After a week-long Lunar New Year holiday, companies, businesses and cooperatives in Yen Bai province immediately resumed operations to fulfil orders for the first months of the year.

The Party Committee of the provincial agencies and enterprises’ bloc, in coordination with the Business Association of Yen Bai province, recently organised a ceremony in Thac Ba township, Yen Binh district, to mark the launch of business activities of the year 2023.

YBO - Luc Yen district is well known for food specialties including orange, purple potato, eggplant, duck, and capon.

Previously, when the locality was yet to be connected to the electric grid, 90 households in Lang Mit village, Van Yen district’s Tan Hop commune, pooled money to buy electric wires and poles to bring electricity to the village. However, the self-made electric line could only meet lighting needs.

YBO - Taking advantage of the fertile alluvial soil along the Red River, people in Yen Bai province grow canna indica as a raw material for making vermicelli. With their diligence and continuing learning, they have made the trade well-known inside and outside the province.

YBO - As Tet (Lunar New Year) is approaching, businesses under the “One Commune One Product” programme in Nghia Lo district, the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai have well prepared stock to meet demand of customers during the biggest traditional holiday of Vietnam.

YBO - As many as 97 new cooperatives were established in Yen Bai in 2022, lifting the total of cooperatives in the locality to 652, with nearly 60% of them operating in the fields of agriculture, forestry and fishery.

Thanks to drastic reform of the investment and business environment, along with its advantages, Yen Bai province has become an attractive destination for real estate investors.

Yen Bai has issued a plan to upgrade its Internet network and information-technology services to Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), the latest IP version in the 2022-2025 period, to promote the development of platforms serving its digital transformation.

YBO - Thanks to support under the Forest and Farm Facility (FFF) of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the Farmers' Association of Yen Bai province has implemented many activities to help its members diversify products under the forest canopy.

YBO - In 2022, departments, agencies, localities, forest owners and residents in Yen Bai province have made great efforts in forest management and wildfire prevention and control, with measures rolled out concertedly and effectively from the provincial to grassroots levels.

YBO - Tram Tau district has over 45,000 heads of key livestock and nearly 8,000 of other kinds. In order to proactively respond to and minimise damage caused by severe cold spells in the husbandry sector, authorities and people in the district have actively worked to prevent hunger and cold for livestock.

YBO - Van Chan district counts 19 products that meet the “One Commune-One Product” (OCOP) programme standards.

YBO - In March 2011, the People’s Committee of Yen Bai province agreed to establish a business association in the locality with 63 member enterprises that act as a representative of the business community and entrepreneurs in the province. By now, the association has 168 members.

YBO - Yen Bai province has so far had over 11,000 ha out of 24,000 ha of forest granted sustainable forest management certificates in accordance with standards of the Vietnam Forest Certification Scheme (VFCS) and the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), and the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC).

YBO - Yen Bai Province’s Business Association has successfully organised its 3rd congress, 2022 - 2027 tenure.

YBO - Yen Bai has 37 specialties and key products registered for intellectual property protection, including 10 geographical indication-registered products, 17 trademark-certificated products, and 10 products registered for collective trademark.

YBO - Revenue from forest environmental services (FES) in Yen Bai province has increased steadily through years, and exceeded the set plans, according to the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Development.

YBO - Luc Yen district of Yen Bai province has counted 15 products recognised as three-star One Commune-One Product (OCOP) products at the provincial level after the four-year implementation of the OCOP programme.

YBO - The Departments of Science and Technology, and Agriculture and Rural Development of Yen Bai province on November 23 organised a workshop on promoting scientific-technological application and transfer in forestry production.

Yen Binh district has released over 10,000 fish to enrich fishery resources in Thac Ba Lake, an activity funded by the Yen Bai VPF Minerals JSC, the Quang Tri Minerals Company, and the Thac Ba Lake Trading and Tourism JSC.

YBO - The Department of Information and Communications of Yen Bai province has hosted a workshop on measures to promote digital transformation in enterprises in the locality in 2022.

YBO - The People's Committee of Yen Bai province has just issued Decision No. 2184/QD-UBND on approving the evaluation results and granting of certificates to 12 products participating in the One Commune One Product (OCOP) Programme in Yen Bai province, the second time this year.

YBO - Tran Yen district in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai has defined organic production as an inevitable solution towards a clean agriculture. The locality has stepped up organic production methods for key plants, especially cinnamon, to meet the demand of the most demanding markets.

YBO - Yen Bai’s industrial production value in October hit 1.9 trillion VND (76.39 million USD), up 2.4% over September, pushing the figure in the first 10 months of this year to 17.48 trillion VND, representing a year on year increase of 10.1%.