In recent years, Thuan Chau district (Son La province) has always paid attention to implementing policies to create motivation to promote comprehensive development of ethnic minority and mountainous areas. In particular, prioritizing investment in developing essential infrastructure, contributing to helping ethnic minorities have more conditions to develop the economy and escape poverty.
Well-invested facilities at Vo Thi Sau Kindergarten in Chieng Pha Commune, Thuan Chau District
Accompanying ethnic minorities to develop
As a particularly disadvantaged commune, Nong Lay has 5 villages and 784 households, mainly La Ha ethnic people. Mr. Dao Duy Binh, Vice Chairman of Nong Lay Commune People's Committee, said: The lives of people in the commune still have many difficulties. Infrastructure has not been invested synchronously. Therefore, when allocated capital from the program, the commune prioritizes investment in traffic works, cultural houses, and irrigation works to serve the daily life and production of the people.
September 2014, Bo Ma village, Nong Lay commune,Thuan Chau districtinvested in building an internal irrigation canal system, 205m long. The project is invested by the District Investment Project Management Board; period 2024 - 2025, total investment of more than 696 million VND. Mr. Lo Van Nam, Party Cell Secretary, Head of Bo Ma village, shared: The completed project ensures irrigation water for 3 hectares of 2-crop rice fields of the village. In addition, in 2023, the village will also invest in building a cultural house, contributing to improving the spiritual life of the people. The people thank the Party and State for their attention in investing in essential infrastructure, contributing to helping people have conditions for economic development.
Construction started in August 2024, and up to now, Song village school, Chieng La Kindergarten, is in the final stage. The project includes: classrooms and teachers' offices, auxiliary items; total investment of more than 1 billion 400 million VND, from the capital of the National Target Program (MTQG) for socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. The investment in classrooms contributes to the completion of facilities to serve teaching and childcare well, and completes the school criteria of the National Criteria Set on new rural construction in the area.
Teacher Hoang Thi Huong shared: Song village school has 26 children, aged 3-5. When the school was not built yet, we borrowed the village's cultural house to organize teaching. Now that the school has been invested in, we are very excited.
People in Thuan Chau district are supported with breeding cows to develop the economy, help escape poverty, and stabilize their lives.In April 2024, the Hung Nhan village cultural house, Chieng Pha commune, was completed and put into use. The project was invested by the District Construction Investment Project Management Board, with a total investment of 1 billion 800 million VND; construction scale of more than 230 m2 and auxiliary items; implementation period from 2023 to 2025. Ms. Hoang Thi Lan, Party Cell Secretary, Head of Hung Nhan village, shared: During the construction process, the village community investment supervision board assigned 5 members to regularly supervise. All processes were publicly and transparently announced by the investor and contractor, so there were no violations. In addition to the funding supported by the State, people in the village contributed working days, worth nearly 40 million VND.
Up to now, 11/19 projects have been completed and put into use. The programs and projects have gradually completed the infrastructure. Up to now, 100% of the communes of Thuan Chau district have car roads to the center; 98.8% of households have access to clean water; 259/336 villages and sub-areas have cultural houses... creating conditions for trading goods, improving the material and spiritual life of the people, gradually narrowing the gap with developed regions.
Continue to focus on investing in infrastructure in ethnic minority areas
"In order to gradually improve infrastructure, in the Project on socio-economic development of ethnic minority and mountainous areas to 2025, with a vision to 2030, the district prioritizes the development of a transport network to create connections between regions; invest in completing the irrigation network to serve production needs and some infrastructure for education, training, health, culture and society. This is considered a strategic project, creating an important premise for sustainable development in the ethnic minority and mountainous areas of the district in the coming years."
Mr. Lo Van Quy, Head of Ethnic Affairs DepartmentThuan Chau districtsaid, is the district with the largest number of communes in the province, large area, of which there are 21/29 communes in area III, with 271 extremely difficult villages; ethnic minorities account for over 94% of the district's population. The policy of investing in infrastructure development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas is considered an important political task set by the Party and State in the socio-economic development strategy of ethnic minority and mountainous areas.
In addition to maximizing internal resources and taking advantage of the support of the Government, ministries, central agencies, provinces, and non-governmental organizations, the district also does a good job of mobilizing resources from economic sectors, organizations, individuals, and enterprises to invest in improving infrastructure for transportation, irrigation, health, education, etc. Programs and projects are invested with focus and key points, basically meeting essential needs for daily life and production, improving people's lives.
In the period of 2019 - 2024, the district was allocated more than 83 billion 600 million VND under the National Target Program to invest in the construction of 19 infrastructure works, such as: Roads; schools, kitchens, boarding houses; cultural houses; irrigation works... To ensure the implementation of the project, the District People's Committee assigned specific tasks to relevant units to carry out investment procedures according to regulations. After selecting the contractor, the investor requested the contractors to make a detailed plan for each item, the overall construction time of the project; focus on materials, machinery, and human resources to speed up the construction progress.
Thuan Chau district always focuses on investing in developing essential infrastructure, contributing to helping ethnic minorities have more conditions to develop their economy and escape poverty.In addition, some small-scale projects with uncomplicated techniques, the People's CommitteeThuan Chau districtAssign the People's Committees of communes to be the investors. The community investment supervision boards in the villages regularly supervise, track, and inspect the compliance with regulations of investors, avoiding actions that affect the interests of the community...
Mr. Phung Van Doanh, Deputy Director of the Thuan Chau District Construction Investment Project Management Board, said: As a unit assigned by the District People's Committee to be the investor of many projects in the area, the Board has assigned tasks to each officer in the unit. Coordinate with the People's Committees of communes and towns to clear the land for projects, assign technical officers to regularly monitor the quality and progress of projects, ensuring compliance with the set plan.
Promoting the State's investment resources, Thuan Chau district focuses on prioritizing capital to implement the hardening of the traffic system to commune centers; inter-commune and inter-village roads and connecting communes in particularly difficult areas with each other. Reasonable allocation of capital to invest in intra-field roads and roads to production areas, in order to promote socio-economic development. At the same time, organizing inspection delegations, coordinating to grasp the situation, promptly removing difficulties and obstacles, and resolving recommendations of localities in the process of implementing programs and projects.
Mai Huong