Dak Lak (VNA) – Party General Secretary To Lam attended a ground-breaking ceremony for Ea Rok Primary and Secondary Boarding School in Dak Lak province, jointly organised by the General Staff of the Vietnam People’s Army (VPA) and the provincial People’s Committee on February 11.
The project is regarded as having practical significance for education and training, as well as for the socio-economic development of the province.
Addressing the ceremony, Senior Lieutenant General Phung Sy Tan, Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the VPA, noted that Ea Rok is a locality with a large ethnic minority population and faces considerable socio-economic difficulties, while facilities for teaching and learning remain inadequate. In this context, the construction of an inter-level boarding school that ensures appropriate conditions for students’ study, daily life and personal growth is both necessary and in line with the aspirations of local residents and the development requirements of the locality.
The school, built on an area of nearly 6 hectares in Ea Rok commune, is designed to include 18 classes, comprising 10 classes for primary education and eight for secondary education, along with fully equipped classrooms, a library, a multi-purpose hall and a modern boarding facility. Total investment amounts to 150 billion VND (5.78 million USD), mobilised from resources and enterprises under the Ministry of National Defence.
In his remarks, General Secretary Lam, who is Secretary of the Central Military Commission, stressed that throughout the revolutionary leadership process, the Party has always attached great importance to education, particularly in ethnic minority areas, remote and disadvantaged regions. Alongside issuing major policies to fundamentally reform and comprehensively develop education and training, the Party and State have clearly identified the need to expand educational care and investment toward areas facing the greatest difficulties, where long-term and fundamental investment is required to achieve substantive change.
This approach, he noted, reflects a people-centred development philosophy that views investment in education as investment in the future and in the country’s sustainable development.
The Party leader emphasised that this boarding school is not merely a construction project, but a work of profound social significance, demonstrating the Party and State’s care for children of ethnic minority communities in disadvantaged areas. The project will help create an important breakthrough in local education development, nurture on-the-spot human resources, gradually raise intellectual standards and improve the quality of human resources, thereby promoting socio-economic development, improving people’s livelihoods and preserving ethnic cultural identities, he said.
To ensure the project is completed on time and operates effectively, he called on the Ministry of National Defence to continue directing construction to ensure progress, quality, technical and safety requirements, while closely coordinating with relevant agencies and local authorities. He also urged Dak Lak, the education sector, local Party committees and authorities, and the school to proactively prepare teaching staff, curricula and management plans to ensure effective operation once the project is completed.
The Party chief expressed his hope that students in Ea Rok commune and Dak Lak province as a whole will nurture aspirations for learning, cultivate determination to overcome difficulties, and study to grow, escape poverty and contribute to the development of their homeland.
On the occasion of the New Year 2026 and ahead of the Lunar New Year of the Horse, he extended his warm regards and best wishes to revolutionary veterans and all ethnic communities, as well as to teachers and students in Ea Rok commune.
At the ceremony, General Secretary Lam and General Phan Van Giang, Politburo member and Minister of National Defence, also presented gifts to the local Party organisation, teachers, students and disadvantaged families in the locality./.
