Ho Chi Minh City is a multi-ethnic urban area. In recent times, implementing the viewpoints and policies of the Party and State of Vietnam on the rights of ethnic minorities, the city has achieved many achievements. important, contributing to the comprehensive protection and promotion of the rights of ethnic minorities in the area.
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| City Ethnic Committee. Ho Chi Minh awarded certificates of merit to groups and individuals actively participating in the care and implementation of ethnic policies in 2023. (Source: sggp.org.vn) |
Guarantee the rights to development
One of the rights that the City has been concerned about for many years is the right to train, foster, and plan ethnic minority officials in agencies and units in the area.
Party committees and authorities at all levels always promote encouraging and attracting cadres, civil servants, and public employees who are ethnic minorities in localities; Organize to improve the quality of cadres, civil servants and public employees who are ethnic minorities in the political system, first of all the leadership and management team at all levels are regularly trained and fostered in professional skills. , major.
The appointment of cadres, civil servants and public employees who are ethnic minorities is carried out according to the principles of centralization, democracy, objectivity, openness and transparency, creating motivation for ethnic minorities to have qualifications. level and ability to strive for improvement.
On July 18, 7, the Standing Committee of the City Party Committee issued Plan No. 2022-KH/TU on training, fostering, arranging, using, creating resources and promoting ethnic minority officials in the City in the period 136-2022.
The ratio of officials, civil servants, and public employees who are ethnic minorities is gradually increasing. As of May 5, the City has 2023 ethnic minority employees out of 2.249 City employees. accounting for 96.095%; Of which, there are 2,34 party members, 773 officials holding leadership and management positions at the provincial level, 33 people at the district level, and 268 people at the commune level.
To strengthen the capacity of ethnic minority workers to access the labor market, the City has issued many policies on vocational training and job creation such as Decision No. 3639/QD-UBND dated July 16/ 7 of the City People's Committee on vocational training for rural workers in non-agricultural fields in the city until 2012, Decision No. 2020/QD-UBND dated July 2904, 13 on approving the training project occupations, creating jobs for ethnic minorities in the City in the period 7-2019... to encourage ethnic minorities to feel secure in proactively choosing occupations suitable to their abilities and educational level. conform and conform to the religious beliefs of their people.
With the impact of the above policies, over 10.000 workers have been given jobs every year, including nearly 1.000 ethnic minority workers, helping the City's poverty reduction work achieve important results.
Currently, the City no longer has poor households or near-poor ethnic minority households with income according to the national poverty standard for the period 2016-2020. The proportion of households with access to the Internet of ethnic minorities accounts for 88% of the total number of ethnic minority households.
Among the 9 ethnic minorities with a population of over 1.000 people currently living in the City, the Tay ethnic group has the highest percentage of households using the Internet (100%), followed by the Thai ethnic group (98,4%). and the lowest in this group is the Cham ethnic group (82,8%).
In addition, the City pays special attention to cultural, belief and religious activities to enrich the spiritual life of ethnic minorities. There are currently 14 assembly halls and 39 Hoi temples; 60 Chinese cultural and artistic delegations, teams, groups and clubs; 18 mosques and small mosques of Cham people; 2 Theravada Buddhist temples of the Khmer people... The City Ethnology Association pays special attention to cultural and educational activities among ethnic students.
The City's Ethnic Minority Literature and Arts Association has many rich activity programs and publishes many ethnic cultural publications.
The work of preserving and promoting traditional cultural values of ethnic minorities has achieved certain results, the cultural life of the people has clearly developed and improved; Cultural institutions are strengthened; Cultural and exchange activities are held annually; Typical traditional festivals of the people are recognized as national intangible cultural heritage such as social customs and beliefs of the Lunar New Year of the Chinese people in District 5, festivals in the life cycle of the Cham and Khmer people. such as weddings, Ok Om Bok ceremonies, Ngo boat races, Chol Chnam Thmay Tet... are supported to invest in restoration and conservation, associated with tourism development.
The spoken and written language of ethnic minorities is preserved through policies to encourage the teaching and learning of ethnic minority languages in areas where many ethnic minorities live, such as policies to support ethnic teachers. ethnic minorities perform the task of teaching ethnic languages with a support level equal to 0,5 times the basic salary; Compiled 3 sets of teaching and learning materials for Chinese, Khmer, and Cham languages for officials, civil servants, public employees, and ethnic Chinese, Khmer, and Cham in the City.
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| Representative of District 5 gives means of livelihood to disadvantaged Chinese households in the area (Source: sggp.org.vn) |
Guarantee the right to health care and education
Community health and health care programs for ethnic minorities are always of concern to the health sector, especially creating conditions for people in difficult circumstances to have the opportunity to be examined and cared for. health care, health education consulting and continuous, long-term treatment monitoring, thereby contributing to raising awareness and changing behavior about health care and disease prevention for the community.
Many policies for ethnic minorities have been implemented with high efficiency, such as nutritional support for kindergartens, kindergartens and elementary school students to improve stature, adolescent health and youth. ethnic minorities in the period 2016-2020 and promulgate a support mechanism from the budget to implement the School Milk Program Project to improve nutritional status, contributing to raising the stature of preschool children and students. primary school period 2018-2020.
Providing free medical examination books to poor households, purchasing school health insurance for 100% of Khmer and Cham primary and secondary school students; Buy accident insurance and health insurance for the elderly and single people who are Khmer and Cham people; Support 30% more money to buy health insurance cards for near-poor households from the Health Insurance Residual Fund.
In addition, the City has implemented sustainable poverty reduction programs and policies for households just escaping the poverty line, including policies to support medical examination and treatment costs with health insurance, and issue and buy health insurance cards for people in poor and near-poor households in the period 2021-2025.
Every year, departments and branches together with the People's Committee of Thu Duc City and districts organize visits and give gifts to ethnic minorities in policy categories, poor households, and near-poor households according to the City's standards. difficulties, lonely elderly people, workers, and students in difficulty.
Party committees and authorities at all levels are very interested in universalizing education and improving educational qualifications for children of ethnic minorities. The school network has been planned and developed throughout, creating conditions for children of ethnic minorities living stably or immigrating to go to school more conveniently, and the rate of preschool universalization for children. 05 years old and the rate of 6 year old children entering first grade reached 100%.
The city has approved and promulgated many specific guidelines and policies in accordance with the requirements of stability and comprehensive development for ethnic minorities such as: policies to support study costs for graduate students, PhD students are ethnic minorities; credit loan policy for poor pupils and students; Tuition exemption policy for Cham and Khmer ethnic students studying from kindergarten to high school; Policy on supporting study costs for ethnic minority students from poor and near-poor households according to City regulations at vocational and higher education institutions...
Along with that, the City performs well the study promotion work, promoting socialization resources to grant scholarships and support university and postgraduate tuition fees for the Chinese people.
Thereby, ethnic minority families are increasingly aware of investing in cultural education for their children; All ethnic minority children of school age can go to school; Many ethnic minority students have overcome difficulties, risen and achieved good results in their studies. Many have two university degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees.
Achievements in ensuring and promoting the rights of ethnic minorities in all fields are the driving force and premise for the City Party Committee and government to successfully implement Resolution No. 31-NQ/TW of the Politburo on the direction and tasks of developing Ho Chi Minh City to 2030, vision to 2045 and Resolution No. 98/2023/QH15 of the National Assembly on piloting specific development mechanisms and policies Ho Chi Minh City.
