423,000 billion VND allocated to the targeted program for poverty reduction in ethnic minority areas.

On the morning of December 11th, with 430 votes in favor, representing 90.91% of the total National Assembly delegates, the National Assembly passed a Resolution approving the investment policy for the National Target Program on New Rural Development, Sustainable Poverty Reduction, and Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas for the period 2026-2035.

Báo Tin Tức•11/12/2025

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The National Assembly voted to approve the Resolution on the investment policy for the National Target Program on New Rural Development, Sustainable Poverty Reduction and Socio -Economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas for the period 2026-2035. Photo: Doan Tan/TTXVN

The program aims to build modern, prosperous, beautiful, and sustainable new rural areas, linked to urbanization and climate change adaptation. It comprehensively develops ethnic minority and mountainous regions. It implements multidimensional, inclusive, and sustainable poverty reduction, ensuring gender equality and social security. It develops the rural economy in a green, circular, and ecological direction, linked to restructuring the agricultural sector to improve income, quality of life, and narrow development gaps between regions, areas, and population groups, especially ethnic minority and mountainous regions, compared to other regions. It strengthens national unity, enhances the trust of ethnic minorities in the Party and the State; preserves and promotes the beautiful cultural identity of ethnic minority communities. It ensures national defense, security, and social order, especially in strategic areas, border regions, and islands.
Specifically, by 2030: Strive to increase the average income of rural people by 2.5-3 times compared to 2020; strive to increase the average income of ethnic minorities to half the national average. Strive to maintain a reduction rate of 1-1.5% per year in the national multidimensional poverty rate; strive to reduce the multidimensional poverty rate in ethnic minority and mountainous areas to below 10%. Strive to essentially eliminate extremely difficult communes and villages in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. Strive for approximately 65% of communes nationwide to meet the new rural development standards, of which about 10% of those communes to be recognized as modern rural communes; strive for 5 provinces and cities to be recognized as having completed the new rural development task.
By 2035: Strive to increase per capita income in rural areas by at least 1.6 times compared to 2030; strive to increase the average income of ethnic minorities to half of the national average. Maintain a national multidimensional poverty rate reduction of 1 to 1.5% per year according to the poverty standard for the 2031-2035 period. Strive to reduce the number of disadvantaged communes and villages in ethnic minority and mountainous areas by at least 50%; strive to have 5 provinces and cities in ethnic minority and mountainous areas with no disadvantaged communes or villages. Strive for approximately 85% of communes nationwide to meet the new rural development standards, of which about 30% of those communes to be recognized as modern new rural communes. The goal is to have at least 10 provinces and cities recognized as having completed the task of building new rural areas, with the aim of having 5 provinces and cities achieve the status of modern new rural areas.
The program is implemented nationwide, prioritizing particularly disadvantaged communes and villages, ethnic minority and mountainous areas, security zones, border regions, and islands.
The beneficiaries are communes, villages, individuals, communities, cooperatives, cooperative groups, businesses, and other relevant organizations nationwide, with priority given to poor households, near-poor households, newly-escaped-from-poverty households, ethnic minority and mountainous areas, security zones, border areas, and islands.
The implementation period is from 2026 to the end of 2035. The total state budget allocated to the Program for the 2026-2030 period is approximately 423,000 billion VND; of which, 100,000 billion VND comes from the central budget (70,000 billion VND for development investment and 30,000 billion VND for recurrent expenditures), 300,000 billion VND from local budgets, and 23,000 billion VND from policy credit (state budget).
During the implementation process, the Government will continue to balance central budget funds, including social policy credit funds, to prioritize additional support for the Program in accordance with actual conditions, ensuring sufficient resources to achieve the assigned goals and tasks. Based on the results of the Program's implementation in the 2026-2030 period, the Government will submit to the National Assembly for decision the resources for the Program's implementation in the 2031-2035 period.
Earlier, on behalf of the Prime Minister, Minister of Agriculture and Environment Tran Duc Thang presented a report explaining, accepting, and revising the draft Resolution approving the investment policy for the National Target Program on New Rural Development, Sustainable Poverty Reduction, and Socio-Economic Development in Ethnic Minority and Mountainous Areas for the period 2026-2035. He stated that the Government affirms that integrating the three National Target Programs will not disrupt or omit any policies; it places the highest priority on the development of ethnic minority and mountainous areas; and it commits to implementing the Program decisively and effectively, contributing to the highest goal of the Party and State: ensuring a prosperous and happy life for the people, especially those in ethnic minority and mountainous areas.