen Thuy district have been concretised.
The policy system on sustainable poverty
reduction has been strengthened while many related policies have been brought
into reality and proved efficient such as the Programme 135, the loan policy
for poor households, and the transfer of plant and animal structure.
In the 2014-2019 period, with the total
investment of over 894 trillion VND from central, provincial and district
budgets and the World Bank, the electricity system along with schools and roads
across Yen Thuy have been improved, contributing to promoting socio-economic development
in ethnic minority areas. Besides, the district also promotes the
implementation of the preferential credit loan support policy.
The district has backed the construction of
houses for 203 poor households, offered tuition exemption and reduction for
8,636 needy students, and provided free health insurance cards for 100,607
underprivileged people, as well as supported electricity for 28,189 poor
families with total expenses of 4.143 trillion VND.
Besides, Yen Thuy has supported over 1,426
people with short-term vocational training courses, mainly those from poor,
nearly-poor, and ethnic minority households.
Thanks to the diversification of poverty
reduction activities over the past five years, the rate of poor households in
the district has been reduced by over 2 percent per year to 13.9 percent in
2018./.
In recent years, Thung Nai commune on has undergone significant changes in its appearance, landscape, and lives of local residents. Road 435 from Hoa Binh City to Tan Lac district’s Suoi Hoa commune, passing through the Thung Nai commune, has helped attract many tourists to the area.
A seminar on promoting the startup movement among high school students has been held recently by the provincial Department of Education and Training and the Vietnam National University of Agriculture at Tan Lac High School in Tan Lac district of Hoa Binh province.
In the morning of April 24th, at Uncle Ho’s Monument on Hoa Binh Hydroelectric Project, Vietnam Youth Federation coordinated with Hoa Binh Youth Federation to organize the journey "I love my Fatherland” to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Dien Bien Phu Victory.
From the fact that the market takes place only every Tuesday, Bo market in Van Son commune (Tan Lac) officially takes place every Sunday from March 24. Thereby, the aim is to turn the market into a place promoting the cultural identity of Muong people in Hoa Binh and the consumption of goods and products of the neighboring communes, meeting the needs of tourists for the local products when travelling to Van Son at weekends.
Nguyen Van Toan, Vice Chairman of the provincial People's Committee, chaired a meeting of the Steering Committee on Population and Development.
