Xuan hailed efforts by localauthorities and residents in socio-economic development, with Long An’s per capita income topping 94 million VND (3,818 USD), relatively high ascompared with the national average, and the rate of poor households dropping toonly 0.75%.
She asked the locality to uphold the achievements,focus on rapid, sustainable development, pay more attention to infrastructuredevelopment, and give more care to residents in remote areas.
Long An should work to maintain its role in linkingMekong Delta cities and provinces with Ho Chi Minh City and others in thesoutheastern region, thus ensuring their sustainable, even development, Xuansaid.
On this occasion, she handed over 600 Tet gifts,each worth 1 million VND, to local social policy beneficiaries and needy people; 10 houses, each worth 500 million VND, to disadvantaged households; and 200million VND to the provincial children sponsor fund.
The same day, she attended a New Year programme andcut the ribbon to open a “zero dong” market fair for the poor organised by theVietnam Red Cross Society in An Thanh commune, Ben Luc district.
Also on January 26, Vice Chairman of the NationalAssembly (NA) Nguyen Duc Hai attended a Tet programme in the northernmountainous province of Lang Son and presented Tet gifts to labourers indifficult circumstances.

In his remarks, Hai affirmed that the Party, State, and NA always pay attention to those who have rendered services to the nation,social policy beneficiaries and disadvantaged people, especially ethnicminorities, asking Lang Son to pay more heed to the social welfare work.
He presented 12 gifts to social policy beneficiaries,and 200 others to trade union members and labourers in the locality./.