The People’s Committee of central Thua Thien- Hue province has decided
to invest 9 billion VND to restore and develop its traditional trade
villages between 2014 and 2015.
Apart from creating jobs
and improving labourers’ income for the local people, traditional trade
villages help preserve Hue cultural identity and contribute to boost
provincial tourism industry.
In the next two years, the
province will focus on enhancing production capacity of trade villages
and small scale industries, improving product designs and creating new
products to meet market demand.
The province will also offer
management and business skills courses for of production establishments
and enterprises. Besides this, the province will promote marketing and
plan to create 1500 new jobs in rural areas.
In 2013, the
Centre for Industrial Encouragement and Trade Promotion under the
provincial Department of Industry and Trade has carried out 31
projects to foster industrial development in the locality, thus bringing
jobs to about 2,500 labourers. Many incentives have been offered to
enterprises and production units to help them expand production and
business.
Thua Thien- Hue has over 200 traditional trade villages including 88 handicraft villages.-VNA