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☀️ Morning digest December 29

The following is a list of selected news summaries reported last night by the Vietnam News Agency.
☀️ Morning digest December 29 ảnh 1

Hanoi, (VNA) - The following is a list of selected news summaries reported last night by the Vietnam News Agency.

- NationalAssembly Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue held a working session with leaders of ThaiNguyen on December 28 to review the northern province's new-style rural areabuilding work.

☀️ Morning digest December 29 ảnh 2NA Chairman Vuong Dinh Hue visits a patient at Dinh Hoa general hospital (Photo: VNA) 

Inimplementing the national target programme for new-style rural area buildingfor the 2021-2025 period, Thai Nguyen province has achieved significantprogress this year. Out of 126 communes in the province, 118, or 93.7%, havemet the criteria for new-style rural areas.Read full text

-Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has affirmed the tangibleresults of digital transformation in 2023 that have a positive impact onoverall socio-economic development at the seventh meeting of the NationalCommittee for Digital Transformation on December 28.

☀️ Morning digest December 29 ảnh 3Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (standing) speaks at the meeting (Photo: VNA)

PM Chinh, who is also chairman of the committee,highlighted key achievements last year, including the effective implementationof the National Digital Data Year and the National Population Database,improved online public services and digital infrastructure, with nearly 80% ofthe Vietnamese population now using the Internet. Furthermore, greaterattention has been paid to cybersecurity and information safety.Read full text

-The National Office for Poverty Reduction has reported amultidimensional poverty rate of 2.93% at the end of 2023, indicating a 1.1percentage point decrease.
Poverty rate in impoverished districts went downby 5.62 percentage points to approximately 33% and that in ethnic minorityareas dropped to 17.82%, meeting targets set by the National Assembly and theGovernment. Read full text 

-Theauthorities of the northern mountainous province of Cao Bang and China'sGuangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region jointly organised a ceremony on December 28 toannounce the upgrade of the pair of Tra Linh (Vietnam)-Longbang (China) bordergates into international ones.

☀️ Morning digest December 29 ảnh 4Vietnamese and Chinese delegates press the buttons to mark the start of customs clearance at the pair of Tra Linh-Longbang international border gates (Photo: VNA)

CaoBang and Baise city of China are currently connected through three pairsof border gates, which are Soc Giang-Pingmeng, Tra Linh-Longbang (whichincludes the Na Doong-Na Ray crossing) and Po Peo-Yuewei, along with theDinh Phong-Xinxing border crossing. However, the Tra Linh-Longbang bordergates are located on the most convenient route connecting the Southwestregion of China to ASEAN countries.Read full text  

-As many as 29,000 farmer households in the Mekong Deltaprovince of Song Trang benefited from the Vietnam Sustainable AgricultureTransformation (VnSAT) project funded by the World Bank, heard a conference toreview the project in the locality on December 28.
The sub-project in Soc Trang (VnSAT SocTrang) is invested by the provicial  Department of Agricultureand Rural Development, and implemented by the VnSAT Soc Trang managementboard.Read full text/.

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