(HBO) – The provincial Department of Industry and Trade on January 12 organised a conference to review performance in 2020, and carry out tasks and plans in 2021. Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Nguyen Van Chuong attended and gave direction at the event.
Leader of the Department of Industry and Trade presents certificates of merit to organisations that have excellent achievements in 2020.
Last year, the sector implemented various measures to promote production and business, helping ensure sufficient essential supplies for local people amidst complicated developments of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Value of local industrial production was estimated at over 43 trillion VND (1.87 billion USD), a year-on-year surge of 15 percent, while revenue from retail sales was 37.68 trillion VND, up 18.88 percent from the previous year. The province gained more than 1 billion USD in export revenue, rising 31.72 percent year-on-year. Meanwhile, spending on imports increased 37.8 percent to 875 million USD.
Local consumer price index went up 2.28 percent.
This year, the sector targets to achieve 8 percent growth in industrial production, as well as gain over 44.46 trillion VND in revenue from retail sales and services and 980 million USD from exports. The consumer price index will be kept under five percent.
Additionally, it will work to help 99.82 percent of the local households access the national power grid.
At the conference, Chuong spoke highly of the sector’s achievements in the year, asking it to sharpen focus on supporting investors to complete infrastructure at industrial parks, and removing bottlenecks to develop import and export markets.
Due attention should be paid to carrying out the project "developing markets for Hoa Binh province’s key agricultural products during the 2020-2025 period with vision to 2030” in an effective fashion, he said, adding more efforts are needed to promote administrative reform and prevention of corruption and waste./.
Once a mountainous province facing many challenges, Hoa Binh has, after more than a decade of implementing the national target programme on new-style rural area development, emerged as a bright spot in Vietnam’s northern midland and mountainous region. In the first quarter of 2025, the province recorded positive results, paving the way for Hoa Binh to enter a phase of accelerated growth with a proactive and confident mindset.
Hoa Binh province is steadily advancing its agricultural sector through the adoption of high-tech solutions, seen as a sustainable path for long-term development.
The steering committee for key projects of Hoa Binh province convened on May 14 to assess the progress of major ongoing developments
A delegation of Hoa Binh province has attended the "Meet Korea 2025" event, recently held by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassy of the Republic of Korea (RoK) in Vietnam, the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency, and the People's Committee of Hung Yen province.
Hoa Binh province joined Vietnam’s national "One Commune, One Product” (OCOP) programme in 2019, not simply as a mountainous region following central policy, but with a clear vision to revive the cultural and agricultural values in its villages and crops.
From just 16 certified products in its inaugural year to 158 by early 2025, the One Commune One Product (OCOP) programme in Hoa Binh province has followed a steady and strategic path. But beyond the numbers, it has reawakened local heritage, turning oranges, bamboo shoots, brocade, and herbal remedies into branded, market-ready goods - and, more profoundly, transformed how local communities value and present their own cultural identity.