What are regulations on developing rural economy to create jobs and increase incomes for rural populations in Vietnam?

What are regulations on developing rural economy to create jobs and increase incomes for rural populations in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Section III.4, Article 1 of the Decision 150/QD-TTg in 2022 stipulating developing rural economy to create jobs and increase incomes for rural populations in Vietnam as follows:

Along with agricultural development, focus on developing rural economic, transforming the labor structure towards non-agriculture to solve jobs and ensure incomes:

- Invest in the development of industrial zones, industrial clusters and services in rural areas with policies to attract investment to encourage industrial and service enterprises to invest in rural areas, especially labor-intensive industries and to gradually reduce migration of workers from rural to urban areas by encouraging people to find work in their hometowns. Accelerate the process of urbanization in regional centers to reduce migration to two main cities, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

- Formalize “unofficial labor" originated from agriculture; develop policies to actively register and manage workforces combined with the digitization of residential identification. Support the formation of official economic organizations (cooperatives, enterprises, registered households, organizations of farmers' association, etc.) in order that workers have official labor contracts. Develop organizations of farmers and workers (performing farmers' association activities, organizing trade unions, labor unions that are suitable for professions and fields) to protect basic rights and effectively support workers in skills training associated with the needs of the market, in equipment of degrees, loans, social insurance support and in access to the official labor market.

- Strongly develop service economy in rural areas, diversify types, scale, etc. to create jobs and attract workforces that are not involved in agricultural production. Develop specific plans to form a service economy in rural areas (identifying the needs of service industries; organizing a system of specialized enterprises and cooperatives; attracting investment, developing the market; forming public services for training and information, etc.).

- Improve efficiency and income from agricultural production, gradually form a team of professional farmers, create conditions for farmers to develop the economy, farms and economic cooperation. Encourage and have support policies for farmers in specialized farming areas to participate in certified training programs to produce products that meet quality standards and new market requirements (landscape agriculture, responsible agriculture, organic agriculture, high-tech agriculture, etc.) and have supportive policies such as preferential credit, insurance support, connective support, consumption of agricultural products, etc. Through cooperatives and farmers' associations to develop programs and organize free training classes to improve professional qualifications in occupational safety, environmental protection, use of mechanized machinery, proper use of fertilizers and chemical drugs, use of information technology under their management,...

What are regulations on inclusive development, assurance of equity of social welfare in rural areas in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Section III.6, Article 1 of the Decision 150/QD-TTg in 2022 stipulating inclusive development, assurance of equity of social welfare in rural areas in Vietnam as follows:

- Take rural residents as the central subject of development to ensure equal access to development resources (capital, land, water, energy, science and technology, etc.), basic services, social welfare (nutrition, health, education, sports, culture, information, transportation, etc.), and opportunities (study, work, market, etc.). Develop equal social welfare policies (house and settlement, health insurance, retirement regime, etc.) for these rural residents; aim for gender equality. Actively prevent and control risks, ensure the residential areas and life of these rural residents to be safe and secure against natural disasters, enemy sabotage, epidemics and adverse fluctuations.

- Implement effectively sustainable poverty reduction policies, diversify resources and methods for reducing poverty, complete hunger eradication and aim for poverty eradication. For the poor in advantage areas, create conditions to provide resources and create livelihoods so that they can confidently and proactively rise up to improve their lives. For poor localities, extremely difficult areas and ethnic minority areas, prioritize supporting and expanding social security coverage to all vulnerable and disadvantaged groups.

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