Nghe An strives to have 100% of mountainous communes have asphalt roads to the commune center by 2025.

Tung Huong border village, Tam Quang commune, Tuong Duong district is getting more and more prosperous. Photo: Xuan Hoang

Nghe An's goal is to focus on exploiting the potential and advantages of particularly disadvantaged communes and villages, innovating and creating, promoting rapid and sustainable poverty reduction; improving the spiritual and material life of the people.ethnic minorities and mountainous areas. Narrowing the income gap between ethnic groups, between ethnic minority and mountainous areas and other regions in the province and the whole country.

Another goal is to gradually reduce the number of communes, villages and hamlets with special difficulties; focus on integrating and prioritizing the allocation of resources to invest in synchronous infrastructure development, linking and connecting with developed regions; plan, arrange and stabilize the population; comprehensively develop education, training, health care and culture; improve the quantity and quality of civil servants, public employees and workers who are ethnic minorities; preserve and promote the fine cultural identity of ethnic minorities while eliminating backward customs and practices; implement gender equality and solve urgent problems for women and children.

Maintain and strengthen security and defense stability; improve and enhance the quality of public services; consolidate and strengthen the great solidarity of ethnic groups, and enhance the trust of ethnic people in the Party and State.

A corner of Thai Minh village, Tien Ky commune (Tan Ky). Photo: Xuan Hoang

Accordingly, Nghe An strives to double the average income of ethnic minorities by 2025 compared to 2020. The poverty rate among ethnic minorities will decrease by over 3%; strives for 50% of communes and villages to leave extremely difficult areas.

100% of communes have asphalted or concreted roads to the commune center; 70% of villages have hardened roads to the center; 100% of schools, classrooms and medical stations are solidly built; 99% of ethnic minorities have access to the national grid and other suitable power sources; 90% of ethnic minorities have access to clean water; 100% of ethnic minorities have access to television and radio; improve technical infrastructure and social infrastructure in extremely disadvantaged communes and villages, ethnic minority and mountainous areas.

Basic work completedsettle down; arrange and stabilize 90% of households that migrated without planning... Solve the shortage of residential land and production land for people.

The spiritual life of the people in the highlands of Nghe An is increasingly improved. Photo: Thanh Cuong

The rate of 5-year-old kindergarten students attending school is over 98%, primary school age students is over 97%; middle school students are over 95%; high school students are over 60%; people aged 15 and over can read and write fluently in Mandarin is over 90%...

The capital for implementation in the 2021 - 2025 period is more than 5.7 trillion VND. Of which, development investment capital is more than 2.6 trillion VND; career capital is more than 3.1 trillion VND. The capital for implementing the program includes central budget capital, local budget, credit capital and other legally mobilized capital./.