In 2023, the three districts of Van Ho and Moc Chau in Son La Province, Vietnam, and Sop Bau District in Xaysomboun Province, Lao PDR, continued to maintain their friendly and cooperative relationship. They effectively implemented the contents of the memorandum of understanding signed by the three districts, promoting the exchange of goods, agricultural and industrial projects, and investments based on the laws of each country. The districts have also collaborated to extensively promote the traditions and cultures of both Vietnam and Laos, creating all conditions for cadres and people from Sop Bau District to receive medical treatment, regular health check-ups, and to exchange information and coordinate disease prevention and control activities in Van Ho and Moc Chau Districts, as well as Son La Province as a whole. The armed forces of the three districts regularly hold periodic meetings, exchange information, and conduct four joint patrols with 96 officers and soldiers participating. The armed forces of Van Ho District conducted 10 unilateral patrols, inspecting the border and boundary markers, with 123 officers and soldiers participating; and 75 patrols and inspections of the area with 412 officers and soldiers participating. Notably, Van Ho District has supported Sop Bau District in building a new classroom, repairing a classroom with four rooms, with a total value of 1.5 billion VND; and guiding and implementing a jackfruit cultivation model for the people of Na Sủn village on a scale of 2 hectares...

  

Meeting of 3 districts Van Ho, Moc Chau, Sop Bau in 2023

In an atmosphere of solidarity, the leaders of the three districts of Van Ho, Moc Chau and Sop Bau agreed to sign a Memorandum of Understanding in 2024, focusing on supporting and creating favorable conditions for organizations and individuals to invest and develop legal economies in the locality; enhancing exchanges and learning experiences in agricultural production and tourism associated with preserving and promoting national cultural identity. On the part of the two districts of Van Ho and Moc Chau, they continued to send working delegations to examine and treat officials and people and provide public health support to Sop Bau district. Strengthening coordination in border security patrols, planting border markers, preventing and promptly managing all types of crimes, especially drug-related crimes; propagating and mobilizing people on both sides of the border not to migrate freely or illegally enter and exit the country; care, protection, forest fire prevention and fighting in border areas... maintain and strengthen the special friendship between Vietnam - Laos, Hua Phan - Son La; the three districts of Sop Bau - Van Ho - Moc Chau are forever green, forever sustainable.

Kieu Anh