A working delegation of the Mobile Police Command on August 21 visited and presented gifts to residents in Muong Chanh and Chieng Noi communes, Mai Son district, helping them overcome flood consequences.

Son La province has put in place comprehensive measures to increase the number of citizens and businesses using online public services.

Seventy-four out of the 188 communes in Son La province have met the new-style rural area building programme’s criteria No. 17 on environmental protection and food safety.

Implementing the Government's Project 06, the provincial Department of Public Security has directed units, and district and city police to focus on issuing electronic identification accounts for residents.

Quynh Nhai district’s police on August 12 launched of the "communal police’s fire pump" model.

After three years of implementing the national target programme on socio-economic development of ethnic minority and mountainous areas for the 2021-2030 period (Programme 1719), rural infrastructure has been gradually improved and the material and spiritual lives of ethnic people have been raised, contributing to improving the effectiveness of the new-style rural building programme.

Since the beginning of this year, total revenue from telecommunications and Internet services in Son La province has reached over 120 billion VND (4.77 million USD).

The provincial Steering Committee for Voluntary Blood Donation organised a voluntary blood donation festival in Yen Chau district on August 3, with the message "Donate blood to save lives - Donate regularly".

Heavy rain as a result of storm Prapiroon, the second hitting Vietnam this year, have caused damage to property, houses, and crops in Tong Co commune, Thuan Chau district. Sharing the difficulties of households affected by floods, authorities at all levels, sectors, and benefactors have donated cash and in-kind to help them quickly stabilise their lives and production.

The Son La provincial Centre for Disease Control on August 1 coordinated with the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology and the provincial Department of Education and Training to organise a workshop to disseminate a plan to check the vaccination history and administer booster doses of vaccines for children entering preschools and primary schools in the province in 2024.

The provincial Department of Education and Training on August 1 organized a training conference on drug prevention and control in schools for over 300 officials in charge of drug prevention, club leaders, youth union secretaries and presidents of the trade unions of local schools.

Son La province's competent forces have been strengthening inspections of ensuring cyper safety and security, and protecting state secrets in cyberspace.

The health station of Muong Lam commune, Song Ma district has been completed and put into use after more than one year of construction.

The provincial study promotion association on July 30 presented gifts to students affected by the recent floods in Mai Son district and Son La city.

The Phu Yen district Association for the Support of People with Disabilities and Orphans has donated 37 wheelchairs to local disabled people, with a total value of nearly 70 million VND (2,768 USD).

Song Ma district planted more than 12,000 scattered trees in the first half of 2024.

Since the beginning of this year, Son La province’s Center for Disease Control has screened nearly 4,000 people in 22 economically difficult communes for hypertension and diabetes.

A working group of the provincial Centre for Disease Control on July 29 inspected and supervised the implementation of environmental sanitation and domestic water treatment in Tong Co commune following storm Prapiroon, the second of its kind hitting Vietnam this year.

The Son La city relief mobilisation board on July 29 held a ceremony to raise funds in support of people affected by floods in the city, with the presence of Ha Trung Chien, member of the Standing Board of the provincial Party Committee, Secretary of the city Party Committee, Chairman of the city People's Council.

With the goal of innovating the working style of grassroots government officials towards people's satisfaction, in recent times, Moc Chau district has synchronously implemented many solutions, from institutional reform and administrative apparatus organisation to building and improving the quality of officials and civil servants.