Addressing a tree planting festival in the northern mountainous province of Hoa Binh on February 1, Mr Triet noted that tree planting is not costly but brings about high socio-economic and environmental efficiency. He said despite unfavourable weather conditions in 2008, Vietnam overcame the consequences of natural disasters and paid more attention to planting and protecting forests, particularly through a programme to plant 5 million hectares of forests, helping raise the national forest coverage to more than 39 percent. Mr Triet also pointed out the inefficiency of forest plantation and protection in several localities, saying severe forest destruction is taking place, causing harm to the environment. “Forest destruction is a crime which should be duly punished. The people must detect and prevent such acts,” said the President. The same day, Mr Triet offered incense to the late President Ho Chi Minh in front of his statue in Hoa Binh City and planted a tree there. … [Read more...] about State President launches tree planting festival in Hoa Binh
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Hoa Binh province urged to better care for ethnic people
The Vice President made the appeal at the province’s first congress for ethnic minorities held on December 16 with the participation of nearly 500 delegates. She highlighted the sound implementation of religious and belief policies as an effective means to foil the subversive schemes by hostile forces. Residents in Hoa Binh province, which is the cradle of the well-known Hoa Binh Culture, have united and unanimously followed the Communist Party of Vietnam, actively contributing to the nation’s wars of resistance. Since the national reunification in 1975, they have joined hands to build new lives. Over 4,000 local households donated land for the construction of the historic Hoa Binh hydro power plant. … [Read more...] about Hoa Binh province urged to better care for ethnic people
Hoa Binh should focus on Party building: Party chief
The Party leader made this request while working with authorities in the northern mountain province on November 12. Mr Trong highlighted the province’s achievements in implementing the 11th National Party Congress resolution. Hoa Binh has upheld its tradition, ironed out snags and maintained high economic growth, while developing production, improving living standards and gaining people’s trust in the Party’s renewal process, he said. He also pointed out important issues related to Party building, implementing Resolution 26 on agriculture, rural areas, and farmers, and maintaining social security in the province. Local authorities asked the Party to allow Da Bac and Lac Son districts to be included in the Government’s 30A program on poverty reduction and allocate more capital for the province to boost production, upgrade roads, irrigation works, and schools. Regarding the implementation of the 11th National Party Congress' Resolution, Hoa Binh has established … [Read more...] about Hoa Binh should focus on Party building: Party chief
Hoa Binh, Houaphane provinces step up friendship relations
The agreement was made during a meeting between authorities of the localities in Hoa Binh on January 31. The leaders of the two provinces informed each other of the results of Vietnam’s 12th National Party Congress, the eighth Congress of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party and socio-economic development in each locality in 2015. Hoa Binh province’s economy is growing at an average pace of 10.3 percent per year. Its strengths are in agro-forestry, building materials and eco-tourism. Meanwhile, Houaphane province has great potential to develop hydropower plants, mineral exploitation, industrial trees and animal husbandry. Being a resistance base of the two countries during wars against the US, Houaphane province has a number of relic sites. On the same day, the Houaphane delegation paid a visit to the Cao Phong orange plantation area and the historic relic site in the provincial Military Command, where the preparatory congress for the second Congress of the … [Read more...] about Hoa Binh, Houaphane provinces step up friendship relations
Hoa Binh culture continues to thrive through Muong
As a native ethnic group sharing the same distant roots with the Kinh (majority people) after the split into two groups (the 10th century), complete with all elements of an ethnic group, the Muong have preserved and developed their rich and original culture with their own language, customs and practices, literature and art. The Muong, with a population of more than 1 million people, are scattered in large areas of Thanh Hoa, Son La, Phu Tho and Ha Tay, Ninh Binh and Nghe An provinces. In Hoa Binh province alone, their population is about 46,000, accounting for 6 percent of the provincial residents, dwelling mainly in small valleys or the lowlands of surrounding mountains. Up till now, the values of their traditional culture have been preserved. Virtually all of them live in stilt houses, drink alcohol by pipe and hold communal cultural activities in these houses. In comparison with the stilt-houses of the Tay and the Thai, the Muong's are lower and smaller, with simpler and lighter … [Read more...] about Hoa Binh culture continues to thrive through Muong