One day in July, we had the opportunity to visit Hin Dam village, Kien Moc commune - one of the mountainous areas with many difficulties.
Mr. Duong Van Sy, head of Hin Dam village, said: The village has 55 households, more than 300 people, 100% of whom are Dao ethnic people. Previously, there was no mobile signal in the village, so to make a call, you had to travel 2-3 km to an area with signal. Since 2022, the village has been covered by 4G, and the lives of the villagers have completely changed. 90% of households in the village have at least one smartphone and an electronic payment account; 100% of smartphone users have installed convenient applications such as VneID, electronic health books, and electronic banking applications. Thanks to the Internet, everything is much simpler: convenient communication, online shopping, even paying electricity and water bills, transferring money... can all be done at home.
Not only using technology to connect and entertain, Hin Dam people and many other villages have also proactively applied digital applications to production and trade. Ms. Duong Thi Van (born in 1993), a Dao ethnic person in Lang Dong village, Nhat Hoa commune, shared: My family has a traditional herbal medicine profession. Before, I used to bring medicine to all the markets to sell, but I couldn't sell much. Since 2022, I have used social networks like Facebook and Zalo to connect with customers to inform them of the schedule, points of sale and the items I have. Thanks to this connection method, I can not only sell directly but also send goods to customers via post office . Every month, I earn from 20 to 30 million VND, twice as much as before.
Mr. Vi Anh Duc, a shipper of the Best Express shipping unit, said: I am in charge of delivering goods to Dinh Lap, Chau Son, and Kien Moc communes. In addition to me, this route also has 5-6 delivery people from other companies. Every day, I deliver 60-70 orders to people in villages and hamlets, and most of them transfer money to pay, only about 10% of customers use cash.
That shows that digital transformation, e-commerce, and cashless payments have been spreading strongly to every village, including remote areas and ethnic minorities.
Mr. Tran Huu Giang, Deputy Director of the Department of Science and Technology, said: People and businesses are at the center of digital transformation. Therefore, in recent times, we have proactively coordinated with telecommunications enterprises to promote the development of digital infrastructure. Along with that, the department has also strengthened training and guidance on technology usage skills for more than 8,000 members of community digital technology groups. This is the core force that helps spread the spirit of digital transformation, while also leading people in villages and hamlets to apply digital applications to serve their lives and production. Thanks to these efforts, up to now, the majority of people in the province have accessed and used digital technology, effectively applying digital applications in their lives and work.
If in 2021, the whole province still had 268 villages and hamlets without 3G, 4G mobile waves or had waves but the quality was unstable; 405 villages and hamlets did not have infrastructure to provide broadband Internet services, then by the end of July 2025, 100% of communes had fiber optic broadband networks; 99.7% of the population had 3G/4G/5G coverage. Over 84.5% of households had fiber optic connections at home; the whole province had over 920,000 smartphone subscribers; over 76% of adults had electronic payment accounts. The current telecommunications infrastructure can meet the current usage needs well and can be upgraded to serve new services.
Digital transformation is no longer a distant concept but is present in every lifestyle, production and business activity of the people in the highlands. People not only know how to use technology to look up information, contact relatives, but also gradually apply it to develop livelihoods, connect to the market and preserve traditional cultural values... the whole community moves towards digital life.
With the drastic direction and implementation of Party committees and authorities at all levels as well as the consensus and active response of the people, the digital transformation in the province has achieved outstanding results. In 2024, the Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Associations scored and voted Lang Son province to win the "Top Industry 4.0 Vietnam 2024" award in the category of typical localities proactively implementing the 4.0 industrial revolution and digital transformation. From remote villages, digital transformation is contributing to opening up new opportunities, narrowing the gap between mountainous areas and plains.
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