Phu Tho works hard to promote sustainable poverty reduction
The material and spiritual lives of residents in the northern province of Phu Tho, especially those from ethnic minorities, have improved in recent years thanks to efforts from local authorities to reduce poverty.
Material and spiritual lives of residents in Phu Tho have improved thanks to efforts from local authorities to reduce poverty - illustrative image (Source: VNA)
Phu Tho (VNA) – The material and spiritual lives of residents in the northern provinceof Phu Tho, especially those from ethnic minorities, have improved in recentyears thanks to efforts from local authorities to reduce poverty.
Phu Tho is home to 34 ethnic groups, including more than 200,000 ethnicminority people, accounting for 16 percent of the province’s population. Ethnicminority communities mainly concentrate in districts of Tan Son, Thanh Son andYen Lap.
To reduce poverty in ethnic minority-inhabited areas, the provincial authorityhas used various policies and measures to tap the strengths of each area,focusing on building infrastructure for socio-economic development.
Head of the provincial Ethnic Affairs Committee Dinh Ngoc Thanh said thelocality has invested in developing infrastructure and supported production indisadvantaged communes, villages and hamlets.
Since 2011, the province has spent more than 600 billion VND (26.3 million USD)on ethnic minority policies, with nearly 500 billion VND (nearly 22 millionUSD) for building infrastructurefacilities for transport, education, irrigation and health care.
With tireless efforts by the locality, the rate of poor households has fallenby between 4-5 percent each year. All communes in the locality have medicalstations and usable roads and more than 90 percent of hamlets have community houses.
Thanh said local authorities need to continue investing in infrastructuredevelopment in mountainous and ethnic minority areas and promote productionthrough specific policies, towards sustainable poverty reduction.-VNA
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Material and spiritual lives of residents in Phu Tho have improved thanks to efforts from local authorities to reduce poverty - illustrative image (Source: VNA) 
