The National Assembly's Ethnic Council survey delegation worked with Dien Bien province.

Vice Chairman of the Council of Ethnic Minorities Quang Van Huong concluded the meeting.

According to the report of the Department of Ethnic Minorities and Religions, the National Target Program 1719 has 10 projects and 14 sub-projects, of which Dien Bien province is allocated funds to implement 10 projects and 13 component sub-projects of the Program. The total capital allocated for the Program in the 2021-2025 period is over 4,314 billion VND. The results of mobilizing and allocating resources to implement the Program from 2022 to 2025 reached nearly 4,450 billion VND, including: The central budget has allocated nearly 3,700 billion VND; the new career capital for 2025 has been allocated by the Central Government over 297 billion VND; as of March 31, 2025, over 2,930 billion VND has been disbursed, reaching 66.77% of the plan.

Projects and contents using investment capital from Program 1719, typically infrastructure investment projects: electricity, roads, schools, stations, support for residential land, housing, production land, planning, arrangement, and stabilization of residents... have created positive changes, bringing about long-term efficiency and sustainability, contributing to improving people's lives, gradually perfecting infrastructure and promoting local socio -economic development. Dien Bien province has completed a number of targets such as: Reducing the poverty rate among ethnic minorities by an average of 5% per year; The rate of villages with paved roads to the center reached 78.7%; The rate of ethnic minorities using hygienic water for daily life reached 93.2%; The rate of 5-year-old kindergarten students going to school reached 99.9%...

Comrade Lo Thi Luyen, Deputy Head of the Provincial National Assembly Delegation, spoke at the meeting.

At the meeting, delegates focused on discussing and clarifying difficulties and obstacles in the implementation process such as: The investment policy system for ethnic minority areas, although reviewed, revised and supplemented, is still not consistent and not close to the practical situation; the lives of ethnic minorities have been improved but are not sustainable, the poverty rate and the risk of falling back into poverty are still high.

At the meeting, Mr. Lo Van Cuong, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, hoped to continue receiving the attention of the National Assembly in implementing support policies for mountainous provinces, especially Dien Bien province in infrastructure. The province proposed that the working delegation consider and study expanding the beneficiaries of the National Target Program in communes of ethnic minorities, mountainous rural areas, and disadvantaged areas in the coming period with 30% to 40% of well-off and excellent households to create a movement of emulation in labor production, helping each other in the community to rise out of poverty; regarding the resources for implementation in the period 2026-2030, it was proposed that the main resource for implementing the Program in the province would be from the Central Budget with a total capital demand of over 8,500 billion VND.

The working delegation surveyed the Pu Lau pineapple growing model under the National Target Program 1719 in Muong Nha commune, Dien Bien district.

Speaking at the meeting, Comrade Quàng Văn Hương, Vice Chairman of the National Assembly's Ethnic Council, acknowledged and highly appreciated the results and efforts of the province in implementing the National Target Program in recent times. At the same time, he requested the province to continue to pay attention to and maintain the models that are being implemented effectively; in addition, review the beneficiaries to include them in phase 2, from 2026 to 2030, giving priority to the development of remote areas and areas with special difficulties; in the current context, it is necessary to strengthen propaganda for people to clearly understand the policy after the merger of the government apparatus...

Previously, on the afternoon of April 24, the Working Group surveyed the Pu Lau pineapple growing model under the National Target Program 1719 in Muong Nha commune, Dien Bien district./.

Duc Long/DIENBIENTV.VN

Source: https://dienbientv.vn/tin-tuc-su-kien/kinh-te/202504/doan-khao-sat-cua-hoi-dong-dan-toc-quoc-hoi-lam-viec-voi-tinh-dien-bien-5818960/