Chairman of the Hoa Binh People’s Committee Bui Van Khanh on February 2 held a Lunar New Year meeting with businesses, investors and cooperation in the locality. The event drew Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee and Chairman of the provincial People’s Council Bui Duc Hinh; Vice President of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hoang Quang Phong; representatives from the Vietnam Association of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and the Vietnam Association of Young Entrepreneurs; as well as leaders of local departments, sectors and localities and 200 local businesses, cooperatives and investors in the locality.
Vice President of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hoang Quang Phong pledges to create favourable conditions and provide highest support to Hoa Binh and local businesses and investors during their development process.
In 2023, despites difficulties and challenges, Hoa Binh still recorded comprehensive achievements in all fields. The province completed its provincial planning for the 2021-2030 period with a vision to 2050.
Along with effective solutions to support local businesses and investors, Hoa Binh saw improvements in the local investment environment and competitiveness. The province ranked 23 among localities in administrative reform index, and leaped nine places in the provincial competitiveness index. Particularly, currently, it takes only one day for a company to process the business registration procedures, and 14 days to get construction licences, and 2.99-3.57 days for power supply service access.
At the meeting, local businesses and investors thanked the Hoa Binh Party Committee, People’s Committee and People’s Council as well as provincial departments, sectors and localities for supporting them over the years.
They raised a number of suggestions, including continuing to improve the investment environment and reform administrative procedures, supporting travel and agricultural firms, speeding up ground clearance, promoting transport projects and regional connections.
Addressing the event, Vice President of the Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry Hoang Quang Phong hailed the efforts of Hoa Binh in listening to the voice of local businesses and deal with their difficulties. He the VCCI will create optimal conditions and provide maximum assistance for businesses and investors in Hoa Binh during their development process.
For his part, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Bui Duc Hinh recognised the contributions of the business community to the socio-economic development of the province.
He vowed that the province will provide best investment environment for them and accompany them during their development. Hinh also called for their contributions of ideas in building and implementing the provincial planning in the 2021-2030 period with a vision to 2050, as well as their recommendations in policies and mechanisms, as well as their feedback.
The provincial leader expressed his hope that local businesses will engaging in implementing political tasks and movements of the province.
On the occasion, the People’s Committee of Hoa Binh presented the emulation flags to three businesses that showed outstanding performance in national patriotism emulation movements in 2023, as well as the certificates of merit to 17 others.
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.
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