At present, Quang Ninh’s OCOP products become a favorite brand to the local and national consumers.
To gain this achievement, Quang Ninh has undergone a development process with great efforts in continuing to improve the quality, innovating and applying advanced technologies and sciences in production, as well as enhancing trading promotion with clear message of introducing Vietnamese hi-quality products to the consumers.
After more than a year of implementing the OCOP program, there were only 30 production units register to participate the program with 65 products. In 2017, the OCOP program was extended with the increasing of quantities and improvement of quality. In particular, through the product evaluation and classification contest, 81 products by 47 economic organizations participating in the provincial competition. Of which, three products meeting 5-star standards; 31 ones meeting 4-star standards and 20 that satisfy 3-star standards. Thus, it can be seen that Quang Ninh OCOP products are increasingly being standardized and upgraded by enterprises and cooperatives.
From 2009 to 2018, nearly 20 fairs and exhibitions were held with the aim of connecting Quang Ninh OCOP products to not only other domestic markets but also international ones, thereby helping them to be introduced at various supermarkets, trade centers, fresh food shops,...
Notably, more than 20 Quang Ninh OCOP products have been officially sold on www.badasa.com website, an E-commerce platform set up by the Provincial Trade and Industry Department of Quang Ninh and the Provincial Post Office. Not only the OCOP products of Quang Ninh but also over 1,400 good quality products of cities and provinces nationwide have joined the platform.
In April of 2018, the Quang Ninh OCOP fair 2018 was successful organized. With the largest scale, it gathers over 200 stalls introducing OCOP products of Quang Ninh and typical ones of 40 cities and provinces nationwide as well as best quality products of Thailand, the Republic of Korea, Laos... the Quang Ninh OCOP fair 2018 helped to bring OCOP products closer to the local consumers, as well as created a huge motivation for enterprises and cooperatives to improve their products' quality by applying advanced technologies.
At the conference to summarize 10 years of implementing the campaign "Vietnamese people give priority to using Vietnamese goods" in the period of 2009-2019, Standing Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party’s Committee Nguyen Xuan Ky affirmed that Quang Ninh has actively developed the OCOP Program into a driving force for the development of local products. To date, OCOP program has been multiplied in many province in the country and remarkably changed the local consumers’ habit. In the upcoming time, Quang Ninh will continue to efectively implement the program so that OCOP products would really become a typical and key brand of Quang Ninh.
Translated by Hue Linh
