Central working delegation surveys the implementation of ethnic work in the province

On the afternoon of October 29, the Central Working Group led by Comrade Trieu Tai Vinh, Deputy Head of the Central Mass Mobilization Commission, surveyed and summarized 5 years of implementing Conclusion No. 65-KL/TW of the Politburo on continuing to implement Resolution No. 24-NQ/TW of the Party Central Committee (9th tenure) on ethnic work in the new situation in the province.

Working scene.

Also participating in the working delegation were comrade Y Thong, Deputy Minister, Vice Chairman of the Government's Ethnic Committee, and leaders of departments under the Central Committee for Mass Mobilization and the Ethnic Committee.

Receiving and working with the delegation, on the side of Thanh Hoa province, there were comrades: Trinh Tuan Sinh, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Pham Thi Thanh Thuy, Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Commission, Chairwoman of the Provincial Fatherland Front Committee; Le Duc Giang, Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; and leaders of provincial departments, branches and organizations.

Provincial leaders participated in working with the Central Working Delegation.

According to the report at the survey, over the past 5 years, Party committees at all levels, authorities, the Vietnam Fatherland Front, and socio-political organizations in the province have focused on leading, directing, thoroughly grasping, and seriously and effectively implementing Conclusion No. 65-KL/TW and the Party's guidelines, policies, and laws of the State on ethnic affairs and achieved many important results. The socio-economy in the region has developed; the average GRDP growth rate in the 2021-2023 period reached 6%/year, the material and spiritual life of ethnic minorities in the region has improved significantly; the socio-economic infrastructure system has been invested in, strengthened, and upgraded; issues of housing, residential land, production land, domestic water, and employment for workers have been addressed; education - training, culture, and people's health care have changed positively; Ethnic minorities have more convenient and complete access to the State's support policies. The political system at the grassroots level is increasingly consolidated and strengthened, its effectiveness and efficiency are improved. National defense - security, social order and safety in the region are maintained. Belief and religious activities comply with the provisions of the law, the great national unity bloc is firmly consolidated...

The province's ethnic minority and mountainous areas have a natural area of ​​7,962 ^km2 (accounting for 3/4 of the province's total area), including 11 mountainous districts and 6 bordering districts and towns; with 174 communes, towns, 1,551 villages, hamlets, and neighborhoods, of which 318 are particularly disadvantaged. The whole region has 7 main ethnic groups living together, including: Kinh, Muong, Thai, Tho, Mong, Dao, Kho Mu. The population of the whole region is over 1.1 million people, of which 710,240 are ethnic minorities.

In the period of 2019-2023, the province created new jobs for 83,314 ethnic minority and Kinh workers from poor and near-poor households living in ethnic minority and mountainous areas; of which 8,614 workers went to work abroad under contracts. Forest coverage in 2023 reached 70.6%.

Deputy Minister, Vice Chairman of the Government's Ethnic Committee Y Thong spoke at the survey.

The province has supported 346 households to build houses; invested in the construction of 33 centralized water supply works; supported 11,301 households to buy decentralized water storage devices. It is implementing 3 projects to plan, arrange, relocate, and stabilize concentrated residential areas with an allocated capital of 73,994 million VND. In particular, the Provincial People's Committee has approved the Project to arrange and stabilize residents in areas at high risk of flash floods, landslides, and landslides in mountainous districts of the province for the period 2021-2025. Currently, 282 households have been relocated and 17 resettlement projects are being implemented to arrange and stabilize 556 households.

Also in the past time, the province has prioritized resources to invest in completing infrastructure of transport, irrigation, health, education, and clean water to meet the needs of development and serve the people's lives. Up to now, 100% of communes, towns and 100% of villages and hamlets in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the region have access to the national grid. The whole region currently has 68 communes, 691 hamlets and hamlets meeting the new rural standards, 8 communes meeting the advanced new rural standards, 1 commune and 58 hamlets and hamlets meeting the model new rural standards; an average of 13.83 criteria/commune.

Members of the Central Working Group spoke and requested the province to explain and clarify a number of issues.

The work of developing the human resources of ethnic minority cadres, civil servants and public employees has been given attention and direction. Up to now, the total number of ethnic minority cadres and civil servants from district level and above in the province is 304 people, commune level is 2,376 people; the total number of ethnic minority civil servants is 3,368 people. The work of managing, training, recruiting, using and appointing the team of ethnic minority cadres, civil servants and public employees has been gradually standardized and improved in quality, increasingly meeting the practical requirements of ethnic minority areas.

From 2020 to present, the province has admitted 4,174 new ethnic minority party members, bringing the total number of ethnic minority party members in the entire provincial Party Committee to 35,758 people (accounting for 15.12% of the total number of party members in the province).

In addition to the achieved results, the implementation of policies and guidelines on ethnic affairs in the province still has some difficulties and shortcomings, such as: The effectiveness and efficiency of management and administration of the government, especially at the grassroots level, in implementing the tasks of socio-economic development, national defense and security, building the political system, poverty reduction, and ensuring social security in ethnic minority and mountainous areas are still limited; there has not been a strong change in thinking, thinking, and working methods; the spirit of self-reliance, self-improvement, proactiveness, and creativity of cadres, party members, and people in ethnic minority and mountainous areas has not been promoted...

Members of the survey team spoke at the meeting.

At the working session, members of the survey team requested relevant departments and branches of the province to explain and clarify some aspects of work in implementing ethnic affairs and ethnic policies in the past time such as ethnic and religious issues, border security work, socio-economic development in the Mong ethnic minority area...

Many members also contributed ideas and suggested practical solutions for the province to continue to focus on leadership, direction, and effective implementation of ethnic policies and ethnic work in ethnic minority areas in the coming time.

The leader of the Provincial Ethnic Committee spoke to explain some issues that the members of the Survey Team were interested in.

At the working session, leaders of the Provincial People's Committee and relevant departments, branches and units spoke, clarified and thoroughly answered the issues that the members of the working delegation were interested in. At the same time, they clarified a number of specific and separate policies for ethnic minority areas that Thanh Hoa province has issued and effectively implemented in the past. They pointed out a number of obstacles and difficulties in implementing preferential policies for socio-economic development in ethnic minority areas, especially the situation of being entangled in legal regulations in implementing national target programs and proposed a number of solutions to remove obstacles and difficulties.

Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee Le Duc Giang spoke at the meeting.

Speaking at the meeting, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Trinh Tuan Sinh affirmed that despite many difficulties, Thanh Hoa province has paid special attention, focused resources, and prioritized investment in building infrastructure systems to serve socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. On that basis, the province has issued many resolutions, programs, projects, mechanisms, and preferential policies to promote economic development, reduce poverty quickly and sustainably, and continue to improve the material and spiritual life of the people.

Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee Trinh Tuan Sinh spoke at the meeting.

He also emphasized some outstanding results achieved by the province in implementing Conclusion No. 65-KL/TW in recent times, especially in socio-economic development; ensuring security and order and people's foreign affairs; Party building, building the political system...

He suggested that the Central Working Group report to the Central Party Secretariat to give opinions to the Government to soon have a policy to focus on investing in developing socio-economic infrastructure such as traffic works, industrial parks, etc., in order to create jobs and stable income for people right in their hometowns, avoiding scattered and fragmented investment, causing waste of resources. Issue mechanisms and policies to prioritize attracting ethnic minority students after graduation to be arranged to work in the political system at the provincial and district levels.

Removing difficulties and obstacles in implementing a number of projects in implementing national target programs in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. Delimiting ethnic minority and mountainous areas according to development levels; at the same time, adjusting the list of particularly disadvantaged communes, villages and hamlets in the 2026-2030 period to ensure consistency with the practical situation....

The Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee sincerely thanked the Central Working Group for choosing Thanh Hoa province to conduct a survey, grasp the results, obstacles and difficulties in implementing ethnic policies and ethnic work, as a basis for proposing the Central Government to issue legal policies for socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the coming time.

Deputy Head of the Central Committee for Mass Mobilization Trieu Tai Vinh delivered a concluding speech at the survey.

Concluding the survey, Deputy Head of the Central Committee for Mass Mobilization Trieu Tai Vinh highly appreciated the results that the Party Committee, government and people of all ethnic groups in the province have strived and achieved in implementing the Party's policies in general and Conclusion No. 65-KL/TW in particular. At the same time, he affirmed that with many outstanding results achieved, Thanh Hoa province is a model in implementing Conclusion No. 65-KL/TW of the Politburo nationwide.

He also reviewed some of the province's outstanding achievements compared to many other localities in the country, such as issuing many separate and specific policies to develop the socio-economic development of ethnic minority and mountainous areas. These include Resolution No. 11-NQ/TU on building and developing Muong Lat district until 2030, with a vision to 2045, along with many programs and projects that have brought about practical results. Paying attention to improving the effectiveness and efficiency of state management of ethnic affairs; doing a good job of mass mobilization in ethnic minority areas...

Working scene.

Deputy Head of the Central Committee for Mass Mobilization Trieu Tai Vinh also acknowledged the province's proposals and recommendations for the survey team to synthesize and report to the Secretariat with suggestions for the Party Committee of the Government and relevant agencies to consider and resolve, in order to continue to perfect the legal policies on ethnic affairs in the new situation.

Before working with the Provincial Party Standing Committee, the Working Group surveyed the implementation of Conclusion No. 65-KL/TW in Muong Lat district.

Do Duc

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