A tea production model according to VietGap standards of VietGap Clean Tea Cooperative Group in Cay Hamlet.

Minh Thanh Commune is located in the middle of a valley, surrounded by two mountain ranges of Nen mountain (from Nieng Hamlet to adjacent to Cong Da Commune, Yen Son District) and Rao mountain (from Co Hamlet to Tien Bo Commune, Yen Son District). The whole commune has up to 3 out of 4 of the forest land. The commune has 1,498 households, including 7 ethnic minority groups living together in 14 villages.

Since the new rural construction programme was implemented, the living standards of local people have been improved. Many works have been built such as schools, commune health stations, etc. In addition, 100% of villages have spacious culture houses.

As an extremely difficult mountainous commune of Son Duong District, up to now, Minh Thanh Commune has completed 16 out of 19 criteria for building a new-style rural area. The commune has more than 63 km of concrete roads, an irrigation system for production, etc.

Tea tree is a key crop of Minh Thanh Commune. Therefore, many households in the locality have gradually switched the normal tea variety into F1 hybrid tea or Phuc Van Tien tea varieties, etc. They have also applied automatic irrigation, and used organic fertilised in order to bring about high effective results.

The commune has promoted the organic rice production model (clean rice) in 5 hamlets. Minh Thanh's rice products are registered with La Khai brand and have been recognised as an OCOP product of the province.

Especially, poverty reduction is the most important achievement of local authorities and the people in Minh Thanh Commune over the past time. After 5 years of implementing the poverty reduction target programme, by the end of 2020, the poor ratio of the commune was estimated at 6.21%, an average reduction of 8.1% per year. In 2021, the commune is striving to reduce the poverty ratio to 3.4%.

To sum up, Minh Thanh changes its appearance thanks to the leadership of the Party, local authorities and the consensus of the people.