Quang Ninh currently has 171 communes, wards and towns; of which 55 communes and towns are in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. In recent times, the province has continued to have many solutions to reduce poverty in this area, creating a driving force to promote socio-economic development, improve the quality of people's lives, and narrow the regional gap in the province.
First of all, the province continues to invest in and effectively exploit the economic and social infrastructure of ethnic minority areas in the area. The Provincial People's Committee directs departments, branches, units and localities to implement 168 essential infrastructure investment projects supported by the provincial budget under the 2024 Program, of which 62 projects are implemented under the mechanism of the Overall Program for Socio-Economic Development of Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas, and 106 projects are implemented under the mechanism of the New Rural Development Program.
In particular, to promote poverty reduction, the province has directed the effective implementation of the Project on restructuring the agricultural sector in communes, villages and hamlets of ethnic minority and mountainous areas, in which the existing potentials of the locality are promoted, such as afforestation; continuing to effectively implement the program of implementing one billion trees to develop the planting of native trees and large timber trees; developing livestock... Thereby, the concentrated forestation area in 2024 will reach 14,326.8 hectares, of which native tree species (lim, giổi, lát) are 776 hectares.
Localities have also actively implemented the program "One Commune, One Product - Quang Ninh Province (OCOP)", focusing on products of ethnic minority people in the area. Up to now, Quang Ninh has 395 OCOP products with 3-5 stars, of which 50 products are from 15 entities, cooperatives, and enterprises of ethnic minorities, remote areas, islands...
To support ethnic minority people in economic development, the Provincial People's Committee has issued regulations on conditions, contents, and preferential loan levels to implement the credit policy to support trust through the Social Policy Bank in Quang Ninh province from the capital source to implement the National Target Programs for the period 2021 - 2025. Currently, localities are coordinating with the Social Policy Bank to propagate, guide and disburse support according to the policy. According to a preliminary report from the Provincial Social Policy Bank, up to now, the whole province has disbursed about 142,095 million VND in loans to 1,578 households to develop production and overcome the consequences of storm No. 3.
The Department of Science and Technology continues to implement 21 scientific and technological tasks related to sustainable socio-economic development to ensure national defense and security in communes, villages, and hamlets in ethnic minority areas, mountainous areas, border areas, and islands. Many cooperatives and enterprises in ethnic minority areas have applied scientific advances in livestock breeding and development of livestock and poultry (such as Tien Yen chickens, Mong Cai pigs, Dam Ha pigs); applied in the development of some medicinal plants (yellow flower tea, purple Khoi tree, Morinda officinalis tree... Thereby initially bringing economic efficiency, helping ethnic minority people to be excited and motivated to continue to develop, expand the scale and improve product quality.
Localities also focus on preserving and promoting traditional cultural values associated with community tourism development, thereby improving the quality of life of the people. Up to now, the Dao people's ordination ceremony; the San Diu ethnic group's Dai Phan ceremony, the San Chi people's Soong Co festival, the Tay people's Then ritual practice, the San Diu people's Soong Co melody... in the province have been recognized as typical heritage values and included in the List of National Intangible Cultural Heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. The province currently has 55 traditional art clubs of ethnic minority and mountainous areas established and operating.
The elimination of temporary and dilapidated houses in ethnic minority and mountainous areas continues to be promoted. The whole province has 144 ethnic minority and mountainous households approved for housing support under the program to overcome the consequences of storm number 3 (storm Yagi) in Quang Ninh province in 2024; thereby, by the end of November, 92 households were supported with a total cost of 4,855 billion VND. Along with that, the province continues to implement the elimination of temporary and dilapidated houses according to the province's plan and program in 2024; out of 88 households needing support under this program, 36 are ethnic minority and mountainous households, thereby by the end of November, 22 households have been supported with a total cost of 977 million VND.
Thanks to the above solutions, the lives and incomes of ethnic minority and mountainous people in the province are increasingly improved. In 2023, the average income per capita in rural areas was 73,348 million VND/person and is expected to continue to be stable in 2024.
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