Hanoi is implementing various initiatives to develop local craft villages.

Vietnam has raised over 2.8 quadrillion VND (112 billion USD) nationwide for rural area investment, including the new-style rural development initiative, according to the latest data from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD).

The 2024 thematic exhibition highlighting the ceramics, lacquer and gold card industry opened on May 13.

The Phu Tho Trade Fair and Exhibition of products under the One Commune One Product (OCOP) programme 2024 is part of the Hung Kings Temple Festival and the Culture and Tourism Week of Ancestral Land 2024.

Expanding the Festival of Vietnam Rice Industry internationally will make it possible to showcase the rice production potential, strength and quality, thereby driving national rice trade, heard a press conference in Ho Chi Minh City on December 1 to introduce the Vietnam International Rice Industry Festival - Hau Giang 2023 slated for December 11-14.

The northern province of Bac Giang will focus on building and developing the trademarks of its major farm produce as well as OCOP (One Commune One Product) products to enhance their competitiveness.

The capital city of Hanoi increasingly places importance on tapping natural resources, cultural and historical values, traditional craft products, agriculture and rural areas in order to support tourism development, heard a conference held by the municipal Tourism Department on October 18.

The 18th OCOP Vietnam Craft Village and Products Fair will be held at the Economic Transaction and Commercial Area in Hanoi from November 2 to 6.

The Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade has opened three showrooms of the “One Commune, One Product” (OCOP) programme over the past few days, part of efforts to popularise high-quality specialties of the capital and other localities to local consumers.

Outstanding products of the “One Commune, One Product” (OCOP) programme from northern mountainous provinces are being showcased at an event opened in Son Tay town of Hanoi on August 31.

The northern mid-land province of Phu Tho is striving to have 56 more products meet the One Commune, One Product (OCOP) programme standard as a three star or higher manufactured goods ranking.

As many as 595 products of Hanoi have met criteria of the One Commune, One Product (OCOP) programme, an economic development programme for rural areas, in 2021.

Hanoi authorities have been aware of the importance of production, districbution and demand-supply linkages with other localities to the development of the capital city.

The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has signed strategic cooperation agreements with some distributors to have local specialties sold in the supermarket system of the Central Retail.

The northern province of Bac Giang is set to speed up and improve the quality of the new-style rural area building programme in 2022, according to Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee Le O Pich.

The northern province of Quang Ninh is working to turn the “One Commune, One Product” (OCOP) into an important economic development programme carried out in tandem with new-style countryside building and agricultural restructuring during the 2021 - 2025 period.

With many craft villages and a huge amount of products qualified for the One Commune One Product (OCOP) programme, Hanoi has many strengths in rural economic development.

The Hanoi Department of Tourism has identified seven groups of tourism products to attract visitors to the capital as the latest resurgence of COVID-19 has been largely brought under control.

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has emphasized the need to absolutely avoid complaisance in assessing and recognising one commune one product (OCOP) products during the implementation of the national target programme on new-style rural area building.

The Mekong Delta city of Can Tho has launched a project on green tourism at the Cai Rang Floating Market, one of the most-visited destinations in the region.