Minister-Chairman of the Government Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs Hau A Lenh on January 14 led a delegation to pay a visit to ethnic minority groups in Than Uyen district of the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau on the threshold of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.
The Government has issued Resolution No. 01/NQ-CP on the main tasks and solutions for implementing the socio-economic development and State budget plans for 2022.
National Assembly (NA) deputies continue an online debate on issues related to amendments and supplements to a number of articles of the Law on Public Investment, the Law on Public-Private Partnership, the Law on Investment, the Biding Law, the Electricity Law, the Enterprise Law, the Law on Special Consumption Tax, and the Law on Enforcement of Civil Judgments; and the Eastern North-South Expres
The Government’s online conference with localities convened on January 5, reviewing performance last year and discussing the implementation of the Party Central Committee’s conclusion and the National Assembly’s resolution on socio-economic development tasks in 2022.
The Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs will focus on the implementation of the master scheme and the 2021-2030 national target programme on socio-economic development in ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas next year, heard a meeting held by the committee in Hanoi on December 29.
The capital city of Hanoi will focus on “discipline, responsibility, action, innovation, development” in its activities, and outline several socio-economic development indices in 2022 as follows:
Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh chaired a meeting in Hanoi on December 20 to discuss a draft Prime Minister's decision issuing principles and criteria for State budget allocation for the implementation of the National Target Programme on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in 2021-2030.
The Vietnamese Party and the State are implementing a strategic policy on making strong investment in mountainous and border areas and improving livelihoods of people, especially their legitimate need for religious practice.
An online conference to promote investment from India to southern localities of Vietnam was held on December 10 in Binh Duong by the provincial People’s Committee and the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MoIT)’s southern investment promotion centre.
As many as 10,000 households of outstanding trade union members and workers in Ho Chi Minh City will celebrate Lunar New Year festival at Dam Sen Cultural Park, District 11 from January 29 to February 6, 2022, except January 31, said Vice President of the municipal Labour Federation Pham Chi Tam on December 8.
Vietnam will work to improve nutritional status of under five-year old children who are stunned, especially those in ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son said at the Nutrition for Growth (N4G) Summit held virtually in Japan on December 7-8.
Natural disaster prevention and control should be integrated into socio-economic development plans, especially in localities, experts said at a workshop on December 3.
Vietnam has so far owned six satellites in the orbit as a result of implementing the Government’s Space Technology Research and Development Strategy towards 2020.
Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc on November 26 met President of the Swiss National Council Andreas Aebi as part of his official visit to Switzerland.
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