MASTER SCHEME ON COLLECTING, TRANSPORTING AND HANDLING HAZARDOUS WASTES IN THUA THIEN HUE PROVINCE UNTIL 2020

1. Scope of scheme
Master scheme on collecting, transporting and handling hazardous wastes in Thua Thien Hue province until 2020 focuses on addressing management of hazardous waste arising in Thua Thien Hue province.

2. Objectives of the scheme
2.1. General objectives:
- To improve efficiency of hazardous waste management (health care, industry, agriculture, and tourism services and craft villages) in Thua Thien Hue province to increase quality of environment and public health, living environment and contributing to sustainable development.
- Hazardous waste management system in the province is built and operated on principle: Hazardous is classified at source, collected, reused and recycled and thoroughly treated with advanced technologies, in line with local conditions; to minimize amount of hazardous waste, they will be buried in order to save land resources and minimize sources of environmental pollution.

- Awareness of medical facilities, production and business establishments, and craft villages and especially of the community on hazardous waste treatment has been step by step improved, forming an environmentally friendly way of life. Infrastructure, finance and human resources which are needed for human waste management are built in a synchronous, modern and efficient way.

- To deal with hazardous waste and hazardous factors affecting health and environment caused by hazardous waste arising from medical establishments and industrial parks, industrial clusters and craft villages in order to protect health of workers and employees, sick people, workers and community.
2.2. Specific objectives to 2020
- 100% of hazardous wastes generated at production and business establishments shall be declared and reported according to regulations.
- 70% of total hazardous waste generated in industrial parks is treated to ensure environment.
- 100% of solid hazardous medical waste incurred at medical establishments shall be collected and treated to ensure the environment.
- 100% of central-level medical establishments, provincial-level medical establishments, district-level medical establishments and private medical establishments shall treat wastewater up to national standards and technical regulations on environment.

3. Main contents and products of the scheme
3.1. Main content:
- Current status and management of hazardous waste in Thua Thien Hue province.
- Estimate the amount of hazardous waste up to 2020.
- A program of raising awareness at all levels, sectors, businesses and communities on hazardous waste.
- Strengthen inspection and examination of implementation of regulations on hazardous waste management.
- To build a hazardous waste treatment zone in Thua Thien Hue province.
- Program of investment in wastewater treatment systems at medical establishments at provincial and district levels.
- Project of investment in hazardous waste treatment system in mountainous area of ​​Thua Thien Hue province.
- Models, plans for collection and transportation of hazardous wastes from points to treatment area.

3.2. Product:
- Master scheme of collecting, transporting and handling hazardous waste in Thua Thien Hue province up to 2020; contents of the scheme include plan for collection and treatment of hazardous wastes of various sectors and areas such as health, industry and commerce, agriculture and rural development, construction, culture, sports and tourism, transportation; economic zones; industrial zones, clusters and craft villages in the province;
- A number of databases on status of hazardous waste (health, industry, trade villages), based on geographical information system (Hue GIS).

4. Expenditures and sources of capital for implementation of the Scheme:
4.2. Capital
- Budget:
+ Local budget: VND 41,790 million;
+ Central budget: VND 20,000 million;
- International organizations, non-governmental organizations and environmental funds: VND 10,000 million;
- Capital mobilized from the enterprise: VND 10,000 million.

V. Assignment of organizing implementation
1. Department of Natural Resources and Environment
- To monitor, urge and sum up situation of implementation of the scheme of the concerned departments, branches and localities; sum up to submit People’s provincial committee periodically, 6 months and year.
- Coordinate with Department of Finance to advise provincial People's Committee on allocation of annual environmental non-business expenditures and investment funds for the construction of environmental protection works in public utility sector to carry out collection, transport and treat hazardous waste;
- To implement task of monitoring and building of hazardous waste management information system of the province to serve as a basis for advising solutions on environmental management;
- To guide, examine, inspect and handle law violations, settling disputes, complaints, denunciations and petitions related to hazardous wastes;
- To develop a plan on collecting, transporting and disposing of hazardous medical waste in the locality and submit it to the provincial People's Committee for approval and implementation in shortest time.

2. The provincial / municipal Planning and Investment Department shall have to balance and allocate investment expenditures from the State budget sources and other lawful capital sources for implementation of the Scheme.
3. Finance Department shall function as the main implementer, in collocation with Department of Natural Resources and Environment in elaborating and submitting to the provincial People's Committee the rates of charges for collection, transport and handling of hazardous wastes in their respective localities; balancing funding to ensure that relevant units implement the contents of the Scheme in accordance with the plan.

4. Department of Construction will function as the main implementer, in collocation with the Department of Natural Resources and Environment and the People's Committees of the districts, towns and cities to develop and implement a plan for collecting and treating solid waste in Thua Thien Hue province, especially hazardous waste; To direct, guide and inspect implementation of other law provisions on activities of treating solid wastes and hazardous wastes in urban centers, concentrated service production or material production establishments, construction material units.
5. Management Board of industrial parks, Chan May - Lang Co economic zone management board: shall direct, guide and coordinate with Department of Natural Resources and Environment in inspecting implementation of law on management of hazardous wastes for activities in industrial parks and economic zones;

6. Department of Health:
- To direct, guide and coordinate with the Department of Natural Resources and Environment in inspecting the implementation of the law provisions for hospitals and medical establishments in treatment of wastewater, solid waste and substances of hazardous medical waste;
- Develop a plan for collecting and treating medical waste in Thua Thien Hue province by 2020 and submit it to the provincial People's Committee for approval and implementation as soon as possible.
7. Agriculture and Rural Development Department shall direct, guide and inspect implementation of law provisions on hazardous wastes for agricultural activities, craft villages and concentrated rural population area in treatment of hazardous waste; develop a process of collection and storage of hazardous waste generated in agricultural activities.

8. Department of Industry and Trade: direct, guide and inspect implementation of legal provisions on activities in industrial clusters, handicraft and craft villages in hazardous waste treatment task;
9. Provincial Public security: To function as the main implementer, in coordination with Department for Natural Resources and Environment, Economic Zone Management Board, industrial parks of the province and the People's Committees of districts, towns and cities in well performing the anti-crime work about environment. To intensify inspection and supervision of the observance of law provisions on environmental protection by production units, enterprises and service enterprises in provinces;
10. Department of Justice: to formulate a program on propagation and dissemination of policies and laws on solid waste management as well as hazardous waste and environmental protection to all levels, branches, enterprises, units and units, departments, social organizations and localities.

11. Department of Home Affairs coordinates with Department of Natural Resources and Environment, People's Committees of districts, towns and cities to monitor organization of implementation of Master Plan for collecting, transporting and handling hazardous wastes and advising provincial People's Committee, provincial Committee for emulation and reward to have an annual reward plan.

12. People's Committees of districts, towns and cities:
- To coordinate closely with provincial departments and non-governmental organizations in the implementation of the project, especially communication programs, raising community awareness in hazardous waste management.

- Integrate inspection of hazardous waste management in environmental inspections.
- To coordinate in inspecting and supervising implementation of investment projects on hazardous waste treatment zones in the locality.

13. Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee of Thua Thien Hue province shall function as the main implementer and in coordinate with Department of Natural Resources and Environment to speed up and launch a movement of the whole population to respond to implementation of the scheme on total collection of treatment hazardous waste of Thua Thien Hue province.
14. Provincial mass organizations (Women's Unions, Farmers' Unions,
Veterans Association, Union of Provincial Science and Technology Associations, Youth Union) shall coordinate with Department of Natural Resources and Environment to propagate and mobilize people to actively participate in environmental protection and mobilization of mass organizations. To sort out wastes of all kinds from the source and participate in building of waste management teams to actively support management of hazardous wastes in the localities, strictly obey regulations.

15. Hue urban environment and construction joint stock company is responsible for developing a project of improving collection, transportation and handling capacity to ensure collection, transport and treatment of hazardous wastes within scope of the province in accordance with the regulations.

1. Development viewpoints

- Trade development plan must be in consistent with trade development orientation of the wholly country, the north Central region and Central coastal region; in line with master plan on socio-economic development of the province and plan on development of urban system of the province, on basis of promoting potential and comparative advantage, ensuring rapid and sustainable trade development, contributing to promote economic restructuring of the province towards modernization, sustainability.

- To develop synchronously type of trade, to be in consistent with cultural identity and traditions and habits of the people; associating with building, promoting image of Thua Thien Hue to regional and international markets.

- To develop trade toward "civilized, modern, green and sustainable", associating with development of tourism and services, bringing trade - service to become a key economic sector and having growth rate higher than GDP growth rate of the province.

2. Development objectives

2.1.General objective:

Trade development is on basis of promoting comparative advantage of the locality, cultural values of traditional trade, at the same time, enhancing technology application, modernizing and optimizing methods of goods flows and transactions; ensuring needs of production, consumption, quality of goods and market stability; enhancing connections between distribution systems and production facilities, promoting consumption of goods, local products, bringing goods being produced in the province into distribution channels in the market; trade development associates closely with development of tourism services, finance, transport and being motivation to develop production, contributing positively in process of local economic development.

2.2. Specific objectives:

- Contribution of trade sector to GDP of the province hit a proportion of 9-11% by 2020, 12-15% by 2015 and 13-18% by 2030. Trade GDP in 2020, 2025 and 2030 achieves about VND 7,500-8,500 billion, VND 13,100-17,500 billion and VND 23,000 – 35,000 billion, respectively.

- Total social consumption goods and service retailsale turnover by 2020, 2025 and 2030 hits VND 75,000-81,000 billion, VND 180,000 -200,000 billion and VND 415,000 -460,000 billion. Out of which, total goods retailsale turnover by 2020 hits VND 56,000-61,000 billion (an increase of 19-21%/year), by 2025 reaches VND 126,000 -140,000 billion (an increase of 17-19%/year) and by 2030 posts VND 270,000-300,000 billion (an increase of 16-18%/year).

- Export value reaches USD 1,25 billion in 2020, reaching USD 2,6 billion in 2025 and in 2030 reach USD 5,2 billion.

- Proportion of goods retailsales in form of modern trade reaches 20% by 2020, 35% by 2025 and 60% by 2030.

- System of trade centers, supermarkets: By 2020, the province has 01 center of trade fair - exhibition with a scale of trade fair - exhibition center of group B; 8 business centers (3 business centers of class 2, 5 business center of class 3) and 14 supermarkets (2 supermarkets of class 1,8 supermarkets of class 2, 4 supermarket of class 3). By 2030, the province has 41 trade centers (8 trade centers of class 2, 33 trade centers of class 3) and 26 supermarkets (6 supermarket of class 1, 16 supermarket of class 2 and 4 supermarkets of class 3).

- Network of market: By 2020, the province has 159 markets, including 8 markets of class 1 (02 wholesale markets of agricultural products), 26 markets of class 2(04 agricultural, fisheries wholesale markets), 125 markets of class 3 (01 border market). In a period to 2030, the province has 173 markets including 11 markets of class 1 (04 agricultural and fisheries wholesale markets), 28 markets of class 2 (06 agricultural and fisheries wholesale market), 134 markets of class 3 (04 border markets).

- In areas of urban centers, cities, towns, planning specialized business streets, areas, by 2020, forming several key specialized business streets; in a period of 2020 – 2025, organizing to implement plan, complete reorganization, relocation, removal of inappropriate business locations.

1. Orientation of trade enterprise development

To develop private trade sectors and cooperatives in trade centers, shopping malls, wholesale markets, trade – service areas, encouraging huge business households to develop into trade companies. Attracting huge retailsale corporations, foreign companies having huge capital to modernize the province's trade sector.

2. Development orientation of trade supporting services

To professionalize supporting services in accordance with process of professionalization, modernization, socialization of trade sector; centralizing investment in supporting service areas of trade sector, ensuring to supply service adequate and convenient, low cost for distributors; attracting resources towards socialization into development of supporting services of trade sector.

To invest in supporting service area of trade sector, organizing supporting services in wholesale centers, wholesale markets, logistics centers, shopping centers, industrial parks, industrial clusters, economic zones, border gate areas, ... attracting resources, socialization of developing supporting services of trading sector.

3. Orientation of plan of export – import system

3.1. Development orientation of export - import:

- For export, continuing to maintain growth rates of advantage commodity groups; transforming strongly structure of export commodities by increasing proportion of high value added products, limiting export of raw material or semi-processed products at a low level; promoting investment attraction, forming many strong exporters having huge scale.

- For import, encouraging imports of technologies to serve development of processing industries, supporting industries in consistent with sustainable development objectives.

3.2. Orientation of import-export system distribution:

Space distribution of import-export infrastructure system of the provinces associates with plans of transportation, logistics centers, industrial parks, industrial clusters and clusters of traditional villages. Building center of trade fair and exhibition to meet needs of domestic and international trade promotion.

3.3. Orientation of some key export product development, include:

- Group of aquatic products, processed foods, agricultural products and beverages: group of textiles, leather and footwear; group of wood products and handicrafts; other group of products such as civil industrial products, information technology, pharmaceuticals, medicines, ...

4. Orientation of intra-provincial market system development

4.1. Market of industrial goods and consuming goods:

To develop business models of chain to attract investment sources, developing convenience trade shops alongside with traditional markets. Upgrading and diversifying functions of wholesale markets, logistics centers and adopting forms of modern trading, general services. To further diversify types of trade on rural areas, expanding markets for farmers' products.

4.2. Textile market:

To develop material market to serve textile industry; focusing on developing strongly high added value products, boosting stages of product research and product design, building and developing trademarks of products.

4.3. Agricultural products market:

To disseminate and develop form of trading contracts between traders and farmers; building economic linkage chain between farmers and processing facilities, commercial enterprises. Developing a network of wholesale markets of agricultural products towards professional sale and auction.

4.4. Market of specialty products, traditional products of Thua Thien Hue province:

To form market of high class handicrafts to meet consumption needs of tourists to Thua Thien Hue. Building display centers and points of displaying, introducing and trading handicraft products and traditional specialties products at tourism attractions, rest stop points on tourism routes, border gates, aviation and railway stations, interprovincial bus stations.

4.5. Markets of some specific, business conditioned sector:

- Alcohol trade network: arranging product trade systems to meet conditions of trade restricted commodity prescribed by law and plan of the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

- Tobacco trade network: in plan period, the province has about 24 tobacco wholesalers and about 3,800 retailers of tobacco products.

5. Development orientation of wholesale and retailsale services

To focus on following basic orientations: general orientation on retailsale and wholesale markets; development of retailsale trade enterprises; development of wholesale trade enterprises; development of authorized dealers.

6. Orientation on development of border trade

To strengthen to organize trade promotion missions, facilitating maximum for commodities of the province to penetrate market of Laos like beer, garment ... implementing preferential policies to attract economic sectors to involve in investing in infrastructure, upgrading border markets, developing business at border gate areas to improve efficiency of import and export goods exchange.

7. Orientation on development of market network

7.1. Market in urban areas:

- In a period from now to 2020: upgrading and renovating a large number of markets, encouraging development and formation of modern business streets, business centers, shopping malls. Prioritizing to upgrade and renovate Dong Ba market to become key traditional trade market of the country.

- In a period of 2021-2025 and vision to 2030: investing in development of model of modern and civilized market, being fully equipped technical facilities and utility functions for all markets in city of Hue, towns of Huong Tra, Huong Thuy.

7.2. Rural markets, mountainous markets and border markets:

- In a period from now to 2020: focusing on rehabilitant, upgrading or building newly markets of communal centers; for markets in mountainous, border areas such as A Luoi, Nam Dong, studying forms of organizing market under relevant time; for temporary market in rural, mountainous, border areas depending on specific conditions to consider to put into plan of market formation.

- In a period 2021-2025 and vision to 2030: continuing to upgrade, expand and build newly market under development demand; choosing to shift management model of some markets of class 1, class 2 in order to boost operation efficiency of market.

7.3. Other markets:

- General wholesale markets of agricultural products: building wholesale markets of agricultural, fisheries products in transport gateways of city of Hue and towns of Huong Tra, Huong Thuy. Forming large-scale wholesale markets, operating toward professional direction to develop into trading platforms that specializes in agricultural products.

- Tourism market, night market, night streets, markets specialized in travel service: selecting specific location and suitable, effective operation mode to plan some commercial streets, night street, cuisine street, night markets, markets specialized in souvenirs and specialty products.

8. Orientation of supermarket network development

- In a period from now to 2020: continuing to encourage development of supermarkets, diversifying types of supermarkets such as: general supermarket, specialized supermarkets, wholesale supermarket and retailsale supermarket .. .. Organizing, orienting development of supermarket to set up network of supermarket which distributes relatively evenly over area of large urban centers, in line with economic characteristics in each locality.

- In a period of 2021-2025 and vision to 2030: developing medium and small size supermarkets in towns and townships of the district; expanding and upgrading existing supermarkets, encouraging supermarket conversion into a business center in region which are eligible to ground. Encouraging development of new supermarket forms; developing business, shopping streets, restaurants, hotels which connect with supermarkets to form trade – service areas around supermarket.

9. Orientation of developing business centers

To encourage and attract investors to build trade centers in cities, towns and townships in the province. Researching to choose some markets of class 1, class 2 having full of ground in Hue city, towns of Huong Tra, Huong Thuy, Thuan An township to add more functional areas to form trade centers while ensuring business area for traditional markets in a reasonable manner. Upgrading business areas around business center; mounting activities of hotel services, conferences, restaurant, tourism, entertainment with trade centers.

10. Orientations of convenience store development

To encourage development of model of convenience stores in the province. Implementing plans, allocating land, creating favorable condition to develop model of convenience stores in urban areas, concentrated residential areas, areas of concentrated tourists. Developing convenience stores to add functions, supporting other kinds of goods trade and service trade.

11. Orientations for development of logistic services

To develop rationally, synchronously systems of logistics infrastructure. Socializing investment and development of logistics infrastructure, maximum mobilizing all resources, attaching important to domestic resources. Giving priority to arrange logistics service to serve industrial parks, industrial clusters; border gate economic zones, wholesale centers, wholesale markets of agricultural, fisheries products...

12. Orientation on development of e-commerce

To propagandize to universalize electronic commerce for business community, all levels of management and industry associations, raising awareness of society about e-commerce. Organizing to train human resources and build technology infrastructure for e-commerce through development of telecommunications infrastructure which are compatible with international standards system, encouraging development of software technology, electronic payment systems. Supporting enterprises of the province to participate in e-commerce transaction floors.

1. Plan of development of market network

- By 2020, the province has 159 markets of all kind. Out of which, city of Hue has 25 markets; Huong Tra town with 18 markets; Huong Thuy town with 13 markets; Phong Dien district with 19 markets; Quang Dien district with 20 markets; Phu Vang district with 38 markets; Phu Loc districts with 19 markets; Nam Dong district with 4 markets; A Luoi district with 3 markets.

- By 2025 with orientation to 2030, the province have 173 markets of all kind. Out of which, city of Hue has 26 markets; Huong Tra town with 20 markets; Huong Thuy town with 17 markets; Phong Dien district with 19 markets; Quang Dien district with 20 markets; Phu Vang district with 39 markets; Phu Loc district with 19 markets; Nam Dong district with 05 markets; A Luoi district with 08 markets.

2. Plan of supermarket development

- By 2020, the province has 14 supermarkets (2 supermarket of class 1; 8 supermarkets of class 2; 4 supermarket of class 3).

- By 2030, the province has 26 supermarkets (6 supermarket of class 1, 16 supermarkets of class 2, 4 supermarkets of class 3).

3. Plan of trade center development

- By 2020, the province has 8 trade centers (3 trade centers of class 2; 5 trade centers of class 3).

- By 2030, the province has 41 trade centers (8 trade centers of class 2, 33 trade centers of class 3).

4. Development plan of trade fairs and exhibition center

In a period of 2015-2020, building 01 center of trade fair - exhibition in An Van Duong urban area-basing on plan criteria of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, with a scale of fair and exhibition center of group B having an area of 10 ha and 500 booths, serving radius (operation) of 50 km.

5. Plan of logistics centers

By 2020, there are two logistics centers at Chan May port, Thuan An port; by 2025, adding 2 logistics centers which locate in Phu Bai industrial park in Phong Dien district; by 2030, having more 4 logistics center locating in the rest industrial parks.

1. Total amount of land using for for plan

Increased land using area for implementing trade development plan in the province is 23.2 hectares in a period of 2015-2020 and 25,5 hectares in a period of 2021-2030.

2. Investment capital demand and investment preferences

2.1. Demand for investment capital

Total amount of investment capital in a period of 2015 - 2030 is about VND 8,940 billion, out of which:

- In a period of 2015- 2020 is VND 3.240 billion, including: the State budget of VND 240 billion, private capital of VND 2.000 billion and foreign investment capital (FDI) is VND 1.000 billion.

- In a period of 2021-2025 with a vision to 2030 is VND 5,700 billion, including the State budget: VND 460 billion, private capital of VND 3.740 billion and foreign investment capital (FDI) of VND 1.500 billion.

Funds from local budgets mainly use for clearance, investing in some essential infrastructure such as electricity, water ... to construction projects; capital from the central State budget invests mainly in infrastructure of some wholesale markets, border and mountainous markets in difficult areas, ...

2.2. Investment preferences

- To give priority to wholesale markets, supermarkets, trade centers in city of Hue and town, economic zones of Chan May - Lang Co. Constructing business streets for tourists, developing effectively business streets along Huong river and tourism attractions in city of Hue.

- To upgrade and rehabilitee rural market system, especially in localities hitting new countryside standards; investing in construction of supermarkets in district centers.

- To invest in projects which can create breakthrough developments in trade activity, especially export-import operations and wholesale operations. Out of which, giving special priority to projects of infrastructure system of modern wholesale, retailsale, ports and logistics centers.

1. Solutions on trade development policy

- Policies and measures on promoting import-export development: organizing to implement plan, programs, projects and measures on supporting exports, especially for traditional products; goods and service export and import structure develop toward increasing proportion of processed goods and high added value goods and increasing proportion of service exports; implementing well trade promotion activities; building market information systems to introduce, disseminate and provide to enterprises.

- Policies and measures on encouraging development of kinds of modern and traditional trade organizations: giving priority to mobilize resource for development model of traditional markets of the countries at Dong Ba market; forming specialized wholesale markets to develop key products markets at localities. Reforming management mechanism, mechanism of business, property ownership mode of trade enterprises, improving system of financing for small and medium sized enterprises; developing modern business methods, improving business skill of commercial enterprises.

2. Policies and measures on attracting trade development resources

- Land policy: planning, reserving land area which are suitable with development of commercial infrastructure; applying appropriately policies of reducing land use fees in difficult areas or extremely difficult areas; considering to exempt land rent fees during basic construction period and next years, depending on specific conditions.

- Finance, credit policies: having credit loan policies with preferential interest rates for a certain period of time for investors of developing trade infrastructure; enterprises of trading and managing commercial infrastructure projects are allowed to actively fix rent fee on business area, service charges on basis of price brackets prescribed by law.

- Attraction of capital resource into development investment of export products: giving priority to attract foreign direct investment into industries having high technological content to produce export high added value products; attracting investment capital into sectors of manufacturing export products like handicrafts, garments, aquatic products, food processing and supporting industries, providing raw materials, acting as satellites for huge companies of manufacturing export products.

- Other policies: providing full information on plan; researching, simplifying administrative procedures, shortening time of settlement, specifying processes and procedures for licensing projects of developing commercial infrastructure, ensuring compliance with trade development plan of the province and investment efficiency of the society.

3. Technology application solutions in trade and e-commerce development

To enhance application of scientific and technical progress in developing trade infrastructure, such as supermarkets, convenience stores, services of supplying fuel, petrol, LPG ... Developing trade exchange floors for commodities: agricultural and fisheries exchange floors, exchange floors of handicraft products and specialty products of Hue, garment and textiles exchange floors. Creating an healthy developed e-commerce environment, developing online sales channels and electronic payment methods.

To implement well relevant policies of the State, the province to support scientific and technological application and innovation, application of information technology in fields of taxation, customs and import-export, entry and exit procedures.

4. Solutions of trade human resource development

To develop policies of supporting training of human resources for trade sector. Organizing training and improvement of skills, specialization in trade business management.

5. Solutions of renovating methods and strengthening the State management capacity on trade sector in the province

- To develop stably, sustainable and enhance competitiveness of domestic market and connect closely with effective implementation of campaign "Vietnamese prioritize to use Vietnam products."

- To manage plans, programs of trade development of locality; promoting administrative reform, improving efficiency of business management. Strengthening market management, ensuring fair competition environment, protecting consumers, preventing promptly violations in commercial activities. Consolidating and strengthening team, regularly training to improve capacity of staff of market management.

- In central area of city, towns: planning specialized business streets, areas, regulating restricted business areas, restricting some business fields, arranging, relocating, removing inappropriate business locations.

- To pay attention, encourage and support trademark building, trademark protection registration and trademark development of commodity products of the province, especially traditional specialty products of the province.

6. Solutions on improving competitiveness of enterprises

- To improve efficiency of using human resources, building corporate culture, commercial civilization and implementing well remuneration for employees.

- To promote linkages between producers, input material suppliers and scientific research institutions; implementing intensive investment to improve competitiveness of commodities.

7. Solution on promoting linkage between Hue market with domestic and overseas markets

To promote and improve efficiency of linkage between Thua Thien Hue with other local markets in the country, organizing to research markets, promoting trade activity with key markets, markets of neighboring provinces to determine comparative advantage and trade cooperation possibilities. Establishing proactively bilateral linkages at many levels and different forms; strengthening links and promote cooperation with other countries in ASEAN region and exploit trade advantage in AEC, FTA, TPP framework from economic advantages of the province.

8. Solutions on minimizing impact of trade on environment

- To enforce strictly regulations on standards and technical regulations on designing, investment in trade infrastructure; encouraging investment, upgrading standard equipment and facilities for cargo transport, preservation and storage of goods.

- To complete environmental protection related regulations and policies on trade infrastructure system. Propagandizing to raise awareness of staff about environmental protection responsibility, fostering professional training for environmental staff. Strengthening intersectoral collaboration in ensuring hygiene standards of food safety for circulation of goods on market.

9. Solutions on development of wholesale, retailsale services

- Development of wholesale, retailsale fields combine with restructuring, innovation of growth model on 4 pillars: renovating methods of seeking profit from price difference to mainly provide services of added value for customer; transforming structure of trade sector from small scale to modern structure, medium and large sized scale; effectively combining traditional elements with modern elements in development; transforming relationships of trade sector from discrete to modern distribution system, goods supply chain of high added value.

- Retailsale system: developing retailsale infrastructure in locality, out of which, creating land area for construction of modern retailsale facilities. Encouraging socialization of capital source for constructing retailsale market and developing retailsale and wholesale services. Researching and applying science and technology, especially information technology in various types of modern retailsale establishments such as chain of stores, supermarkets and hypermarkets.

- Wholesale system: from the State budget support and having mechanisms on encouraging diversification of capital sources for building infrastructure for wholesale markets of agricultural, forestry, fisheries products and raw materials in concentrated commodity production areas. Establishing centers of wholesale under models of joint stock company, shareholders are investors in wholesale markets, banks, retailers and real estate enterprises. Developing associations of each type of business and strengthening research, training and dissemination of advantages and strengths of type of effective business.