According to the Council for Ethnic Affairs of Dong Nai Province, so far this year the province has had 12 roads in the ethnic minority areas, with a total length of 6km, upgraded or newly built, with a total cost of 41.7 billion VND.

To date, the province has had 93 hamlets in the ethnic minority areas that have had roads upgraded, repaired, and newly built. The rate of hamlets in ethnic minority areas with roads being upgraded, repaired, and newly built reaching 99%.

The Council for Ethnic Affairs of Dong Nai Province also reported that there are 646 poor households and 1,116 near-poor households in Dong Nai's ethnic minority areas. Of which, 520 families need financial support to build and repair their houses.

So far this year, 6,500 ethnic minority households in the province have had access to preferentail loans, totaling over 185 billion VND, to get jobs and build basic facilities to serve their lives. In addition, 225 ethnic minority students have been provided with preferential loans worth 8.5 billion VND.

Besides using the state budget, the Council for Ethnic Affairs of Dong Nai Province has been proactively coordinating with relevant agencies to mobilize capital from social resources to help seven ethnic minority families in Thanh Son commune of Dinh Quan district build news houses and to build a clean water system for a kindergarten in Hamlet 4 of Ta Lai commune in Tan Phu district.

The Council for Ethnic Affairs of Dong Nai Province and the Provincial Union of Friendship Organizations are calling for aid for projects to build classrooms, purchase learning equipment, and build houses for people in the ethnic minority areas.

According to the council, from now until the end of 2023, it will coordinate with relevant agencies to implement the following key tasks: implementing the National Target Program for socio-economic development of ethnic minority areas in Dong Nai province until 2030, phase 1 (2023 - 2025); tightening the overseeing of the situation of the ethnic minority areas to proactively and promptly advise the Provincial Party Committee and Provincial People's Committee in implementing ethnic work and ethnic policies.

Dong Nai province currently has 36 ethnic minorities with nearly 199,000 people, with the Choro, Ma, S'Tieng, Coho, Hoa, Cham, Khmer, Tay, Nung, Muong as the largest communities.