Pioneer on the new front

With the comprehensive economic model, veteran Lu Dinh Khang in Tinh Gia ward has become a shining example in local economic development.

Small in stature but agile and active, his face covered in sweat from working on sunny days. That was the first impression when we met veteran Lu Dinh Khang in Tinh Gia ward. Starting the story with us about the years of building his career, Mr. Khang shared: “My life is attached to the fields, so I decided to get rich from the local fields. Since 1992, through research, I found that fish fry is an easy-to-raise and easy-to-consumer product, so I decided to start a business with this model. After 8 years of raising fish fry and meat fish effectively, the consumption market slowed down, I decided to change my business direction. Still clinging to the agricultural roots left by my ancestors, I switched to raising ducks and geese in large quantities.”

The turning point marked a change in the economic development of veteran Lu Dinh Khang when he boldly raised pigs in large numbers from 400 - 500. In addition, he also raised buffaloes, cows, pigeons, chickens, ducks, snails for breeding, and commercial snails. In his old age, despite having a surplus economy, veteran Lu Dinh Khang still did not rest. Every day, he and his wife worked diligently and diligently. From his efforts and persistent working hands, veteran Lu Dinh Khang's comprehensive economic model has yielded sweet fruit with an income of 500 - 600 million VND in profit per year.

Growing up with the sea, no matter where he goes or what he does, in the end, veteran Le Van Thap in Tien Trang commune still chooses to return to the sea to make a living. Starting from the rafts he invested in for fishermen in the commune to sail out to sea, to purchasing all the seafood that people caught to process and sell, his products are trusted by many customers so the consumption output is increasing. From the saved capital, after many years of struggling and working hard in the profession, in 2010 veteran Le Van Thap decided to establish Thap Thuan Phat Company Limited with him as the director.

“I process whatever is available in the sea, so the company's products are quite diverse, including fish, shrimp, mussels, squid, fish sauce, jellyfish... Thanks to strict adherence to the processing process, the company's products are increasingly affirming their brand, the market is not only limited in the province but gradually reaching other provinces and cities," Mr. Thap shared.

Realizing that the number of tourists from within and outside the province coming to his hometown's sea area is increasing, Mr. Thap quickly seized this opportunity and gradually shifted from purchasing and processing seafood to doing tourism business. With the motto "putting prestige and quality first", his company's tourism service area has increasingly attracted a large number of tourists to relax and eat. Profit of more than 1 billion VND/year is a great success of veteran Le Van Thap in innovating and improving business capacity, dominating the tourism market amidst fierce competition to assert himself.

As a province with a large number of war veterans with nearly 21,000 members, the association's work and war veterans movement in Thanh Hoa province have continuously developed with many important achievements in various fields. In particular, the movement "War veterans help each other reduce poverty and do good business" has spread widely with many different types of production and business. To achieve this result, war veterans associations at all levels in the province have propagated and mobilized members to actively change crop seasons, bring high-value crops and livestock into production and breeding, and at the same time organize many training courses to transfer scientific and technical advances to war veterans. Along with that, in the period of 2019-2024, the associations at all levels have received entrustment from the Social Policy Bank and mobilized other capital sources of nearly 3,000 billion VND for members to borrow to develop production and business. In addition, the whole province has established 268 "War Veterans Clubs helping each other develop the economy" with 3,797 members participating to help each other with capital, production and business experience, product consumption markets, building a chain of links in goods production...

With the help of the association and the efforts of each member, the province now has more than 700 small and medium-sized enterprises, 230 cooperatives, nearly 1,500 farms, more than 5,000 households, nearly 7,000 service business households owned by war veteran members, creating regular jobs for more than 61,000 workers. In the volatile market economy, many war veteran members have overcome difficulties, maintained and expanded production and business, contributed to economic growth and actively participated in local movements and campaigns. In the period of 2019-2024, the province has 2,746 war veteran households becoming well-off and rich, bringing the rate of well-off and rich war veteran households to 60.14%, higher than the average of the province.

Closing 5 years of implementing the emulation movement "Exemplary war veterans" in the period of 2019-2024, the Thanh Hoa War Veterans Association was honored to receive the Emulation Flag of the excellent unit from the Central Committee of the Vietnam War Veterans Association. This is a very exciting achievement, proving the will, determination and mettle of Uncle Ho's soldiers. Whether in wartime or peacetime, war veterans always uphold the spirit of solidarity, the will to strive to do good business, and contribute good values to life.

Article and photos: Minh Khoi

Source: https://baothanhhoa.vn/tien-phong-tren-mat-tran-moi-256543.htm