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Pay attention to comprehensive development of ethnic minority areas

Thanh Le • November 20, 2024 15:47

Over the years, Nghe An has always paid special attention to ethnic affairs; programs and policies for ethnic minority and mountainous areas have been fully and promptly implemented. In particular, there have been many good models and practices in mass mobilization work, mobilizing armed forces to join in and promote practical effectiveness.

Thanh Le• November 20, 2024

Over the years, Nghe An has always paid special attention to ethnic affairs; programs and policies for ethnic minority and mountainous areas have been fully and promptly implemented. In particular, there have been many good models and practices in mass mobilization work, mobilizing armed forces to join in and promote practical effectiveness.

Like many poor and near-poor households in Pieng Cu village, Tien Phong commune (Que Phong), in early 2024, Mr. Lo Van Thuy's family was provided with cows for breeding by the State, creating a lever to escape poverty in the coming years. Mr. Thuy shared that his family resettled here since 2010, living all year round based on income from 1 hectare of acacia land, 200m of rice fields, in addition, doing whatever people hired them to do and going to the forest to collect bamboo shoots. With unstable income, his family has not been able to escape poverty.

When the State provided him with breeding cows to raise, his family built a barn and planted grass to feed the cows. Mr. Lo Van Thuy said: Being provided with one breeding cow by the State is a great source of income, and all family members are aware of taking good care of the cows so that they can develop a herd in the future, helping the family escape poverty. From this motivation, the family hopes to receive more land to grow cinnamon and acacia, have stable jobs, and escape poverty sustainably.

Similarly, in Chau Kim commune, from the capital of the National Target Program for the period 2021 - 2025, in 2023, Que Phong district provided 93 local black pigs to 31 poor and near-poor households to raise (each household was provided with 3 pigs).

Along with the piglets, households are also provided with a certain amount of feed. The nearly one-year raising process shows that most households are highly responsible in caring for them; taking advantage of locally available vegetable sources such as mosquito nets, sweet potato vines, wild bananas, etc. for raising livestock.

As for Mr. Le Van Nhuan's family, they moved from the core area of ​​Pu Mat National Park to settle in Tan Son village, Mon Son commune, Con Cuong district. Although they have labor resources, for many years, his family has been struggling with economic development, hunger eradication and poverty reduction, because they do not have capital and a specific direction. For the past two years, thanks to the support of breeding animals from Mon Son Border Guard Station, his family has been gradually moving from poor to near-poor households and is striving to escape poverty this year.

Sharing about the support from the border guard station, Mr. Nhuan said: The border guard station supported his family with 6 breeding pigs, 2 cows, chickens, ducks and technical support for raising animals to develop the economy. Thanks to the specific guidance of the soldiers, the family's economy has now developed and is gradually escaping poverty.

Colonel Tran Dang Khoa - Deputy Political Commissar of the Provincial Border Guard said: To help people in the area escape poverty and not fall back into poverty, border guards have mobilized resources, supported capital, plants, seeds, techniques; created new livelihoods and jobs for people. In the border area, the Nghe An Border Guard Command is implementing 90 "Skilled Mass Mobilization" models, of which 63 are economic development models. The Nghe An Border Guard also assigned 579 party members to be in charge of 2,671 households in the border area to help them develop the economy, eliminate hunger, reduce poverty...

Effective implementation models, creating jobs for workers right in the area, have gradually helped people escape poverty, thereby helping people feel secure in staying in their villages, building increasingly developed villages, and firmly protecting border security and sovereignty.

In recent years, implementing Conclusion No. 65-KL/TW, dated October 30, 2019 of the Politburo on continuing to implement Resolution No. 24-NQ/TW, dated March 13, 2003 of the Central Executive Committee (9th term) on ethnic work in the new situation, Nghe An province has achieved many important results.

The economic situation and living conditions of people in ethnic minority and mountainous areas are increasingly improved, the economy continues to develop. People are enthusiastic about working, increasing production, striving to eliminate hunger, reduce poverty, get rich legitimately, change the face of ethnic minority and mountainous areas, push back social evils, contribute to the successful implementation of local economic development targets; the poverty rate is 12.48%, the average income per capita is estimated at 34 million VND/year.

Vocational training and job creation for ethnic minorities have achieved many results. In the period of 2019 - 2024, 174,445 people were recruited for vocational training in 11 mountainous districts and towns (accounting for 49.96% of the total number of training enrollments). From 2019 - 2024, 89,913 people (accounting for 36.29% of the whole province) were created jobs for ethnic minority and mountainous workers, and 33,993 people were sent to work abroad under contracts (accounting for 34.96% of the whole province).

The province's labor and employment transition and economic structure continue to shift in the right direction. Policies to support production development according to national target programs for the period 2021 - 2025 have been implemented with attention, many models and typical production and business cooperation have been effective. Up to now, in 11 mountainous districts and towns of Nghe An, there are 236 products, of which 226 OCOP products have achieved 3-star rating and 10 products have achieved 4-star rating.

At the same time, policies to support production development according to national target programs for the period 2021 - 2025 have been focused on implementation, with many models and typical examples of effective production and business cooperation. Mobilizing resources and attracting investment for economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas has received more attention, in which the provincial budget supports localities to address the needs of socio-economic infrastructure development; land use revenue is decentralized to districts and communes.

The total budget capital to support investment in development for ethnic minority and mountainous areas according to the medium-term public investment plan for the period 2021 - 2025 is 8,859 billion VND, of which the provincial budget is more than 3,003 billion VND, the rest is from the central budget and other integrated sources. The province has supported 11 districts in ethnic minority and mountainous areas to build new and repair 7,212 houses (3,560 houses assembled, 2,775 new houses built, 877 houses repaired) to ensure a stable life for people.

In addition to the Central Government's policy of support and incentives for ethnic minority and mountainous areas, the province also has other support and incentive policies. In particular, on August 11, 2022, the Provincial Party Standing Committee continued to issue Directive No. 17-CT/TU "On strengthening the Party's leadership over ethnic affairs and implementing ethnic policies in Nghe An province for the period 2022-2026, with a vision to 2030" with many breakthrough and strategic tasks and solutions to promote socio-economic development, improve people's lives, narrow the gap between rich and poor and regional differences in the province.

In addition, the province has focused on directing the implementation of the Government's national target program, devoting huge resources to ethnic minority areas. After 4 years of implementation, it has had a very important impact on the socio-economic development of ethnic minority areas in particular, stabilizing the socio-economy and developing potential and strong areas of the province in general.

This is a very important decision of the Party and State specifically for ethnic minority and mountainous areas; striving by 2030 to basically narrow the gap in income, living conditions, culture, education, and health care between ethnic minority areas and other areas in the province.

Comrade Hoang Nghia Hieu - Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee said: The Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee has focused on leading, directing, and synchronously implementing many major policies and solutions to promote socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the province. In addition to the policies of the Central Government, Nghe An has had additional policies to develop ethnic minority and mountainous areas. These are the project to build houses for poor households, the project to build new rural areas in 27 border communes, etc.

Thanks to the efforts of the entire political system, the poverty rate in ethnic minority areas has now decreased to more than 12%, income has increased, and people's lives have been improved. The preservation of traditional culture has been done very well.

"The attention to allocating resources and effectively implementing ethnic policies has helped ethnic minorities in the province promote their internal strength, arouse the spirit of overcoming difficulties to develop the economy, and build an increasingly prosperous and happy life. However, the implementation of ethnic work in the new situation still has difficulties and limitations.

Based on the review of the implementation of ethnic work in recent years, in the coming time, the province will continue to have new directions and new approaches to make the implementation of ethnic work better and more effective, contributing to promoting the comprehensive development of mountainous ethnic minority areas," emphasized comrade Hoang Nghia Hieu.