A road in Dong Binh commune of Binh Minh town, Vinh Long province. (File photo: VNA)Vinh Long (VNA) - The Mekong Delta province of VinhLong is taking measures to promote the potentials of ethnic minority areas todevelop them comprehensively and sustainably.
Itaims to reduce the poverty rate of its ethnic minority households by twopercentage points a year from now to 2025.
Morethan 10.1% of ethnic minority households in the province are poor and 9.5% arenear poor.
Allethnic minority households should not lack housing and farming land forproduction by 2025.
Theprovince also aims for all communes to have paved roads for cars, all schoolsand health clinics to be built by concrete, and 99% of households to haveaccess to power grids.
Italso aims for 50% of ethnic workers to be trained in vocational skills by 2025.
Tomeet the targets, the province will mobilise all resources for socio-economicdevelopment in ethnic minority areas, with focus on the collective economy, privateeconomy, the combination of agriculture production and processing, and linkagesamong stakeholders in agricultural production and consumption in ethnicminority areas.
Itwill also develop more boarding schools for ethnic minority students to improvethe quality of human resources, invest in more infrastructure facilities,especially the transport system, to serve the lives and production of ethnicminority people, and preserve and promote the value of ethnic people’s tangibleand intangible culture, festivals and ceremonies.
Thereare more than 26,600 ethnic people in the province, including 22,600 Khmerpeople, accounting for 2.6% of Vinh Long’s population.
Allcommunes where there are ethnic people have concrete roads, 98% of all communeshave access to national power grids, and all health clinics have doctors.
ThachDuong, head of the provincial Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs, said theprovince has five communes classified as ethnic minority communes under theGovernment’s Decision 861 issued last year. Two of them have been recognised asnew-style rural communes, and one as an advanced new-style rural commune.
Theprovince will mobilise resources to develop the two remaining ones intonew-style rural area communes in 2025, Duong said./.
