The northern mountainous province of Son La disbursed nearly 90 billion VND (4.12 million USD) in the first six months to invest in projects assisting ethnic minorities.

In 2015, Son La received 50 billion VND (2.29 million USD) from the State budget to invest in 20 settlement projects constructing roads, clean water systems and schools.

In addition, the Government also provided 34.54 billion VND (1.58 million USD) directly to the community in the form of seedlings, animals, fertilisers, animal medications and pesticides.

As directed by policies on housing, land, farming land and clean water for daily use, Son La helped ethnic minorities build clean water systems and buy farming implements and machines with a total value of 18 billion VND (82,000 USD).

The province also assisted 2,948 dignitaries in ethnic minority communities with 4.26 billion VND (195,000 USD).

Besides economic policies, ethnic minority communities received 1.4 million copies of newspapers and magazines free of charge in the first six months of the year.-VNA