The northern province of Bac Kan has built 2,202 houses for poor families after two years of implementation of the Prime Minister’s policy on assisting poor families with housing. Nhandan newspaper reported that each house has been built with an area above 30 square metres. Beside the specific direction from the authority and the political system in the province, various classes of people contributed many thousands of working days in building the houses. The Vietnam Coal and Mineral Industries Group (Vinacomin) and the Bao Viet Group also assisted each family with VND5-VND7 million.(cpv.org.vn Feb 24)
