Promoting investment in developing ethnic minority-inhabited areas

Bu Gia Map is a mountainous border district where ethnic minority people account for more than 36% of the total population.

In the past, the locals lived in difficult circumstances, with poor infrastructure and a high rate of poverty.

Given the situation, Binh Phuoc provincial authorities have issued many preferential policies to provide locals with financial support in developing crops and livestock farming.

Prominent among the policies is the resettlement project on the establishment of Sub-Area 42 more than ten years ago, which helped ethnic minority households in the communes of Phu Van and Dak O to switch to sedentary life and farming.

Binh Phuoc provincial authorities have issued many preferential policies to provide locals with financial support in developing crops and livestock farming.

Under the project, leaders of Binh Phuoc Province and Bu Gia Map District in particular have invested in improving infrastructure and transport system, building fundamental facilities such as schools and dams to reserve water for people's livelihood and agricultural development.

To date, the project has provided nearly 110,000 hectares of land for farming for 125 households and built homes for more than 100 households, contributing to stabilising and improving the living conditions of the local people.

Sub-Area 42 has gradually developed in to a prosperous site on the border of Binh Phuoc Province.

Dieu Lai, one of the locals participating in the project, shared that in the past, his living area had no access to electricity and clean water, and poor infrastructure.

Thanks to the project, the people's lives have been significantly improved with income having been increased.

Meanwhile, Bu Dang District, where ethnic minority people account for more than 40% total population, has been allocated with dozens of projects from the national target programme to boost socio-economic development in ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas and improve their living standards as well as their access to health care services.

Recently, a project to facilitate people’s travelling demand was inaugurated in Bu Dang District.

At the inauguration ceremony of the project to facilitate people’s travelling demand in village 8, Dong Nai Commune, Bu Dang District (Photo: binhphuoc.gov.vn)

Implemented in village 8, Dong Nai Commune, the project started in late 2022, aiming to renovate and upgrade old road and build a new one with a total length of more than 5.3 km.

The project also equips the village with a solar lighting system worth over VND 14.3 billion.

According to the Prime Minister- approved National Target Programme on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the 2021-2030 period, 58 communes in Binh Phuoc Province are benefiting from the programme.

Accordingly, the province is allocated with 1.758 trillion from the Government to implement 10 component projects in the 2021-2025 period.

Chairman of Binh Phuoc Provincial People's Committee Tran Tue Hien said the provincial leaders have directed heads of relevant units to take drastic and simultaneous measures to successfully disburse the public investment.

Inspections have been carried out regularly to promptly remove any existing obstacles facing the implementation of the assigned projects and ensure they will be completed on schedule.