In three days of December 10-12 at Thang Loi Hotel-Restaurant and by supports of Federation of Collectives of Germany, Binh Duong Federation of Collectives, and Vietnam Collective Business Association (VCBA), a workshop on “collective business of industrial handicraft, trade and service interlinking and development” was held for over 60 delegates from 14 federations of collective businesses in the Southern Region and leaders of localities.After listening to the speeches on varieties of collective business in Vietnam and Germany, the participants shall discuss seminars on collective business in Vietnam.By December 2011, the nation had totally 2,897 industrial handicraft collectives, of which, Binh Duong Province was accounted for 111 collectives with 48,408 members contributing a charter capital of VND 595.45 billion.Reported by Cao Son – Translated by Vi Bao