In the first nine months of this year, Son La province provided job policy consultations for 22,238 people and conducted eight job fairs, with the participation of more than 12,000 labourers.

Since the beginning of the year, the Son La provincial Youth Union has mobilized 5.4 billion VND (220,000 USD) from central and local resources to cement nearly 10 km of roads; build and repair eight bridges; repair 17 irrigation works; build 43 hygienic latrines, 12 clean water projects, and 10 cultural houses.

On October 17, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the People's Council of Son La city Ha Trung Chien and other municipal leaders handed over the "Great Solidarity" houses to nine poor households in Chieng Coi and Chieng An wards and Chieng Ngan and Chieng Den communes.

Moc Chau district on October 17 organized a fund-raising programme for poor people called Day for the Poor 2023.

Phu Yen district’s Youth Union, in collaboration with the district’s Co Ba La (Clover) Volunteer Club and Thanh Phong Education Company Limited in Hanoi, has just handed over a "Happy Home" to the family of Giang Thi Do, Suoi Ve hamlet, Nam Phong commune.

Digital citizenship is an important element to form and develop a digital society in the current digital transformation cause. In Son La province, digital citizenship is gradually developing in a comprehensive manner, with specific difficulties of a mountainous province solved to help people master technology and apply it to serve their lives, thus gradually meeting the requirements of the digital society.

The provincial Culture and Cinema Center on October 16 opened a photo exhibition entitled "Women of Son La province in today's life" as part of activities to celebrate the 93rd founding anniversary of the Vietnam Women's Union (October 20).

The Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Son La province (VFF Son La) on October 16 held a ceremony to launch a campaign in support of the "For the Poor" Fund in 2023.

The Son La Medical College on October 15 organised the Job Fair 2023, offering an opportunity for students to directly contact employers, and update information related to occupations.

Implementing the construction of new-style rural areas and civilized urban areas, since 2022, communes and wards in Son La city have collected public feedback on the implementation of social infrastructure projects in the form of "The people do, the State supports".

The Standing Board of Son La province’s Youth Union has just organized a training course on youth foreign affairs and implemented a project to improve foreign language and international integration skills for Vietnamese teenagers in the 2022-2030 period.

The Political Department under the Border Guard High Command, in coordination with the Army Radio and Television Centre, organised a seminar themed “Bright spots in law dissemination in the mountainous region” in Chieng Son commune, Moc Chau district, Son La province, on October 8.

The Institute for Cooperative Economy Development and the Vietnam Cooperative Alliance organised a training conference in Son La province on October 5 to improve digital transformation capacity for officials, managers and members of cooperatives, as well as ethnic minorities and residents in mountainous areas in the province.

Son La province’s Youth Union organised a volunteer campaign on October 5, in Chieng Xom commune, Son La city in response to the National Digital Transformation Day 2023 (October 10).

“October - Digital Consumption Month” is taking place in Son La province from October 1-31, with its peaking period of October 1-10.

Last month, provincial forest rangers coordinated with authorities of localities to instruct units and facilities to focus on forest protection and reforestation to fulfill assigned tasks.

Heavy rain from September 26 to 28 caused heavy human and property damage in Phu Yen district. The district People's Committee has directed localities to urgently deploy measures to overcome the consequences of rain and floods, quickly stabilizing people’s life and production.

The Son La city People's Committee organized the "Full Moon Night" programme in 2023 at Northwest Square on the evening of September 29 (the 15th of the eighth lunar month).

The Youth Union of Son La province coordinated with the provincial Department of Labour, War Invalids and Social Affairs and the Sop Cop district People's Committee to organize a Mid-Autumn Festival programme for children themed "Lanterns light up Son La children's dreams" in Muong Leo commune, Sop Cop district on the evening of September 27.

The provincial museum has five archives with nearly 24,000 collected and preserved documents and objects dating from the pre-historic periods to the later resistance wars, along with others featuring the cultures of ethnic groups in Son La.