As a mountainous border province with many difficulties, in recent times, Lao Cai province has paid special attention to effectively deploying capital from National Target Programs (NTPs) with the motto of "clear objectives, implementing units, and responsible individuals". Thereby, contributing to rapid and sustainable poverty reduction in ethnic minority areas. On March 8, the Department of Education and Training (GD&DT) of Huong Hoa district (Quang Tri) received 12 ethnic minority teachers who passed the recruitment exam for education career civil servants in Huong Hoa district in 2024. On the occasion of the State visit to the Republic of Indonesia, an official visit to the ASEAN Secretariat; From March 9 to 11, General Secretary To Lam and his wife, along with the Vietnamese high-ranking delegation, visited the Embassy, met with officials of representative agencies and the Vietnamese community in Indonesia. On March 8, in Lac Hoa commune (Vinh Chau town, Soc Trang province), Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) coordinated with EVN Trade Union to organize a launching ceremony for the emulation to complete the construction progress targets of the project to supply electricity from the national grid to Con Dao district, Ba Ria - Vung Tau province. On March 8, the unique and novel "Arranging artistic stones on the sand" contest took place at Ca Duoc Rock Beach - Binh Thanh Tourist Area, Binh Thanh commune, Tuy Phong district (Binh Thuan) to the delight of many tourists and local people. This is the first time Tuy Phong District People's Committee has organized this contest. Unlike the traditional long houses of the Ede and Mnong people in the region, the ancient house over 140 years old in Buon Tri, Krong Na commune, Buon Don district, Dak Lak province is built entirely of wood, with 3 pointed roofs. With its unique architecture, the ancient stilt house is not only a place to preserve valuable relics of the "elephant hunting king" Y Thu Knul but also becomes an attractive destination attracting many tourists on their journey to travel, explore the land, and learn about the culture of the land of elephants in the Central Highlands. As a mountainous border province with many difficulties, in recent times Lao Cai province has paid special attention to effectively deploying capital from National Target Programs (MTQG) with the motto "clear objectives, implementing units, responsible individuals". Thereby, contributing to rapid and sustainable poverty reduction in ethnic minority areas. Director of Vietnam Social Security (VSS) Le Hung Son said that the time to perform functions and tasks according to the new organizational structure of Vietnam Social Security is from March 1, 2025. General news of the Ethnic and Development Newspaper. The morning news on March 8, there is the following notable information: Dak Lak coffee knowledge is recognized as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage. Prosperous craft villages in Ca Mau. The season of "catching" students in Po To. Along with other current news in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. Muong Xia Festival is an important cultural and religious activity in the cultural and spiritual life of the Thai people, Quan Son district (Thanh Hoa). This is an opportunity for the people to show gratitude and commemorate the merits of General Tu Ma Hai Dao - who had great contributions in defeating the invaders, defending the border, and bringing a prosperous life to the people along the western border of Thanh Hoa. The People's Committee of Quang Nam province has just issued a Plan to implement the sub-project to improve nutrition under the National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction for the period 2021 - 2025 in the province in 2025. In 2 days, March 7 - 8, with the consent of the Party Committee and leaders of the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions; Implementing the Plan of the Youth Union of the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions on Youth Month 2025, the Youth Union of the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions coordinated with the Youth Union of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front, the Youth Union of the Hanoi Stock Exchange, the District Youth Union - Vietnam Youth Union of Con Cuong District (Nghe An) to organize the Youth Month and March Border Month Program 2025, in Mon Son Commune, Con Cuong District. On the morning of March 9, Saigon - Gia Lai International Eye Hospital coordinated with the Gia Lai Provincial Association of the Elderly to organize a workshop on "Common diseases in the elderly and dangerous complications". While fishing, fishermen in Binh Dinh discovered a hawksbill turtle about 0.6m long caught in the net, so they removed it and released it back to the sea.
Trinh Tuong is a commune in region III of Bat Xat district, Lao Cai province; the lives and incomes of the people have long depended mainly on traditional crops such as corn, rice, etc., so there are still many difficulties. From the resources supporting the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas for the 2021-2030 period (National Target Program 1719), Trinh Tuong has focused on introducing new varieties of plants with economic value to increase income for ethnic minorities.
Last year 2024 was the first year that Mr. Lo Lao Ta's family in Phin Ngan village, Trinh Tuong commune planted more than 100 passion fruit trees on the family's cultivated land. Thanks to strictly following the instructions of the commune's agricultural extension officers, Mr. Ta's passion fruit garden developed quite well. Because it was the first crop, Mr. Ta's family did not have high expectations for the yield and income from this crop. However, after deducting expenses, his family still earned over 10 million VND.
"The family was supported by the State with seeds, fertilizers, and trellises for growing passion fruit. During the growing process, officials came to give detailed instructions on planting and care techniques, so the family was very excited. Although the first crop did not yield much, we were very happy because we had a new crop that was more effective than corn and rice," Mr. Ta added.
Implementing the "Fruit tree planting model" under content No. 1 (Sub-project 2, Project 3) of the National Target Program 1719; Trinh Tuong commune selected Phin Ngan village to plant passion fruit trees with an area of 06 hectares; the total implementation cost was over 1 billion VND; of which, the State supported nearly 500 million VND and the rest was contributed by the people. The households participating in the project are all ethnic minorities, poor and near-poor households of the commune. In addition to passion fruit trees, Trinh Tuong commune also planted Tam Hoa plum trees (14 hectares) and bamboo shoots (08 hectares) with a total capital of nearly 4 billion VND.
In 2024, the total capital mobilized to implement the National Target Program 1719 in Bat Xat district is 290,657 million VND. Of which, the investment capital is 122,737 million VND; the career capital is 167,920 million VND. By the end of 2024, the whole district has disbursed 104,228/122,737 million VND (84.9% of the plan) of investment capital; disbursed 87,756/167,920 million VND (52% of the plan) of career capital...
“Bat Xat is district 30a of Lao Cai province, resources from the National Target Programs; including the National Target Program 1719 are very important to promote socio-economic development in remote areas, ethnic minority areas. Especially contributing to overcoming damage to infrastructure, restoring production after the recent storm No. 3”, Mr. Le Duc Minh - Head of the Department of Ethnic Minorities and Religions of Lao Cai province emphasized.
The report at the conference on implementing the National Target Programs recently organized by the People's Committee of Lao Cai province showed that in 2024, Lao Cai province completed the organization of the steering apparatus for implementing the National Target Programs at 3 levels (province, district, commune).
The total central budget capital plan to implement 3 national target programs in 2024 (including capital in 2023 extended to 2024) is nearly 2,419 billion VND. Statistics show that by January 31, 2025, the whole province had disbursed 1,782 billion VND, reaching 73.7% of the assigned plan, of which investment capital reached 87.2% and public capital reached 63.3% of the plan. Of which, National Target Program 1719 disbursed 71.3% of the plan; National Target Program on New Rural Construction disbursed 80.7% of the plan; National Target Program on Sustainable Poverty Reduction reached 77.1% of the plan...
“The effective implementation of the National Target Programs in 2024 has contributed to reducing the poverty rate in poor districts by 6.29% per year; the poverty reduction rate among ethnic minorities by 5.95% per year; 62 communes meeting new rural standards, 4 communes meeting advanced new rural standards...”, Mr. Hoang Quoc Khanh, Standing Vice Chairman of Lao Cai Provincial People's Committee emphasized.
In 2025, there will be two new National Target Programs implemented, namely the National Target Program on Cultural Development for the period 2025 - 2035 and Drug Prevention and Control until 2030. In order to effectively implement the National Target Programs in 2025, the People's Committee of Lao Cai province has been directing departments, branches and localities to strive from the beginning of the year, finding solutions to complete the goals and targets of the Fatherland Front Programs, with the motto: "clear goals, implementing units, responsible individuals".
At the same time, review and supplement members of the Steering Committee, assign leaders to help communes to suit the practical situation after the organization is reorganized and streamlined; strengthen information, propaganda and mobilization in the direction of innovation to raise awareness of cadres, party members and people to actively participate in response... With some specific goals such as: Reduce the poverty rate in the area to 4%; the poverty rate in poor districts to reduce by 7%/year or more. The poverty rate among ethnic minorities to reduce by 4.6%/year or more. The average income of the whole province by 2025 will reach 112 million VND/year; the average income of people in poor districts will reach over 46.5 million VND/year.
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