Chief of Office of Ministry of Industry and Trade holds position of General Director of Market Management

The Ministry of Industry and Trade has just issued a decision to temporarily transfer and appoint Mr. Tran Huu Linh - Chief of Office to hold the position of General Director of the General Department of Market Management, from October 12.

The effective date of the decision coincides with the establishment of the General Department of Market Management on the basis of upgrading from the Market Management Department, according to the Prime Minister's decision announced a month ago.

Mr. Tran Huu Linh was born in 1977, has a bachelor's degree in Foreign Economics, Hanoi National University; Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Hanoi University of Science and Technology.

In June 2016, Mr. Linh was appointed to the position of Chief of Office of the Ministry of Industry and Trade. Before that, he held the position of Director of the Department of E-Commerce under the Ministry for many years.

According to the decision to establish the General Department of Market Management, this agency will include the General Department Office and 4 Departments (Department of Organization and Personnel; Department of General Affairs - Planning - Finance; Department of Policy - Legislation; Department of Inspection - Examination) and the Department of Market Management.

The latest change in this structure is that market management will be organized vertically. Unlike before, when it was managed by local authorities, the provincial and municipal Market Management Departments will now be under the direct management of the General Department. The district and county market management teams will be under the management of the provincial and municipal Departments.

Thus, 305 Teams and 25 Provincial Market Management Departments will be reduced and rearranged. In 2019 alone, the goal is to consolidate 38 provincial market management agencies into 19 inter-provincial and municipal agencies.

The Provincial Market Management Department and the District Market Management Team have legal status, their own seals and are allowed to open accounts at the State Treasury in accordance with the provisions of law.