international cooperation to support socio-economic development in ethnic minority-inhabited areas will be extended to 2025 under a decision signed recently by Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc. The project will be carried out from 2021 – 2025, with the aim of promoting cooperation in attracting financial assistance, science and technology and experience from countries, international organisations, overseas collectives and individuals to invest in socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas, towards effectively performing the national target programme on socio-economic development in ethnic minority and mountainous areas in the 2021 - 2030 period. By 2025, the project strives to maximize attraction of international resources, especially non-refundable aid, official development assistance (ODA)