Member of the Politburo, Secretary of the Party Central Committee, Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Hoa Binh attended and delivered a speech at the Conference. Member of the Party Central Committee, Minister, Chairman Hau A Lenh; Alternate member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister, Vice Chairman Y Vinh Tor and Deputy Ministers, Vice Chairmen: Y Thong, Nong Thi Ha co-chaired the Conference.
In 2024, ethnic work and ethnic policies have achieved important results, contributing to changing the face of ethnic minority and mountainous areas. The rate of poor and near-poor households has reached the target of the year and has decreased compared to the same period last year; the poverty reduction target has become an important task and target in the leadership, direction and operation of Party committees and local authorities at all levels. The National Target Program for Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas has received strong leadership and direction from the Provincial Party Committee, City Party Committee, People's Council, and People's Committee of the province and city to ensure effective implementation and achievement of the set goals and targets. Poor and near-poor households have better access to policies, investment resources and support from the Party, State and community. The living standards of people in ethnic minority and mountainous areas have been improved, contributing to consolidating and enhancing people's trust in the Party and State.
Discussing at the Conference, leaders of provinces, cities, ministries and branches highly appreciated the results achieved in implementing ethnic policies and ethnic work in recent times. At the same time, they analyzed the causes of some shortcomings and limitations, such as: although hunger eradication and poverty reduction has made progress, the rate of poor and near-poor households is still high; poverty reduction is not sustainable; the gap in living standards between ethnic minority areas and the national average is slow to narrow. The progress of implementation and disbursement of capital of the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development of Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas for the period 2021 - 2030, Phase I from 2021-2025 (National Target Program 1719) in many ministries, branches and localities is generally slow compared to the requirements...
At the Hoa Binh Provincial Bridge, Vice Chairman of the Hoa Binh Provincial People's Committee Dinh Cong Su informed: It is estimated that by the end of 2024, the poverty rate in the province will decrease by 2.61% (from 9.20% in 2023 to 6.59% in 2024), of which: The poverty rate in ethnic minority and mountainous communes will decrease by 2.77% (from 9.80% in 2023 to 7.03% in 2024); the poverty rate in extremely disadvantaged communes will decrease by 5.91% (from 21.27% in 2023 to 15.36% in 2024), exceeding the planned target (the target of the poverty rate in extremely disadvantaged communes will decrease from 4 - 4.5%). It is expected that 06 more communes will be recognized as having completed the goal of building new rural areas and escaping the category of extremely disadvantaged communes; increasing the total number of communes recognized as having completed the goal of building new rural areas and escaping the category of extremely disadvantaged communes in the 2021-2025 period to 20/59 communes; reaching 20/29 communes, reaching 68.96% according to the target assigned by the Prime Minister.
However, the Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Hoa Binh province acknowledged: The implementation of ethnic work tasks in Hoa Binh province still faces some difficulties and problems such as the slow development of the socio-economy in ethnic minority and mountainous areas; people's lives are still difficult; the rate of poor and near-poor households is still high compared to other areas. The infrastructure system is still weak; the quality of human resources is still low; production is still self-sufficient, slow economic restructuring, and the quality of goods is low.
“In addition, there are still some shortcomings in the guidance documents and implementation instructions of the National Target Program 1719; the organization and implementation of some contents, projects, sub-projects and disbursement of Program capital at some agencies and units are still slow; localities are still confused and have different understandings in the process of researching and applying the guidance documents; localities have difficulties in balancing counterpart resources from the local budget to implement the Program, because most of the districts have low budget revenue, mostly depending on the central budget support…”, the Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Hoa Binh province assessed.
Closely following the actual situation in the locality, the Standing Vice Chairman of Binh Dinh Provincial People's Committee Nguyen Tuan Thanh proposed: It is necessary to focus on sustainable development indicators, improve material and spiritual life, access to high-quality social services such as: Average income of ethnic minorities is half of the national average; The rate of households using clean water reaches 90-100%; Solving 80-100% of the number of disadvantaged households lacking residential land and production land. In addition, adjusting to reduce the number of projects, sub-projects, overlapping components and considering to integrate and arrange between the 3 National Target Programs appropriately for easy implementation. There are open mechanisms and strong enough policies to increase the attractiveness and attraction of businesses and enhance the capacity of cooperatives in ethnic minority areas, especially in extremely difficult areas, to help ethnic minorities diversify their livelihoods, develop production in the direction of value chains, develop precious medicinal areas, build and develop business and startup models, thereby accelerating the process of sustainable poverty reduction for ethnic minority people.
In recent times, the economic growth rate of ethnic minority and mountainous provinces has been quite high, in which the Northwestern provinces have increased by an average of 8.0% per year, the Central Highlands have increased by an average of 7.5% per year, and the Southwest has increased by an average of 7.0% per year. Up to now, 98.4% of communes in ethnic minority and mountainous areas have car roads to the center; 96.7% of ethnic minority households have access to the national electricity grid; 100% of communes have kindergartens, primary schools, and secondary schools; 99.3% of communes have medical stations with 83.5% of communes having standard medical stations, 69.1% of medical stations have doctors and nurses to examine and treat people; over 90% of communes have radio and television coverage; 100% of communes have telecommunications infrastructure and mobile coverage to meet people's communication needs; Many provinces have an average annual poverty reduction rate of over 3%, exceeding the target set in the Action Program to implement the Ethnic Work Strategy to 2030, with a vision to 2045...
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