Provincial Party Secretary: Need to review commercial center and supermarket projects in the area

(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of October 28, under the chairmanship of comrade Nguyen Dac Vinh - Member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee held a meeting to listen to and give opinions on a number of important contents.

Attending the event were comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; Nguyen Van Thong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee; comrades in the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee, leaders of departments and branches.

Overview of the working session.

Opening the meeting, comrade Le Xuan Dai - Member of the Provincial Party Committee, Permanent Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee presented the project on developing commercial infrastructure in Nghe An province in the period of 2016-2020. Currently, there are 9 types of commerce in the province, including: traditional market system, supermarket system, commercial center, gasoline trading system, liquefied petroleum gas trading system, retail store system, warehouse system, goods yard, logistics center, e-commerce infrastructure, border economic zone, wholesale market, border market and exhibition center.

Comrade Nguyen Xuan Duong - Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee spoke at the meeting.

According to the assessment, the commercial infrastructure in the province has developed quite well in recent times, promoting the consumption of goods produced in the province, meeting the needs of production and life, contributing significantly to the socio-economic development of the province. The participation of foreign distributors in the supermarket system and commercial centers has contributed to standardizing standards in both form and content of business organization.

Comrade Le Xuan Dai - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee presented the trade development project.

However, the types of commercial infrastructure are small in scale, the technical facilities of some facilities in the commercial infrastructure system do not meet the requirements, especially the conditions of fire prevention and fighting, environmental sanitation, food safety and hygiene, encroachment on the roadside causing traffic obstruction... The socialized resources for investment in developing commercial infrastructure are not high, some key investment projects are slow to be implemented such as the exhibition center, BMC commercial center, Nguyen Kim supermarket...

Shopping activities at Metro Shopping Center. Photo: Archive

At the conference, many opinions were given on management and planning in the construction of a system of traditional markets, supermarkets, and commercial centers. Development of commercial infrastructure needs to be in the direction of harmoniously combining traditional trade with modern trade, in accordance with the nature and level of development of the market in each locality. Forming a network of wholesale and retail technical facilities in both urban and rural areas corresponding to the average growth rate of total retail turnover of 13-14%/year in the period 2016-2020; ensuring that the circulation of retail goods through modern retail forms accounts for 35-40% by 2020.

Provincial Party Secretary Nguyen Dac Vinh chaired the meeting.

Concluding this content, the Provincial Party Secretary basically agreed to approve the contents of the project. At the same time, he emphasized that in developing the traditional market, it is necessary to pay attention to traditional cultural factors; pay attention to management, planning, and implementation resources. In addition to the capital for building the market from the state, it is necessary to mobilize more socialized capital. For the development of the supermarket and trade center system, it is necessary to build a policy mechanism to attract investors, prepare clean land to call for investors; review the projects of trade centers and supermarkets in the province.

In addition to building a commercial center in Vinh city, it is necessary to plan commercial centers in localities where National Highway 1A and Ho Chi Minh Road pass through. Petroleum business must ensure compliance with planning, fire safety; promote the development of e-commerce infrastructure...

Comrade Le Ngoc Hoa - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee presented the project to establish the investment promotion and support center of Nghe An province.

Next, the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee listened to and gave opinions on the establishment of the Nghe An Investment Promotion and Support Center. The Nghe An Investment Promotion and Support Center was established to operate in the fields related to promoting and attracting domestic and foreign investment; receiving and handling investment procedures; consulting and supporting investment activities. The Center operates under the revenue-generating public service model under the Provincial People's Committee, and is expected to be announced in December 2016 and officially operate in January 2017.

Regarding this content, the Provincial Party Secretary agreed to approve and assign the Provincial People's Committee to issue a project to submit to the Ministry of Home Affairs for appraisal and submission to the Prime Minister for decision to establish the Center.

Also this morning, the Provincial Party Committee Standing Committee listened to the results of 3 years of implementing Decision No. 2355-QD/TTg approving the project on socio-economic development of the Western region of Nghe An province until 2020.

Thu Huyen