On October 14, 2021, the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 1719/QD-TTg approving the national target program for socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas. period 2021-2030, phase I: from 2021 to 2025.

The overall objective of the Program is to exploit the potentials and advantages of localities in ethnic minority and mountainous areas; innovate, promote economic development, ensure social security; rapid and sustainable poverty reduction, gradually narrowing the gap in living standards and average income of the region compared with the national average; gradually reduce the number of communes and villages with special difficulties; planning, arranging and stably arranging the population, building a synchronous and inter-regional socio-economic infrastructure system, connecting with developed regions; comprehensively develop education, training, health care and culture; markedly improve the people's life; improve the quantity and quality of the contingent of cadres, civil servants, public employees and ethnic minority employees; preserving and promoting the fine cultural identities of ethnic minorities in parallel with the eradication of backward customs and practices; implement gender equality and address urgent issues facing women and children; building a political system on a strong basis, maintaining political security, social order and safety, ensuring national border security; consolidating and strengthening the great national unity bloc, raising the faith of ethnic people in the Party and State.