A workshop in Bat Trang ceramics village. (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – ♑Hanoi’s handicraft has ample room for growth and huge exportpotential and products must meet international requirements to enter foreignmarkets.
Representativesof the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) and the municipal Department ofIndustry and Trade joined a working session with some businesses in Bat Trang ceramicscraft village on October 7 to seek ways for economic recovery in thepost-pandemic period. A surveyamongst craft businesses and small scale companies showed that production chainis partly disrupted for a while, said Director of the MoIT’s Local IndustryDepartment Ngo Quang Trung. Therefore,solutions are needed to remove bottlenecks in consumption and maintain ordersfor export firms while continuing to observe COVID-19 prevention and controlregulations. It isnecessary to bolster promotions once COVID-19 is brought under control and takepart in international trade fairs. Incentivesfor industrial production establishments to join trade fairs at home and abroadwill be continued, Trung said, adding that efforts will be made to foster linksamongst businesses for consumption. The MoITwill mull over new policies which conforms with the reality in localities forsupport firms, he said. For theirpart, businesses in craft villages are advised to devise solutions and optimalstrategies for market development. Bat Trangis well-known for the traditional pottery trade. There are approximately 200enterprises and 1,000 households who produce and trade ceramic wares here, withthe products exported to many countries such as Japan, the Republic of Korea,Thailand, Russia, Italy, and France. Hanoi has1,350 craft villages producing diverse, sophisticated and high-qualityproducts. Some of these products have gained firm footholds in the market. Craftvillages employ around one million labourers in rural areas with an averageincome of 5-6 million VND per month per person./.
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A workshop in Bat Trang ceramics village. (Photo: VNA) 
