(HBO) – The Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee on November 16 issued Document No. 1980/UBND-NNTN, approving plans on building a competitiveness index for districts, departments and sectors, and conducting a survey on businesses’ assessment of the business and investment environment in Hoa Binh city, districts, departments and agencies in the locality.
The
business community in Hoa Binh province has proposed to local authorities
measures to support enterprises and improve the local business environment.
The move is made in implementing the
resolution adopted at the 17th provincial Party Congress, which sets
the goal of improving the province’s ranking in the provincial competitiveness
index (PCI) by at least three places a year during the 2021-2025 period. It is also
expected to create significant changes in the local business climate.
The District and Department
Competitiveness Index (DDCI) will measure the satisfaction of enterprises,
cooperatives and household businesses about economic management capacity of
authorities of Hoa Binh city, districts, and provincial departments and
agencies.
The index will encourage local authorities
to work harder to raise their economic management quality, and better the
settlement of administrative procedures relating to investors, enterprises,
cooperatives and household businesses, thus facilitating their operation.
It will also create a trust-worthy,
transparent channel for investors, firms, cooperatives and household businesses
to contribute opinions on building local authorities.
The survey will be conducted from January
1 to December 31, 2021 through direct interviews in Hoa Binh city, all districts
and certain departments and agencies in the province.
As many as 400 enterprises, 20
cooperatives and 80 household businesses are expected to participate in the
study.
The provincial business association will
instruct its chapters in Hoa Binh city and districts to send officials to each
participating enterprise and cooperative to deliver questionnaires, and explain
the unclear points of the questions.
The index will be compiled based on
survey’s outcomes.
The building of the index is set to create
practical, strong changes in the mindset and actions of local authorities,
departments, agencies and the business community, thus helping to attract more
resources for local economic development./.
According to data from the Hoa Binh Provincial Party Committee, the industrial production index for the first six months of 2025 is estimated to have increased by 20% compared to the same period last year. This marks the highest year-on-year growth rate for this period since 2020.
In the first six months of 2025, Hoa Binh province’s export turnover was estimated at 1.145 billion USD, marking an 18.11% increase compared to the same period in 2024. Import turnover was estimated at $ 804 million, a 17.15% increase, which helped the province maintain a positive trade balance.
The lives of the ethnic minority farmers in Tan Lac district have gradually improved thanks to the new directions in agricultural production. This is a testament to the collective strength fostered through the professional associations and groups implemented by various levels of the district’s Farmers’ Union.
With the motto the "product quality comes first,” after nearly one year of establishment and operation, Muong village’s Clean Food Agricultural and Commercial Cooperative, located in Cau Hamlet, Hung Son Commune (Kim Boi district), has launched reputable, high-quality agricultural products to the market that are well-received by consumers. The products such as Muong village’s pork sausage, salt-cured chicken, and salt-cured pork hocks have gradually carved out a place in the market and they are on the path to obtaining the OCOP certification.
In the past, the phrase "bumper harvest, rock-bottom prices" was a familiar refrain for Vietnamese farmers engaged in fragmented, small-scale agriculture. But today, a new spirit is emerging across rural areas of Hoa Binh province - one of collaboration, organisation, and collective economic models that provide a stable foundation for production.
Maintaining growing area codes and packing facility codes in accordance with regulations is a mandatory requirement for agricultural products to be eligible for export. Recently, the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Hoa Binh province has intensified technical supervision of designated farming areas and packing facilities to safeguard the "green passport" that enables its products to access international markets.