The story about the Province’s
breakthrough in raising dairy cows remains to a topical issue. After
nearly three years of implementing a dairy cow-raising programme, the
Province has more than 4,000 dairy cows and 900 cows for meat of high
quality (Brahman breed), which constitutes a foundation to qualitatively
improve the cattle herd. More importantly, the programme has made a
drastic change in the people’s perception of structural shift in crops and
animal farming and gradually built the animal husbandry into goods
production. To facilitate the consumption of dairy products, the Province
has established a joint-venture with Vietnam Share-holding Milk Company
(VINAMILK) to build Tuyen Quang Milk-processing Plant with a capacity of
40 million litters a year in Long Binh An Industrial Park. One of the
strong dairy cow- raisers in Tuyen Quang Province is Phu Lam Share-holding
Dairy Cow Company in Yen Son District, which raises 2,000 cows imported
from Australia. Director of the Company Phung Van Hung said: “The average
temperature in this place is 23 0C, the same as in Queensland
of Australia; so the cows grow well and each of them weighs 500-700 kg.
Now over 1,000 cows are being milked. They have a high rate of breeding.
On average, cows of the first brood give 17-18 kg of milk a day”. The
Company’s production has reached a high socio-economic efficiency, not
only bringing jobs to the locals, but also improving the life of people of
various ethnic groups, who earn money by growing and selling maize and
grass to the Company.
The year 2004 witnessed an
important landmark in the activities of Tuyen Quang Cement Factory which
has become Tuyen Quang Share-holding Cement Company after its 25 years of
development. The Company has invested in building a production chain of
new technology. Deputy Director of the Company Tran Minh Chon said: “We
are trying to raise the quality of our products to compete with other
cement products on the markets and increase our capacity and output with
an aim to monopolize the local market and sell our products to the
neighbouring provinces.” Construction of another plant in the Province,
namely Trang An Cement Plant with a capacity of 910,000 tonnes per year,
has just been started.
Tuyen Quang is a mountainous
province with great endowed forest potential. In recent years, the areas
of planted forests have increased considerably, making favourable
conditions for the forestry product processing industry to develop. In
January 2005, after four months of operation, Tuyen Quang Share-holding
Forestry Products Processing Company exported its first batch of 4,000
out-door chairs out of 6,000 chairs ordered by the Swedish IKIA Group to
the European markets. This is a good start for the Company’s bigger
plans.
Like many other provinces and
cities in the country, Tuyen Quang attaches special importance to the
model of building industrial parks and attracting outside investments.
With large land, abundant materials and rich natural resources, the
Province has great potential to develop different industries. With
favourable conditions in land, water way and railway transportations,
ports and water supply systems and telecommunication services, together
with investment-incentive policies, Long Binh An Industrial Park, more
than 10 km away from Tuyen Quang provincial capital, is very attractive to
investors. Right after it establishment, many investors have registered to
operate in this park. Today it has become an industrial park with various
forms of production involving modern and high technologies.
A modern industrial project is
taking shape at the foot of Pac Ta Mountain in Na Hang District. It is
Tuyen Quang Hydro-electric Power Plant with a capacity of 342 MW on the
Gam River, which will generate 1.2 billion KWh of electricity per year.
Its first turbo-generator unit is expected to operate in 2006, joining the
national grid to provide electricity to Na Hang District and other areas.
In the Tay language, Na Hang means “the terminal land” and Tuyen Quang
means “the valley of light”. Great changes have brought a new image to
“the terminal land”, promising a bright future for an area renowned for
its revolutionary tradition.
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Tuyen Quang Province is a place closely connected
to many important national events. In particular, during the
revolutionary period from 1945 to 1954, Tan Trao base in the
Province was selected as the temporary capital of the liberation
zone, the resistance capital and the security zone of the Party
Central Committee and the Government. In May 1945, President Ho Chi
Minh left Pac Bo area in Cao Bang Province for Tan Trao base to lead
the Vietnamese revolution. He convened and chaired a national
conference of the Party and National Congress to launch a general
uprising to seize the power throughout the country and
established the Democratic Republic og Vietnam. This place was
once the headquarters of the Vietnamese revolution, with its
geographical names closely connected with the activities of
President Ho Chi Minh and the history of the Vietnamese
revolution.
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Tuyen Quang
Province:
Area: 5,868
sq.km.
Population: 709,400 people (in
2003).
Ethnic
groups: The Viet (Kinh), Tay, Dao, San Chay and
others.
Administrative
units: Tuyen Quang Town and five districts, including Na
Hang, Chiem Hoa, Ham Yen, Yen Son and Son Duong.
Natural conditions: Lying on a
highland area in northern Vietnam, Tuyen Quang Province has many
mountains of more than 2,000 metres, big forests, mostly primitive
forestss and two big rivers namely Lo and Gam. It has a tropical
climate influenced by the north Asian temperate climate, with two
seasons, the rainy and dry seasons. In Summer, the weather is warm
and there is a lot of rain. The average temperature is
230C.
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Story: Vuong
Mo - Photo: Van Chuc-Thanh
Phuong