Minister-Chairman of the Government Committee on Ethnic Minority Affairs Hau A Lenh answers NA deputies' questions at the session. (Photo: VNA) Answering the question by Hanoi representative VuThi Luu Mai on a number of documents that do not match the regulations of thelaw, Lenh admitted that there are still conflicts and overlapping in documentsguiding the implementation of policies to encourage investment in ethnicminority-inhabited areas.
The Government has asked ministries and sectors to reviewall the documents to ensure that they are coherent and suitable with legal regulations,he said, adding that ministries and agencies have completed thework.
Responding to a question on criteria to define mountainous areas, Lenh saidthat the committee is working on a new set of criteria with major foundation ofterrain, administrative border and level of development to make suitableinvestment in the new period. It will submit a report on the workto the NA Standing committee in September, he said.
Over the concerns of Lang Son representative Chu Thi Hong Thai onwhether the current policies are strong enough to encourage residents in borderareas, mostly from ethnic minority groups, to stay there andattract labourers to the areas, Lenh said that despite the Party and State’sgreat attention to border areas in 25 border localities, the socio-economicsituation in border communes and districts has remained difficult.
He said that stronger policies are needed to improve theliving conditions of border communities in the coming time, along with thereviewing of the implementation of a Politburo’s resolution on strategy onnational border protection to design more suitable policies, focusing on infrastructuresystems and livelihoods for the communities.
Agreeing with Quang Nam representative Phan Thai Binh on the necessity todesign mechanisms and policies to attract investment to ethnicminority-inhabited areas, Lenh said that he hopes localities will stick tocentral policies to offer incentives to investors, encouraging them to investin such areas to create more jobs.
Lang Son province's representative Chu Thi Hong Thai gives questions at the session. (Photo: VNA) Concluding Lenh’s answer-and-question session at the NA, NA Chairman Vuong DinhHue said that 28 NA deputies raised their questions and seven others joineddiscussions.
Through the session, it can be seen that the implementationof ethnic minority-related policies has produced important results, leading to positivechanges in the living conditions of ethnic minority communities, strengtheningpolitical security, social order and the national great solidarity bloc, andreinforcing the communities’ trust in the Party and State.
However, the NA leader pointed to a number of shortcomings in the process,including the slow implementation and modest results of the national targetprogrammes, especially the one on boosting socio-economic development inethnic minority-inhabited and mountainous areas, along with problems in guidingdocuments.
The top legislator asked the Government and heads ofministries, sectors and agencies to absorb the ideas of NA deputies and rollout measures to settle the current problems, while effectively implementing thePolitburo, NA and Government’s resolutions on the work, and reviewing relevant policiesto make necessary adjustments.
Particularly, the NA leader stressed the need to effectively implement thenational target programme on boosting socio-economic development in ethnicminority-inhabited and mountainous areas in the 2021-2030 period, as well aspolicies to provide support in residential and farming land and the change of the way to earn a living to ethnic minority communities./.
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