Determining that essential projects to be invested in will be the driving force to help people in disadvantaged areas develop their economy and society, for many years Tuyen Quang province has always focused resources and prioritized investment in essential infrastructure for disadvantaged areas. Thereby, creating momentum for disadvantaged areas to develop, people's lives are increasingly improved, and the poverty rate has gradually decreased over the years. On the morning of April 3, in Hanoi, the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions held a meeting to review a number of contents related to adjusting the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas for the 2021-2030 period, Phase I: From 2021-2025 (National Target Program 1719). Deputy Minister of Ethnic Minorities and Religions Y Vinh Tor chaired the meeting. Attending the meeting were representatives of the Government Office, the Ministry of Finance, the State Bank, and representatives of relevant ministries and branches implementing the Program's projects. I have never experienced the joy of young people who bring their youth to the border to establish a career. But when meeting and saying goodbye to return to the lowlands, I also had a burning desire to contribute and commit; like the soaring, romantic lyrics that I used to hum: "Don't ask what the Fatherland has done for you. But ask what you have done for the Fatherland today". According to information from the Customs Department, in March 2025, the total value of import and export of goods reached 75.39 billion USD, an increase of 18.2% (equivalent to an increase of 11.62 billion USD) compared to the previous month; From January 1 to March 15, 2025, it reached 162.78 billion USD, an increase of 12%, equivalent to an increase of 17.46 billion USD compared to the same period in 2024. In the period of 2023 - 2027, Kon Tum province has 620 prestigious people among ethnic minorities. With their silent contributions, prestigious people have been joining hands and contributing with local Party committees, authorities and people of all ethnic groups to build Kon Tum homeland to develop more and more. US President Donald Trump shared that the phone call with General Secretary To Lam was very effective and affirmed his wish to meet again. On the afternoon of April 4, at the Government headquarters, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh met with President of the Republic of Burundi Évariste Ndayishimiye, who is on an official visit to Vietnam from April 3 to 6. On the morning of April 4, in Hanoi, a high-ranking delegation of the Party and State of Vietnam led by President Luong Cuong, a high-ranking delegation of the Government of Vietnam led by Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and a high-ranking delegation of the National Assembly of Vietnam led by Vice Chairman of the National Assembly Nguyen Khac Dinh visited and signed the condolence book to commemorate comrade Khamtay Siphandone, former Chairman of the Lao People's Revolutionary Party, former President of Laos. Summary news of the Newspaper Ethnicity and Development. The morning news on April 4th, there is the following notable information: Ho Chi Minh Trail on the sea of Ca Mau is a special national monument. Bat Pagoda in Soc Trang. Children of the village. Along with other current news in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. Inheriting and promoting President Ho Chi Minh's thoughts on great national unity, at the meeting with the overseas Vietnamese community to celebrate the spring of 2025, General Secretary To Lam emphasized: "In addition to the efforts in the country, the Party and State highly appreciate the valuable contributions of the Vietnamese community around the world to the current development of the country". With the consistent policy of the Party and State towards the overseas Vietnamese community in general and more than 3 million overseas Vietnamese with connections to the city. Ho Chi Minh in particular, the work of overseas Vietnamese has always received special attention from the Party and State leaders. Mr. and Mrs. Nguyen Van Nam - Ly Thi Nhung, Khmer ethnic group, residing in Hoa Hiep 2 hamlet, Long Hoa commune, Can Gio district, City. Ho Chi Minh City has difficulty with housing, unstable jobs but the family is always harmonious, has a son who is a demobilized soldier, has just been repaired and handed over a charity house by the locality on the occasion of the people celebrating Chol Chnam Thmay New Year 2025. On April 4, the People's Procuracy of Gia Lai province issued an indictment, prosecuting the accused Vu Thi Khanh Huyen (born in 1999, residing in residential group 7, Chu Ty town, Duc Co district, Gia Lai province) for the crime of "human trafficking". On April 4, in Hanoi, the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance held a Press Meeting to inform about the Month of Action for Cooperatives and the International Year of Cooperatives 2025. Ms. Cao Xuan Thu Van - President of the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance chaired the Meeting. That is the information at the regular press conference of the first quarter of 2025, information on the situation of industrial production and trade activities in the first 3 months of 2025 of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Trade, held on April 4, in Hanoi.
Strive to complete the goal of 100% of villages and hamlets having car roads by 2025.
According to the report of the People's Committee of Tuyen Quang province, in the period of 2021 - 2025, from the allocated capital, the province will support investment in the construction of 600 infrastructure works to serve production, exchange of goods, and people's daily life, of which 80% will be invested in developing infrastructure in difficult areas.
Tuyen Quang province has invested in 178 road projects, 27 irrigation projects, 9 school and classroom projects, 3 rural electricity projects, 12 domestic water projects, 15 bridge projects, 30 auxiliary projects, renovated and newly built 10 market projects, 70 community activity houses. Supported loans to create land for production and career conversion for 249 households, with a total capital of more than 40 billion VND...
The province also devotes a lot of resources to investing in upgrading key traffic routes, building connecting bridges to act as a driving force for regional economic development and improving the lives of ethnic minorities. Many difficult regional connecting routes have been invested in. Typically, upgrading and repairing roads DH18 and DH07 through Minh Thanh commune (Son Duong); upgrading and renovating Phuc Thinh - Trung Ha - Ban Ba road (Chiem Hoa); renovating and upgrading the road from the beginning of Ne bridge to Na Hang High School (Na Hang); renovating and upgrading DT.188 route from Km48 + 00 - Km86 + 300, Chiem Hoa district, Lam Binh district; Traffic route project from Tan Long commune - Tan Tien - Trung Truc (Dinh Muoi) - Kien Thiet commune (Yen Son); Bach Xa bridge (Ham Yen) ...
Along with upgrading and renovating major roads, the province continues to implement the Project on concreting rural roads and building bridges on rural roads in the period of 2021 - 2025. By the end of 2024, the whole province of Tuyen Quang has built nearly 1,000km of rural and intra-field roads and 161 bridges on rural roads, ensuring that 99.94% of villages and hamlets have car roads to the center. Complete the goal of asphalting and concreting 100% of roads from the district center to the commune center; will complete the goal of 100% of villages and hamlets in the province having car roads to the center in 2025.
Since the Na Kham bridge was built, people in Nang Kha village no longer have to take a detour of dozens of kilometers. The bridge has helped people travel and trade conveniently, creating a driving force for socio-economic development.
In the near future, when the project of planning and stabilizing the population of Quang Tan village, Yen Lam commune, Ham Yen district, covering an area of 3 hectares with a total investment of over 11.7 billion VND, 38 residential plots are being actively constructed, expected to be completed in March 2025, it will create conditions for over 30 Mong households to live and develop.
Motivation for difficult areas to develop
Yen Son is a southern district of Tuyen Quang province, with a natural area of over 1,067.7 km2, with 22 ethnic groups living together, of which ethnic minorities account for 51.89%. The whole district has 27 communes and 01 town, 335 villages and residential groups (of which, there are 7 communes and 33 villages with special difficulties). The poverty rate by the end of 2024 is 10.86%, with 4,444 households.
Identifying essential projects to be invested in will be the driving force to help people in disadvantaged areas develop their economy and society. Yen Son district has mobilized all investment capital from the central, provincial and district governments to build essential projects to serve the people. From 2021 to present, the district has invested in over 300 infrastructure projects in disadvantaged communes and ethnic minority areas.
Recently, the movement of donating land to build rural infrastructure in Tien Bo commune, Yen Son district has received widespread support from the people, making an important contribution to the locality's completion of infrastructure and traffic.
Mr. Tran Van Su, Vice Chairman of Tien Bo Commune People's Committee, said: Realizing the importance of concrete roads and bridges on rural roads in life and production, Tien Bo commune people have united and agreed to donate land, contribute labor and money to implement. In the past 2 years, the commune has built nearly 6,000m of concrete roads and built 04 bridges on rural roads. Of which, nearly 150 households donated over 24,000m2 of land, along with thousands of working days to implement.
The implementation of concreting rural roads and building bridges on rural roads not only helps people travel conveniently and easily, but also promotes the development of commodity economy. From there, it creates a premise for the commune to continue striving to build advanced new rural areas in the coming time. This also requires the commune to be proactive and creative in applying the State's mechanisms and policies in combination with mobilizing diverse resources, in accordance with the contributions of the people, organizations and business communities to invest in building rural infrastructure.
The Bum Ken bridge across the Pho Day River in Hung Loi commune is 72m long, 6.5m wide, and was completed and put into use over a year ago with an investment of nearly 14.8 billion VND. It has completely changed the lives of people in the area. Nearly 190 households with 900 Mong, Dao, and Nung people in Bum Ken and Khuoi Ma villages have directly benefited from the project; the bridge also helps connect ATK Hung Loi commune (Yen Son) with ATK Trung Yen commune (Son Duong), facilitating the development of thousands of hectares of planted forest timber material areas in the two communes, contributing to ensuring social security in this particularly difficult area.
Kien Dai Commune, Chiem Hoa District is a purely agricultural locality, the people are mainly ethnic minorities, in recent years the commune has received nearly 54 billion VND in support from the State to build infrastructure, concrete more than 28km of rural roads, intra-field roads; eliminate more than 200 temporary houses, dilapidated houses, power grid systems to light up all villages, complete the construction of Kien Dai Primary School, Kien Dai Secondary Boarding School for Ethnic Minorities... According to Chairman of the People's Committee of Ma Van Ton Commune: The invested infrastructure has helped people transport goods conveniently, is the driving force for people to develop the economy, gradually improving the quality of life.
It can be affirmed that with many efforts of all levels and functional branches from the province, district to commune, up to now, essential infrastructure in mountainous areas, highlands, and ethnic minority areas of the province has had positive changes./.
Source: https://baodantoc.vn/tuyen-quang-uu-tien-dau-tu-ha-tang-thiet-yeu-cho-vung-kho-1742270220051.htm
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