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Yen Bai - Under the guiding light and strong belief of the people in the Party, Yen Bai - the highland region of the Northwest, home to 57% of the population of ethnic minorities, is witnessing miraculous changes in both appearance and vitality, creating a colorful picture of the highlands, full of prosperity and happiness.

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In recent years, under the leadership and attention to implementing policies and prioritizing investment resources for ethnic minority areas, many highland villages in Yen Bai have put on a brilliant appearance. Mo Vang Commune, Van Yen District is one of them.

Previously, Mo Vang was identified as a locality with many difficulties, completely opposite to the wealth as the name of the commune, because the commune has a large land area but most of it is rocky; complex terrain, divided traffic, scattered population, slow economic development, high poverty rate.

Yet, Mo Vang has just been recognized as a commune that meets new rural standards. The whole commune has only 134/1,080 poor households, accounting for 12.4%, with an average income per capita of over 45 million VND/year.

The commune has formed nearly 5,000 hectares of cinnamon, with an average annual income of over 25 billion VND. The whole commune has 30 cooperatives, with a production linkage model associated with cinnamon product consumption of Thac Tien General Service Cooperative. Not to mention, the commune has concrete roads, cars to the village, electricity, Internet and more and more grand houses, cars parked in the yard... Mr. La Tai Quan's spacious, fully equipped, expensive house stands out among the green forest in Thac Tien village.

Mr. Quan said: "Before, I did not care about economic development, so hunger and poverty still haunted me, but since I learned to grow cinnamon, my life has been prosperous and happy. I have land, officials come to propagate, mobilize and guide techniques on forest planting, mainly cinnamon trees. Currently, my family has over 50 hectares of cinnamon, most of which are at the age of exploitation. Having a property like today is partly thanks to the officials." Most of the people in Mo Vang are escaping poverty and getting rich from cinnamon trees, small households have 1 - 2 hectares, large households have 50 - 100 hectares.

In the mountainous villages of Yen Bai today, not only can we see the material changes, but we can also feel the new vitality rising. Ethnic minorities have paid attention to education, health care, and nutrition for children. Children can go to school to learn, play, and live in spacious schools. Adults can participate in vocational training classes, improve their knowledge and production skills. Cultural and artistic activities have been restored and developed, contributing to preserving and promoting the cultural identity of ethnic groups.

The leadership, care and concern of the Party and State have become a great source of strength for our people to escape hunger and poverty and gradually build a happy life.

Over the past years, Yen Bai has actively implemented policies, programs and projects in ethnic minority areas, focusing on national target programs (NTPs) regularly, continuously and effectively.

According to the political report at the 4th Congress of Ethnic Minorities in Yen Bai Province in 2024, since the beginning of the term, Yen Bai has focused on allocating over 32,000 billion VND to invest in socio-economic development in mountainous and ethnic minority areas. Support programs and policies cover all areas of life, from investment in building transport infrastructure, irrigation, schools, cultural houses... to converting occupations, preserving and promoting unique traditional cultural values, minimizing early marriage, incestuous marriage, caring for prestigious people, preferential credit loans, support for plants, breeds, machinery...

Children in ethnic minority areas are cared for and given good learning conditions.

In the period of 2019 - 2024, 94,760 ethnic minority households borrowed VND 4,580 billion for livestock farming, production development; construction of clean water and sanitation works; job creation, maintaining stable jobs for workers; business development; students borrowing capital to cover study expenses...

In addition, the province also has many creative ways to integrate state resources and mobilize social resources to proactively and promptly implement effectively the central government's policies and projects. Typically, the additional support of 20 million VND/house for newly built houses and 10 million VND/house for repaired houses in addition to the support from the central budget has helped increase the support level in the two districts of Mu Cang Chai and Tram Tau to 60 million VND/house for new construction and 30 million VND/house for repair.

The remaining districts, towns and cities are 50 million VND/house and 25 million VND/house, respectively, which has become a strong motivation to help the poor boldly build and repair standard houses with 3,022 newly built and repaired houses in 2023 - 2024. Secondly, the province has issued many special policies that are very important, necessary and suitable to the actual situation in the ethnic minority areas today when there are more and more communes in the area that are difficult to meet new rural standards such as: supporting centralized lunch money for students studying 2 sessions/day at ethnic minority boarding schools but not yet eligible for policies under Decree No. 116/2016/ND-CP; supporting food money and buying rice for boarding students who no longer enjoy policies under Decree No. 116/2016/ND-CP from the time the commune is recognized as meeting new rural standards; Support health insurance premiums for permanent residents in extremely disadvantaged communes in the province when the commune is recognized as meeting new rural standards according to Resolution No. 37/2023/NQ-HDND dated July 8, 2023 of the Provincial People's Council...

In addition, there are many other policies such as: supporting the development of agricultural, forestry and fishery production according to Resolution No. 69/2020/NQ-HDND dated December 16, 2020 of the Provincial People's Council; attraction policies to improve the quality of human resources, especially human resources in health, education, etc.

Thanks to that, up to now, the whole province has 100% of communes with asphalted or concreted rural roads to the commune center; 100% of villages and hamlets have roads to the village center, of which 95.9% of villages and hamlets have concreted car roads to the center; 100% of communes and towns have national power grid, the rate of households with national power grid is 97.6%; the rate of rural population using clean water source is 96%. The whole province also has 79.3% of communes, wards and towns with cultural houses; 72% of communes have sports areas; the rate of solidly built classrooms is 87.8%; the rate of communes, wards and towns meeting national criteria on health is 86.1%...

The province has paid attention to investing in information technology infrastructure in ethnic minority areas, creating conditions for people to access information, serving socio-economic development and keeping up with digital transformation. Currently, 100% of communes, wards and towns have fiber optic broadband lines; 4G mobile network covers over 98.5% of villages and hamlets, the rate of people listening to and watching radio and television reaches 99.4%... By the end of 2024, the whole province will have 12,575 poor households and 6,612 near-poor households; 28 extremely disadvantaged communes have met new rural standards.

A series of figures and stories from practice throughout the past have become vivid evidence for the development and progress in ethnic minority areas under the care and leadership of the Party and the State. Obviously, the Party has existed, is no longer abstract, invisible but is being conceived, recognized and evaluated by the people in a very realistic way. That is through policies and guidelines for the people, through improving material and spiritual life and through the actions and personalities of cadres and party members in the places where they live. Therefore, correct policies, cadres and party members with intellectual capacity, completing assigned tasks well, having pure qualities and ethics, living honestly with themselves, with comrades and compatriots, having a style of being close to the masses, striving and sacrificing for the people... will be the basic conditions, deciding the political prestige of the Party; at the same time, it also affirms the position of the Party in the hearts of the people - prestige, intelligence and humanity.

Hoai Anh

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