With the dual goal of fighting against the epidemic and maintaining production and business activities in the current challenging context, business community in the province join hands to fight the epidemic.
Nguyen Van Loc, Member of Provincial Party Standing Committee, Head of Provincial Party Mass Mobilization Committee, Chairman of Provincial Fatherland Front Committee, received VND305 million contributed by Binh Duong Businesswomen Association for the prevention of Covid-19 and helping people suffering from drought and saltwater intrusion.
Despite of many difficulties caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, businesses in the province have made efforts to join hands with the authorities at all levels to contribute funds, materials, and supply essential items to overcome this tough time.
Thanh Le Trade - Import - Export Corporation - JSC makes efforts to urgently negotiate prices, stock rice. In fact, in the last 10 years, this corporation has no longer distributed rice, so their specialized warehouses cannot store local rice. However, under the direction of provincial Department of Industry and Trade, the corporation renovated a small warehouse to be able to store 100 tons of rice in Binh Duong, ensuring timely supply to local residents.
The corporation has worked with partners in Tien Giang and Long An. Selected partners have the capacity to meet quality and quantity requirements in terms of rice supply. The storage and preservation are done by supplying enterprises (in 6 months) after signing the contract. Rice can be transported from warehouses in Long An, Tien Giang to Binh Duong in a few hours, to respond immediately to an emergency situation. "We try our best for the task assigned by Provincial People's Committee to ensure the rice supply to people."
In order to meet the demand, enterprises supplying medical equipment in the province are also increasing production at present.
According to Department of Industry and Trade, Thanh Le Corporation is a unit with experience in rice storage, trading and preservation, hence Provincial People's Committee entrusts this important task to the unit. The options offered by the corporation are feasible, ensuring food supply to people in urgent situations. Department of Industry and Trade has submitted the plan to departments and sectors to give opinions about assigning Thanh Le Corporation to reserve 5,000 - 7,000 tons of rice within 6 months with a total budget of VND110 billion. Furthermore, in response to the call of Central Vietnam Fatherland Front Central Committee and provincial Fatherland Front Committee, Thanh Le Corporation supported 20,000 liters of gasoline to serve the Covid-19 prevention and control tasks.
Hoang Long, Director of Co.opmart Binh Duong supermarket that endeavors to supply goods during epidemic days in the province, said the supermarket has been working with its highest capacity to meet demand. “The supermarket proactively increased our inventory by 3-4 times. The supermarket's distribution system has enlarged our staff to work at the maximum and work overtime. We also enhance online shopping and receive phone orders to ensure shopping safety. The supermarkets also promote communication, advise people to calm down, refrain from panic buying, prevent market disturbances”, Mr. Long said.
As a manufacturer and supplier of face masks to the health sector, Bao Anh Company has provided medical masks to meet demand of the community. Tran Le Viet, Director of the company, said that during the epidemic, the company made the best effort to improve productivity to serve the health sector and people. Recently, the company provided medical masks for nearly 4,000 people in quarantine areas, with high spirit of serving the community and assist the province in the difficult situation. Previously, the company had presented free medical masks to residents in VSIP 1.
Tran Thanh Liem, Deputy Secretary of Provincial Party Committee, Chairman of Provincial People's Committee, Head of provincial Covid-19 prevention and control Steering Committee, appreciated the solidarity, the support of benefactors and enterprises inside and outside the province, especially amid the complicated epidemic situation.
Based on the proposed solutions to remove difficulties for businesses of all sectors, Provincial People's Committee agreed to approve the action plan to remove difficulties for production, business and social security, fight against Covid-19 pandemic in the province, determined to achieve goals and missions in 2020. Governmental bodies will urgently set up specific programs and solutions to remove difficulties and create favorable conditions for accessing capital, credit, taxes, commerce, electronic payment; enhance communication and information to create favorable conditions for enterprises to conduct production and business activities and maintain growth targets.
Reported by Tieu My - Translated by Ngoc Huynh
