YBO - To expand exemplars in the 2021 - 2023 period, the Party Organisation of Yen Bai city has registered 242 role models, including 122 collectives and 120 individuals, in studying and following late President Ho Chi Minh’s teachings.

YBO - The People's Committee of Yen Bai province recently held a ceremony in Van Chan district to launch the action month for gender equality and gender-based violence prevention and response in 2022 with the theme "Ensuring social security, empowering and creating opportunities for women and girls to achieve gender equality and eliminate violence against women and girls".

There are more than 13,000 workers in the education - training sector of Yen Bai province at present. Among the management cadres and teachers, over 82% have met standards, with more than 20% acquiring a level higher than standards, including over 400 holding master’s or doctoral degrees.

YBO - The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) Committee of Yen Bai province has launched winter and spring volunteer programmes at a programme in Lang Thip commune of Van Yen district.

YBO - To meet the increasing health examination and treatment demand, from July 2022, the Lung Hospital of Yen Bai province has implemented the technique of flexible bronchoscopy with local anesthesia.

YBO - With their spirit of self-reliance, resilience and strong will to overcome difficulties and rise, members of the Yen Bai Association of War Veterans have initiated many effective and creative economic models, while mobilising resources and support policies for economic development.

YBO - The Nghia Lo victory opened the door for Vietnamese forces to enter the Tay Bac (Northwest) region, thus creating a momentum for the triumph of the Tay Bac Campaign and then the Dien Bien Phu Victory which rocked the world.

YBO - The Fatherland Fronts at all levels in Yen Bai province mobilised a total of over 10 billion VND (402,000 USD) for the "For the Poor" Fund and socialisation resources in the first nine months of 2022 to support poor people in the province.

YBO - In the first nine months of 2022, Yen Bai had maintained the operations of 175 grassroots-level education promotion associations with more than 1,900 branches in hamlets, villages, residential areas and schools, and 435 in agencies, units and businesses, with a total of more than 227,500 members.

YBO - With entrusted loans, poor households and policy beneficiaries in Yen Bai have gained easier access to soft credit from the provincial branch of the Vietnam Bank for Social Policy (VBSP) to expand horticulture and husbandry, and get out of poverty.

Over the past 5 years, communist youth unions at all levels in the northern province of Yen Bai have implemented 10,352 projects, which generated over 130 billion VND (5.51 million USD), repaired and upgraded over 400 km of rural roads, renovated 14 rural traffic bridges worth 7 billion VND, and installed lighting facilities for 66 residential rural roads spanning nearly 90km in total.

YBO - With the slogan of "Yen Bai youth - bravery, intelligence, volunteering, development", the 15th Congress of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union of Yen Bai province for the 2022 - 2027 term has seen the participation of 322 delegates, including 222 official ones and 100 guests.

YBO - The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union's chapter in Yen Bai province has just reviewed its campaign on summer voluntary works and project on cultural preservation and tourism development.

YBO - Yen Bai’s Women’s Union has organised an event to raise awareness of negative impacts of child and consanguineous marriage, and illegal immigration among Mu Cang Chai district’s residents.

YBO - The Yen Bai provincial Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, in collaboration with the World Vision Vietnam, on August 16 hosted the Yen Bai Children Forum 2022 on joining hands to protect children, raising voices to fight child abuse and violence.

YBO - In recent years, the Yen Bai Fatherland Front has capitalised on donations to launch social welfare activities and build houses for poor families in the locality.

YBO - In the 2022 – 2025 period, 29 more extremely difficult communes in Yen Bai province are expected to be recognised as new-style rural areas, meaning that there will be nearly 95,200 people, equivalent to about 11.4% of the population from these communes, being not supported by the state budget anymore to buy health insurance cards.

YBO - The Steering Committee for the Care and Protection of People's Health of Yen Bai province has recently organised a workshop to build an implementation plan for Plan No. 62/KH-UBND of the provincial People's Committee on the implementation of the National Strategy on Nutrition in the province in the 2021 - 2030 period, with a vision to 2045.

YBO - The Minh Anh Kindergarten, the first high-quality Vietnamese - English bilingual school in Yen Bai province, officially opened on August 1.

YBO - The authorities, sectors and organisations in Yen Bai province have taken specific actions and measures to realise the goal of poverty alleviation and hunger eradication, helping to bring a prosperous and happy life to local people.

YBO - Van Chan district now has 539 revolutionary contributors entitled to monthly allowances.

YBO - The War Veterans’ Association of Yen Bai city consists of 16 chapters with 127 branches and 5,886 members at present.

YBO - In the first half of 2022, Yen Bai province recorded 11,150 pregnant women with over 16,700 arrivals in medical establishments for examination. Among them, nearly 3,500 women received antenatal check-ups at least four times.

Nghia Lo township is home to more than 800 children under 16 years old, 60% of whom are from ethnic minority groups, and 700 are in especially difficult circumstances.

YBO - Over the past years, the Red Cross Society of Yen Bai (RCSYB) province and its chapters have rolled out measures to promote the effectiveness of the campaign “every organisation and individual attaches to a humanitarian address”, mobilising a large number of organisations and individuals to taking care of the poor.