The Strategy targets to eliminate dilapidated houses; raise average incomes for ethnic minority people to four times against the current level; resolve land and water shortage for production and produce goods for consumption and production.

It aims to bring 95% of school-age children to schools and increase the number of students and farmers. 

The Strategy touches upon manpower training development by sending and encouraging scientists and managers to go to work in remote, border and extremely difficult regions.

The educational system will be rearranged to train ethnic minority people.

The Strategy aims to set up areas specializing in producing products like coffee, peanut, rubber, tea, furniture, maize and high-tech vegetables. 

And, ecological tourism will be promoted in ethnic minority areas in the Northwest region.

Viet Nam is a multi-nationality country with 54 ethnic groups. Apart from the Kinh, the other 53 ethnic minority groups, totaling over 8 million people, are scattering over mountain areas (covering two-thirds of the country’s territory) spreading from the North to the South.

The gap in the material and moral life has indeed still existed evidently between peoples living in the deltas and those living in mountain areas as well as among ethnic minorities.

The Vietnamese Government has worked out specific policies and special treatments in order to help mountainous people catching up with lowland people in terms of living standards, and made great efforts to develop and preserve traditional cultural identities of each ethnic minority group./.

By Khanh Phuong