Moc Chau district has nearly 40 km of border with Sop Bau district, Hua Phan province, Lao PDR; has 3 border communes with 10 border villages; has 2 border posts (Long Sap border gate border post and Chieng Son border post) stationed in the area. In recent years, the district has directed the dissemination and serious and effective implementation of the Party's guidelines and policies, the State's laws and policies on economic development associated with ensuring national defense and security; promoting the strength of the entire people to participate in protecting national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Moc Chau district leaders congratulated the border guards on the Border Guard's Traditional Day.
Mr. Le Trong Binh, Chairman of Moc Chau District People's Committee, said: Every year, the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee issues a directive on the task of protecting territorial sovereignty and national border security. In particular, to create momentum for the development of border villages, the Standing Committee of the District Party Committee issues a resolution on socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security, and consolidating the political system in 10 border villages with complicated security and order in Moc Chau district in the period of 2022-2025. Pay attention to investing in building and consolidating the traffic system and infrastructure in border villages, ensuring that they meet the requirements of the district's border management and protection tasks.
To raise awareness of people in border areas, Moc Chau district has directed units and communes to coordinate with border posts to step up propaganda work. Over the past 5 years, 125 propaganda conferences have been held in highland border villages on the following contents: Local socio-economic development program; National Border Law; Vietnam Border Law, Drug Prevention and Control Law; Protocol on border lines and border markers between the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Lao People's Democratic Republic; Agreement on border regulations and land border gates between the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam and the Government of the Lao People's Democratic Republic; policies on ethnicity and religion; major political events of the country and locality, and the situation related to mass mobilization work in border areas.
The district has also promoted the role of the masses and prestigious people among ethnic minorities in protecting the national border; improving the effectiveness of the movement "All people participate in protecting territorial sovereignty and national border security in the new situation". Currently, Moc Chau has built, consolidated and perfected 34 autonomous and self-managed border and border markers groups with 783 households participating; 127 groups participating in self-managed security and order with 381 members in the border area participating. The border guards also strictly maintain combat readiness, grasp the situation early and from afar. Proactively develop professional plans, fight against crimes that violate national security, launch high-point attacks on crimes, effectively fight against smuggling, trade fraud, and drug-related crimes, maintain political security and social order and safety in the border area. In the past 5 years, border guards in the area have coordinated with functional forces to arrest 44 cases/123 subjects committing crimes related to social order and drugs.
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Cultural exchange to celebrate the 35th anniversary of People's Border Defense Day in Chieng Son commune, Moc Chau district.
Paying attention to effectively integrating capital sources to improve economic and social infrastructure in 10 border villages, especially essential works such as roads, domestic water, irrigation, etc., Moc Chau has directed the implementation of 8 projects with a total investment of nearly 18 billion VND; completed and put into use 3.85 km of alley lighting; 12.3 km of roads in villages and border areas, installed 3 FM speaker clusters; repaired 12 speaker clusters in 10 border villages and completed the distribution of equipment for cultural houses for 10/10 border villages... Up to now, the 10 border villages of the district have 456 hectares of food crops, 342 hectares of fruit trees; the villages no longer have temporary or dilapidated houses, people's lives have gradually improved, the poverty rate in the 10 border villages has decreased to 23%.
Phieng Cai border village, Long Sap commune, currently has 93 households, 100% of whom are Mong ethnic people. Mr. Trang A Tua, Party cell secretary, village head, informed: People are actively working, applying science and technology to production, currently, people are growing more than 100 hectares of corn, cassava and 33 hectares of rice, more than 100 hectares of fruit trees, 4 hectares of macadamia and nearly 5 hectares of vegetables; average income per capita reaches 40 million VND/person/year, the whole village has only 3 poor households. With the support of the State and contributions of the people, 100% of the internal roads have been concreted, nearly 2 km of roads have been installed with lighting.
Promoting the achieved results, Moc Chau continues to promote propaganda and education to raise awareness among the people of all ethnic groups in the district about the task of building and protecting the border in the new situation. Promote foreign affairs activities, build a peaceful, friendly, cooperative and developed border.
Article and photos: Viet Anh