Chương 2 Nghị định 05/2011/NĐ-CP.: Chính sách dân tộc

Chapter II

ETHNIC MINORITIES POLICY

Article 8. Investment and resource use policy

1. Funds for the implementation of the ethnic minority policy shall be allocated from the state budget under current regulations on state budget decentralization and other lawful funding sources for comprehensive socio-economic development in ethnic minority areas, hunger elimination, poverty reduction and narrowing of the gap between ethnic minority areas and other areas.

2. To plan, train, retrain, use and manage human resources being local ethnic minority people and adopt appropriate treatment regimes for them.

3. To efficiently exploit and use natural resources in ethnic minority areas and make re­investment suitable to local socio-economic conditions.

4. To apply technical advances and introduce advanced science and technology into production in order to improve the living conditions of inhabitants in ethnic minority areas.

5. The Ministry of Planning and In vestment and the Ministry of Finance shall, based on their assigned functions and tasks, assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Committee for Ethnic Minorities Affairs and concerned ministries, branches and localities in. detailing and guiding this Article.

Article 9. Sustainable development investment policy

1. To assure investment in socio-economic development and essential infrastructure in ethnic minority areas; to effectively exploit the potential and strength of each area, to protect the eco-environment and promote the self-reliance and strength of ethnic minority groups.

2. To create favorable conditions for domestic and foreign organizations, individuals and enterprises to invest in development of ethnic minority areas; to give special priority to ethnic minority groups with a very small population and areas with socio-economic difficulties and exceptional socio-economic difficulties; to attach importance to providing vocational training for and employing locals. ensuring stable income for them, to build infrastructure and other public welfare works.

3. To restore and develop traditional handicrafts of ethnic minority groups to meet market economy requirements.

4. Investors of planning and construction projects that affect the land, environment, ecology and life of ethnic minority groups shall publicize these projects and collect under law opinions of inhabitants in areas to be the project sites; and organize resettlement and create conditions for relocated people to enjoy a better life in new areas.

Administrations of localities of resettlement shall coordinate with investors in assuring and creating conditions for relocated people to stabilize their farming and life.

5. To reasonably plan and arrange concentrated residential points in areas with difficulties, assuring production development suitable to the characteristics of ethnic minority-groups and areas.

6. To implement programs and schemes on hunger elimination and poverty reduction and employment, to basically solve issues related to capital, residential land, farm land and production tools for land-lacking farmers. housing, daily-life water, economic development support, land and forest allocation to households in ethnic minority areas, and labor and trade restructuring towards industrialization, modernization and sustainable development.

7. To prevent and control natural disasters and rescue victims in affected areas.

8. To promptly adopt policies lo support ethnic minority groups with exceptional difficulties for .settlement and development.

9. The Ministries of Planning and Investment; Finance: Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs; and Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee for Ethnic Minorities Affairs shall, based on their assigned functions and tasks, assume the prime responsibility for. and coordinate with concerned ministries, branches and localities in, detailing and guiding this Article.

Article 10. Education and training development policy

1. To develop education in ethnic minority areas under the national program; to elaborate education policies for all educational levels suitable to the characteristics of ethnic minority groups.

2. To develop pre-schools, general schools, boarding and semi-boarding ethnic minority schools, continuing education centers. community learning centers, vocational schools and pre-university schools; to study tertiary multi-disciplinary training for ethnic minority students in order to accelerate human resource training in the service of national industrialization and modernization and international integration.

3. To specify appropriate conditions and measures to support ethnic minority students: to provide accommodation, scholarships and loans for ethnic minority students during their study suitable to their majors and places of residence.

Students of ethnic minority groups with a very small population and in areas with socio-economic difficulties and exceptional socio­economic difficulties are exempt from school fees at all educational levels and in all disciplines.

4. To train human resources and provide vocational training for ethnic minority groups suitable to the characteristics of each area, meeting industrialization, modernization and international integration requirements.

5. To prescribe support for teachers in areas with socio-economic difficulties and exceptional socio-economic difficulties; to train ethnic minority teachers and teachers of ethnic minority languages.

6. To include languages, scripts and fine cultural traditions of ethnic minority groups into curricula of general schools, boarding and semi-boarding ethnic minority schools, continuing education centers, community learning centers. vocational schools, professional secondary schools, colleges and universities suitable to ethnic minority areas.

7. Administrations of localities which have ethnic minority students passing university and college entrance exams or admitted under designated enrollment shall receive these students after they graduate and assign jobs appropriate to their majors.

8. The Ministry of Education and Training. the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs and the Committee for Ethnic Minorities Affairs shall, based on their assigned functions and tasks, assume the prime responsibility for. and coordinate with concerned ministries, branches and localities in. detailing and guiding this Article.

Article 11. Ethnic minority personnel policy

1. Qualified ethnic minority cadres who meet criteria prescribed by law may be appointed to key and managerial posts at all levels.

In ethnic minority areas, ethnic minority people must hold key posts.

2. To ensure appropriate ratios of ethnic minority cadres, prioritizing those who are female and young to work in agencies and organizations within the political system at all levels.

3. Ministries, branches and localities shall plan, train, retrain, appoint and employ ethnic minority personnel.

4. The Ministry of Home Affairs shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with concerned ministries and branches in. detailing and guiding this Article.

Article 12. Policy towards prestigious persons in ethnic minority areas

Prestigious persons in ethnic minority areas may receive training, retraining, preferential treatment and other incentives suitable to local socio-economic conditions to promote their role in the implementation of the ethnic minority policy in their residential areas.

Article 13. Cultural conservation and development policy

1. To support the collection, study. protection, conservation and promotion of fine traditional cultural values of ethnic minority groups in the ethnic community of Vietnam.

2. To support the conservation and development of the scripts of ethnic minority groups. Ethnic minority groups shall conserve their fine traditional cultures, languages and scripts under law.

3. To elaborate and implement a national target program on conservation and promotion of traditional cultural values; to support the investment in and protection and conservation of state-ranked historical and cultural relics.

4. To give incentives for ethnic minority groups to enjoy cultural benefits; to support the formation and effective operation and use of grassroots cultural institutions in ethnic minority areas.

5. To conserve and promote fine traditional festivals of ethnic minority groups, to regularly organize region-based or ethnic minority-based culture-sports events in ethnic minority areas.

Article 14. Policy on physical training and sports development in ethnic minority areas

1. To conserve and develop traditional physical training and sports of ethnic minority groups.

2. To support physical training and sports activities and invest in building stadiums, sports halls and physical training and sports centers in ethnic minority areas.

Article 15. Policy on tourism development in ethnic minority areas

To support infrastructure construction for tourism associated with environmental and ecological protection; to support the promotion and diversification of tourism forms and products, to reasonably tap potential in landscapes and scenic places for tourism development.

Article 16. Health and population policy

1. To assure ethnic minority groups' use of healthcare services; to implement the healthcare and health insurance program for ethnic minority groups under law.

2. To build, consolidate and expand healthcare establishments; ensure sufficient preventive and curative medicines for ethnic minority groups in areas with socio-economic difficulties and exceptional socio-economic difficulties.

3. To support the conservation, exploitation and use of valuable folk remedies and traditional curative methods of ethnic minority groups which have been recognized by competent slate agencies.

4. To ensure population quality improvement and reasonable population development of each ethnic minority group under law.

5. To boost the socialization of healthcare, to adopt priority policies for organizations and individuals investing in and developing healthcare in ethnic minority areas.

6. The Ministry of Health shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with concerned ministries and branches in, detailing and guiding this Article.

Article 17. Information and communication policy

1. To invest in information and communication development in ethnic minority areas, to provide essential means to assure the right to access and receive information.

2. To build and consolidate the system of information on the ethnic minorities situation and implementation of the ethnic minorities policy.

To develop a national system of statistical indicators on ethnic minorities; to communicate and regularly or irregularly report on socio­economic situation, security, defense, natural disasters and floods in ethnic minority areas.

3. To develop and apply information technology to the system of ethnic minorities affairs agencies.

4. To increase and improve the quality of use of ethnic languages in the mass media.

5. The Ministry of Information and Communications shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with concerned ministries and branches in, detailing and guiding this Article.

Article 18. Policy on law dissemination and education and legal aid

1. Ethnic minority groups in areas with exceptional socio-economic difficulties may receive free legal aid services under law.

2. Administrations at all levels shall elaborate and implement programs and schemes on law dissemination and education and legal aid suitable to each target group and ethnic minority area.

3. To effectively use the mass media, to diversify forms of law dissemination and education suitable to the customs and habits of ethnic minority groups.

4. The Ministry of Justice shall assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with concerned ministries and branches in, detailing and guiding this Article.

Article 19. Environmental and ecological protection policy

1. To use, exploit and develop natural resources and the environment and ecology of ethnic minority areas under law.

2. To protect and improve areas with natural resources and ensure appropriate re-investment,

3. To propagate, educate and mobilize inhabitants in areas with natural resources to raise their awareness about protection of the environment, ecology and biodiversity.

4. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment shall assume the prime responsibility for. and coordinate with concerned ministries and branches in. detailing and guiding this Article.

Article 20. Defense and security policy

1. To build and consolidate defense and security in important, deep-lying, remote, border and island areas in association with socio­economic development, assuring political security and maintaining social order and safety in ethnic minority areas.

2. State agencies, ethnic minority groups in border and island areas shall, together with agencies, organizations, people's armed units and local administrations, protect the national borderline, maintain security and social order and safety and enhance friendship relations with people of neighboring countries in border and island areas under law.