In the lead up to the Tet Festival 2018, the Head of the Da Nang Party Committee’s Mass Mobilisation Board, Mr Pham Quy, recently met with outstanding individuals from local ethnic minority groups and ethnic Hoa (Vietnamese of Chinese origin).

During the meeting with them, Mr Quy appealed for the participants to become more actively engaged in publicising the guidelines and policies of the Party and State amongst their fellow countrymen, as well as ensuring security, defence and religious issues, and boosting the local socio-economic progress.

He also highlighted the significance of encouraging more ethnic minority people to actively participate in local patriotic emulation movements.

According to the Mass Mobilisation Board, the city is now home to a total of 19 ethnic minority groups.  Over recent years, the city authorities have always showed their great concern for local ethnic minority people.

Assistance was given to a total of 25 displaced ethnic families affected by the building of the Ho Chi Minh Highway Project’s La Son-Tuy Loan route which goes through the Ta Lang and Gian Bi in Hoa Vang District’s Hoa Bac Commune.   In addition, a total of 84 million VND from the city budget was spent on purchasing seedlings for farmers in the 2 villages.

As part of the city’s rural area upgrading programme, favourable conditions were created for the re-introduction of ‘ruou can’ (rice wine drunk out of a jar through pipes) in Phu Tuc Village in the district’s Hoa Phu Commune after an over 40 year absence.   Thanks to sales of ‘ruou can’, the living standards of the Cotu people, and the local villagers as a whole, have been considerably enhanced.

Furthermore, a total of over 11.5 billion VND from the city budget was spent on providing free medical insurance for all local ethnic residents, along with granting scholarships and providing sets of learning tools to ethnic children, plus organising meaningful entertainment programmes for them. 

In particular, the ethnic Hoa community in Hoa Ninh Commune has become actively involved in the city ‘4 Safe Programme’ campaign and other local social welfare activities over the past years.