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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc described poverty reduction as the leading political task of the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang.

Vietnam has made progress after more than 30 years of doi moi (reform), with reduced poverty rate, increased income and changing life and career of residents, said international experts.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc asked the northern mountainous province of Bac Kan to launch a widespread poverty reduction campaign and consider this a political task.

The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak is making efforts to reduce the rate of poor households by 2.5-3 percent by 2020.

The Mekong Delta province of Tra Vinh is making a beeline for sustainable poverty reduction, aiming to cut the rate of impoverished households in the locality by 2.5 percent by the end of this year.

Poverty rate in the Central Highlands dropped by 2.8 percent annually over the past 15 years, the Steering Committee for the Central Highlands said on June 30 .

A Khong (Zero) Dong shop that offers donated clothing and household appliances, most of them new and some of them secondhand, is seeing a brisk business in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang.

Minister-Chairman of the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs Do Van Chien has asked localities to reduce the proportion of poor households in the ethnic minority and mountainous regions by 3-4 percent per year from now to 2020.

The National Assembly (NA) on November 7 adopted a resolution on the socio-economic development plan for 2017, which aims at a gross domestic product (GDP) growth rate of about 6.7 percent.

Soft loans provided in the northwestern region helped lift more than 318,000 families out of poverty between 2011 and 2015.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has underscored the need for the central province of Nghe An to change its thinking about socio-economic development and optimise its strength to grow further.

The northern province of Bac Giang aims to reduce the household poverty rate by two percent each year from now to 2020, said Vu Hong Minh.

The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong is set to reduce its poverty rate to less than 1.9 percent, in particular the rate of poor households in ethnic minority areas to under 4.8 percent by 2020.

Soft loans for poor households from the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies have helped lower the poverty rate in the Central Highlands to 7.34 percent, according to the Steering Committee for the region

The Kho Mu ethnic minority group in Thanh Hoa are expecting improvements in their living conditions as the provincial People’s Committee has approved a project to help them have stable livelihoods.

Women in the northwestern region should have more opportunities to access education-training, science-technology and loans in order to raise their competitiveness in economic development.

The Vietnam National Textile and Garment Group (Vinatex) plans to build a garment and fiber factory in HCM City's rural district of Can Gio in an effort to reduce the poverty rate.

Vietnam is a successful example in realising the strategic targets of the World Bank (WB) according to the bank’s Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD), an expert has said.

The Northwestern mountainous region has the highest number of poor and near-poor households, which account for more than half of its total households.

Authorities in the capital city planned to earmark 70 billion VND (3.1 million USD) for vocational training in 2016, with priority given to rural labourers and people with disabilities.