(YBO) - Van Yen district is organising consultation meetings on working abroad under contract for labourers in 18 communes with ethnic minority communities from September 16 to October 12.

YBO - People in Residential Area No. 5, Lien Son farm township, Van Chan district join hands with local authorities to build rural roads.

YBO - The Yen Bai Centre for Industry and Trade Promotion has sent a delegation of officials and representatives of local firms to Hai Duong and Quang Ninh provinces and Hai Phong city to explore the markets and promote trade partnership with the three northern localities.

YBO - Yen Binh district has earmarked 21.3 billion VND (895,000 USD) for the development of agricultural, forestry and fishery production in the 2021-2023 period.

YBO - Yen Bai is hosting 52 foreign-invested businesses from 10 countries and territories, including 30 firms having 100% capital being FDI. The firms make up 1.7% in the total number of businesses in the province, with a combined capital of about 4.4 trillion VND (186.08 million USD).

YBO - Yen Bai province granted policy approvals for the investment of 30 projects and enterprise registration certificates to 186 businesses in the first six months of this year.

OYB – Yen Bai provincial Post Office has created over 30,000 accounts on e-commerce platforms for local farmers to offer 3,550 products. Their e-commercial transaction value reached over 1 billion VND (over 42,400 USD).

(YBO) – The drafting of a general plan on building the Thac Ba Lake national tourism area by 2040 was identified by Yen Bai province as one of the focal tasks in 2023.

YBO - Yen Bai province has maintained good economic growth in the first six months of this year with positive changes recorded in the economic structuring and remarkable results in the implementation of tasks.

YBO - Yen Bai province has allocated over 12 trillion VND (510.3 million USD) to support agricultural and forestry production, infrastructure development, transportation, irrigation, investment in educational and healthcare facilities, and clean water supply across its highland and ethnic minority areas.

YBO - Thanks to many years of implementing the campaign to encourage Vietnamese people to prioritise Vietnamese products, domestically-made goods have drawn increasing attention from consumers in Yen Bai.

YBO - In this summer-autumn crop, Yen Bai province is striving for a total grain output of 137,195 tonnes, including nearly 107,000 tonnes of rice to be harvested on 21,960 hectares.

YBO - Van Yen district in the northern province of Yen Bai has more than 52,000 hectares of cinnamon in all 25 communes and towns, with more than 80% of households in the district engaging in the cultivation and earning high income from the tree.

In recent years, sturgeon breeding models have been set up and expanded in localities in Yen Bai province, marking a success in the breeding of this fastidious fish species.

YBO - Yen Bai’s main livestock population has so far reached 749,648, fulfilling 91.4% of the yearly target and increasing by 6.5% compared to the same period in 2022. Of the total, there are 96,542 buffaloes, 37,471 cows, and 615,635 pigs.

YBO - The provincial master planning scheme of Yen Bai includes the formation of two economic motivation centres, three economic regions, four growth pillars, and six connectivity axes, and 12 breakthrough initiatives.

YBO - After two years of implementation, a project on strengthening capacity in domestic solid waste management in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai has produced significant achievements.

YBO - In recent years, many households in Hung Thinh commune, Tran Yen district, have invested in farming native animals, meeting the market demand for specialty meats. This initiative has helped promote economic development and increase income.

YBO - Yen Binh district in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai has over 300 hectares of Bat Do bamboo shoots, mainly in My Gia, Yen Thanh, Xuan Lai, Cam Nhan communes, of which 200 hectares are under harvest.

YBO - Nghia Lo commune houses more than 25ha of plum plantations with an annual yield of over 700 tonnes of the fruit. The number of local plum farmers with annual revenue exceeding 100 million VND (4,260 USD) has also been on the rise.

YBO - Luc Yen district has made specific instructions to implement the “four-on-the-spot” model ready for the upcoming typhoon season.

YBO - Rural tourism comprises activities, services and facilities provided in rural areas with the aim of exploiting the strengths of the countryside to meet tourists' demand for experimenting.

YBO - The total capital investment from the State budget for Van Chan district to implement 115 projects is more than 140 billion VND (nearly 6 million USD). Of this sum, 78 billion VND comes from the district’s budget, 11 billion VND from the provincial budget and the rest from the national target programme as well as other lawful sources.

YBO - As a purely agricultural locality, Tran Yen district in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai has over the recent years determined to intensify the One Commune One Product (OCOP) programme and taken it as a key economic spearhead to build a comprehensive new-style rural district.

More and more individuals and units in Yen Bai province have participated in the “One Commune One Product” (OCOP) programme, and they are working towards professionalism in terms of mindset as well as packaging, consumption and distribution of products.