From the tradition to the market: The economic transformation of the Red Dao in Tả Phìn commune, Sa Pa district, Lào Cai province

Abstract

In the past few decades, in Vietnam, with the development of small and medium towns in the mountains, the commodity economy in ethnic minority areas have developed rapidly. The formation of the market, especially the economic transformation from a traditional economy to a market economy, has a comprehensive impact on economic life, culture and society of ethnic minorities. Through many years of surveying the economic transformation of the Red Dao in Tả Phìn commune, Sa Pa district, Lào Cai province, we want to clarify the process of economic transformation in the mountains, in this case it is targeted for the Red Dao in Tả Phìn commune, Sa Pa district, Lào Cai province. On this basis, the article suggests distinct factors as well as the general rules of the increasingly intensive and extensive marketization process of the mountains in Vietnam.