The government leader asked local authorities to make sure that everybody has enough essential goods for Tet or Lunar New Year holiday.
He called for greater efforts to escape poverty as saying education is decisive to poverty reduction.
The State will help local children access education. This is a long-term and fundamental measure to reduce poverty and to become rich, he said.
The Prime Minister delivered 100 gifts from the Vietnam Red Cross Society to poor households in Ly Bon.
On the morning of January 8, the cabinet leader attended a ceremony to inaugurate the Bao Lam hydropower plant in Ly Bon commune. The 30MW plant will generate an average of 124 million KWh per year.