With the support of Provincial Party Committee and Provincial People's Committee, the cottage industry of Dong Nai province keeps growing and expanding, playing an important part in social labour division and stepping up the process of rural industrialisation and modernisation, exploits agricultural and rural resources, manufactures products for domestic and export markets, increases incomes for people, and functions as an engine for local social and economic development.
With the development of the market economy, cottage industries of Dong Nai province are encountering plenty of difficulties and challenges in maintaining development and enhancing competitiveness. To create driving force and unlock the potential of traditional handicraft industries, Dong Nai province has issued a lot of preferential policies to restore and develop traditional handicraft industries, helping restore and promote local traditional identity. Cottage industries not only create jobs and income for rural labourers but also support service development, and affect labour and economic restructuring.
With the support of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, the Dong Nai People’s Committee and the Department of Industry and Trade encourage organisations and individuals to invest in production and industrial development in rural areas. Thus, the number of industrial companies in Dong Nai province, particularly in rural areas, increases in both quality and quantity. The abundance of skilful workforce enables the province to maintain and develop local traditional sectors at present and in subsequent years. Labour-intensive industries like rattan weaving, woodworking and agricultural processing have created a lot of jobs for people in rural areas.
Mr Nguyen Thanh Liem, Director of Dong Nai Industrial Promotion Centre, said the province has more than 11,000 industrial production facilities in rural areas, which create more than 92,000 regular jobs and about 45,000 seasonal jobs for local people. A worker in rural areas is paid from VND1.8 million to VND3 million a month. In 2010, the industrial production value in rural areas accounted for 5.73 percent of the province’s total industrial production value. The average annual growth was 19.2 percent in 2006-2010. Through industrial promotion activities, many traditional industries in Dong Nai have gradually been restored and developed, like bamboo and rattan weaving, brocade weaving, woodworking, and bronze casting.
Together with efforts to restore and develop traditional cottage industries, Dong Nai province puts a premium on building concentrated industrial complexes to unite local producers, minimise environmental pollution, and boost collective marketing. In 2010, provincial and district authorities approved a project to build Chau Ma brocade production site in Ta Lai commune, Tan Phu district; a project to build fine-art woodworking complex in Trang Bom district; a rattan and bamboo industrial complex in Dinh Quan district; an iron casting industrial complex in Vinh Cuu district; and a mushroom processing industrial complex in Long Khanh town. The formation of industrial complexes serving cottage industries is an opportunity for enterprises and business households to stabilise production, attract investment capital and recruit personnel. The development of handicraft industries helps realise the goal of developing local industry and handicraft sectors, with sustainability guaranteed, social security ensured and environment protected.
Thu Thuy
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