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Vietnam striving to raise living standards of ethnic minority groups

Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh on June 24 asked ministries and agencies to roll out specific action plans to speed up the disbursement of public investments and deal with impact of COVID-19 on ethnic minority groups. ​
Vietnam striving to raise living standards of ethnic minority groups ảnh 1Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Truong Hoa Binh speaks at the meeting. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Permanent Deputy PrimeMinister Truong Hoa Binh on June 24 asked ministries and agencies to roll outspecific action plans to speed up the disbursement of public investments anddeal with impact of COVID-19 on ethnic minority groups.

The National Assembly has approved the funding thataims to raise living standards of ethnic minority groups and those living inmountainous areas during the 2021-2025 period, said Binh, who is also head ofthe steering committee for the national target programme on socio-economicdevelopment in ethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas.

The approval is significant to the country’ssocio-economic development, he added.

Minister-Chairman of the Committee for EthnicMinorities Affairs Hau A Lenh said the 2021-2030 national target programme isset to narrow the gaps of living standards and income between ethnicminority-inhabited and mountainous areas and the national average.

The number of communes and villages in extremelydifficult circumstances is expected to be halved by 2025, and there would be nolocalities facing such circumstances by 2030.
Vietnam striving to raise living standards of ethnic minority groups ảnh 2Illustrative image (Source: VNA)
The total funding for the programme during the2021-2025 period stands at about 147.05 trillion VND (over 6 billion USD).

Deputy PM Binh ordered establishing a working groupin charge of mobilising official development assistance (ODA), and asked theCommittee for Ethnic Minorities Affairs and the Ministry of Transport to coordinatewith relevant ministries to propose programmes and projects on infrastructureconstruction and human resources development in ethnic minority-inhabited andmountainous areas, using ODA and foreign loans worth around 350 million USD./.
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