Dong Van improves market operations quality

BHG - Dong Van District identifies the market network as important in promoting the circulation of goods, developing production, and improving people's lives.

In recent years, the district has made efforts to improve the quality of market operations, ensuring the function of exchanging and trading goods, and being a place for cultural exchange and preserving national identity.

Markets are also places for exchange, conversation, and preservation of traditional culture.

Dong Van District has nine markets, including six border and three domestic markets, attracting nearly 2,200 small traders. Three permanent markets include the Dong Van District Central Market, Pho Bang Market, Sa Phin Market, and six semi-permanent markets.

However, some markets are overloaded, and the high business demand has caused small traders to encroach on the sidewalks, affecting urban aesthetics and traffic.

Dong Van District has implemented a policy of transforming the market management model. They have successfully transformed three markets: Dong Van Town Market, Sa Phin Commune Market and Pho Cao Commune Market.

The market management board has installed 14 security cameras, invested in fire prevention and fighting equipment, ensured environmental sanitation and rearranged business locations.

To resolve the encroachment situation, the district has dismantled 21 sales locations, returned space to the livestock market, and repaired kiosks at the market to help traders stabilise their business.

Every year, the district strengthens the Market Management Board, ensuring effective state management. Market regulations are publicly posted and interdisciplinary working groups regularly support the People's Committees of communes and towns to arrange sales areas, and parking lots, and ensure smooth traffic.

The district also strngthens inspections of traders on food safety and hygiene, fire prevention and fighting, and origin of goods. In addition, Dong Van has agreed to organise permanent markets at Sa Phin Market, Sinh Lung Market and Pho Cao Market to facilitate people's trade.

In recent years, experiential tourism in Dong Van has increasingly developed, including visiting markets with traditional cultural features. Upgrading and expanding markets not only preserves national identity but also promotes the local economy, improving the quality of life for people in the highlands.

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