Determined to become a major regional shopping mall

By 2030, Thanh Hoa City aims to become a major center for goods exchange and shopping between the Northern and North Central regions, and parts of the Northwest and Northeast regions of Laos. Right now, the city is focusing its resources on promoting the development of strong service types, contributing to the construction of a dynamic and integrated Thanh Hoa City...

Co.op Mart Thanh Hoa supermarket attracts people to shop.

In recent years, Thanh Hoa City has always paid attention to and created favorable conditions for the development of trade and services. In particular, arranging investment in mixed commercial service projects associated with urban areas, prioritizing large commercial shopping complex models combined with tourism and entertainment areas in urban gateway areas. At the same time, exploiting the city's potentials and advantages to develop services, focusing on tourism development to shift the structure and increase the proportion of services in the economy; contributing to promoting on-site consumption and export, creating jobs, improving people's lives in a civilized and modern direction.

Recently, Thanh Hoa City has organized and put into operation Phan Chu Trinh walking street associated with Lam Son Square cultural space, as a basis for forming and developing the night-time economy. At the same time, successfully organizing the Cultural Week between Thanh Hoa City and Hoi An City with cultural and artistic activities here, creating a highlight in developing trade and services associated with tourism development, attracting a large number of people, tourists and businesses. Along with that, food and beverage services have been invested in, expanded in scale, and improved service quality. Many restaurants have large locations, providing popular and high-end food and beverage services to serve people and tourists. In the first 8 months of 2024, the trade and service situation continued to have positive feedback. Retail sales of goods and services reached 128,587 billion VND, an increase of 14.1% over the same period in 2023.

With the goal of turning services into a spearhead economic sector, the People's Committee of Thanh Hoa City has promoted resources, taken advantage of the support of the province, and businesses have continued to improve infrastructure for tourism and trade; tourism infrastructure has been improved, tourism investment projects have developed in both quantity and scale. The province and the city have decided to invest more than 324 billion VND to implement a number of key projects such as: Project to preserve and build a model for developing community ecotourism in Dong Son ancient village; project to renovate and upgrade Hoi An Park; project to build a flower road (from Ham Rong bridge to Tien Son cave)... Types of tourist accommodation facilities in the city are also increasingly diverse and rich with different scales and types. In recent years, many large hotels in the city have been invested in construction and upgrading with modern, synchronous infrastructure and equipment, capable of organizing events, high-level conferences, cultural and tourism activities such as Central Hotel, Vinpearl, Muong Thanh, Thien Y, Phuong Hoang, Dai Viet... This is a type of tourism that does not depend on the season and extends the length of stay of tourists when coming to Thanh Hoa City.

By 2030, Thanh Hoa City strives to become a major regional center for goods trading and shopping.

As the urban center of the province, with strong economic development and high living standards, Thanh Hoa City has focused on developing a system of supermarkets, convenience stores, and markets in the direction of socialization, serving the maximum needs of entertainment and shopping of the people. In the city, there are currently 12 supermarkets, 5 commercial centers and 38 convenience stores that have been invested in and built on a modern scale, operating effectively to meet the shopping needs of the people. In addition to investing to become a large shopping center, Thanh Hoa City is also actively developing trade and services in a modern direction. The city has coordinated with relevant departments, branches and sectors to bring business and trade types to digital platforms to connect and support businesses and business establishments to consume products on e-commerce platforms. Shopping malls, supermarkets, convenience stores, and traditional markets have been supported with technological solutions such as scanning QR codes to trace product origins; applying smart sales management software; scanning codes for online payment... All are done on a digital platform, which is considered the beginning of a process of changing people's shopping and consumption habits in a civilized and modern direction.

Mr. Nguyen Manh Thang, Deputy Head of the Economic Department, Thanh Hoa City People's Committee, said: Investment, development of trade, services, and tourism are considered important factors in promoting socio-economic development, the face of the city in particular and Thanh Hoa province in general. Therefore, the city continues to focus on directing the implementation of planning for commercial infrastructure development, reviewing and supplementing plans in the area to ensure consistency and synchronization, as a basis for calling for and attracting investment projects, developing commercial infrastructure, and building and developing large, modern commercial centers in the city. In addition, accelerate the implementation of key tourism development projects, focus on developing typical tourism products and forming new types of tourism products such as cultural tourism, spiritual tourism, MICE tourism... At the same time, develop more night entertainment activities, street art performances, cuisine... In addition, allocate capital to implement projects to renovate and embellish traditional business streets such as Le Hoan, Cao Thang, Dinh Cong Trang, Phan Chu Trinh... into bustling commercial streets, ensuring environmental hygiene and commercial civilization. Continue to effectively implement the transformation of market management models, develop distribution systems, e-commerce systems, and retail networks to directly serve consumers. Thanh Hoa City is determined to become a "major shopping center in the region".

Article and photos: Chi Pham

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