Also attending the working program were comrades: Hà Quang Trung, Deputy Secretary of the provincial Party Committee; Phạm Đức Toàn, Member of the Standing Board of the provincial Party Committee and Permanent Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee; along with comrades from the provincial Party Standing Committee and leaders of provincial departments, committees, and sectors.

At the working program, the leadership of the provincial Business Association reported on the situation, operational results, and some recommendations and proposals of the provincial Business Association. In recent times, the Association has maintained its activities well, consolidated its leadership apparatus, and clearly assigned tasks to its specialized committees. It has also established and strengthened grassroots branches and entrepreneur clubs by industry and locality. In 2025, the Association admitted the new provincial Women’s Business Club with 55 members, bringing the total membership to 435 official member businesses and 5 affiliated organizations.

The entire province currently has over 1,500 enterprises, cooperatives, and large, medium, and small-scale business households operating in the fields of construction, trade, services, agriculture, energy, construction materials, tourism, and transport. Of these, small and micro enterprises account for over 80%. Many businesses have boldly invested in expanding their production and business scale, applying science and technology, promoting digital transformation, and building brands in their areas of strength.

The provincial Business Association has actively responded to and effectively implemented social security programs launched by the provincial People’s Committee and the provincial Vietnam Fatherland Front Committee, as well as the association’s own social security plan for 2025, with a total value of nearly VND 10 billion.

At the program, businesses raised several difficulties, such as: high input costs (raw materials, gasoline, transportation); and reduced market purchasing power. Access to credit remains difficult for enterprises, especially small and micro ones. There is a lack of “clean” land fund for production expansion, with many plots still entangled in the “three types of forest” planning. Some administrative procedures in investment, land, construction, and environment are still overlapping, and processing times are lengthy.

Representatives of the enterprises also proposed and recommended several points, including requesting that the provincial People’s Committee pay attention to reviewing the three types of forest, remove obstacles in the process of implementing projects; create mechanisms to attract large investors into tourism development; pay attention to the planning of the Mường Thanh field, encouraging mechanization and the application of science and technology in cultivation; and call for units to produce high-quality rice seeds within the province.

Leaders of the provincial People’s Committee and representatives of departments and sectors exchanged and answered businesses’ questions related to the classification and adjustment of the three types of forest planning; investment attraction in various fields; development of rice seed production models; implementation of electricity projects; and unit prices and norms for construction materials in the area. At the same time, they acknowledged the feedback from the Business Association and its member enterprises.

Concluding the working program, provincial Party Secretary Trần Tiến Dũng affirmed: “Điện Biên has great potential, advantages, and significant room for growth; if the Business Association, investors, and entrepreneurs are united, we will promote our internal strengths and not miss the opportunity to develop.” He added that in the coming time, the province will increase transparency and improve administrative procedures. In addition, to develop startups and innovative enterprises, the province will establish an “Innovation Center.”

In the near future, the province will have many resolutions on the development of concentrated, smart commodity agriculture; on tourism development linked with promoting the culture of ethnic groups; or resolutions on private economic development. Therefore, provincial Party Secretary Trần Tiến Dũng expressed his hope that the association and businesses will participate in contributing and implementing them. He also requested that entrepreneurs and businesses must link together into a unified bloc and build key, leading local enterprises. He emphasized paying attention to building Party organizations in private enterprises and to the issue of construction material prices.

The provincial Party Secretary agreed on holding dialogues with businesses, so that when units encounter difficulties or obstacles, they can propose them to the province for timely resolution.