An ethnic minority woman receives financial support and escapes poverty by raising goats in Dac O commune, Bu Gia Map district, the southern province of Binh Phuoc (Photo: VNA) As part of the national target programme, approved by Deputy Prime Minister PhamBinh Minh, by 2025, ethnic minorities’ income will be double that of 2020.
The first stage will be rolled out in the 2021-25 period.
The overall objective is to exploit the potential and advantages of ethnicminority and mountainous areas, promote economic development, ensure socialsecurity, and put in place rapid and sustainable poverty reduction.
It hopes to gradually narrow the gap between the areas’ living standards andaverage income and the national average income, reduce the number of communesand villages with special difficulties and set up an inter-regionalsocio-economic infrastructure system.
The areas will receive better education, training and healthcare, markedlyimproving people's lives, raising the quantity and quality of State employeeswho are ethnic minorities, preserving and promoting ethnic minorities’ culture.
Gender equality and urgent issues facing women and children will be resolved aswell as maintaining social order and safety, ensuring national border security,consolidating and strengthening the great national unity.
The programme aims to reduce the rate of poor households by more than three percentper year, and all roads will be paved with asphalt or concrete. All schools andmedical stations will be upgraded, and 99 percent of households will haveaccess to electricity.
Up to 90 percent of ethnic minorities will have access to clean water and allhave television or radio to receive information.
The programme hopes to move 60 percent of ethnicminority households living in remote and isolated areas at risk of flash floodsand landslides. Land shortages will also be resolved.
More than 98 percent of five-year-old children will attend school. The rate ofstudents at primary schools, junior secondary schools and high schools will be97, 95 and 60 percent, respectively.
As many as 98 percent of ethnic minorities will be covered by health insuranceand more than 80 percent of pregnant women will receive periodic examinations.The rate of malnourished children will be under 15 percent.
Under the programme, 50 percent of ethnic minorities of working age willreceive proper vocational training that is suitable to their aspirations andliving conditions.
At least 3,250km of rural roads will be paved with asphalt or concrete. Morethan 268,860 households will get access to clean water.
More than 320 boarding schools, more than 1,100 day-boarding schools, sevenreserve universities and three boarding high schools will get more teachingmaterials and equipment.
More than 17,400 households will receive land and more than 18,300 othersreceive houses.
The programme will offer vocational training to about 2.25 million people.
About 320 training courses on intangible culture will be organised and 200projects on traditional culture, which are at risk of disappearing, will besupported.
More than 5,000 poor students will get help to continue their studies everyyear.
Eighty villages will be used to promote tourism and 800 clubs for traditionalculture will be founded.
More than 224,900 prestigious people in the community will be educated aboutnecessary work related to ethnic minority affairs and 30,000 workers at thegrassroots level will be taught IT skills./.
VNA
