Vietnamese Wood No. 109 - March 2019
Dear readers!
Once again, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc urged the Vietnamese wood industry to achieve faster development steps. The message of the head of the Government was unchanged from a few months ago, at the most important conference of the wood industry in 2018. “The wood and forest product processing industry needs to continue to break this year. and in the following years, striving to bring Vietnam to be one of the world's centers of wood and forest product production and export.
A brief, but complete message and a continuation of previous requests. One of the first solutions, the Prime Minister proposed that the ministries implement it is to propose policies to support investment in afforestation, construction and development of silviculture infrastructure; The banking sector needs to study specific credit packages with preferential interest rates so that businesses can expand investment in production, so that forest planting people can easily access and borrow money to plant production forests and create material areas. Besides, there are solutions on technology, high qualified human resources, links and markets. The head of the Government pledged to continue to listen to suggestions and recommendations of the business community, businessmen and industry associations, so that ministries, branches and administrations at all levels continued to drastically change new thinking, awareness to accompany businesses and achieve goals, aspirations to develop forest product processing industry to develop quickly and sustainably in association with environmental protection. Dear readers! In the coming time, together with international integration and participation in trade agreements, the trend of increasingly active domestic sources of raw materials will create a competitive advantage for export wood and forest products. of Vietnam, while maintaining the ability to trade at a higher level. This is also the basis for 2019, the forestry sector aims to achieve export value of 11 billion USD, corresponding to growth of about 18% compared to 2018. But as Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said, the wood industry must definitely surpass the 11 billion figure this year, and set even bigger goals.
Editorial Board of Vietnamese Wood Magazine
