Prime Minister: Rapidly deploy campaign to build 100 boarding schools in 100 border communes

On the evening of July 27, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a meeting on implementing the Politburo's conclusions and the direction of General Secretary To Lam on the policy of investing in building schools for border communes.

The Prime Minister requested to launch a campaign to build 100 schools in 100 land border communes, to be completed by August 30, 2026 at the latest - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

On July 18, the Politburo announced conclusion No. 81 on the policy of building primary and secondary boarding schools in 248 border communes across the country.

In the immediate future, the pilot investment will complete the construction or renovation of 100 schools by 2025 (no later than the start of the next school year).

Pilot construction of 100 schools

These schools will be models for further widespread implementation, completing the investment goal of building 248 schools in the next 2-3 years.

Schools that are invested in construction must ensure technical standards, scale, area of ​​the school and classrooms; have adequate facilities to serve learning, cultural, spiritual, physical training, living conditions and absolute safety.

According to the report of the Ministry of Education and Training , after the administrative boundary arrangement, the whole country has 22 provinces and cities with land borders, with a total of 248 land border communes.

Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Kim Son speaks - Photo: VGP/Nhat Bac

According to local statistics, in these 248 communes, there are 956 general schools with a scale of 625,255 students. The total number of students in need of boarding and semi-boarding according to preliminary statistics is 332,019 students, but there are only nearly 59,000 students studying at 22 ethnic boarding general schools and 160 ethnic semi-boarding general schools.

Currently, boarding and semi-boarding students study, live and work at school and enjoy state policies (average of about 23 million VND/boarding student per year, 16 million VND/semi-boarding student).

Thus, there are about 273,000 students (43.7% of total students) who need to study at boarding or semi-boarding schools but have not yet been able to, and are currently studying at general schools.

The Ministry of Education and Training has proposed to invest in building new and renovating boarding schools in 248 communes with a system of facilities that fully and synchronously meet the needs of boarding and semi-boarding students and teachers for studying and living. The implementation period is from 2025 to 2027.

The main source of construction investment capital is the central budget, the rest is the local budget and other legal resources.

Along with that is the completion of related regulations to ensure that students in land border communes enjoy boarding and semi-boarding policies suitable to the practical difficulties in terrain and geographical distance; have appropriate teacher arrangement plans; ensure budget to maintain school operations and policies for teachers suitable to new conditions.

Must be completed by August 30, 2026 at the latest.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh - Photo: VGP

In conclusion, Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh requested to deploy a campaign to build 100 schools in 100 land border communes, which must be completed by August 30, 2026 at the latest. The Ministry of Education and Training will receive comments to complete the draft resolution of the Government, submit it for promulgation before August 10, which includes regulations on mechanisms and policies such as flexible forms of bidding, designated bidding, work assignment, etc.

Provinces and cities should find locations with suitable areas (5-10 hectares), ensure convenient traffic, electricity, water and telecommunications infrastructure and call on people to donate land.

The Ministry of Construction designs school models in an open and diverse direction, suitable to the conditions and cultures of regions, localities, and construction sites, making maximum use of natural conditions, paying attention to the ability to respond to natural disasters, climate change, and being fully functional.

The Prime Minister noted the need to mobilize the combined strength of the entire political system, the participation of the military, police, the Fatherland Front, and socio-political organizations.

With state resources as the main source, the Ministry of Finance balances, arranges, and mobilizes capital; encourages people to donate land to build schools, mobilizes the cooperation and assistance of society, businesses, and philanthropists, with the spirit of "whoever has something helps, whoever has merit helps merit, whoever has wealth helps wealth, whoever has a lot helps a lot, whoever has little helps a little".

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Source: https://tuoitre.vn/thu-tuong-trien-khai-chien-dich-than-toc-xay-100-truong-noi-tru-o-100-xa-bien-gioi-20250727223842884.htm