The Industrial Promotion and Development Consultancy Centre under the Department of Industry and Trade of Hoa Binh province has carried out an array of practical and effective programmes, helping local enterprises and rural industrial establishments to improve their competitive edge while making contributions to the province’s industrialisation and modernisation process.


Leaders from the Department of Industry and Trade and the Industrial Promotion and Development Consultancy Centre conduct the acceptance of the national industrial promotion project in Luong Son district.


As much as 4.43 billion VND (181,900 USD) was earmarked for nine industrial development projects in the province in 2023.

Besides carrying out the projects, helping rural industrial establishments better their competitive capacity towards export, the centre has worked to introduce local products to consumers through various fairs, exhibitions and conferences.

Particularly, the bamboo shoot of Kim Boi JSC became the first product recognised as a national typical rural industrial goods, which is expected to create a knock-on effect, and encourage other rural industrial establishments to capitalise on available materials and workers as well as advanced technologies to produce competitive products, thus expanding the markets.

During the 2022-2023 period, more than 19.1 billion VND was splashed out to support 18 industrial projects with advanced technologies in production and communications work on industrial promotion activities.

The industrial promotion work played an important role in the development of local garment and textile, mechanics, and wood and bamboo and rattan processing in 2022 and 2023. The Industrial Promotion and Development Consultancy Centre joined hands with the Industrial Promotion and Development Centre 1 under the Agency for Regional Industry and Trade to carry out various industrial promotion activities to help businesses and cooperatives to invest in new machines and equipment, and use state-of-the-art technologies to reduce environmental pollution during production.

The efforts paid off as they helped improve labour productivity, reduce production costs, generate jobs for local workers and fine-tune product quality to meet the market demand.

According to Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Industry and Trade Duong Quoc Thang, over the past time, the department has directed its affiliated units to roll out industrial promotion projects, and keep a close watch on the progress of the projects.

There is an increasing number of rural industrial establishments, helping create stable jobs for local people while contributing to the province’s industrial production, and budget collection.

In the coming time, the department will continue working to support local firms in modernising their production lines, train skilled workers, promote economic restructuring in rural areas and in the province as a whole, among others, he added.

 


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