Điện Biên celebrates national action month for population

ĐBP – The Điện Biên Provincial Steering Committee for Population and Development held a conference on Saturday to celebrate the National Action Month for Population, commemorate Việt Nam Population Day (December 26), and review population work in 2024.

Lường Văn Kiên, Deputy Director of the Provincial Department of Health and Deputy Head of the Steering Committee for Population and Development, delivers the opening speech.

In 2024, population efforts marked the fifth year of implementing Việt Nam’s Population Strategy through 2030. Awareness campaigns on population issues were intensified, ensuring comprehensive communication, education, and counselling on population and development topics.

The National Action Month for Population and Việt Nam Population Day 2024, with the theme “Improving Population Quality for National Prosperity and Family Happiness”, include activities to raise awareness among party committees, authorities, organisations, and the public about the significance of population work.

They sought to increase public attention to population issues, aligning population development with socio-economic growth.

Delegates at the conference.

The province has seen positive outcomes in its population efforts. The birth rate decreased from 19.33 per cent in 2022 to 18.5 per cent in 2024. The rate of married couples of reproductive ages using contraception reached 69.9 per cent.

The percentage of pregnant women receiving prenatal screening rose from 39.7 per cent in 2022 to 51.1 per cent in 2024. The proportion of young men and women receiving pre-marital health counseling increased from 67.1 per cent in 2022 to 69.4 per cent in 2024.

These achievements contributed to higher annual per capita income and improved living standards for residents.

Delegates discuss these strategies in detail.

In terms of population work for 2025, the province will focus on six key tasks and solutions. They include continuing reducing birth rates toward maintaining sustainable replacement-level fertility; striving for a natural balance in the sex ratio at birth; optimising the demographic dividend for economic development; adapting to an aging population; ensuring a rational distribution of the population; and improving population quality to support the province’s socio-economic development goals as well as national security and defence objectives.

By Minh Thảo

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