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.

The youth union in Son La province in coordination with the cluster of youth unions of Red River Delta cities and provinces on September 27 inaugurated a project named “Anh dang ban lang” (village lights) in the youth start-up village in Pung Banh commune, Sop Cop district.

On September 26, Son La Newspaper coordinated with Bo Sinh commune in Song Ma district to hand over 20 million VND (820 USD), donated by Dong Nai Newspaper, to Luong Van Sua's family in Pat hamlet to help him build a house.

The youth union and trade union of Son La Newspaper, in collaboration of Bo Sinh commune’s youth union, on September 26 held the 2023 Mid-Autumn Festival for children at Huoi Tinh facility of Hoa Phuong Do kindergarten in Bo Sinh commune, Song Ma district.

Since the beginning of 2023, Song Ma district’s Agricultural Service Centre has coordinated with relevant units to organise seven training classes and 172 dissemination sessions guiding local farmers how to plant and care for Queen pineapple, collect pesticide packaging, prevent pests, diseases and cold for plants and animals, and take care of longan and mango after harvest. These activities have benefited 7,095 local people.

Over the past eight months, Son La province mobilized 60.8 billion VND (2.5 million USD) to support 1,129 poor and near-poor households with housing difficulties. Of these, 12 households had their existing houses repaired and 1,117 others were given new houses.

All communes and wards in Son La province have fiber optic broadband infrastructure, while over 51% of hamlets and sub-wards are covered by fixed broadband. The proportion of the local population with smartphones reaches over 70%.

Muong Chanh in in Mai Son district is the only commune in the province that still maintains handmade ceramic production. Muong Chanh ceramic products are plain, unglazed, usually dark gray, light, and highly durable...

The Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union’s chapter in Son La province has recently coordinated with Uni Language House foreign language centre to organise the 2023 English Olympic competition for students named “Ring the Golden Bell”.

A scientific seminar have been recently held to discuss the preservation and promotion of values of Tang Me burial cave – a national relic site, in combination with tourism development, and livelihood generation for residents in Suoi Bang commune, Van Ho district, Son La province.

Three projects in Son La province have won prizes at the 2023 "Women’s Startup" Contest in the northern region.

Implementing the project on administrative reform in Moc Chau district for the 2020-2025 period, agencies, units, communes and township in the district have taken many creative solutions and ways to become a typical locality of Son La province in reforming administrative procedures and building e-government and digital government.

Mai Son district in Son La province has paid due attention to solving the shortage of domestic water in difficult areas. With funding from the national target programme for socio-economic development in ethnic-inhabited and mountainous areas, many projects have been implemented and put into use, helping ethnic minorities improve their quality of life.