YBO - The index of happiness among the residents in Tran Yen district of Yen Bai province reached 65.68 percent in 2021, a survey showed.

YBO - By the end of 2021, Yen Bai province had built, maintained, and improved the quality of 8,789 groups and clubs about family, health care and environmental protection.

YBO - With many effective models such as “F0 support team,” “social welfare bags-fighting COVID-19,” and “shippers in blue,” members of the Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) of Yen Bai province have accompanied COVID-19 patients in the province and joined hands in pushing back.

YBO - Yen Bai province had recorded more than 52,000 COVID-19 infections. Amid the surge of new cases, the province has applied flexible measures to contain the spread of the disease and provide treatment for the infected.

YBO - The northern province of Yen Bai has faced numerous difficulties in English teaching and learning in mountainous schools due to a lack of teachers and teaching equipment.

YBO - The Departments of Health and Information and Communications of Yen Bai province, in cooperation with FPT Information System Co., Ltd, have developed a portal to support and provide health consultations to COVID-19 patients treated at home and medical facilities.

YBO - On March 15, all the educational establishments in the localities at Pandemic Level 1 or 2, which means “green” or “yellow” zones, in Yen Bai province reopened. In “orange” zones (Level 3), only high and vocational schools resumed in-person learning.

YBO - A conference on digital transformation in the education sector of Yen Bai province was held via videoconference on March 15.

YBO - Many localities of Yen Bai province have bolstered communications to raise public awareness of collecting bottles and packages of chemicals and herbicides after use, in an effort to protect the rural environment.

YBO - Two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many initiatives, and technological solutions have been applied in Yen Bai province, which has not only reduced the burden on people and frontline forces, but also made the prevention and control work more effectively.

YBO - The ‘parent club’ model applied in most kindergartens in Mu Cang Chai district of Yen Bai province has helped change a traditional mindset that only teachers are responsible for educating children.

Vietnam's Level-2 Field Hospital No. 3 which is performing duties at the UN Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan has organised activities to raise awareness of health care and daily gynecological hygiene for local women on the occasion of the International Women's Day (March 8).

YBO - Since early 2022, Yen Bai’s Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union (HCYU) has accelerated the implementation of the movement “Youth’s Creativity” across the province and taken various measures to foster creativity among the young people and children.

YBO - Youth organisations in Mu Cang Chai district and Yen Bai city have organised many activities to support households whose members are COVID-19 patients quarantined and treated at home.

YBO - From the end of 2021 to the beginning of 2022, nearly 15 enterprises outside the province registered on the website of Yen Bai province’s Employment Service Centre to recruit workers from Yen Bai. These enterprises mainly came from Vinh Phuc, Phu Tho, Hai Duong, Bac Ninh, and Quang Ninh.

YBO - The General Hospital of Yen Bai recently launched its cancer screening and treatment support unit, hoping it will offer additional high quality medical services in the province and improve patients’ experience, as well as reduce treatment costs, especially for cancer patients.

YBO - With their passion for scientific research, Hoang Mai Phuong and Bui Khanh Ly, 12th graders of the Le Quy Don senior high school in Tran Yen district, have conducted an e-book project on the education in local history. The project won the third prize of a provincial-level sci-tech competition.

YBO - For 2022, Yen Bai was assigned to recruit 1,190 citizens for army and public security units. Localities in the province have completed preparations for recruit hand-over ceremonies.

YBO - In the coming time, the department will continue to strictly and drastically implement the three-pillar principles of pandemic prevention and control and the formula of "5K message + vaccines, treatment drugs + raising awareness of officials and civil servants, employees, and students”.

With an aim to raise the happiness index, Yen Bai’s Van Yen district has actively rolled out campaigns in building happy families, hamlets, villages and residential areas.

YBO - Aware of the local strength in herbal plant diversity, Yen Bai province has paid great attention to the expansion of herbal plant farming areas and adopted many policies to support local farmers in the field, thus creating more jobs and increasing their income.

Yen Bai province currently has 39,721 poor households, accounting for 18.07 percent of its total population, and 17,243 households near the poverty line which is equivalent to 7.85 percent, according to the results of a review on the number of poor households in 2021. Thus, the province has determined to reduce the poverty rate by 4 percent this year.

When the old year is nearing its end and spring arrives, a new year is just around the corner. Brilliant and joyful colours of spring have spread to all villages across the mountainous province of Yen Bai, warming up every kitchen as well as the hearts of both local residents and visitors.

YBO - Peach blossoms are in bloom as a herald of spring. The new season promises joy and passion in Yen Bai.

YBO - On Lunar New Year holiday, everyone looks forward to returning to their families for reunion after a year of hard work. For Yen Bai residents, their journey back home is so special because the province has welcomed them back from the COVID-19 hotspots.