In Quang Kim commune, Bat Xat district, Lao Cai province, there are about 80 Catholic followers living. Together with the local ethnic minorities, the Catholic households in Quang Kim always actively participate in campaigns, patriotic emulation movements, develop family economy, live a good life, unite to build a cultural life, build the homeland, and develop the village. On the morning of March 13, Mr. Nguyen Long Bien, Vice Chairman of Ninh Thuan Provincial People's Committee, had a working session with the Department of Ethnic Minorities and Religions. Ms. Pi Nang Thi Hon, Director of the Department of Ethnic Minorities and Religions, received and worked with the leaders of the Provincial People's Committee; Also attending the meeting were leaders of departments and branches under the Provincial People's Committee. On the morning of March 13, Politburo member, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, Head of the Economic-Social Subcommittee of the 14th National Congress of the Party, chaired the 4th meeting of the Subcommittee. Once the poorest village in Son Dien border commune and Quan Son border district (Thanh Hoa), Tan Son village has now made a spectacular rise. This is the result of the support and investment policies of the Party and State that have been taken advantage of by local authorities and policy beneficiaries, unanimously seizing the opportunity to rise up. Accordingly, infrastructure such as schools, cultural houses, and internal roads have been invested in and built, beautifying the appearance of the border villages, people's lives have been gradually improved, dozens of households have escaped poverty, many households have become well-off... From March 6 to 12, the Department of Ethnic Minorities and Religions of Kien Giang province coordinated with Chau Thanh, An Bien, Kien Luong, Giong Rieng districts and Ha Tien city to organize a conference to disseminate, educate the law and propagate and mobilize ethnic minorities in 2025. MV Bac Ninh (Bac Bling) rose to the Top 1 position "Most impressive MV debut worldwide" on YouTube Charts World with 42 million views after only 11 days of release. This musical phenomenon has caused a fever among the public, while creating an unexpected effect for tourism as well as traditional culture. Once again, the event makes us see the positive effects of the "dynamic" preservation method for culture. On March 13, 2025, Mr. Nguyen Long Bien, Vice Chairman of Ninh Thuan Provincial People's Committee signed Decision No. 308 QD-UBND on approving the list of poor and near-poor households supported to build and repair houses under the Program to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses in Ninh Thuan province. In Quang Kim commune, Bat Xat district, Lao Cai province, there are about 80 Catholic followers living. Together with the people and ethnic minorities in the area, the Catholic households in Quang Kim always actively participate in campaigns, patriotic emulation movements, develop family economy, live a good life, unite to build a cultural life, build the homeland, and develop the village more and more. General news of the Ethnic and Development Newspaper. This morning's news, March 13, has the following notable information: The solemnity of the Xa Tac worship ceremony. Vi Khe - Famous bonsai village. The Soma Kocham festival of the Ba Na people. Along with other news in the ethnic minority and mountainous areas. From March 14 to 16, in Ha Giang province, there will be 2 flower festivals: Peach blossom festival with the theme "Sparkling peach blossoms - Spring in the border", at the late-blooming peach garden in Vang Cha Phin village, Cao Ma Po commune, Quan Ba district; Pear blossom festival with the theme "Spring on the border festival" in Pho Bang town, Dong Van district. Tuyen Quang Provincial Police said that the Investigation Police Agency (Provincial Police) has just successfully broken up a case; prosecuted 7 subjects to investigate and clarify the act of illegal drug trafficking; seized over 153 kg of cannabis drugs, 2 liters of cannabis oil and many related exhibits. The Chroi Rum Chek Festival (Phuoc Bien Festival) of the Khmer people in Vinh Chau town, Soc Trang province was awarded a decision and a certificate by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage. This is a festival with the unique features of the festivals of communal houses and temples in the South, with many unique activities. On the morning of March 13, Mr. Nguyen Long Bien, Vice Chairman of the People's Committee of Ninh Thuan province, had a working session with the Department of Ethnic Minorities and Religions. Ms. Pi Nang Thi Hon, Director of the Department of Ethnic Minorities and Religions received and worked with the leaders of the Provincial People's Committee; also attending the meeting were leaders of departments and branches under the Provincial People's Committee. From March 12 to 13, in the city. Pleiku (Gia Lai), 150 ethnic minority students of Chu Pah District Boarding Secondary School participated in the General Health Checkup Program for students, early detection of health problems, thereby providing timely consultation and treatment. The program was organized by Saigon - Gia Lai International Eye Hospital and Sysmed Phu Dong General Clinic.
We visited Dinh Quoc Viet's family in An Quang village, Quang Kim commune when he was busy preparing the land for the new vegetable crop. It is known that Viet's family is one of the typical examples of economic development in the commune, becoming quite rich with the model of growing and trading vegetable seeds.
Mr. Viet said that nearly 20 years ago, his family moved to An Quang village to live. Although the land was large, they were still struggling to find a way to increase their income. Then, one time, he returned to his hometown (Ha Nam province), and saw people growing various types of vegetables with good income. When he returned, he boldly renovated his family's garden area, working and learning to grow various types of vegetable seeds to supply to the market.
Thanks to his diligence, hard work, and expansion of the cultivation area; up to now, Mr. Viet's family has become the largest household growing and supplying vegetable seeds in Bat Xat district, Lao Cai province, with nearly 10,000 square meters of vegetable seeds. On average, each year his family earns over 700 million VND from selling vegetable seeds.
“Together with the people in the village and commune, we Catholics always strictly follow the Party’s guidelines and policies, the State’s laws and policies; live a good life and follow our religion. We actively respond to local patriotic emulation movements and campaigns, contributing to enriching cultural life and promoting socio-economic development…”, Mr. Viet shared.
Saying goodbye to Mr. Viet, we visited the family of Mr. Tan A Senh in Lang Quang village - Head of Quang Kim Catholic Church. Mr. Senh's family is one of the rich households in the commune, with a business model of providing food services (pork) to the market. On average, each year from the pork business, his family earns over 1 billion VND. With a good economy, Mr. Senh has the conditions to take care of his children's education, build a spacious house, and buy expensive items for family life.
Not only developing the family economy, Mr. Senh also helps households in difficult circumstances in the village and district. Specifically, 2 years ago, Mr. Senh helped the poorest household in Lang Quang village with more than 1 ton of cement to build a house; called for support of more than 40 million VND to help poor households in Tong Sanh commune (Bat Xat district) build solid houses...
“Every week, parishioners return to the meeting point to celebrate Mass and listen to the priest preach. Here, in addition to preaching, the priests also propagate and encourage parishioners to comply with the policies and laws of the Party and State; compete to develop the economy, eliminate hunger and reduce poverty,” Mr. Senh added.
Currently, in Quang Kim commune, there are 78 Catholics. Most Catholics in the commune actively respond and encourage their children and grandchildren in their families and clans to maintain family traditions, stay away from social evils, and not listen to bad people who incite, divide, and cause disunity...
The work of legal education and propaganda, coordinated by priests and authorities, is regularly integrated into sermons and catechism classes to deploy, remind, and help parishioners, especially young people, understand the harmful effects of drugs, gambling, and alcohol; propagate the Law on Traffic Safety, the Law on Military Service, etc., contributing to raising awareness of law enforcement, preventing and combating crimes and social evils in the area.
“The movements to build new rural areas, the movement of the whole people uniting to build cultural life in residential areas, the emulation movement to develop the economy to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty... have all been well participated in and implemented by parishioners. People have complied well with the village conventions and regulations. Many parishioners have good economic models in agricultural production and service business. Most households have a life from average to above average, many households are among the rich households in the commune...", said Mr. Ngo Hoang Son, Chairman of the People's Committee of Quang Kim commune.
In 2014, Quang Kim commune was one of the first communes in Lao Cai province to reach the New Rural Area target. To achieve this result, in addition to the determination of the entire political system, there was also the consensus and cooperation of the people of all ethnic groups in the commune; including the active contribution of the parishioners living in the area.
Source: https://baodantoc.vn/giao-dan-quang-kim-doan-ket-xay-dung-ban-lang-phat-trien-1741830916970.htm
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