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He described the Congress as an event of socio-political significance and a special symbol of national great unity.
The leader said Vietnam has reaped important achievements in almost all areas, yet northern mountainous, central, Mekong Delta and Central Highlands provinces where ethnic minority groups are living still meet various difficulties.
According to him, the Party and State have given priority to allocating resources to support education, health care, infrastructure and socio-economic development for ethnic and mountainous regions, accounting for 71.4% of the expenditure for the work. The Vietnam Bank for Social Policies’ loans for the region account for 52.5% of the country’s total.
As a result, 99% of communal centres and 80% of villages have accessed to electricity, 65% of communes have small irrigation systems, 80% of villages build roads for vehicles, more than half of the communes own standard medical stations while all ethnic minority people and the poor have free health insurance.
Political security and social safety and order in the region have been maintained, Party building work pushed up, political system consolidated, and ethnic minorities’ trust in the Party and State strengthened, he said, adding that their material and spiritual lives have never been better than now.
Affirming that ethnic minority group are an inseparable part and blood and flesh of the Vietnamese nation, the PM said comprehensive development of ethnic minority regions helps lay a foundation to ensure great national unity.
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Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc grants the first-class Labour Order to the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs at the congress. (Photo: NDO)
On the occasion, ministries and agencies from the central and grassroots levels must continue disseminating and effectively realise the Party Central Committee’s Resolution No. 24-NQ/TW on ethnic work in the new situation, do their best to basically deal with urgent issues, and create livelihoods to improve local lives and follow the motto that no one is left behind.
They were also asked to realise Resolution No.88/2019/QH14 and Resolution No. 120/2020/QH14 of the 14th National Assembly and Decision No. 1409/QD-TTg of the Prime Minister issuing the plan to realise the legislature’s Resolution No. 120 approving the National Target Programme on socio-economic development for ethnic minority and mountainous regions for the 2021-2030 period.
The leader expressed his wish that ethnic groups will offer all possible support to help their children to go to schools because education is the only way to push them to prosperity.
He hoped that nearly 1,600 outstanding delegates representing the 54 ethnic groups will lift the spirit of great national unity to a greater height.
On the occasion, the Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs was awarded with the Labour Order, first class, by the State President in recognition of its contributions to socialism building and national defence.
