As a flexible locality with strong development in socio-economic fields, Thuan An town has absorbed a large number of immigrant laborers from provinces and cities nationwide. The town has also taken many measures to promote trade-services at people’s demand for shopping and entertainment…

Trade-services with robust growth

Thuan An town now has around 20,000 individual households getting involved in trade-services and around 1,200 enterprises with hi-quality trade-services at customers’ demand. The town is also home to 4 trade centers, 3 supermarkets, 24 markets and 1 market control cooperative together with bank branches. Many hotels and restaurants have also been loomed large across the town.

Tran Hoang Kim Quy, Director of Lai Thieu-based Vinatex supermarket said: “Thuan An town is a locality with great potential in trade-services and has a favorable geography contiguous to HCM city, Di An town and TDM city with many main streets. Lai Thieu-based Vinatex supermarket has also been created favorable conditions for development. The local people’s demand for shopping is very great, contributing to promoting our development”. 

Customers selecting goods at Lai Thieu-based Vinatex supermarket

The strong development of Thuan An town’s trade and services has also come from industrial manufacture. The town is now home to 3 industrial parks, namely VSIP1, Dong An 1 and Viet Huong, and 2 industrial compounds, namely Binh Chuan and An Thanh. The industrial development has contributed to promoting many services relating eating, drinking, goods and passenger transport, lodging…

Estimatedly, the town’s total retail sales of consumer goods and services in the first half of 2013 reached more than VND9.3trillion, up 18% compared to the corresponding period last year. The proportion of industrial manufacture now accounts for 26% of the town’s economic structure. The town is striving to maintain its growth of trade-services by 30%-32%/year with proportion occupying 37% of the local economic structure by 2015.

Measures taken

For trade-services further getting sustainable development, Thuan An town has well realized its development plan for market, supermarket and trade center network in the 2011 and 2015 period. Accordingly, this plan is line with the town’s overall socio-economic development plan, contributing to promoting the local trade-services network. The town has also sped up State administration work in terms of trade-services for better development…

Truong Cong Thanh, Deputy Head of Thuan An town’s Division of Economics said that Thuan An town has so far had basic implementation under the province’s development plan on market, supermarket and trade center network. The town’s market, supermarket and trade center network now reaches a stable development.

Thuan An town has also attached special importance to implementing the High Quality Services Development Program in the 2011 and 2015 period and vision till 2020, which is seen as an important program. The town has promoted high quality trade-services with high competitiveness and added value for sustainable and quick development, contributing to eradicating hunger, reducing poverty and improving the quality of life of the local people.

Reported by Hong Thuan-Translated by K.T