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Dec 04, 2016 / 10:29

Various opportunities from trade links between Hanoi with localities nationwide

The boosting of trade links between Hanoi with localities nationwide will ensure the goods supply to serve the city`s market during the upcoming Lunar New Year in 2017.

The remark was affirmed by Chairman of Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung at a conference aiming to boost trade links between Hanoi and other localities held in the city on December 1.
 
Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung makes a speech at the conference.
Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung makes a speech at the conference.
A conference aiming to boost trade links between Hanoi and other provinces and cities nationwide was organised in the capital on December 1.
According to report of the municipal Department of Industry and Trade, Hanoi held 400 enterprises to join programmes to boost consumption, and signed over 350 memorandums of understanding and economic contracts with outside-city enterprises, contributing to stablising the market and meeting the demand of residents.
Nguyen Thi Mai Anh, Deputy Director of the Hanoi Investment, Trade and Tourism Promotion Centre, said producers in many localities have yet to design packages and stamps for their products.
She emphasised that this is necessary to sell products in modern distribution systems. 
The centre had to ask enterprises and producers in other localities to pay heed to the issue, she said. 
Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Industry and Trade Tran Thi Phuong Lan said the trade links have helped strengthening  the relationship between Hanoi and the provinces and cities across the country.
Speaking at the conference, Chairman of the municipal People’s Committee Nguyen Duc Chung said that Hanoi has connectivity with Bac Giang, Ha Giang, Thai Binh, Hung Yen, Hai Duong and Son La in the north, the central province of Binh Thuan and the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong and the 13 southwest localities.
As a market with high purchasing power, Hanoi has modern infrastructure for commercial development in the country, with 21 shopping centres, 118 supermarkets, 454 markets, over 600 convenient stores and over 50 farm produce and food stores. 
It is an emerging retail market, ranking 13th in the list of the 19 most crowded retail markets in the world. 
Chairman Nguyen Duc Chung asked companies of Hanoi and localities to actively cooperate in producing and trading, to focus on designing packages and stamps for their products, as well as improving quality of products.
Hanoi's companies need to strengthen coordination with provincial businesses to consume local products of strengths such as electronics, footwear, textiles and mechanical, Chairman Chung noted.
Chairman of the Ha Giang province People’s Committee Nguyen Van Son highlighted the importance of building geographical instructions for commodities to improve competitiveness of Vietnamese goods in the context of integration. 
He suggested the Ministry of Industry and Trade consider establishing an e-commerce portal for farm produces. 
Businesses of Hanoi and localities seek partners at the conference.
Businesses of Hanoi and localities seek partners at the conference.
The ministry needs to build a mechanism to share and provide information related to goods among industry and  trade management agencies, and enhance trade promotion to link goods suppliers and contributors. 
Localities were urged to build and perform programmes of clean and high-quality goods production and supply, towards meeting the demand of Hanoi consumers.
Hanoi's authorities were asked to make it easy for goods of provinces and cities to access the capital.
During the conference, 21 distributors and retailers in Hanoi signed the contracts with 265 companies, manufacturers and cooperatives from localties nationwide. Accordingly, Hanoi will consume goods produced by the provinces and cities nationwide during the upcoming Lunar New Year in 2017 worth 17.000 billion VND. Meanwhile, the value of consumption of goods produced by Hanoi in the markets of localities will reach over 6.500 billion VND.