Vice Chairwoman of the city’s People’s Committee Nguyen Thi Hongreported the good signs at a conference in HCM City on July 14 to reviewa campaign to call on Vietnamese people to consume Vietnamese goods.
“Consumershad made active changes in their purchasing habits. The number ofpeople choosing Vietnamese goods increased as they had made comparisonin prices and quality of Vietnamese and foreign goods,” said the ViceChairwoman.
Among those enterprises, the Sai Gon Coop increasedrevenue from sales of made-in-Vietnam goods by 75 percent.
Accordingto Nguyen Van Lai, Director of the city’s Department for Industry andTrade, 70 percent of Vietnam ’s population is living in rural, islandand mountainous areas, and these people are a potential market forVietnamese goods. He asked relevant agencies to formulate policies tosupport enterprises in developing their distribution channels to thoseareas.
In the second half of the year, the city plans to boostdistribution of Vietnamese products, raise the competitiveness ofenterprises and build more programmes to encourage the use of Vietnamesegoods.
Participants at the conference also said it’s necessaryto study the demands of Vietnamese people and their level ofsatisfaction at Vietnamese goods./.