Making efforts to take care of ethnic minority people

Giang Seo Phu, Member of the Party Central Committee, Minister-Chairman of the Committee for Ethnic Affairs has spoken highly of the efforts by Binh Duong in taking care of ethnic minority people at his recent meeting with provincial People’s Committee on the local ethnic minority affairs (photo). With concrete ways, the lives of the local ethnic minority people have changed a lot.

According to Le Dinh Ngoc, Head of the Department for Ethnic Affairs under provincial People’s Committee Office, the whole province now has a total of 838 well-off ethnic minority households, 959 with average living standards, 56 ranked with poverty level and 71 ranked with near-poverty level.

The province has attached special importance to improving the qualification of ethnic minority households’offspring as this is seen as a foundation for development. So far, there have been 3,809, 1,403, 2,899, 293, 312 and 583 ethnic minority people attending high schools, secondary schools, junior colleges, colleges and universities, respectively. After graduation, they have been offered jobs suitable to their ability.

The province has also given vocational training for ethnic minority people; provided them with loans for economic development; granted farming land for them…

Besides, the province has created favorable conditions for ethnic minority people to maintain and promote their cultural identities and fine customs like Chinese community’s Thien Hau Lady Temple Festival, San Chi ethnic people’s games in celebration of Tet, Cham ethnic people’s Ramadan festival…

The province has also taken care of ethnic minority people’s spiritual lives via many cultural-sports activities; paid attention to building cultural institutions to serve locals in general and ethnic minority people in particular.

Kho Sanh, who is in charge of Cham ethnic people’s dogmas in Dau Tieng district’s Minh Hoa commune said that thanks to the attention and help of the local authorities at all levels, most Cham ethnic households herein have developed agricultural production models. On the annual Ramadan or Tet (Lunar New Year) festivals, the local government also visit and extend greetings to Cham ethnic people. Their descendants are studied and played at spacious schools, thereby educating them about a standard lifestyle.

Tran Van Nam, Chairman of provincial People’s Committee said that the province effectively realized the Party and State’s specific policies in favor of ethnic minority people; mobilized all resources to provide them with loans, knowledge on cultivation and animal husbandry, build and upgrade houses for them over the past time, contributing to making their lives get more thriving.

In the coming time, the province will replicate advanced role-models on socio-economic development, further carry out ethnic policies, especially attach special importance to promoting models upholding inner force, reducing poverty and rising up for wealth among ethnic minority people.

Mr.Giang Seo Phu suggested that Binh Duong needed to further pay more attention to ethnic affairs by speeding up propaganda work, having a thorough grasp of ethnic minority people’s feeling and aspirations for timely solution, contributing to strengthening the national great unity bloc. The province also needed to prepare for a review program under the Prime Minister’s Directive No.06/2004/CT-TTg on further promoting socio-economic development, ensuring order and security for areas where Cham people live in the new context.

Reported by Thien Ly-Translated by K.T