From the investment capital of the National Target Program on Socio-Economic Development of Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas (National Target Program 1719), many projects in the border commune of Ba Tang, Huong Hoa district have been invested in construction, contributing to changing the appearance of infrastructure and the lives of ethnic minorities in Ba Tang to have a warm and prosperous new Spring. On February 3, 2025 (the 6th day of the Lunar New Year), in Hanoi, the Committee for Ethnic Minorities (CEMA) held a meeting with all cadres, civil servants, public employees, and workers of the CEMA agency on the occasion of the beginning of the Lunar New Year. On February 4, at the Party Central Committee Headquarters, General Secretary To Lam chaired a meeting of the Secretariat, assessing the implementation of Directive No. 40-CT/TW of the Secretariat on organizing the Lunar New Year 2025; directing a number of key tasks of the Central and Party Committees in the coming time. From the investment capital of the National Target Program for Socio-Economic Development of Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas (National Target Program 1719), many projects in the border commune of Ba Tang, Huong Hoa district have been invested in construction, contributing to changing the appearance of infrastructure and the lives of ethnic minorities in Ba Tang to have warm and prosperous new springs. Like many other Northern villages, Yen Duc, Dong Trieu City (Quang Ninh) attracts tourists with the simplicity and simplicity of the scenery and people here. In particular, Yen Duc also bears the mark of a revolutionary countryside with unique historical and cultural relics. This spring of At Ty, Yen Duc community tourism village welcomes the new year with a bright and hopeful look. The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs forecasts that due to the local labor shortage in the first quarter of 2025, the demand for recruitment will increase, especially in the fields of production and services. The Party Congresses at all levels for the 2025-2030 term leading up to the 14th National Congress of the Party are important political events for our Party and nation. This is the Congress to prepare the necessary conditions and premises to bring the country firmly into a new era, the era of the Vietnamese nation's rise. The Culture, Sports and Tourism Week of Quynh Nhai district (Son La) in 2025 will take place for 3 days, from February 7-9, 2025, that is, from the 10th to the 12th of January of the At Ty year. General news of the Ethnic and Development Newspaper. The morning news on February 5, 2025, has the following notable information: Lowering the flagpole, opening the New Year seal. Spring colors on Lam Vien plateau. The person who keeps the fire of the Central Highlands epic. Along with other current news in the ethnic minority and mountainous areas. In the first days of the New Year of At Ty, although the weather in the Dong Van stone plateau, Ha Giang province is very cold, it cannot stop the footsteps of tourists and local people going to the Spring festival. In early Spring, in all the highland villages of the Mong people, everywhere is filled with the atmosphere of welcoming Spring. In February and March 2025, Bac Ha district (Lao Cai) will open many unique folk cultural festivals. Spring - the most beautiful season on Moc Chau plateau, Son La province with poetic and romantic scenery. This is also the time when plum blossoms, apricot blossoms, peach blossoms, and canola flowers compete to show off their colors, along with the green of the grasslands and tea hills spread across the hillsides, creating a colorful picture, along with the unique cultural features of the ethnic groups that have attracted a large number of tourists to Moc Chau during the Lunar New Year holiday. Chau Truong Luu is the "golden voice" of the Ninh Thuan Province Ethnic Song and Dance Troupe. Audiences inside and outside the province love his warm, passionate voice that resonates on stage through provincial and national festivals. His "heaven-sent" voice has been honored to be awarded many gold and silver medals through competitions. On February 4 (the 7th day of Tet), at the Tien Cong Temple National Historical and Cultural Relic, Cam La Commune, Quang Yen Town (Quang Ninh), a ceremony was held to bring the "Supreme Elders" to the temple for worship. This year, at the main festival time, on the 7th of January, more than 100 elderly people, aged 80, 90 and 100, came to Tien Cong Temple to lead the ceremony. This is a unique festival honoring the traditional cultural beauty of “When drinking water, remember its source” of the people of Bach Dang estuary.
Ba Tang is a border commune in Huong Hoa district (Quang Tri), the whole commune has 96% of the population being Bru Van Kieu people. Over the past years, thanks to the effective implementation of ethnic policies, the people's lives have been constantly improved. In particular, after 4 years of implementing the National Target Program 1719, the infrastructure in Ba Tang commune has improved a lot. Along with that, career capital and livelihood support programs have reduced the poverty rate by an average of 9.86%/year.
Present in Mang Song village, Ba Tang commune, Huong Hoa district (Quang Tri), it is the season when Bru Van Kieu people are harvesting cassava. If before, every cassava harvest season, people had to carry cassava from the production area to the main road to sell to traders. Now, cars just follow the newly built concrete road to the production area to transport cassava straight to the factory. People can also rent cars to transport cassava to the factory for direct import.
Along with transporting cassava, the work of plowing and transporting fertilizer into the production area is also mechanized. Thanks to that, cassava productivity has been significantly increased.
Sharing with reporters of the Ethnic and Development Newspaper, Ms. Ho Thi Boi in Mang Song village said: “Since the day the road to the village’s production area was invested in concrete, people have been able to go to work more conveniently. Now tractors and cars can go directly to the place to transport cassava out, bring in fertilizer…”.
Not only in Mang Song village, up to now, the National Target Program 1719 has invested in building 7 roads leading to 7 production areas of villages in Ba Tang commune. These roads are all designed and constructed with solid concrete to ensure meeting NTM standards.
Up to now, all roads leading to production areas in Ba Tang commune have been completed and put into use. Now, the Bru Van Kieu people in Ba Tang commune have many advantages in applying mechanization to agricultural production. Thanks to that, crop productivity and labor productivity have been significantly improved.
Along with the newly invested roads, many Bru Van Kieu households with difficult housing conditions have also settled in "3-hard" houses. In 2024 alone, capital from Project 1, National Target Program 1719 invested in building new "3-hard" houses and handing over "3-hard" houses to 22 ethnic households.
Accumulated to December 31, 2024, capital from Project 1, National Target Program 1719 has invested in building and handing over nearly 50 houses to ethnic minority households with difficult housing circumstances in Ba Tang commune.
After 4 years of implementing the National Target Program 1719, the career capital has awarded 86 cows, creating sustainable livelihoods for 43 Bru-Van Kieu households in Ba Tang commune. Notably, up to now, there have been households with income from breeding cows. Thanks to that, many Bru-Van Kieu households have escaped the list of poor households in the locality.
In the plan to provide cows to support livelihoods, the Bru-Van Kieu people in Ba Tang commune will be provided with 36 more cows in 2025. This will be a great motivation to help disadvantaged households escape poverty sustainably.
Sharing with reporters of the Ethnic and Development Newspaper, Mr. Ho Van Bang, Chairman of the People's Committee of Ba Tang Commune, excitedly said: Up to now, 7 roads have been built in the commune; 4 villages have invested in clean water systems; 8 new classrooms are being invested in for primary and secondary schools... In addition, the livelihood support program has reduced the poverty rate in the locality by an average of 9.86% per year.
"The capital from the National Target Program for Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minorities and Mountainous Areas has contributed to improving the rural appearance of Ba Tang, improving people's lives, and helping people enjoy a warmer and more prosperous Tet holiday," affirmed Commune Chairman Ho Van Bang.
Source: https://baodantoc.vn/xuan-moi-noi-xa-vung-bien-tinh-quang-tri-1737445364484.htm
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