As a locality with a particularly important strategic geographical position in protecting national border sovereignty, stabilizing security and order in mountainous ethnic areas, and ensuring water resources for the sustainable development of the Northern Delta region; along with its inherent natural conditions, with rich potential in forests, agriculture, minerals, energy, etc., Lai Chau has always been recognized, evaluated, and identified by the Party and State as an important strategic locality in socio-economic development, ensuring national defense, security, and national borders.

Lai Chau develops comprehensively and firmly.

On January 1, 2004, the newly re-established Lai Chau province officially came into operation, opening a new page in history for the Party Committee, government and people of all ethnic groups in the province. After 20 years of construction and development, with determination and will to rise, Lai Chau has achieved solid and outstanding achievements such as: The economy has developed quite well, the average growth rate in 20 years reached more than 9%/year; the budget revenue in the province increased 80 times, from 31 billion VND to more than 2,500 billion VND; the average income per capita increased 25 times, from 2.2 million VND to more than 56.2 million VND.

The rural appearance has improved a lot with 44/106 communes meeting new rural standards, forest cover rate reaching over 52%.

Socio-economic infrastructure has been invested in, 100% of communes have car roads to the center; the rate of households using the national grid electricity has reached over 97%; over 93% of rural residents have access to clean water, 99% of urban residents have access to clean water. Education has been strongly developed; the health insurance coverage rate has reached over 96%.

Party building and political system building work were strengthened; national defense and security were stable, and national border sovereignty was firmly ensured.

Lai Chau has 20 ethnic groups, very diverse, which is a condition for developing cultural and community tourism.

However, besides the achievements, Lai Chau also has difficulties and also a heavy responsibility, an honor that the Party Committee, government, and people of all ethnic groups in Lai Chau must strive for. For example, with 265.165km of border, Lai Chau is an important area in the national border protection strategy, this is the top political task to firmly protect the sovereignty, borders, and landmarks of the Fatherland.

The province has 19 ethnic minorities, the ethnic minority rate accounts for more than 84%, the population is scattered, the area is difficult, the traffic is strongly divided... In recent years, hostile forces have continuously abandoned the plot and trick of "Peaceful evolution", taking advantage of ethnic and religious issues, illegally proselytizing, distorting the Party and State's policies and guidelines on ethnic and religious policies, inciting and causing division in the great national unity bloc. Effectively implementing ethnic and mountainous policies, improving the material and spiritual life of the people will contribute significantly to political stability at the grassroots level.

Lai Chau has a strategic position as it is located in the upper reaches of the Da River, with more than 494,000 hectares of forest. This is an important upstream protection area for large hydroelectric plants; ensuring water security for the sustainable development of the Northern Delta; contributing significantly to the green and sustainable development trend that our country is aiming for.

Located in the upper Da River, Lai Chau is an important upstream protection area.

Lai Chau has 20 ethnic groups living together, each with its own unique identity, blending together to create a unique multi-colored picture of highland culture, which is an important condition for developing cultural tourism and community tourism.

To be ready to enter the era of national development, the top political task in the immediate future is for Lai Chau province to successfully implement the policy of merging the organizational apparatus of the political system; abolishing the intermediate administrative level (district level), merging a number of commune-level units; implementing the 2-level local model to ensure streamlining, efficiency, effectiveness and efficiency.

Effectively implementing policies and reorganizing the apparatus of the political system are important conditions to reduce cumbersomeness and overlap in direction, concretize the Party's policies and the State's laws; reorganize commune-level administrative units, and improve the effectiveness and efficiency of smooth direction and administration from the province to the grassroots level.

The restructuring of the political system is a correct policy of the Party and State, creating a new mechanism and new driving force for the development of the country in general, as well as Lai Chau in particular.

Lai Chau is an important location in the national border protection strategy.

With the attention of the Party and the State, Lai Chau is working with relevant ministries and branches to effectively deploy investment resources from the Central Government such as: The project of the route connecting Lai Chau with the Noi Bai-Lao Cai expressway; the Hoang Lien road tunnel project connecting Sa Pa town (Lao Cai province) with Tam Duong district (Lai Chau province)... That will open up opportunities and possibilities for connection between Lai Chau and provinces in the region and the whole country, to continue to take advantage of and mobilize all resources and advantages for development, contributing to the effective implementation of Resolution 11-NQ/TW, dated February 10, 2022 of the Politburo on the direction of socio-economic development, ensuring national defense and security in the midland and mountainous areas of the North by 2030, with a vision to 2045.

The Party Committee, government and people of all ethnic groups in Lai Chau are always deeply aware of the great and sacred responsibility assigned by the Party and State in firmly ensuring national border sovereignty; the responsibility in building ethnic solidarity, stabilizing the political base in mountainous areas, creating equal, synchronous and comprehensive development among ethnic groups; protecting forests, water security... contributing to the overall stability of development, together with the whole country entering the era of national development .

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