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The province will sell the products on Alibaba.com, Voso.vn, Sendo.vn, and Lazada.vn, according to the Vietnam News Agency.
As part of activities to implement the plan, the provincial Department of Agriculture in conjunction with the Ministry of Industry and Trade’s Trade Promotion Agency (Vietrade) held a training program on traceability of origin and trade promotion on e-commercial floors in both the online and face-to-face forms on May 6.
The course, which was joined by around 120 participants from local agricultural service cooperatives and producers of OCOP products, aims to help further promote Thieu litchi and OCOP products of the province.
Nguyen Thi Minh Thuy, Director of Vietrade’s centre for IT application said her agency is committed to supporting businesses to implement successfully the plan.
Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development said through the programme, the agriculture sector hopes to help individuals and organisations to understand more about the processes of origin traceability and transaction when joining e-commerce platforms, thus expanding markets for local agricultural products.
Hai Duong’s Thieu litchi has conquered many fastidious markets such as the US, Australia, the European Union (EU), Japan and Singapore.
Last year, the province’s litchi production yield reached an estimated 43,000 tonnes worth 1.16 trillion VND (nearly 50.4 million USD), including 20,000 tonnes of Thieu litchi. 50 percent of the total output was exported.
In 2021, Hai Duong plans to harvest 55,000 tonnes of litchi, with 50 percent of the total to be exported to China, and about 5-7 percent to fastidious markets.
Vietnam Airlines allows free-of-charge ticket change amid COVID-19 pandemic
National flag carrier Vietnam Airlines allows free-of-charge ticket change and refund for travellers with confirmed seats and departure date due to the complexity of the latest COVID-19 outbreak, said the Vietnam New Agency.
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Passengers can receive a full refund or change their travel time in case of long flight delays, cancellation or early departure. It is also applicable for those requested to undergo quarantine or affected by lockdowns or travel restriction rules imposed by the government or other causes of force majeure, according to the airline.
The policy only applies to flights within Vietnam.
For tickets issued in booking offices, travellers are advised to contact the office where their tickets are issued or as an alternative, they can fill in form for Refund, Rebook requests at https://www.vietnamairlines.com/vn/en/support/customer-care/email-us.
For tickets issued on Vietnam Airlines websites/app, travellers are advised to send requests to Vietnam Airlines customer service centre through onlinesupport@vietnamairlines.com or fill in Refund, Rebook requests at https://www.vietnamairlines.com/vn/en/support/customer-care/change-refund.
The carrier is strictly enforcing preventive rules against the COVID-19, including requiring flyers to fill out health declarations and undergo a temperature check prior to boarding and refusing to transport passengers with suspected symptoms.
Experts believe in Vietnam’s bright growth outlook in 2021
An optimistic growth outlook for Vietnam in 2021 was forecasted by leading economic experts despite the COVID-19 pandemic, reported the Vietnam News Agency.
According to the Ministry of Planning and Investment, key indexes show that the economy is bouncing back well and showing an optimistic trend.
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In the first four months of this year, total retail sales of goods and consumer service revenue topped 1.69 quadrillion VND (over 73 billion USD), up 10 percent year on year, while exports were estimated at 103.9 billion USD, rising 28.3 percent.
Assoc Prof and PhD Dinh Trong Thinh, a senior economist from the Academy of Finance, noted that nearly 44,200 new enterprises were established during the four months, registering 627.7 trillion VND and over 340,000 employees. The figures respectively grew 17.5 percent, 41 percent, and 7.8 percent from a year earlier.
These encouraging statistics showed that businesses are confident in the recovery and growth capacity of the economy, he went on.
Assoc Prof and PhD Nguyen Thuong Lang from the National Economics University shared the view that the good macro-economic indexes indicate the economy has developed in a right direction over the last four months.
With that recovery trend, the economy will operate effectively in the coming months, he affirmed.
The Vietnamese economy is generally still in the recovery process, and it needs policy and mechanism support from the Government to further accelerate recovery and growth, according to Deputy Director of the Academy of Finance’s Institute of Economics – Finance PhD Nguyen Duc Do.
PhD Tran Thi Hong Minh, Director of the Central Institute for Economic Management (CIEM), held that although Vietnam is one of the few countries having succeeded in controlling COVID-19, which has created a prerequisite for promoting domestic production and safely reopening the economy, it is also necessary to make a plan for a longer term that should include stepping up administrative reforms and boosting momentum for economic institutional reforms.
Andrew Jeffries, Country Director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Vietnam, noted the economy is forecast to expand by 6.7 percent in 2021, with growth drivers being industry, especially export-oriented processing and manufacturing, investment increase, and trade expansion.
Industry is predicted to go up 9.5 percent and the services sector 6 percent. Meanwhile, trade will remain strong this year thanks to export and import activities with the US and China, two major trading partners of Vietnam. The country’s participation in 15 free trade agreements with most of the developed economies in the world will also fuel exports even more./.