"If the cadre Xong Ba Cha says so, the people will believe"

Together with the villagers to escape poverty

Xong Ba Cha was born in 1984 in Huoi Moi village, Tri Le commune. In 2006, implementing the policy of the Party and the State, his family and many other households went down the mountain to establish a village and build a new village in Minh Chau Economic Zone, Tri Le commune. Coming from a poor family, from a young age, Xong Ba Cha tried very hard to study to establish himself, start a career, and escape poverty. He said: During my high school years, every week, I diligently "walked" more than 40 km from home, over Pu Chong Cha mountain, to Kim Son town to study. Then, in 2006, I passed the entrance exam to Nghe An Pedagogical College, becoming a great pride of my family and clan....

In 2009, after graduating from Nghe An Pedagogical College, Xong Ba Cha returned to his hometown, hoping to become a teacher, bringing knowledge to the village. However, in those years, Nghe An province did not need to recruit secondary school teachers to teach Math - Physics. Waiting for a job, not discouraged, Xong Ba Cha and his wife were determined to build a family economy. He thought: "If we have knowledge and skills, we must have new and effective ways of thinking and doing things." Then, Xong Ba Cha and his wife did not mind the difficulties, day and night reclaiming and restoring land to grow sugarcane, grow passion fruit, grow peaches, grow rice and raise livestock... Thanks to applying techniques and "hard work", the average income from farming brings his family tens of millions of dong per year.

Seeing that Xong Ba Cha's family was "doing well", Mong households in Minh Chau Economic Zone admired him so much that they came to learn from his experience. He did not hide anything, he taught everyone what he knew; what he did not know, he asked commune and district officials to pass on. Learning from Xong Ba Cha, many households learned how to do business and gradually had enough to eat and save. Everyone praised Xong Ba Cha as a good and talented person.

During those years, the Mong people in Minh Chau Economic Zone had not yet settled down, but were still migrating and returning to their old land to slash-and-burn farming. The practical requirement was to create stability in this area. Minh Chau Economic Zone needed to establish hamlets and villages. Agreeing with the policy of the Party and the State, in 2011, D1 village (now Na Nieng village) in Minh Chau Economic Zone, Tri Le commune was established. Xong Ba Cha, “well-educated, good at business, enthusiastic with the people”, was unanimously nominated and elected by all 74 households in the village as the first village chief of D1 village.

As the village chief, Xong Ba Cha devoted himself to the common work; together with the commune and district officials, he sought ways to eliminate hunger and reduce poverty for the people. Xong Ba Cha actively guided and mobilized households in the village to establish cooperatives, actively reclaimed rice fields, applied scientific and technical advances, and implemented models of growing rice, corn, sugarcane, passion fruit, bananas, peaches, raising chickens, raising buffaloes and cows... Implementing the common policy, under the guidance of village chief Xong Ba Cha, households in village D1 gradually prospered and settled down.

Besides leading people in production, Xong Ba Cha and the Party cell committee and the village management board have made great efforts to propagate for people to abandon backward customs and practice new lifestyles such as: Family planning, disease prevention and hygiene; encouraging learning and talent; cultural family standards; exemplary compliance with the Party's guidelines, policies and laws of the State; actively participating in local emulation movements such as the mass movement to protect national security...

Preserving the highland lifestyle

After being a village chief and becoming a commune cadre, Xong Ba Cha has put more effort into leading and directing the building of emulation movements, especially the movement "All people unite to build a cultural life". As a young, energetic cadre with great prestige in the Mong community in Tri Le commune, he was assigned to direct Mong villages such as Huoi Xai, Nam Tot, and Muong Long - the most mountainous and difficult areas in the commune. In these villages, people's lives are still difficult in many ways: no electricity, no internet, no medical stations, and rough, rocky roads that often collapse and are muddy.

The road from the commune center to these border villages is about 30 km long, very difficult to travel, having to climb steep slopes, cross forests and wade through streams. However, every month, Xong Ba Cha goes to the village 4-5 times, sometimes staying for a whole week to propagate and mobilize people to comply with legal regulations, implement economic development models, and build a new cultural life. Whenever an incident or problem occurs in these 3 villages, Xong Ba Cha commune officials immediately go there.

Mr. Va Ba May - Head of Muong Long village said: "In these border villages, conflicts between families, clans, land disputes, and buffalo disputes often occur. When the village cannot resolve the issue, Mr. Xong Ba Cha steps in and mediates. His method is to clearly analyze the problem so that people can understand it in a reasonable and emotional way. With a cadre of Xong Ba Cha standing up to mediate, people believe and listen, put aside the problems and conflicts, and return to harmony and solidarity."

In 2021, in some highland villages in Tri Le commune, there was a situation of "strange religions" invading, bringing with them strange, contradictory thoughts and cultures, harming the good traditions of the Mong people and the Vietnamese people. The cause of the incident was that some people who went to work far away brought "strange religions" back to the village, attracting other people to join. Faced with this situation, the Party Committee, the government and the functional forces in Tri Le commune actively propagated and mobilized people to comply with legal regulations, abandon and not listen to "strange religions" that harm people's lives. Xong Ba Cha was a pioneer, active in the work of preventing illegal religious activities. As a result, in a short time, "strange religions" were prevented and repelled promptly.

Xong Ba Cha is particularly interested in the activities of preserving, conserving and promoting the culture of ethnic minorities. Together with departments and branches, he actively promotes and organizes local art performances, selects good dance or panpipe teams to participate in the Nine-Chamber Temple Festival, and folk performing arts festivals in districts and provinces. Through these art activities, Xong Ba Cha hopes to promote people to both implement the new lifestyle well; preserve, inherit, promote and enjoy good traditional cultural values; and at the same time inspire the younger generation to respect, cherish and preserve the cultural identity of their people. It is known that Xong Ba Cha has won many high prizes at provincial and national cultural and artistic festivals and performances and has been awarded a Certificate of Merit by the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism for its outstanding achievements in the movement "All people unite to build a cultural life in residential areas".

In 2025, when implementing the two-level government, Xong Ba Cha was trusted by the Party Committee and assigned a new task, which was the Permanent Vice Chairman of the Commune Fatherland Front Committee, Chairman of the Tri Le Commune Farmers' Association. This was a new task but very familiar. Receiving the new task, Xong Ba Cha was very happy to be able to contribute to the common cause with his own "strength". Xong Ba Cha said: "For the past 2 months, I have been very busy. I have been calling for and helping people overcome the consequences of storms and floods; and implementing highly effective production models. Busy but very happy...".

These days, Xong Ba Cha is actively staying in the fields and villages to propagate and guide people on how to grow crops and raise livestock effectively, in accordance with the commune's orientation. He said: We are guiding people to grow seedlings suitable for the area, for high productivity. For example, in the highland villages of Pa Khom and Huoi Moi, we guide people to grow forests, medicinal herbs, bitter bamboo shoots, and grass to raise cattle and buffaloes for sale; in the central area of ​​the commune, we grow cold-resistant rice varieties and specialty sticky rice; in the old Nam Nhoong commune, we grow corn, cinnamon, raise black pigs and black chickens... In the coming time, we are looking for and inviting businesses to come to the locality to invest in agricultural processing factories for people to overcome the situation of "good harvest, low price", surplus agricultural products and expand the market.

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Comrade Xong Ba Cha is a cadre who has grown up from the grassroots. During his work, he has always been energetic, enthusiastic, and excellent in completing assigned tasks. Up to now, Comrade Xong Ba Cha has always been a prestigious person, a "locomotive" of the Mong ethnic people in Tri Le commune; a role model for the local patriotic emulation movement.

Comrade Pham Ngoc Nghia - Secretary of Tri Le Commune Party Committee