With the goal of no more families living in temporary or dilapidated houses by the end of 2025, Son Duong district (Tuyen Quang province) has supported hundreds of poor households, ethnic minorities, and policy families to renovate and repair their houses. Thanks to that, the households have stabilized their lives, confidently developed their economy, and eliminated poverty. Prestigious people in Vinh Long province play the role of a solid bridge between the government and the people, helping to effectively convey the policies and guidelines of the Party and the laws of the State to ethnic minorities. Thereby, they make an important contribution to strengthening people's trust in the government, promoting solidarity and consensus in the emulation movements for socio-economic development of the province. On the evening of December 22, during the working program in Lao Cai, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh and the working delegation worked with the Standing Committee of Lao Cai Provincial Party Committee, assessing the situation and results of implementing socio-economic development tasks in 2024 and directions and tasks in the coming time. The Mang ethnic group in Nam Nhun district (Lai Chau province) has over 6,000 people living in 15 villages in 5 communes. In addition to preserving the beauty of traditional cultural identity such as language, festivals, folk songs, folk dances, etc., the traditional costume of the Mang ethnic group is also a unique cultural heritage, in which the visual art on the costume contains the quintessence and artistic creativity of the nation. The preservation and promotion of the value of the traditional costumes of the Mang ethnic group is being focused on by local authorities and specialized agencies with many practical solutions... On December 23, in Phuoc Khang commune, Thuan Bac district, the People's Committee of Ninh Thuan province coordinated with the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of the province to organize the Launching Ceremony of the emulation movement to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses for poor households with housing difficulties in the province. Attending the event were Mr. Pham Van Hau, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; Tran Quoc Nam, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Le Van Binh, Chairman of the Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of the province; Nguyen Long Bien, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; leaders of departments, branches, businesses and local people. Our family would like to express our deep gratitude to: Located right at the foot of the majestic Ngoc Linh mountain, Tu Mo Rong land is home to nearly 30,000 people; of which, the Xo Dang ethnic group accounts for over 95%. The Xo Dang people have lived on this land for generations and have many unique, diverse and rich cultural features. Notable are the folk art forms with typical communal house architecture; traditional crafts such as: weaving, brocade weaving, making musical instruments, carving statues; traditional musical instruments such as: Gongs, T'rung, Ting Ning, Klong Put and folk songs and dances. Prestigious people in Vinh Long province play the role of a solid bridge between the government and the people, helping to effectively convey the policies and guidelines of the Party and the laws of the State to ethnic minorities. Thereby, they make an important contribution to strengthening people's trust in the government, promoting solidarity and consensus in the emulation movements for socio-economic development of the province. General news of the Ethnic and Development Newspaper. The morning news on December 21st has the following notable information: Bringing folk dance into contemporary life. Green tourism potential in Binh Thuan. The rough gem is gradually shining. Along with other current news in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. The Lunar New Year of At Ty 2025 is approaching, with the goal: "No one does not have Tet", currently, sectors and localities in Quang Ninh province are actively implementing the plan to take care of Tet for people, especially those who are policy beneficiaries, disadvantaged, ethnic minorities, and remote areas. With the advantage of production forest land, and the orientation of developing forestry trees associated with the processing industry, Son Duong district (Tuyen Quang province) focuses on developing a sustainable forestry economy. Many households have earned high incomes from the forest economy and created jobs locally. In recent times, Son Duong district (Tuyen Quang province) has promoted the digitization of records, aiming to build digital government, e-government, promote the digital transformation revolution in the district, helping organizations and individuals to enjoy public services quickly and conveniently. With the goal of no more families having to live in temporary or dilapidated houses by the end of 2025, Son Duong district (Tuyen Quang province) has supported hundreds of poor households, ethnic minorities, and policy families to renovate and repair their houses. Thanks to that, households have stabilized their lives, confidently developed the economy, and eliminated poverty. Tea is one of the key crops of Son Duong district (Tuyen Quang province), creating sustainable livelihoods, increasing income for people, and actively contributing to sustainable poverty reduction.

In Son Duong, the Fatherland Front at all levels has coordinated with Party committees, authorities, and relevant agencies to focus on reviewing, updating, supplementing, and compiling a complete list of poor households living in temporary, dilapidated houses that need support to renovate and repair their houses, avoiding omissions and duplication of support lists, paying attention to poor households who are meritorious people, policy families, and poor households who are ethnic minorities in remote, isolated, and especially disadvantaged areas.

One of the ways in Son Duong is to mobilize the entire political system and the community. The local government has organized extensive propaganda and called for contributions from businesses, organizations and kind-hearted individuals.

Many years ago, Mr. Hoang Quang Cong's family, Cao Lan ethnic group, Phuc Loc village, Phuc Ung commune, faced many difficulties in life. The reason was that the family had 6 members, the mother was over 90 years old, the sister was over 60 years old and not very agile, the couple's son was paralyzed in a traffic accident, the family only had one person as the main laborer. Meanwhile, the family's old house was seriously degraded and there was no money to rebuild or repair it.

Faced with difficult circumstances, in February 2023, the District Fatherland Front Committee called on and mobilized the Provincial Veterans Association to support 50 million VND, and people in the commune helped with working days to build the house. After nearly 4 months of construction, the house was completed in the joy and happiness of the family. The house has an area of ​​over 120m2, including 4 bedrooms, a living room and auxiliary works. Mr. Cong shared that with the support of the Provincial Veterans Association and the help of his relatives, he and his wife were able to build a spacious house worth nearly 600 million VND. This is a great joy, encouraging the family to strive to overcome the situation.

Son Duong has actively implemented solutions to proactively and focused on mobilizing resources to support poor households in building houses; focusing on coordinating the effective use of support resources, credit resources and support resources from the community. Coordinate and unify the allocation of resources to support housing construction for poor households from the National Target Program (NTP) for sustainable poverty reduction and the National Target Program for socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.

After 2 years of implementing the Project to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses for poor households in the province in the period of 2022-2025, Son Duong district has repaired and built 1,243 houses for poor households, policy families, ethnic minorities, etc. with a total value of over 69.3 billion VND from mobilized capital sources. Of which, 1,189 houses were rebuilt and 54 houses were repaired. In 2023 alone, 388 houses were built and repaired for households. In addition to the support money according to the project, communes and towns have proactively mobilized businesses, philanthropists, relatives, and communities to support additional money and materials for households with special difficulties, unable to complete the construction themselves with a converted amount of over 14 billion VND and over 4,000 working days to help poor households build houses.

Thanks to the attention, support and active participation of all levels, sectors and philanthropists, poor households have soon eliminated temporary and dilapidated houses, stabilized their lives and risen out of poverty. This result is of great significance, creating trust and promoting the efforts and responsibilities of each poor household in building houses and escaping poverty sustainably. Eliminating temporary and dilapidated houses has become a movement, spreading widely and arousing the spirit of solidarity and consensus of all classes of people in Son Duong in eliminating temporary and dilapidated houses for poor households. Thereby, contributing to the effective implementation of national target programs in the district, the goals and tasks set out in the Resolution of the Son Duong District Party Congress, term 2020 - 2025.

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