On the afternoon of December 26, provincial Cooperative Alliance forwarded a conference to review its activities in 2017, define orientations, tasks for 2018. Attending the event were Tran Thanh Liem, Vice-Chairman of provincial People’s Committee, Permanent Deputy Head of provincial Steering Board of Collective Economic Innovation and Development; Le Binh Hung, Head of the Southern Cooperative Alliance together with representatives of sectors, departments, localities and cooperatives in the province.
In 2017, province-based cooperatives took fruits in production and business. The whole province now has a total of 125 cooperatives, up 40 compared to 2016. Noticeably, all newly-established cooperatives in the province have ensured regulations in the 2012 Cooperative Law with diversification in business scopes, innovation in production technology and coherence with economic sectors in and out of the province…There are some with Vietgap, ISO: 9001 certifications, creating stable jobs for laborers. Provincial Cooperative Alliance also actively advised provincial People’s Committee on collective economic development; well realized propaganda and mobilization for the development of cooperatives and cooperative groups; guided some cooperatives to comply with the State’s regulations…
The conference also pointed out shortcomings and defined solutions to promote the local collective economic development with focus on main targets and tasks, including establishing at least 20 cooperatives, ensuring to have 100% of cooperatives working under the “new-style cooperative” model, getting 79% and 2% of cooperatives with good and average rankings…
Speaking at the conference, Mr.Liem praised achievements done by provincial Cooperative Alliance over the past time, especially in the field of propaganda and establishment of new models while suggesting the unit to show its role in disseminating the 2012 Cooperative Law among people towards building new-style cooperatives with high economic efficiency.
Reported by T.Hong-T.Phuong-Translated by K.T
