Efforts to bring trade and service activities into order

Thu Dau Mot city has 14 ward-level administrative units, no suburban communes. Last time, new types of trade have been formed in the city; Goods distribution channels are expanded, contributing to production support and improving people's lives. In order to have stable development of trade and service activities, products to ensure safety, state management is always concerned by localities.

 Close management of commercial activities

In order to help people buy quality-assured goods, from the beginning of 2019, Thu Dau Mot City People's Committee directed the departments and sectors to coordinate with localities to strengthen inspection of markets, business establishments and businesses. food and foodstuff items in the area; check administrative procedures, scope of practice and conditions to ensure production and business, regulations on food hygiene and safety.

Besides, the city requires functional agencies to pay attention to check the expiry date of products, goods of inferior quality, unknown origin, counterfeit goods, counterfeit goods ... resolutely deal with establishments and individuals that commit acts of commercial fraud, fail to abide by law provisions. The City People's Committee also directed localities to guide people to increase production, supply goods to the market, contributing to stabilizing prices.

Functional forces check the quality of spring scales of small businesses at Thu Dau Mot market. Photo: Truc Huynh

In order to ensure consumers' interests, the city also coordinated with the provincial Center for Standards and Quality to verify 595 measuring devices (spring watch scales) of small businesses in 9 markets in the city. city. As a result, in the first 6 months of 2019, trade management activities in the city's wards are well managed.

Mr. Nguyen Pham Minh Thai, Vice Chairman of Hiep An Ward People's Committee, said that the interest and regular guidance of the City Party Committee, City People's Committee, the economic situation of the ward in the first 6 months continued to be positive. . In general, trading products in the ward are relatively stable, goods are abundant, ensuring the quality and safety of consumers' health.

According to Mr. Phan Luong Hoa, Vice Chairman of Phu Cuong Ward People's Committee, in the first months of the year, the locality has checked and sanctioned an administrative violation in case of business not registered with the amount of 1.5 million VND. . Along with that, the ward has arranged and arranged 90 points of street food trading, other business and 15 parking points; regularly check the price listing, sell at the listed price and keep the car at the prescribed price.

Many advantages for development

Noting that, in the first months of the year, the localities of Thu Dau Mot city had strictly followed the instructions of the provincial People's Committee, the Steering Committee for smuggling, trade fraud and provincial counterfeiting and the Department of Industry and Trade. Accordingly, market management forces, market management boards and localities of the city have actively examined, controlled and captured the localities; regularly check and control food quality, ensure food hygiene and safety. Since then, the branches and localities have prevented and handled in time cases of law violations in production and business activities.

From now until the end of the year, leaders of the City People's Committee said that the locality will continue to make efforts to well manage the activities of markets and supermarkets. Specifically, the town's leaders direct related branches and localities to actively disseminate and propagate laws on commercial activities; well perform market inspection and control to detect, prevent and promptly handle violations in production and business, and ensure market stability.

In addition, the city strives to well implement trade promotion programs to promote brands, introduce products and expand markets for local agricultural and forest products and industrial products. The locality also continues to create conditions for development of organizations, businesses, production facilities, and commercial businesses, such as supporting training and training courses; coordinate with departments, branches and localities to guide step by step to build craft villages and build brands for products.

Regarding commercial infrastructure development, the city continues to guide localities to change the market management and exploitation model according to the plan approved by the provincial People's Committee. At the same time, the city directed the functional industry to strengthen propaganda, dissemination, education and consumer orientation to create a strong change in awareness of consumer protection; pay attention to improving skills and professional skills of consumer protection for state management officials.

Reported by Truc Huynh – Translated by Vi Bao