 We have projects to preserve cultural heritages and traditional cultural identities of ethnic minorities (including their languages, writings, physical and non-physical cultural heritages). Special investment and development projects are developed to target the ethnic minority groups of very few populations. The preservation and development projects for five ethnic minority groups with the population of less than 1,000 each (Si La, Pu Peo, 0 Du, Ro Mam and Brau) have been underway and in the near future, similar projects will be carried out to support the ethnic minority groups with the population of less than 10,000 each.  In addition, a variety of programs and projects have been implemented in different fields such as trade and tourism development in the mountainous, highland and ethnic minority areas; education and training for the ethnic minorities through the boarding school system of different levels from district and provincial up to graduate and professional; provision of grass-root medical and health care system for people in ethnic minority areas. Madam Chair, 5. To help the "minorities" (the ethnic minorities) to effectively participate in the economic life, it is our view that very "concrete" and "appropriate" policies should be developed subject to the specific characters of each 'area and target. For instance, since 2004 we have made policy to provide the land for production and housing, houses and safe water for poor ethnic minority households in 53 province. After four years, we gained remarkable achievements: building houses for 373,400 households, 1,552 ha of housing land to 71,713 households and 27,763 ha of production land for '83,563 households, 4,663 water-providing constructions and nearly 200,000 households Jaye to safe water.... 6. Some points should be taken into account in planning policy for these targets:  Programs of 'awareness and knowledge raising on legal issues and ethnic minority policies to facilitate their access to development information should be communicated in various ways appropriate with their level and languages. - Programs in ethnic minority areas should involve direct participation of each local community and people, especially well-respected community figures in their implementation. The State provides funding for the investment 'and construction projects, while local people contribute their labor and construction materials, available in the regions. Socialization of needed resources and active involvement of entrepreneurs, social organizations and NGOs in projects to support extremely difficult areas are highly encouraged. - The projects aimed at rapid and sustainable poverty reduction to these targets should be viewed as "Giving fishing rod, not fish". But it is not enough. Once having the fishing rods, they need to be guided how to fish, not only sufficient for themselves but more than enough for sale; therefore, they also need practical guidance to sell the fish. Only by doing so, could the ultimate goal of accelerating effective participation of ethnic minorities in the economic life be achieved. •