Phan Rang-Thap Cham City: Promoting trade and service development

In recent years, Phan Rang-Thap Cham City has focused on solutions to exploit the potential advantages of trade and service development, considering this a key economic sector to create a breakthrough for the overall economic growth of the locality.

Comrade Nguyen Thanh Phu, Chairman of the People's Committee of Phan Rang-Thap Cham City, said: In order for the trade and service sector to develop, in line with the province's general planning and to meet the requirements of the new situation, in early 2021, the Phan Rang-Thap Cham City Party Committee developed and issued Resolution No. 03-NQ/TU on the development of the trade and service sector of Phan Rang-Thap Cham City, with the core being the development of urban tourism (DL) in the period of 2021-2025. Based on the goals, tasks and solutions set out in the Resolution, the City People's Committee has developed and issued plans, directed localities and units to implement with the highest determination and consensus. To achieve the set goals, the city focuses on mobilizing resources to attract investment, promoting projects, especially projects to develop new urban areas and residential areas to develop the city in a civilized and modern direction. In addition, urgently complete plans for developing trade-service and tourism networks; focusing on developing distribution systems, trade centers, supermarkets, upgrading traditional market systems, resorts; building, upgrading, and expanding entertainment areas... According to the plan, by 2025, the land used for trade-services will be 93 hectares, an increase of 14.2 hectares compared to 2020; by 2030, it will be 119 hectares.

Customers pay at Coop Mart Thanh Ha supermarket. Photo: Van Ny

In addition, the city actively promotes solutions to support and remove difficulties and obstacles for enterprises in the spirit of Resolution No. 01/NQ-CP and Resolution No. 02/NQ-CP of the Government . Promote solutions to enhance trade promotion, brand building, e-commerce development, state management of trade and service activities... Coordinate with relevant sectors to promote tourism propaganda and promotion; encourage and create favorable conditions for tourism service enterprises to operate, expand scale, diversify service types to attract tourists...

Thanks to the effective and synchronous implementation of solutions, trade and services in the city have grown increasingly in recent years. In particular, in the period of 2021-2022, despite many difficulties due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the business community has strived to overcome difficulties, recover, maintain and develop production and business activities, making important contributions to socio-economic development. The number of enterprises and production and business establishments in these fields continues to grow in quantity and improve in capacity. In the field of trade, in addition to the traditional market system, the city currently has 6 supermarkets including 2 general supermarkets, 4 specialized supermarkets, 10 Vimart+ mini supermarkets; 6 convenience stores of the Bach Hoa Xanh chain... Up to now, the city has about 1,700 enterprises; 16,052 individual business households operating in various fields. Goods distribution activities have developed strongly, many stores, facilities of corporations, agents and large distributors have developed rapidly, so goods are abundant, diverse in types, prices, and quality are increasingly higher, meeting the production and consumption needs of the people.

Ninh Thuan tourist night market, a place for tourists to have fun and entertainment at night. Photo: My Dung

The service industry continues to develop in both scale and type, especially tourism services. Currently, the city has 139 accommodation establishments, with more than 2,555 rooms, of which 5 establishments are 3-star or higher. In 2022, the city welcomed 1,680,000 visitors, of which over 10,500 were international visitors; social income from tourism activities reached 980 billion VND; in the first 9 months of 2023, it welcomed 1,650,000 visitors, of which international visitors were estimated at 9,000, social income from tourism activities was estimated at 1,350 billion VND. Service types: Finance-banking, transportation, post-telecommunications... are quite vibrant, not only contributing to the growth of the service industry but also effectively serving the socio-economic development of the locality. In the first 9 months of 2023, the estimated value of trade and service production reached over VND 5,636 billion, up 11.1% over the same period. Total retail sales of goods and service revenue reached over VND 19,649 billion, up 13.8% over the same period.

To promote the development of trade and services, in the coming time, the city will continue to mobilize and effectively use resources to improve the criteria of a type II urban area; effectively implement the planning and management of construction of infrastructure works serving trade and services, turning Phan Rang-Thap Cham into a tourism urban area and a smart city. Attract economic sectors to invest in developing trade and services; encourage enterprises to diversify and improve the quality of services and tourism products. Strengthen information, advertising and investment promotion; build a friendly and attractive tourism environment. Pay attention to protecting the landscape and environment, especially coastal areas and along the Dinh River. Continue to encourage and create conditions for the development of service types such as: Medical services, education, insurance, legal consulting, real estate, construction, telecommunications, restaurants and hotels; Build, form and improve the efficiency of culinary areas and streets, walking streets, tourist night markets... contributing to promoting trade and services, determined to achieve and exceed the targets set out in Resolution 03.

Uyen Thu

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