Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc visited and presented 200 gifts to the poor and policy beneficiaries in Dak Song district, the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong on February 9 ahead of the upcoming traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.
The People’s Committee of Dak Nong province has adopted a plan to expand clean water supply and environmental sanitation services in rural areas in 2018.
Dak Nong spent nearly 52 billion VND (2.33 million USD) on poverty reduction in 2017, helping bring the poverty rate among local households down by 2.63 percent from 2016 to 16.57 percent.
The Central Highlands Dak Nong provincial chapter of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) will provide further care for the poor and ethnic minority groups in disadvantaged and border areas this year.
The Central Highlands province of Dak Nong has completed the building of 80 auxiliary markers on the border shared with Cambodia’s Mundulkiri province as set in 2017.
As many as 99.57 percent of villages or 96.4 percent of population in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong have had access to the national grid by the end of 2017.
Nearly 5.2 trillion VND will be spent on building new-style rural areas in the southern province of Ba Ria – Vung Tau in 2018-2020, heard a conference in the locality on December 26.
Domestic and foreign experts, business executives and managerial officials have sought to make use of public-private partnership (PPP) to support the development of the Central Highlands.
More than 30,200 poor ethnic minority students in the Central Highland province of Dak Nong have been given free textbooks for the 2017-2018 school year.
The Dak Nong Aluminium Company in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong, part of the Vietnam National Coal and Mineral Industries Group, has earned 50 million USD from exporting 140,000 tonnes of aluminum and 24,000 tonnes of hydrate so far this year.
Authorities in the Central Highlands province of Dak Nong have asked the Dak Nong Aluminum Company to ensure that aluminum powder is not released into the environment.
The Central Highlands province of Dak Nong will spend more than 2.2 trillion VND (96.8 million USD) to upgrade the provincial power transmission grid under the local power development plan until 2025.