From 2022, October every year will be chosen as Digital Consumption Month. This is an activity in response to National Digital Transformation Day (October 10). This year's Digital Consumption Month takes place with many practical contents to encourage and promote to all people, businesses, and state agencies to actively use and apply digital payments in financial transactions.
Increasingly popular
Nowadays, cashless payments instead of cash are becoming more and more popular in everyday life. The number of people with mobile banking accounts or e-wallets, online mobile payment applications, etc. is increasing. Digital consumption can be easily done anywhere, at any time, everyone can pay for most types of transactions quickly. "Now when I go to the market, supermarket, pay for home delivery orders or even go out for coffee, I make a transfer. Cash is no longer the main way to pay for goods and services," said Ms. Le Thi Ngoc Hoa (Luong Dinh Cua Street, Nha Trang City).
 |
| Customers make online bank transfer payments when purchasing products. |
For businesses, meeting the conditions for digital consumption has become an essential requirement in business. “Our company's main products are dried mango, mango cake, mango tea and mango garden experience tourism services. In transactions with partners and customers of the company, the use of digital payment methods accounts for 90 - 95%. Digital payment brings many conveniences in transactions, helping businesses save time and personnel for cash storage. In particular, digital consumption has contributed to promoting sales activities on e-commerce trading floors, social networking sites and purchasing contracts with long geographical distances", said Mr. Dang The Truyen - Director of Cam Lam Online Company Limited.
Ms. Pham Thi My Thao - Director of Thien Thao Group Co., Ltd. (Nha Trang City) shared that the company's main activities are trading and cultivating cordyceps mushrooms. The company's products are distributed relatively widely online, so the unit uses many forms of online payment through e-commerce sales platforms, bank applications, telecommunications companies, etc. The company's online payment accounts for 70%; this is both fast and convenient in transactions.
Encourage digital consumption
According to Mr. Nguyen Hoang Bao Duy - Deputy Director of Viettel Khanh Hoa, to serve the needs of digital payments, Viettel has the Viettel Money ecosystem. In recent times, this ecosystem has been deployed in a number of areas in the province, such as: Market 4.0 model to commune-level markets to help traders and market-goers access modern payment methods, limiting the use of cash; payment of school fees, currently 238 schools at all levels in the province use this application...
According to information from the National Committee on Digital Transformation, the purpose of launching this year's Digital Consumption Month is to call on the government to make efforts to improve the quality of online public service provision; businesses to make efforts to bring production and business activities to the digital environment; build a digital platform to serve the people; provide digital products and services to serve social needs; have preferential policies to encourage people to use digital products and services. The community digital technology group strives to "go to every alley, knock on every door, guide each person" on the skills to use online services, online shopping, online payment and protect themselves from risks in the digital environment. People enjoy preferential policies when using digital products and services.
Responding to Digital Consumption Month, on the National Digital Transformation Portal (https://dx.gov.vn), more than 50 businesses operating in the fields of: Digital payment; telecommunications; e-commerce; transportation; digital television; e-books; digital platforms; network information security; digital signatures; national domain names... have registered to participate in implementing preferential policies for consumption of digital products and services to encourage people and businesses to actively implement digital consumption forms.
In Khanh Hoa, to promote cashless payments, the Provincial People's Committee has issued a plan to implement specific activities in schools and medical facilities. To date, 100% of schools and medical facilities under the province have implemented cashless payments. Community digital technology groups have supported the creation of QR pay codes for cashless payments for businesses and residents in the province. Digital consumption is an inevitable trend in the digital age and this is also a clear demonstration of the effectiveness of digital transformation today.
Mr. DINH VAN THIEU - Vice Chairman of Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee: In recent times, the province has built important information systems and digital transformation platforms and implemented them synchronously on a large scale. Community digital technology teams have been established in villages and residential groups. The province is also considering and approving many important projects and plans for the next phase of piloting smart cities, implementing cashless payments, and programs to support small and medium-sized enterprises in digital transformation...
FAMILY
Source
Comment (0)