Sin Suoi Ho is located on a mountain top, at an altitude of more than 1,500m above sea level, in Phong Tho border district, about 30 km from Lai Chau city.

In this isolated place, with fragmented terrain and difficult transportation, many Hmong houses still retain traditional earthen walls from hundreds of years ago. Ancient trees over 300 years old and ancient rocks are still protected and preserved.

More than 20 years ago, this was the capital of drug addicts. At that time, the village had only about 120 households of Hmong people, with more than 700 people but more than 80% of them were opium addicts and 100% of households in the village were rated poor.

With the effective support of authorities at all levels, village head Vang A Chinh and reputable people in the village were determined to revive the village.

The first task was the persistent struggle to help drug addicts in the village to give up opium. Everyday Mr. Chinh visited families of drug addicts to advise them to give up opium. He joined the authorities at all levels and border guards to find solutions for promoting drug rehabilitation. After nearly 10 years of struggling with drugs, at the end of 2014, the whole Sin Suoi village was filled with joy because no one was addicted to drugs.

The second task was to escape the poverty that had beset Hmong people for generations, because since ancient times, the Hmong people here have only known how to hang around corn fields and rice fields with manual farming skills.

In 2005, Sin Suoi Ho tourism began to flourish, but visitors only came to visit and leave during the day and the number of tourists was very modest. The village chief was the pioneer who used the internet to learn lessons from others localities to develop tourism.

To attract visitors, Mr. Chinh and other people in the village boldly invested in repairing houses, planting trees and cymbidiums around their house and on both sides of the alley to improve the landscape. More and more tourists came to the village to visit and stay.

In Sin Suoi Ho village today, there are more than 30 households offer tourism services, restaurant and homestay businesses. People live together in harmony and love. They develop tourism with their own identity and natural heritage is still preserved.

The poor Mong village now takes on a new look and becomes a bright spot in community cultural tourism.

To achieve this spectacular development, over the past 20 years, the Great National Solidarity Festival has been widely deployed by the local authorities to each village and household with many diverse activities, receiving the agreement and support from local residents.

Through the Festival, a healthy and useful playground has been created for local people to meet, interact, improve their spiritual life, and contribute to preserving and promoting national cultural values. At the same time, it has helped strengthen village bonds, build great solidarity of all people, repel social evils and backward customs, promote economic development, maintain political security, social order and safety in the area.

In particular, every year at the festival, the titles of cultural households and cultural villages are presented to an increasing number of households. Sin Suoi Ho also has many exemplary households and people in study, work, productive labor, and many movements to help each other eliminate hunger and reduce poverty. The program "Building new rural areas" has been widely implemented.

Speaking at the conference, Mr. Tran Bao Trung - Deputy Secretary of the District Party Committee, Chairman of Phong Tho District People's Committee praised the efforts and results that Sin Suoi Ho commune and Sin Suoi Ho village have achieved in recent years.

Mr. Trung affirmed that the conference is a very important event, marking a new step on Sin Suoi Ho commune's development path. Taking advantage of those results, in the coming time, it is recommended that Sin Suoi Ho commune and Sin Suoi Ho village continue to do a better job of propagating the Party's policies, the State's legal policies, and local regulations, the village's conventions to the people.

He urged the local authorities to well implement the criteria so that in 2023 and the following years, it will maintain and achieve the title of cultural village for Sin Suoi Ho village, striving to eliminate social evils, to send all children to school and to stop early marriage.

For community tourism, people play the role of organizing, managing, implementing and at the same time being beneficiaries, therefore, local authorities and people need to strengthen propaganda and education, mobilize people to preserve traditional cultural identities and natural landscapes, regularly improve service quality, maintain its position as a bright spot in community tourism of Phong Tho district in particular and Lai Chau province in general.