The national conference to review policies for ethnic and mountainous areas, Ha Noi, April 11, 2013 – Photo: VGP

Over the past years, the Party and State have formulated a system of increasingly improved policies to boost socio-economic development, reduce poverty rate and raise living conditions for residents in those areas.

Despite economic downturn, the Government allocated VND 54,770 billion to finance development programs between 2006 and 2012. The second phase of the 135 Program, for example, focused on addressing most urgent issues of ethic and mountainous areas.

Other effective policies include the program on fast and sustainable poverty reduction in 62 poorest districts, preferential credit for cultivation development and financial assistance for resettlement.

Ethic an mountainous areas account for nearly three-fourths of the country’s land, having the population of over 12.3 million, or 14.27% of the national population./.

By Ngoc Van