Thanks to new roads invested in villages and hamlets, the lives of ethnic minorities in the highlands of Ha Long City (Quang Ninh) are increasingly prosperous and fulfilling.
Have money but dare not buy car
This year, Tet seems to have come earlier for the people of Tan Oc 1 village, Dong Son commune, Ha Long city. Because the long-standing dream of a road that is not muddy and not cut off during the rainy season from Khe Lan hamlet to Lam Nghiep hamlet has become a reality.
Mr. Ly Van Thong shows off his newly bought scooter worth more than 40 million VND.
Leading reporters on the newly opened concrete road across the big stream to Lam Nghiep hamlet, Mr. Nguyen Huy Hai, Chairman of Dong Son Commune People's Committee, informed that the 2km long, 3m wide road, with a total investment of nearly 7 billion VND, was just inaugurated on December 25, 2024.
"The best thing is that the project does not require compensation or site clearance. Wherever the road is opened, people donate land, so the construction is smooth," said Mr. Hai.
Sitting in his yard looking at his new scooter, Mr. Ly Van Thong, 56 years old, a Dao ethnic in Lam Nghiep hamlet, boasted: "I just bought this scooter for more than 40 million. I wanted to buy it for a long time, but unfortunately the road home is too bad, if I buy the scooter, it will quickly disappear."
Mr. Thong said that the reason why the "dream" of a scooter is so far away for him and the people here is because the road from the village center to the residential area is a dirt road, built decades ago, narrow and full of potholes. On sunny days, traveling is difficult, on rainy days it is no different from "wrestling". When it rains heavily, the residential area is in a state of "no one in, no one out", the children cannot go to school.
"The majority of households here are Dao people. Previously, this area had a few dozen houses, but due to traffic difficulties, many households migrated elsewhere, leaving their houses and fields abandoned," said Mr. Thong.
Happy New Year
While quickly plastering the walls of a small house along a newly opened road, 29-year-old Ban Van Ngan could not hide his joy. He has been married for nearly 5 years and has to live in a house given to him by his parents. Because the house is old and cramped, the couple's life is very difficult. Although the land is very large, the agricultural products are difficult to sell and the prices are low due to difficult roads. Many times he wanted to take his wife and children to live elsewhere.
Mr. Ban Van Ngan and his wife are urgently completing their house to welcome the new year.
"My wife just gave birth to a baby boy 5 months ago. When the road was finished, I sold some forest wood for a few tens of millions. The opportunity to build a new house has come, I asked a bulldozer to bulldoze the old house to build this one. If we hurry, the new house will be finished in about ten days. This Tet will probably be the happiest Tet ever," Mr. Ngan said excitedly.
On the way back, pointing to the vast acacia and cinnamon forests of the Lam Nghiep hamlet that were growing well, the Chairman of Dong Son Commune People's Committee said that in the past, transportation was difficult, life was mainly self-sufficient, and many households had migrated to other places.
"The new road has been opened, and the price of agricultural and forestry products here is now not lower than in other areas of the commune. Therefore, many households that evacuated to other places have now registered to return to live," Mr. Hai shared.
Life changes through roads
Speaking to reporters, Ms. Phan Thi Hai Huong, Head of the Propaganda Department of Ha Long City Party Committee, said that since Hoanh Bo district and Ha Long city merged in 2019, the mountainous ethnic minority area in the old Hoanh Bo area has received thousands of billions of VND from the locality to open traffic routes.
The road from the center of Tan Oc 1 village, Dong Son commune has helped people in Lam Nghiep hamlet escape the situation of being unable to go in or out during the rainy season.
Typically, the road from Son Duong commune to the center of Dong Son commune, Dong Lam, provincial road 342 from Ha Long - Van Don expressway through Dong Lam commune to Ky Thuong commune...
Along with investing in dynamic and vital traffic works, the city has directed communes to upgrade and expand all roads to villages and hamlets... When traffic is convenient, the lives of ethnic minorities change every day.
According to Ms. Huong, in just the last month of 2024, Ha Long City started a series of transportation projects in rural, mountainous, and ethnic minority areas.
According to Ms. Phan Thi Hai Huong, Head of the Propaganda Department of Ha Long City Party Committee, among the projects starting construction at the end of 2024, there is a project to renovate the infrastructure of the central area of Dong Son commune, Dan Chu commune and a clean water supply system to Dong Son commune.
The project implemented in Dong Son commune has a total investment of 20.2 billion VND, building and renovating 6 traffic routes with a total length of more than 1km. Meanwhile, the project in Dan Chu commune has an investment of 21.3 billion VND to renovate 3 traffic routes with a total length of about more than 1.1km...
Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/quang-ninh-nhung-con-duong-giup-nguoi-dao-doi-doi-192250107194252731.htm
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