Many Nghe An specialties participate in connecting supply and demand of goods in Ho Chi Minh City

The Conference was attended by 15 provinces and cities in person; the Ministry of Industry and Trade and 10 provinces and cities participated online at the bridge points.

Comrade Pham Van Hoa - Director of the Department of Industry and Trade chaired at Nghe An bridge point.

Delegates attending the conference at Nghe An bridge. Photo: Thu Huyen

At the conference, localities, manufacturing enterprises, distributors, etc. had many opinions and wished to have many activities to exploit the maximum potential and promote the strengths of each locality. At the same time, develop linkages, two-way connections, form supply chains from production to consumption, expand domestically produced goods and those with export potential, especially activities.connecting supply and demand of goodsbetween Ho Chi Minh City and localities.

Representatives of leaders, departments, offices of the Department of Industry and Trade, and distributors of Nghe An attended the conference. Photo: Thu Huyen

Opinions say that through connection, the advantages of each locality have been maximized, in which Ho Chi Minh City has strengths in production and processing; localities have strengths in agricultural farming experience, potential in raw materials and local specialties. The program contributes to improving the efficiency of expanding the distribution network associated with purchasing and consuming products, creating jobs for the workforce as well as performing the task of stabilizing the market right in the localities.

In Nghe An, in general, in the recent period with nearly 10 years of implementing the program to connect supply and demand of goods, the scale has been increasingly expanded, goods are increasingly abundant, the number of localities and enterprises participating and the contracts and supply items signed by the parties are increasing.

Director of the Department of Industry and Trade Pham Van Hoa speaks at the conference. Photo: Thu Huyen

Speaking at the conference, comrade Pham Van Hoa - Director of Nghe An Department of Industry and Trade said that currently, Nghe An province's products, especially agricultural products, are very diverse, ensuring requirements on form, design, and quality to be eligible for circulation in the market.

There are currently 71 typical rural industrial products and over 200OCOP productsRecognized by the Provincial People's Committee, some products ensure production scale and supply output to enter domestic goods distribution chains.

Abundant sources of goods, meeting people's needs. Photo: Thu Huyen

That is: Oranges reach about 60,000 tons/year; industrial tea reaches 80,000 tons/year; pork reaches about 137,000 tons/year; poultry meat 82,000 tons/year. With a system of over 400 cold storage warehouses and the fishing capacity of the local fishing fleet, it is capable of supplying about 240,000 tons of aquatic and seafood products of all kinds every year.

In addition, Nghe An has many local specialties and medicinal products such as Thanh Chuong pickled cucumber, Nam Dan soy sauce, Pu Mat medicinal herbs, yellow flower tea, etc. that can reach the southern market.

In order for Nghe An's goods to reach the large market in Ho Chi Minh City and the Southern provinces, Nghe An Department of Industry and Trade sends greetings to distributors and invites you to survey and select Nghe An products to put into the supply chains of goods nationwide. We always accompany distributors to survey and select products that ensure quality, large production scale, and ensure circulation conditions to put into the supply chains.

Director of Department of Industry and Trade Pham Van Hoa

The conference attracted 500 booths from 28 provinces and cities to participate directly; In addition, 20 provinces and cities participated in the exhibition with 92 virtual reality booths; 4 large e-commerce trading floors such as Tiki, Lazada, Shopee; 7 large product distributors such as Co.opmart, Bach Hoa Xanh, Aeon, Big C...

Vinh orange specialty. Photo: Quang An

In which, Nghe An has 7 businesses participating in the exhibition to introduce products such as Vinh oranges,Pu Mat medicinal herbs, veal ham,... in Ho Chi Minh City; 15 businesses participated in connecting via online channels.

Through the cooperation program, Ho Chi Minh City has actively supported provinces, including Nghe An, contributing to promoting production and promoting the circulation of goods, creating economic development links in the whole region.