Social welfare underpins double-digit growth

Under the guiding principle of “leaving no one behind,” Party committees, local authorities, agencies and units across the province have rolled out a range of concrete social welfare policies in recent years, producing results that are both tangible and measurable.

Building on the gains made, the Resolution adopted at the First Congress of the Provincial Party Committee for the 2025–2030 term identified one of the key tasks of this term as ensuring social security and social welfare, improving living standards, and promoting balanced and coordinated development among regions and localities across the province. This helps deliver double-digit growth and achieve the targets laid out in the congress resolution.

A range of practical activities

Marking the successful completion of the 14th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam, ahead of the Lunar New Year and the 96th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Dong Nai Province’s Emulation Bloc No. 2 has carried out a series of social welfare activities in several localities across the province. They included handing over charity houses to the households of Pham Trung Toi (Hamlet 6, Nam Cat Tien Commune) and Nong Duc Thong (Hamlet 7, Dak Lua Commune), and providing six breeding cattle as livelihood support to disadvantaged households in Dak Lua Commune.

Solidarity house handover in Hung Phuoc Commune. Photo: Collaborator

Agencies, units, communes and wards across the province have also taken steps to support residents.

Nguyen Cong Danh, Deputy Secretary of the Hung Phuoc Commune Party Committee and Chairman of the Commune People’s Committee, said the commune had on this occasion handed over two solidarity houses to the households of Vo Thi Yen (Hamlet 5) and Nguyen Van Tinh (Hamlet 6), with the timing - ahead of the Lunar New Year - carrying particular significance. This spring, the families now have proper housing to welcome Tet, giving them greater impetus to stabilize their lives and move forward.

A Provincial Party Committee report shows Dong Nai stepped up social welfare spending in 2025, with outlays exceeding 600 billion dong. Under the emulation drive “Joining Hands to Eliminate Temporary and Dilapidated Housing,” the Vietnam Fatherland Front and political and socio-political organizations coordinated public outreach and mobilization, completing the programme in full and ahead of schedule. A total of 1,576 houses were built and 383 others repaired for policy beneficiary families, people with meritorious service, poor and near-poor households, and other disadvantaged families, at a combined cost of nearly 122 billion dong.

Social welfare provision in Dong Nai has extended effectively into a number of other areas. Over the 2020–2025 term, preferential policies and benefit schemes for people with meritorious service to the revolution and social protection recipients have been rolled out in full and on time.

In recent years, the province has paid monthly allowances to more than 716,000 beneficiaries, made one-off payments to 59,640 recipients, and arranged convalescent care for more than 19,600 people with meritorious service, provincial People’s Committee figures show.

Dong Nai has stepped up the implementation of policies under the National Target Programme for socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas for 2021–2025, with total investment of more than 1.137 trillion dong. The programme covers 49 communes and 95 villages and hamlets, and targets core sectors including infrastructure development, livelihood support, vocational training, job placement, cultural preservation, and improvements in education and healthcare, among others.

Providing comprehensive support for residents

Home to the largest concentration of industrial parks in Vietnam and drawing a workforce of more than 1.5 million, trade unions in Dong Nai have played a strong representative role, defending the lawful rights and interests of union members and workers. Over the 2020–2025 period, the unions funded the construction and renovation of more than 320 “Trade Union Shelters” for disadvantaged members, with total funding of over 20 billion dong.

Truong Thi Mai Huong, a worker at Changshin Vietnam Co., Ltd. in Tan Trieu Ward, Dong Nai Province, shared that the company employs thousands of workers and that its trade union plays an active role in employee welfare. The union works with the management board to ensure workers are covered by social insurance and, after one year of employment, that insurance contributions are extended to one family member. It also supports the repair of degraded housing and boarding houses, provides assistance to workers suffering from serious illnesses or facing hardship, and organises initiatives such as Trade Union Meals, visits to workers living in rented accommodation, and gift-giving activities for employees building new homes. Huong, who is a Party member currently affiliated with Cell No. 3 under the company’s Party Committee, received support of 100 million dong from the Party Committee in 2024 to build a “Party Member Shelter”.

The Resolution adopted at the Provincial Party Congress for the 2025–2030 term sets out the goals of ensuring social security and social welfare, improving the quality of life for the people, and securing balanced, harmonious development among regions and localities across the province.

Nguyen Thi Hong Trang, member of the Provincial Party Committee and Standing Deputy Head of the Provincial Party Committee’s Commission for Information, Education and Mass Mobilisation, said that at the first Provincial Party Congress for the 2025–2030 term, the commission delivered a report reviewing the results of social welfare implementation and setting out directions for the period ahead. The report proposed five core groups of solutions for social welfare policy: sustainable poverty reduction; improving the quality of human resources; developing a universal insurance system; expanding and upgrading basic social services; and, as a breakthrough focus, strengthening the application of digital technology in the management and implementation of social welfare policies.

Dong Nai’s social welfare programmes and policies, rolled out in recent years and set to continue, serve a broader purpose than social protection alone. They reflect    solidarity and mutual support, underscore a strong sense of national unity and shared community bonds, carry significant humanitarian value, and help strengthen public confidence in the Party’s policy decisions.  

With the start of a new mandate, strong political resolve, the backing of the entire political system and the participation of all segments of society, Dong Nai is set to achieve its social welfare objectives and advance toward a greener, more prosperous, civilised and modern province.

By Phuong Hang – Translated by Tam Binh, Thu Ha