Muong Lan commune people develop service business

Before 2014, the 28 km long road from Sop Cop commune center to Muong Lan commune center was a muddy dirt road with steep winding passes, making the trade of goods difficult. With the investment of the State, Provincial Road 105 was concreted, creating favorable conditions for more than 7,000 people of 6 lowland villages: Muong Lan, Kha village, Phieng Pen, Cong village, Na An, Na Khi to develop business, services, and exchange goods. Along with that, people from 2 clusters of Muong Xum and Nam Cuong villages, Muong Et district, Hua Phan province (Lao PDR) passing through 2 border stations Pu Ha and Na Vac also regularly go to buy, sell, and exchange essential goods. Making the trade and service activities of Muong Lan commune increasingly develop and diversify, meeting the needs of people inside and outside the commune.

Mr. Lo Van Quan, Vice Chairman of Muong Lan Commune People's Committee, said: Goods here are exchanged and traded in a variety of types, operating in many forms of wholesale, retail and agency. In the commune center, there are over 40 business households with diverse industries, including: 5 food service stores; 8 transportation businesses; 2 agricultural product purchasing and processing establishments; 13 motorbike and machine repair establishments; 21 consumer goods stores and many other stores and agents, concentrated in Muong Lan and Kha villages. These businesses have created jobs and brought stable income to many local workers.

At the general store of Ms. Do Thi Tu, Kha village, there are all the essential goods. Ms. Tu said: The life of people in the commune is increasingly improving, the demand for quality goods is focused. Meanwhile, the number of shops in the communes is increasing, so my family competes with product quality, providing consumers with branded goods, full labels, if buying in large quantities, the family also has a vehicle to deliver to the house, so people trust to come shopping more and more.

With the characteristics of Muong Lan being an agricultural commune, every year 650 hectares of cassava are planted, with a yield of more than 7,000 tons; nearly 770 hectares of corn are planted, with a yield of 6.5 tons/ha. To ensure the consumption of agricultural products, many households have linked up and invested in purchasing agricultural products locally, bringing in high incomes. Typically, the family of Mrs. Lo Thi Tinh, Muong Lan village, has built 2 agricultural warehouses of over 1,700 m2. Mrs. Tinh said: Every year, the family purchases more than 3,000 tons of fresh cassava and nearly 2,000 tons of corn for people in the commune. After deducting expenses, the profit is from 1.2 to 1.5 billion VND/year. Along with that, the family creates regular jobs for 5 workers, with an average income of 8 million VND/person/month.

Trade and service development also contribute positively to ensuring revenue sources in the area. In order for tax collection to be carried out in accordance with regulations, Muong Lan commune strictly manages business households in the area. In particular, it is necessary to grasp the number of business households to propagate and guide households to declare and pay taxes fully and in accordance with regulations. In the past 9 months alone, budget revenue in this field reached over 270 million VND, accounting for 70.5% of budget revenue in the commune.

In addition, the Commune People's Committee also coordinates with Market Management Team No. 6 to strengthen market management, combat the trade of banned goods, counterfeit goods, poor quality goods, and goods of unknown origin, ensuring consumer rights, creating a healthy competitive environment, contributing to market stabilization...

The promotion of trade and services has been helping to improve the lives of the people of Muong Lan commune. In the coming time, the commune will continue to create favorable conditions for business registration procedures for households wishing to do business and trade in the area; create conditions for households to borrow preferential loans from credit institutions. Strengthen coordination with functional agencies to organize and manage production and business activities according to regulations; promote infrastructure construction, create conditions to encourage service development in the direction of diversifying commodity trading fields.../.