The programme’s objectives are to exploit potential and advantages of localities in the mountainous and ethnic-inhabited areas; promote economic development, and ensure social welfare in those areas; boost rapid and sustainable poverty reduction to gradually narrow the gap in living standards and average income compared to the national average; and comprehensively develop education, training, health and culture.
Tran Thi Nhi Thuy, head of the MIC’s Legal Department, said that the conference is intended to enhance the media's understanding of the goals and contents of the programme, as well as coordination and information sharing between state management agencies, and media agencies, thus increasing the efficiency of assisting ethnic minorities in accessing information.
Reporting on several policies supporting residents in these areas in information access, Nguyen Ngoc Hai, deputy head of the MIC’s Planning-Finance Department, said that press and communications agencies should focus on popularising the Party’s guidelines and the State’s policies and laws on the implementation of policies and laws on sustainable poverty reduction to raise public awareness on this field; and orienting people in accessing basic social services and programmes on employment, vocational training, health, education, housing and clean water.
