(Photo: khanhhoa.gov.vn)

Khanh Hoa province is home to 35 ethnic minority groups with 72,000 people. Most of them are Raglay. Khanh Hoa still has nearly 6,000 poor ethnic households, accounting for nearly 60% of all disadvantaged households.

A provincial resolution target for the next five years is to raise the average income of ethnic minority people to 1,200 USD per person per year, double last year’s average and half of the national average, and to lower the rate of poor households among ethnic minorities to below 10%, with no extremely poor hamlets or communes by 2030.

All households living in special-use forests, remote and isolated areas, and places at high risk of landslides or flash floods will be moved to better places.

To achieve these goals, Khanh Hoa has developed policies adapted to local customs and practices and has motivated local ethnic people toward self- improvement. Localities in the province have moved people to new areas, giving them new production land, and changing their livelihoods.

Ho Van Mung,Director of the Khanh Hoa provincial Commission of Communications and Education. (Photo: svhtt.khanhhoa.gov.vn)

Ho Van Mung, Director of the provincial Commission of Communications and Education, said, “Khanh Son and Khanh Vinh district have a poverty rate of 25% to 26%. We’re determined to change these two mountain districts and take care of the local people's lives.”

“The most important thing for ethnic minorities is to change their way of thinking, and their reliance on the State,” said Mung.