Kiên Giang Province improves lives of Khmer people
The lives of Khmer people in Kiên Giang Province have been improved significantly as the province has taken various measures to support them.
The province has more than 150,000 farmers, including 35,000 Khmers, who are honoured as farmers with good production and businesses each year. It has 27 ethnic groups, and ethnic minority people account for 14.9 percent of its population, with Khmer being its largest ethnic minority, according to the province’s Committee for Ethnic Minority Affairs.
It has taken many policies to invest in socio-economic development for ethnic people’s living areas, and this has created stable livelihoods, production models adapting to climate change, houses and clean water for ethnic people. The province has 43 schools which teach both Vietnamese and Khmer languages for 5,898 Khmer students.
