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Hanoi (VNA) - Chairman of the Vietnam Farmers’ Union (VFU) Central Committee Thao Xuan Sung has underlined the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) in building policies for agricultural development, as well as the decisive contributions by the agriculture sector to Vietnam’s GDP growth in 2020. Talking to the Vietnam News Agency on the occasion of the 13th National Party Congress, Sung affirmed that the agriculture sector has posted great achievements in productivity, quality, and value in recent years. Though results are not even across regions inside the country, Vietnam has risen to enjoy agriculture export surpluses with regional countries. The agriculture sector contributed importantly to GDP growth of nearly 3 percent last year, he noted, adding that under the leadership of the Party, farmers have played a prominent role in the new national target programme on sustainable poverty reduction. A new generation of working class with patriotism and … [Read more...] about Party’s role in building agricultural policy highlighted

Hanoi (VNA) - Party General Secretary and State President Nguyen Phu Trong, head of the document sub-committee, has delivered the 12th-tenure Party Central Committee’s report on documents submitted to the 13th National Party Congress, pointing out many new and outstanding issues in the orientations for the next 10 years. He presented the report at the opening session of the congress, in Hanoi on January 26. The overall development goal for the 2021-2025 tenure and subsequent years is to improve the Party’s leadership capacity, ruling capacity, and combatant strength; build a clean and comprehensively strong Party and political system; enhance the people’s trust in the Party, State, and the socialist regime; inspire aspirations for a prosperous and happy country and bring into play the will and strength of the great national solidarity in combination with the strength of the era; comprehensively and concertedly promote reforms, industrialisation, and modernisation; … [Read more...] about New, outstanding issues in national development orientations for next decade

The Prime Minister has directed local ministries and agencies to take action to make the 2030 Agenda for sustainable development the focus of the socio-economic development strategy in the 2021-2030 period, with specific plans and tasks. The Prime Minister also requested to speed up the process of restructuring and improving economic institutions in the direction of using natural resources more efficiently, saving energy, raising economic competitiveness, renovating technology, adapting to climate change, reducing poverty, ensuring sustainable economic development. … [Read more...] about If hunger and poverty still exist, development goals will not be achieved

Ms. Nguyen Thuy Linh, Director of the Center for Community Empowerment (CECEM), said that when it comes to empowering women, many people are still unclear, there are many approaches and perspectives on gender inequality. and women's empowerment. However, gender inequalities in ethnic minority communities have not been effectively addressed as expected due to a lack of understanding of the role of women and gender relations in ethnic minority cultures. For example, with the Capacity Building Project in Dak Nong, in addition to livelihood development, there should be other activities that are most effective for ethnic minority groups such as: understanding the power of the community itself to create opportunity for them to take advantage; impact the beliefs of ethnic minority communities with the slogan "I believe I can"; community initiative ... … [Read more...] about Efforts to empower ethnic minority women