Further strengthening trade promotion

Over the past time, provincial leaders always paid attention to instructing authorities at all levels and sectors to jointly implement many support programs for economic sectors to increase their production, business and product consumption.

Efforts

The Center for Trade Promotion and Economic Information under provincial Department of Industry and Trade (DoIT) over the past time attached special importance to organizing expos in the province and helping businesses take part in domestic and foreign ones.

 Binh Duong continues strengthening trade promotion activities. In picture: An unit at the expo on Binh Duong’s five-year socio-economic achievements from 2010 to 2015

Center director Pham Thanh Dung said that the center last year organized business delegations to attend 8 domestic expos with total revenue estimated at VND643mln and export contracts worth US$93,000 signed. The center successfully organized a 10-member business delegation of provincial Wood Processing Association to take part in the 2015 IMN Expo in Germany. At the expo, the delegation welcomed a lot of visitors from Germany, the U.S, Russia, Holland, Belgium…

Last year, more than 190 partners visited and exchanged with province-based businesses about capacity, product quality and pattern. Among them, 55 were appreciated as potential exporters in contract negotiation and signing. Thinh Phat Co. signed a contract exporting its products worth US$39,000 to Holland.

Especially, under the national trade promotion program together with the instruction of provincial People’s Committee and DoIT, the center teamed up with relevant agencies to successfully organize an expo on the province’s socio-economic achievements on the occasion of the 40^th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification (April 30, 1975-April 30, 2015). The expo absorbed more than 150 booths with total revenue of VND1.5bln. Whilst, there were 130 booths at the expo on the province’s five-year socio-economic achievements, national defence-security from 2010 to 2015. The expo also drew many visitors in and out of the province…

Actively supporting businesses

Along with advantages, the province’s trade promotion activities over the past time faced a lot of difficulties pertaining to support cost, image introduction via expos…

It is expected that the province’s functional agencies will further carry out their annual programs on trade promotion, including those of supporting businesses to attend expos at home and abroad, bringing Vietnamese goods to countryside…

Provincial Center for Trade Promotion and Economic Information will also research and get involved in several new activities to be able to better support businesses, becoming their reliable company during the development process.

Reported by Thoai Phuong-Translated by K.T