In 2024, the city spends a total of VND 5.5 billion on industrial promotion activities, aiming to accompany and support enterprises, cooperatives and production facilities to expand their business scale and find outlets for their products.

The industrial promotion programme helps many businesses boldly invest in development. IN PHOTO: Representatives of the Da Nang Department of Industry and Trade and the city’s Industry and Trade Promotion Centre inspecting equipment supported by the industrial promotion programme at the Viet-Sec Joint Stock Company located in the Hoa Cam Industrial Park, Cam Le District. Photo: M.Q

Creating production motivation

Specialising in manufacturing interior products, investment in green and clean production is always one of the important tasks and top priorities of the Viet-Sec JSC located in the Hoa Cam Industrial Park, Cam Le District.

Mr. Phan Thanh Minh, Deputy Director of the company, informed that the company has just purchased a four-sided planing and automatic shaping machine worth VND1.36 billion in total. The machine helps increase the ability to plan and shape on four sides of wooden blanks in just one feed, thereby improving productivity and ensuring high precision in the processing process, while also creating less wood dust and emissions into the environment.

And, the enterprise has received a financial support of VND300 million from the industrial promotion programme under the pilot model of applying cleaner production in industries.

Mr. Minh said that investing in machinery helped increase output more than 2 times and automation, as well as reduce manual production.

Although it has only been launched for nearly 2 years, the product "Ngoon crispy young grapefruit" of the Nhien Tam Cooperative in Hoa Minh Ward, Lien Chieu District has been on sale in many supermarkets, food stores and distribution units throughout provinces and cities nationwide such as Ho Chi Minh City, Ha Noi, Hai Phong, Quang Ninh and An Giang, and has been exported abroad as well. It was recognised as a typical rural industrial product of the city and won the first prize in the Startup Idea Contest organised by the Women's Union of Lien Chieu District in 2023.

Also, the Nhien Tam Cooperative has received the most industrial promotion support among the 9 production units that have recently been awarded funding. In particular, the cooperative has been supported with VND450 million out of VND 1.1 billion in machinery cost.

The investment in such machines as a multi-purpose packaging machine for dried pomelo, a quantitative weighing machine, a bag-conducting membrane, and an automatic re-feeding machine has helped the Cooperative increase the productivity many times.

In Hoa Khuong Dong Village, Hoa Nhon Commune, Hoa Vang District, business household Nguyen Hong Hung specialises in producing outdoor and indoor equipment from bamboo, however, the scale of operation is still very small and almost all stages are performed manually.

In the 2024 industrial promotion programme, the unit is provided with a financial aid to buy a bamboo tube splitting machine and a bamboo slat shaping machine.

Mr. Nguyen Hong Hung, the owner of the facility, said that the total investment cost for purchasing machinery was VND192 million, of which the business household was supported with VND92.5 million. With the investment in machinery, Mr. Hung's business household can produce up to 20-30 bamboo table tops/day instead of only a product as before.

The industrial promotion programme helps many businesses boldly invest in development. IN PHOTO: Representatives of the Da Nang Department of Industry and Trade and the city’s Industry and Trade Promotion Centre inspecting equipment supported by the industrial promotion programme at the Nguyen Hong Hung's business household in Hoa Nhon Commune, Hoa Vang District. Photo: M.Q

Promoting product competition

According to the Industry and Trade Promotion Centre under the Da Nang Department of Industry and Trade, in 2024, the city pours VND5.5 billion into industrial promotion activities. Of this figure, more than VND1 billion is spent on trade promotion and brand building, whilst the rest is used to support businesses to invest in machinery and equipment to improve productivity, product quality and cleaner production.

In late October, the centre organised the acceptance and handover of machinery and equipment under the 2024 industrial promotion programme. Accordingly, the total cost of machinery invested by the units was VND8.36 billion, of which more than VND2.26 billion came from the industrial promotion fund, and the rest was the counterpart capital of enterprises.

Mr. Le Thanh Ha, Director of the Industry and Trade Promotion Centre, said that the enterprises receiving funding to renew production machinery were all serious in implementing the processes as well as putting the machinery into production effectively. The industrial promotion programme was implemented to support not only enterprises but also cooperatives and business households, thereby creating motivation for units to boldly innovate production, and improve product quality.

Between 2020 and 2023, the municipal Department of Industry and Trade completed the implementation of three projects under the national industrial promotion programme with a total cost of more than VND6.3 billion, including VND1.25 billion in the national industrial promotion fund.

Regarding industrial promotion activities in localities, during that period, the municipal Department of Industry and Trade implemented industrial promotion activities and developed the production of souvenir products in the city with a total cost of more than VND25 billion, of which, the State budget supported more than VND8 billion, and counterpart funds from establishments, and capital combined from other programmes and projects was more than VND17 billion.

Mr. Nguyen Van Tru, Deputy Director of the municipal Department of Industry and Trade, informed that the implementation of the industrial promotion programme helped many production facilities boldly invest in business activities, thereby creating jobs for thousands of local workers, solving social security, and contributing to promoting the shift of the rural industrial economic structure towards modern industry.

Many establishments benefiting from industrial promotion policies have been creating quality, rich and diverse products, achieving certificates of OCOP and typical rural industrial products.

In the coming time, the Department will continue to closely coordinate with associations, business associations, and the municipal Union of Cooperatives to inform the preferential policies to those in need.

Reporting by MAI QUE - Translating by M.DUNG