"Giving wings" to ethnic minority youth to establish themselves and start a career

In recent years, the start-up of ethnic minority youth has always received the attention of the provincial authorities. Therefore, many policies and support policies have been issued by the province to realize the start-up ideas of ethnic minority and mountainous youth.

The medicinal chicken farming model under the canopy of yellow camellia flowers of Mr. Dam Van Trieu (Ba Che commune) brings high economic efficiency.

Born and raised in a poor rural area in Khe Long Ngoai village, Thanh Son commune (now Ba Che commune), young man Dam Van Trieu of the San Chi ethnic group has always cherished the dream of getting rich on his homeland. Although he graduated from the University of Law, Trieu did not pursue his major, instead, with his will and aspiration to rise up, he returned to his hometown to develop the economy. At the time when Ba Che district previously encouraged households to grow yellow tea flowers - a precious medicinal herb in the province's OCOP product list, Trieu took advantage of his family's forest land to convert 3 hectares of acacia to 2.5 hectares of yellow tea flowers, the remaining area was planted with Morinda officinalis, rattan... which are also trees that bring economic efficiency in the area.

Some time later, realizing that the conditions in his hometown were very suitable for developing livestock farming, in 2019, he invested in barns and imported 1,000 Tien Yen chickens to raise. Mr. Trieu shared: "Thanks to the encouragement from my family and thanks to my father - who has experience in farming and raising livestock, I invested in barns to raise chickens with a semi-free-range farming method."

According to the investigation, during the process of raising and caring for the chickens, Mr. Trieu released them onto the hills and gardens under the forest canopy so that the chickens could find more natural food. To proactively source medicinal herbs to feed the chickens, on the hill forest growing yellow tea flowers of his family, he used medicinal plants grown such as: Lemongrass, honeysuckle, ginseng, ... to mix into the chicken feed to help increase the resistance of the chickens.

Mr. Trieu added: “I also researched and learned about chicken farming methods through the internet, then went to learn from surrounding farms and applied it to my family’s chicken flock. From there, I gained a lot of experience and developed a garden-cage-forest economic model. This is also a new way of doing things in the locality. If I successfully apply it, it can be replicated for people in the area.”

Currently, on average, Mr. Trieu raises 2,000-2,500 chickens each year in a semi-free-range manner. In order to develop the medicinal hill chicken brand, the commune's Youth Union has also supported and instructed Mr. Trieu in the stages of breeding, care, disease prevention, how to build barns, and install automatic feeding and drinking troughs, thereby helping the chickens grow healthily.

Mr. Trieu also said that when he raised chickens from medicinal plants, the meat was firmer, more delicious, not fishy, ​​the skin was more yellow and the chickens were less likely to get sick. And after a period of applying the method of raising chickens under the canopy of yellow camellia flowers, the family's economic life became more and more prosperous, with a more stable income of 200-300 million VND/year.

The Provincial Investment and Startup Club organizes a program to connect and promote trade and startups in the Eastern region, August 2024.

Identifying that accompanying young people in economic development, self-reliance and career establishment is one of the important tasks of the Youth Union, Youth Union chapters at all levels have implemented programs to support young people in terms of careers, jobs and startups with many activities; at the same time, promoting communication and replicating successful startup models. The Provincial Youth Union established and maintained the activities of Investment and Startup Clubs in localities. Thereby, creating a forum for young people to share and exchange skills and experiences in starting a business.

In the first 6 months of 2025, the Provincial Youth Union directed the Provincial Investment and Startup Club to organize 3 "Business Coffee" programs, and directed the Provincial Young Entrepreneurs Association to organize the "Young Entrepreneurs Trade Promotion Program 2025" which gathered more than 40 booths from member businesses across the province. The booths displayed typical products and services mainly in the fields of: manufacturing, trade, services, digital transformation, tourism, agriculture . In addition to the exhibition activities, the event is also a forum for sharing management experiences, business model innovation, technology application, e-commerce, digital skills development and branding in cyberspace.

Activities to support young people to establish themselves and start a business are also implemented through exploiting loan sources to support young people in economic development, job creation, poverty reduction, ensuring increased loan quality, and preventing wrong loans. As of May 2025, the total outstanding loan balance entrusted through the Bank for Social Policies has reached 656.15 billion VND.

In order to develop the startup ecosystem, especially supporting businesses owned by young people, the province also promotes resource connection, develops business incubators, improves the investment environment and application of science and technology, creating favorable conditions for young people to realize startup ideas into real life.

Ky Thuong Am Vap Farm (Ky Thuong commune) - a community tourism model founded by two young men Nguyen Trung Kien and Ly Tai Ngan attracts many tourists to experience.

In 2024, the province organized the opening of the Center for Innovation and Startups and Support for Digital Transformation. The Center's function is to provide space, utilities, and facilities to support activities for the community, businesses in general, and startups in particular; receive and develop initiatives and practical experiments, organize competitions of ideas and initiatives to serve the community; at the same time, improve the science and technology capacity of small and medium enterprises; organize activities to promote the development of the innovative startup ecosystem; support the development of startup ideas and projects, etc.

Since 2018, the contest "Creative Startup Ideas of Quang Ninh Province" has been held, creating a useful exchange playground for young people. In the past 3 years, the contest has received 162 startup ideas and projects from young people, students and pupils. Over the years, the ideas and projects have increased in both quantity and quality, clearly demonstrating the spirit of innovation and creativity of young people. The whole province has also supported over 120 young people to start businesses, including 28 young people who started innovative startups, 132 businesses owned by young people have been consulted and supported to develop.

It can be seen that, to help ethnic minority youth start their own businesses, the government, together with all levels and sectors, has been giving many priorities and resources to realize their dreams; contributing significantly to gathering and uniting youth, promoting local socio-economic development.

Van Anh

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