Hanoi launches 2025 market stabilization program for essential goods
This plan aims to balance supply and demand, stabilize prices, and ensure the timely delivery of essential items, such as food and fuel, to residents throughout the city.
Essential goods on promotion at a Hanoi supermarket. Photo: Hanoi Portal
THE HANOI TIMES — Hanoi is carrying out a citywide program to ensure the availability of critical supplies, regulate price increases, and protect public well-being during peak periods and emergencies.
This plan aims to balance supply and demand, stabilize prices, and ensure the timely delivery of essential items, such as food and fuel, to residents throughout the city.
The plan will be implemented during critical periods, including the rainy season, holidays, the year-end shopping peak, Tet 2026, and disruptions, involving businesses, cooperatives, and producers through preferential loans, supply chains, technology adoption, food safety, quality improvement, and traceable production.
The Department of Industry and Trade will lead by defining goods and targets, accrediting participants, monitoring supply via a hotline (024.2215.5572), coordinating regional sales, and deploying mobile retail units to parks, hospitals, and schools.
The plan outlines 12 policy measures, including forecasting, price monitoring, financial support, infrastructure, expanding suburban sales points, upgrading stores and safe food chains, and promoting e-commerce, hotlines, and QR code traceability on check.hanoi.gov.vn.
City agencies have specific roles: the Finance Department for pricing and support; Construction and Police for 24/7 essential goods transport; Culture and Sports for communication; Agriculture and Environment for clean agricultural supply chains.
The education and health sectors will ensure stable, hygenic food for school and hospital. The State Bank of Vietnam, Area I, will connect businesses with credit. Meanwhile, local authorities will manage publicity, logistics, and on-the-ground supervision.
Businesses are encouraged to register; in case of shortages, the city may assign capable providers; all participants must submit performance reports to the Department of Industry and Trade by May 15, 2026.
Source: Plan No. 171/KH-UBND issued on June 27, 2025 by the People’s Committee of Hanoi.
