As part of the 2025 Thanh Tuyen Festival, from October 9 to 15, Tuyen Quang province will host a trade fair showcasing outstanding rural industrial products from northern Vietnam and local OCOP products, featuring 250 booths. The event aims to promote local agricultural specialties, offering visitors a space to experience and purchase gifts rich in the flavors of the homeland.
Quan Ba commune is a locality renowned for having the largest area of commercial vegetable and flower cultivation in the province, bringing hundreds of billions of VND in economic value each year to local farmers.
In recent years, Tuyen Quang province’s export activities have made significant progress, helping to expand consumption markets and increase the economic value of local agricultural and industrial products. In particular, key products such as tea, plantation timber, cassava starch, sugarcane and OCOP products have increasingly affirmed their position in both domestic and international markets.
During his working visit to Tuyen Quang, Party General Secretary To Lam emphasized the need for the province to focus on investing in border gate infrastructure, developing logistics services, and promoting border trade to turn potential into real advantages.
With a strong determination to create new momentum, Tuyen Quang province is steadily transforming agriculture from potential into reality, from internal strength to international integration, positioning its brand on the global market.
Vietnam’s agriculture, including that of Tuyen Quang province, is facing the pressing need to shift from “quantity” to “quality.” In this process, the “four-party linkage” model - between the State, scientists, businesses, and farmers - is regarded as the key to building high-quality and sustainable agriculture.
During the 2020–2025 term, Tuyen Quang has made significant achievements in industrial development, creating a solid foundation for economic growth and investment attraction.
In recent years, OCOP agricultural products from Tuyen Quang have affirmed their value and quality in the market, gaining the trust of both domestic and international consumers.
The private sector has increasingly become an important driving force of Vietnam’s economy, with household businesses making significant contributions to growth and the state budget revenue.
Minh Huong gourd duck is a long-standing indigenous breed in Binh Xa commune. Raised along the Cham Chu stream and fed with a natural diet, the ducks have meat that is uniquely fragrant and delicious.
Converting crop structure has become an inevitable direction in Tuyen Quang’s upland communes, contributing to the promotion of agricultural value and the improvement of local people’s incomes. Thanks to selecting plants suited to the soil, climate, and market demand, many households have escaped poverty and achieved sustainable livelihoods.
In recent years, farmers in Xuan Giang commune have proactively converted low-yield maize and rice fields into fruit orchards. Particularly, grapefruit planting has brought high economic value, opening a new direction for local agriculture.
Cao Bo commune is home to nearly 1,000 hectares of Shan Tuyet tea, including many ancient trees over 100 years old. Blessed with favorable natural conditions and preserved through the traditional hand-picking and processing techniques of the Dao people, who account for 96% of the commune’s population, Shan Tuyet tea has become a key crop, generating high economic value and stable incomes for local people.
From as early as 2–3 a.m., while roosters are still drowsy, the road through An Phu hamlet, Tan An commune comes alive with the footsteps of villagers heading out to tap lacquer sap. Harvesting must avoid rain and intense sunlight, so residents work from dawn until about 8 a.m., finishing before the sun climbs high.
Over the past decades, Vietnam has achieved remarkable socio-economic development, with rapid growth, strong integration, and steadily improving living standards. However, the growth model based on resource exploitation, cheap labor, and public investment is gradually revealing its limitations. Labor productivity remains low, international competition is becoming fiercer, and the pressure to overcome the middle-income trap and cope with population aging calls for a breakthrough.