Hanoi (VNA) – The NationalAssembly (NA)’s Committee for Culture, Education, Youth, Adolescentsand Children held a conference in Hanoi on January 8 on the building andimplementation of policies on youth development.

First Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh CommunistYouth Union (HCYU) Central Committee Le Quoc Phong said an institutionalframework on youth development has been basically formed in Vietnam with Statepolicies concretised into projects, strategies and action plans to providelearning opportunities for youngsters, reduce and exempt tuition for those fromdisadvantaged backgrounds, vulnerable groups and ethnic minority regions.

Many policies have been carried out to helpyoung people find jobs, access start-up loans, and support female workers withvocational training, he added.

Over the past few years, the HCYU CentralCommittee has implemented a number of policies to encourage youngsters to joinin socio-economic development, especially those in remote, ethnic minority,border and island areas such as the projects on building new rural areas andstart-up youth villages in 2013-2020, he noted.

The youth unions and associations at all levelshave coordinated with ethnic affairs agencies to give advice to local Partycommittees and authorities in promulgating specialised policies on youthdevelopment in ethnic minority-inhabited areas.

Minister of Home Affairs Le Vinh Tan said since2011 the ministry has studied and proposed the building of the revised law onyouths and policies to attract young officials and honour ex-youngrevolutionary contributors.

During the conference, delegates pointed outdifficulties and shortcomings in the implementation of youth developmentpolicies, recommending specialised mechanisms in the field.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam orderedfundamental and drastic changes in youth development in the coming time. Heasked ministries and departments to actively engage in the revision of the lawon youths and relevant policies to promote the role of youngsters in the causeof national building and safeguarding.

Concluding the conference, Vice Chairwoman ofthe National Assembly Tong Thi Phong said the Party and State’s policies onyouth development have been institutionalised through the Constitution, lawsand decrees.

She suggested the NA bodies to enhance supervisionof implementation of youth development policies. She asked the Ministry of HomeAffairs to work with the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) CentralCommittee to review key projects on youngsters to devise more appropriatepolicies in the time ahead.

She noted that the revision of the law on youthswill be included in the law and ordinance building programme in 2019. Thereforeit is necessary to evaluate the impact and scale of adjusting this law toensure it is consistent with other laws.-VNA