On July 24, Standing Vice Chairwoman of the Provincial People's Committee Y Ngọc worked with the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of Vạn Tường commune to review socio-cultural development in the first half of 2025 and set out directions for the remainder of the year.
Scene of the meeting
According to the Vạn Tường Commune Party Committee, after the administrative merger of six former communes, the local government apparatus has been consolidated and has been operating in a unified manner since July 1, 2025.
Over the past six months, Vạn Tường has achieved positive outcomes across sectors, including culture, education, healthcare, sports, and social welfare.
Key tourism sites such as Bàu Cá Cái, Gành Yến, and Cà Ninh nipa palm forest have attracted large numbers of visitors. Traditional festivals such as boat racing, whale worship, Bài Chòi, and Bả Trạo singing have been vibrantly revived.
Health insurance coverage in the commune has reached over 93 per cent, and healthcare and epidemic prevention have been effectively implemented.
The education sector has been strengthened, with 17 schools and over 530 staff and teachers assigned.
Social welfare has also received special attention, with 74 houses built or renovated for policy beneficiaries, poor, and near-poor households.
Leader of Vạn Tường commune reports at the meeting
Local historical and cultural relics have been inventoried, managed, and restored following regulations. The commune is home to two national historical sites (Vạn Tường Victory Site and Bình Hoà Massacre Site), five provincial-level relics, and nine other sites listed for protection.
In the second half of 2025, Vạn Tường commune will focus on key tasks to further improve people’s socio-cultural living standards. These include launching the 2025–2026 academic year with 14 out of 17 schools meeting national standards, enhancing public communication on major holidays and State policies, strengthening state management of culture, science, and information, promoting the “All People Unite to Build Cultural Life” movement, restoring cemeteries and historic sites, implementing social policies for those with meritorious service and disadvantaged households, improving healthcare quality and disease prevention, and streamlining administrative services.
Speaking at the working session, Vice Chairwoman Y Ngọc praised the unity and effort of local officials and residents in promoting socio-economic development, particularly in culture, health, education, and welfare.
Standing Vice Chairwoman Y Ngọc speaks at the meeting
She emphasized the need for the commune to invest more time and resources into tourism development, learn from neighboring localities, propose new tourism products and routes, and leverage local cultural heritage for tourism growth.
Y Ngọc called on Vạn Tường leaders to continue their united, proactive, and decisive approach to ensure all key tasks for the second half of 2025 are completed on schedule.
She also instructed local authorities to report specific difficulties for guidance and resolution by relevant departments or submit proposals to the provincial government for consideration.
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