As the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival is approaching, many businesses, supermarkets and retail outlets in Hoa Binh have offered a diverse array of goods at stable prices to meet public demand.
Hoa Binh ensures sufficient supply of affordable goods for Tet.
Pham Thi Nhuan, Director of Dinh Nhuan commercial joint stock
company in Hoa Binh city said that the company has proactively prepared
sufficient stock of a wide range of items to serve customers’ demand. The
company's supermarket has stocked worth of tens of billions of VND of goods for
Tet and the goods have been put on sale, especially confectionery, beer and
beverages.
The supermarket has also introduced several promotions and
discount programmes to stimulate shopping demand while implementing the price
stabilisation programme, contributing to creating favourable conditions for
people to shop.
According to retailers, this year's goods are diverse in types
with eye-catching designs and most of them are "made in Vietnam” with suitable
and stable prices. However, most small businesses said that due to the gloomy
economic situation, people tend to tighten their belts.
According to the provincial department of industry and trade,
the province currently has seven supermarkets - one grade I, three grade II and
three grade III - and three commercial centres of grade III, along with
specialised shops.
The traditional market system has been replanned and gradually
renovated, with some new ones to be built newt, especially rural markets.
The province has 95 markets, including one market meeting grade
I standards, 10 grade II markets, 84 grade III markets.
Some investors have shown their interests in investing in new
markets or renovating existing ones. Currently, the province has transformed
management models for 30 markets, accounting for 31.57% of the total markets in
the locality.
It is forecasted that the demand for stockpiling essential items
before, during and after the Lunar New Year is worth nearly 400
billionVND.
According to leaders of the department of industry and
trade, in order to stabilise the market while encouraging consumption, the
department has coordinated with functional sectors and localities to continue
monitoring the market situation to ensure the balance of supply and demand and
keep strict control of the quality and price of goods to meet demand of
consumers.
On November the first, the Provincial People's Committee held a meeting for the reports on the progress of preparations to hold the Ceremony to receive the Certificate of the special national relic ranking for Trai Cave, the Stone Roof of Vanh village (Lac Son district) and the Opening Ceremony of the Culture - Tourism Week of Hoa Binh province in 2024. Mr. Nguyen Van Toan, the Standing Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, the Head of the Organizing Committee of Culture - Tourism Week chaired the meeting.
alternate member of the Party Central Committee and Secretary of the provincial Party Committee Nguyen Phi Long on October 30 had a working session with the Party Committee of the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment on the sector's implementation of political tasks in the past 10 months, and key tasks for the last months of 2024 and in the coming time.
In recent years, the People's Committee of Lac Thuy district has directed units and mass organisations to promote the popularisation of the Party's policies and resolutions and the State's laws, as well as issued guiding documents on local religious affairs.
The Hoa Binh Steering Committee for the organisation of the fourth provincial congress of ethnic minority groups held a meeting on October 29 to discuss the progress of preparations for the congress. Dinh Cong Su, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee and head of the Steering Committee chaired the event. The congress is slated for November 14-15 at the provincial Cultural Palace, expecting 250 official delegates.
Despite a low starting point, the mountainous district of Mai Chau has effectively implemented the National Target Programme on New Rural Development, resulting in significant improvements in people’s life and rural look.
Over the past years, Hoa Binh has systematically implemented the one-stop-shop and interconnected one-stop-shop mechanisms in processing administrative procedures, contributing to improving the efficiency of the work while promoting online public services.