Bringing goods to Ho Chi Minh City market

​(News Portal – Dong Nai) – At the end of December 2023, Ho Chi Minh City held the opening the 12th conference to connect supply and demand between Ho Chi Minh City and provinces and cities. This year's conference brought together about 45 localities across the country bringing to Ho Chi Minh City many regional specialties with 19 unique craft village cultural spaces. 

Enterprises, cooperatives, and OCOP entities of Dong Nai participate in the conference connecting supply and demand between Ho Chi Minh City and provinces and cities in 2023. 

This is an annual activity. After 12 years of implementation, the scale and effectiveness of this conference have been increasingly expanded, goods are abundant, and the number of localities and businesses participating is increasing. This year, the conference has many outstanding activities to help connect two-way, not only supporting localities to consume products, but also adding sources of goods to stabilize the market, meeting the diverse needs and bringing regional specialties to Ho Chi Minh City consumers, especially during holidays and Tet.

In particular, the series of conference events connecting supply and demand continues with the most important contents being the connection between businesses, direct exchanges between 12 distribution systems, 5 e-commerce platforms and more than 1 thousand of suppliers come from provinces and cities.

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Phan Thi Thang shared that the 12th conference connecting supply and demand of goods between Ho Chi Minh City and provinces and cities and the series of events at this conference had great significance, not only for Ho Chi Minh City's economic development, but also a growth driver for provinces and cities nationwide. The conference was also an effective solution to supply essential goods to stabilize the market during the upcoming Lunar New Year.

Deputy Director of Dong Nai Department of Agriculture and Rural Development Nguyen Van Thang shared that the conference connecting supply and demand between Ho Chi Minh City and provinces and cities was an opportunity, a big playground between businesses, cooperatives, and OCOP subjects (One Commune One Product program) to introduce and expand product supply channels, including many agricultural products. The highlight of this program was the direct connection between businesses and businesses (B2B), direct exchanges between 12 distribution systems, e-commerce platforms...

Thereby, helping businesses, cooperatives, and OCOP entities increase opportunities to find partners and expand markets. At the same time, it helps the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and local businesses and cooperatives gain more information and experience to improve the effectiveness of trade promotion activities for agricultural products and OCOP products in the coming time, as well as to improve and enhance quality to meet the criteria and requirements to participate in large, modern supply chains...

Vice Chairman of People's Committee of Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Van Dung requested that the Department of Industry and Trade of Ho Chi Minh City continue to coordinate closely with local departments of industry and trade to proactively and actively propose solutions to improve the effectiveness of the program implementation. The focus was on building a sustainable supply chain, starting from market signals. At the same time, connecting in depth not only created conditions for both buyers and sellers to meet and seek orders; but also supported manufacturers in perfecting products, perfecting the process of receiving and processing orders, building brands, maintaining sales...

In addition, the conference is an opportunity to promote e-commerce channels, promote online connections, bring products to e-commerce platforms, effectively deploy the OCOP 1,000 product stories program, and establish online distribution channels, cross-border export through e-commerce... ​

Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Phan Thi Thang emphasized that through this connecting supply and demand between Ho Chi Minh City and provinces and cities conference, the People's Committee and Department of Industry and Trade of Ho Chi Minh City and localities needed to continue to strengthen the implement of solutions to strongly develop the domestic market. At the same time, focused resources to support connecting consumption of key products, consumer industrial products, OCOP products, regional specialties, and agricultural products that met safety standards and had local origin traceability into the traditional and modern distribution system of Ho Chi Minh City...