Restoring, Developing Cottage Industries in Line with Tourism Development

 

Implementing projects to restore and develop cottage industries, plan industrial zones and handicraft villages in the 2005 - 2010 period, Vinh Phuc province achieved encouraging results. The province has also supported training workers, convey careers to next generations, change products, and boost exports. Some traditional handicraft villages are being developed like Hai Luu stone village (Lap Thach district), Thanh Lang woodworking village and Huong Canh pottery village (Binh Xuyen district), and Trieu De bamboo weaving village (Lap Thach district). Besides, the province has encouraged the development of new handicraft villages like rattan weaving and silk.

 

The province has more than 50 handicraft villages, including many famous ones like Ly Nhan forging village, Huong Canh pottery, Hai Luu stone, Thanh Lang woodwork, Bich Chu woodwork and Trieu De bamboo weaving. To assist handicraft villages to boost up production development, Vinh Phuc province has invested too build eight complexes for cottage industries covering an area of over 81 ha. These complexes have attracted more than 100 companies and hundreds of households to locate their production bases. For example, the 10.6-ha Ly Nhan forging complex, costing VND13.44 billion of investment capital, in Vinh Tuong district is housing 26 production units. Other typical complexes for cottage industries like Vinh Son snake complex in Vinh Tuong district, Yen Lac handicraft complex in Lac Lac Town and Te Lo handicraft complex in Yen Lac district.

 

Vinh Phuc province targets to build 24 complexes for cottage industries by 2015 to attract small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and production households. While restoring traditional handicraft villages, the province has also implanted new ones like bamboo and rattan weaving for export, embroidery for export, food processing and carpentry to create jobs for rural people and increase incomes for locals, thus helping reduce poverty and sustain development. With its great potential for the development of cottage industries, the province defines developing cottage industries with tourism development.

 

Many households failed to catch up with the new market-driven economy, as a result, they scaled down or quit their traditional businesses. Vinh Phuc province has timely restored and revitalised traditional handicraft villages. Many products have been exported to other countries.