Preserving and promoting national cultural identity contributes to economic development and sustainable poverty reduction in Quang Ninh

Ethnic minorities in Duong Hoa commune, Quang Ninh province actively join hands with local authorities to effectively implement the contents of the new rural construction program, contributing to improving the quality of life and building an increasingly rich and civilized homeland.

Duong Hoa Commune, Quang Ninh Province has a population of 17,200 people, distributed in 32 villages, of which ethnic minorities account for 40.8% of the population. With the attention and care of the province through special policies on socio -economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, people have gradually changed their thinking and working methods, increasingly promoting positivity and initiative in implementing the program of new rural construction, economic development, and sustainable poverty reduction.

Party Cell Secretary, Head of Quang Son 4 Village, Phun Van Tinh, said: The village has 229 households and 930 people, including 5 ethnic groups living together: Dao Thanh Y, Dao Thanh Phan, San Chi, Nung and Kinh.

Dao women of Duong Hoa commune preserve and promote the value of traditional costumes.

In recent years, the people have actively promoted their role as the main subject in building new rural areas, such as: Accelerating the transformation of crop and livestock structure, introducing new varieties into production to increase productivity and quality. Up to now, the whole village has 9.2 hectares of rice; 3 hectares of corn; 38 buffaloes and cows; 600 pigs; 4,820 poultry. The average income reached 83.5 million VND/person/year, 2 times higher than in 2022. The whole village no longer has poor households according to the province's poverty standards.

During more than 10 years of implementing the new rural construction program, people have voluntarily donated land, labor, and money to the state to concrete 100% of the roads in the village. In 2024, people contributed more than 135 million VND to build the "Lighting up the Countryside Roads" electric lighting system, ensuring convenient travel for people at night, limiting traffic accidents and crimes.

The "Green Sunday" movement associated with the implementation of the "3 clean" criteria in the campaign "Building a family of 5 no, 3 clean"; the model of "Women's group collecting waste"; carrying out campaigns to clean the environment, cut grass on the roadside, trim trees along the road, village cultural houses, clean drainage ditches... have also received positive responses from the people, contributing to protecting the environment, building the village greener - cleaner - more beautiful. Thanks to that, for many consecutive years the village has been commended in the movement "Joining hands to build new rural areas".

Lo Ma Cooc village Party cell (Duong Hoa commune) propagates and mobilizes people to comply with state laws.

In Lo Ma Cooc village, the Dao people have also made many positive contributions to the construction of new rural areas. In particular, through the propaganda and mobilization work of local Party committees and authorities, the people have complied with the Law on Marriage and Family, preventing early marriage and incestuous marriage, contributing to improving the quality of the population, eliminating backward customs, and building progressive and civilized villages...

Ms. Nguyen Thi Loan, Chairwoman of the Commune Fatherland Front Committee, said: Up to now, the people in the commune have donated 6,355m2 of land along with many constructions and structures on the land, 30,368 trees of all kinds; voluntarily dismantled 806m2 of walls and structures to build rural roads; contributed over 3 billion VND and mobilized over 10,970 working days to repair and renew many inter-village and inter-hamlet roads, dredged canals; planted over 24,791 new trees of all kinds on model roads and village cultural houses. Currently, 100% of the commune's villages and hamlets have electricity to light up the countryside roads with 1,216 light bulbs installed worth 3 billion VND, the total length of the illuminated roads is 81km. This result has a very positive contribution from ethnic minorities.

In addition to material contributions, ethnic minorities also actively preserve and promote their national cultural identity. Notable are the coming-of-age ceremonies, wedding customs, traditional costume embroidery, brass trumpet playing, and teaching of the Dao Thanh Y and Thanh Phan writing...

Source: https://bvhttdl.gov.vn/bao-ton-phat-huy-ban-sac-van-hoa-dan-toc-gop-phan-phat-trien-kinh-te-giam-ngheo-ben-vung-o-quang-ninh-20251110090817513.htm