YBO - Yen Bai is one of 12 provinces selected by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to pilot the implementation of a set of good behaviour within the family.

YBO - Over the past years, the emulation campaign on women good at balancing professional work and personal life has been spread among female labourers in Yen Bai province, helping to promote women’s position and role in different spheres of the social life.

YBO - The Yen Bai Farmers’ Union has launched the model club of farmers with successful production and business in Hung Thinh commune, Tran Yen district, Yen Bai province.

YBO - In recent years, Party committees and administrations at all levels in Yen Bai province have promoted local sectors and organisations’ participation in the combat against drug crime, with strong determination, uniform solutions, and appropriate measures taken.

YBO - Hundreds of lighting works implemented by young people in Yen Bai province have been put into operation, contributing to improving the face of local rural areas.

YBO - Changes have been seen in hygiene perception and behaviour of ethnic minority people in Yen Bai thanks to the four-year implementation of the WB-funded Results-based Scaling Up Rural Sanitation and Water Supply Programme.

YBO - The Vu family in Nghia Lo town has 37 households with 118 people. Of them, there are 37 Party members, 35 have university or college degrees and one person has a master's degree.

YBO - A contest of excellent high school students at the provincial level and select members for teams representing the province in the national competition in the 2021-2022 academic year took place from September 26-30 at Nguyen Tat Thanh High School for the Gifted and Nguyen Hue High School.

YBO - The Yen Bai provincial Committee of the Vietnam Fatherland Front (VFF) on September 29 received 10 million VND donated to the COVID-19 combat by the “Heart to Heart” charity club of high schools in Yen Bai province.

YBO - Tran Yen district of Yen Bai has so far had 100 percent of its communes complete the criterion on health care for a new-style rural area, one year ahead of the target set in the resolution of the district's People's Council.

YBO - Yen Bai province has 30 intergenerational clubs that support each other, with more than 1,300 members.

YBO - Yen Bai is currently home to 173 communal-level medical units meeting national standards on health care, accounting for over 79 percent of the total across the province.

YBO - According to Yen Bai province’s Social Insurance Agency, the local Health Insurance Fund pays 600-800 billion VND for medical examination and treatment each year. In many cases, patients are paid up to hundreds of millions of VND for a course of treatment.

The Women's Union in Van Yen district has been implementing a campaign on building hygienic habits for families initiated by the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU) Central Committee alongside another on building civilised lifestyle in urban and rural areas, with encouraging results.

YBO - Nearly 226,000 students in Yen Bai province officially began the 2021 - 2022 academic year on September 5 morning.

In the four waves of COVID-19 infections, the awareness, sense of responsibility, and self-consciousness of each people are an important factor helping Yen Bai province succeed in combating the pandemic so far.

YBO - A project was carried out in Minh An and Binh Thuan communes of Van Chan district from October 2019 to July 2021 to improve cadres’ capacity and people’s awareness to facilitate access to support services for women and children affected by gender-based violence.

YBO - Nghia Lo township in the northern province of Yen Bai has launched its movement to build lighted, green and beautiful roads since 2020 as part of its efforts to encourage cultured behaviours and good lifestyle of local residents.

YBO - On August 20 morning, 30 doctors and nurses in Yen Bai province set out for Dong Nai province to help with the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic in this southern province - one of the five localities with the highest increase in the number of infections in the country at present.

YBO - Implementing a project to support woman in beginning business in the 2017-2025 period and the movement of “women showing strong performance in economic production,” the Women’s Union in Nghia Lo township of Yen Bai province has supported the formation of economic development models of women, maintaining seven women-led enterprises and assisting 215 members in developing new livelihood models and launching 189 business models.

YBO - In the first 6 months of 2021, 4,599 households in Yen Bai received loans worth 91.8 billion VND to build and put into use clean water works.

YBO - Van Yen District’s Red Cross Society has more than 3,500 members across its 27 commune-based chapters and 14,000 young volunteers.

YBO - With an aim to promote the comprehensive development of Yen Bai people in both physical and mental aspects, Yen Bai has given five standards of “friendliness, kindness, solidarity, creativity, and integration” for local residents to head to in their efforts to develop themselves.

YBO - The Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs of Yen Bai province, in collaboration with World Vision Vietnam, organised a forum at the commune level from August 3-11 to collect children’s ideas in 2021, with the following topics of “Children with children's issues, especially physical violence, violence on the cyber space”, “Children join hands in ensuring children’s rights and protecting children during natural disasters and diseases’.

YBO - Yen Bai province is home to 1,347 Agent Orange/dioxin victims eligible for State allowances, including 735 ex-revolutionaries and their 612 children who were directly exposed to AO/dioxin. There are 26 cases in the third generation.