NA deputies stressed that poverty reduction is a key national policy and that the NA’s approval of the program is necessary to achieve the goal of halving the number of poor and near-poor households and helping 30% of poor districts and 30% of struggling island communes improve their conditions.

Tran Chi Cuong, a deputy of Da Nang, said that poverty reduction is a humane policy to improve people's lives and urged the authorities to implement policies combining the national target programs on poverty reduction and new-style rural development and determine priority beneficiaries. The Government needs to increase the investment budget to ensure effective implementation of the program during the COVID-19 pandemic, Mr. Cuong said.