Northern Yên Bái Province, which is home to more than 30 ethnic groups, accounting 57 per cent of total population of 85,000 people, has issued many support policies to eliminate hunger, reduce poverty, and raise the people’s living standards.
During the last three years, the province has allocated over VNĐ12 trillion (US$500 million) for socio-economic development in ethnic communities and mountainous areas that focused on production, infrastructure construction, transportation network, education and health care service, poverty reduction and building new rural areas.
The poverty reduction work has achieved positive results with the average reduction rate of over 4 per cent per year.
This year, the province aims to reduce the household poverty rate by 3.5 per cent and the rate of near-poor households 1.22 per cent compared to 2022.
Mù Cang Chải District, one of the most impoverished districts of Yên Bái, has implemented many projects providing residential land, housing, production land and clean water, and investing in essential infrastructure, sustainable agricultural and forestry production with a total investment capital of nearly VNĐ75 billion ($3.1 million), of which the public capital is over VNĐ43.5 billion ($1.8 million).
In addition to the achievements, the province has encountered difficulties and obstacles in slow disbursement of capital. Solutions are needed to speed up the programme implementation progress.
According to Đỗ Quang Vịnh, vice director of the provincial ethnic committee, currently, the total capital allocated by the Central Government is VNĐ592 billion ($24.4 million) but only VNĐ315 billion ($13 million) has been disbursed, reaching 28 per cent.
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