On March 24, in Hanoi, Politburo member and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh chaired a conference "Ensuring security and order to serve the socio-economic development of the Northwest and surrounding areas".
General Luong Tam Quang - Politburo member, Minister of Public Security - co-chaired the conference.
Concluding the conference, the Prime Minister affirmed that the Northwest and surrounding areas are areas with particularly important strategic positions in terms of politics, economy - society, national defense, security, ecology, foreign affairs, being the "fence" area, the " gateway" to the North of the country and associated with the cause of building and protecting the sovereignty of the Fatherland.
The Party and State have always paid great attention and have issued many policies, resolutions, directives and conclusions for socio-economic development, ensuring security and defense in the Northwest and surrounding areas.
To create a solid foundation for the development of the Northwest, the Prime Minister requested to mobilize the combined strength of the entire political system from the central to local levels and the strength of the entire people, in which the heads of local Party committees and authorities take primary, comprehensive, and primary responsibility.
The Prime Minister emphasized that departments, ministries, branches and localities focus on effectively implementing ethnic and religious policies; implementing economic, cultural and social development programs, creating jobs, resolving conflicts and concerns among the people.
Create a solid foundation for social prevention, eliminate and eliminate causes, conditions, and factors that hostile and reactionary forces can take advantage of.
In 2025, the Prime Minister assigned ministries, branches and localities to complete 9 major tasks, focusing mainly on caring for, developing the economy, culture and education in the Northwest and surrounding areas.
Accordingly, the Ministry of Home Affairs will arrange to ensure the structure and number of full-time staff working in ethnic and religious affairs, especially at the grassroots level (as of June 2025).
Ministries, branches and localities focus on responding to and effectively implementing the emulation movement "Joining hands to eliminate temporary and dilapidated houses nationwide in 2025", with the spirit of "whoever has something to help others, whoever has merits to help others, whoever has property to help others, whoever has less to help less, whoever has a lot to help a lot" (in 2025.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Environment focuses on guiding the People's Committees of the Northwestern provinces and their access to land allocation, land documents, and land use for people (in 2025,).
The People's Committees of the Northwestern and surrounding provinces continue to focus on investing and building OCOP product lines (a product for each commune program), ensuring compliance with the criteria directed by the Prime Minister.
The Ministry of Health will preside over the development of a Project on health care for ethnic minorities (to be completed in June 2025).
The Ministry of Education and Training will preside over the development of a Project to improve the quality of education and training for children of ethnic minorities (the construction period is 3 years, from March 2025).
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism shall preside over and coordinate with the Ministry of Ethnic Minorities and Religions and relevant ministries, branches and localities to develop a Project to restore and promote traditional culture of ethnic minorities (in 2025.
VNPT, Viettel, and EVN corporations have a project to eliminate " District Loops" in electricity and phone signals (to be completed in September 2025).
The People's Committees of the Northwestern and surrounding provinces proactively invest in and build local transportation systems, ensuring that all people have clean water to use.
If there are any difficulties or problems in the implementation process, report to the Prime Minister for direction on removing and unblocking them.
