The DIRECTIVE on the implementation of a number of solutions primarily aimed at strong domestic market development made the resolution No. 12/NQ-TW March 1 1996 of the Politburo about the continued innovation of organization and commercial activity, market development, socialist-oriented Government has issued many policies in order to measure, organize and develop the domestic market. These policies and measures have a positive impact for the production and circulation of commodities in the domestic market, the first step is to expand, increasing goods flow, better serving the needs of production and life.
However, commercial activity on the domestic market was also not less weak and inadequacies such as slow development and establish the Organization of markets and the traffic channel to ensure coherence and diversity from production to consumption; commercial infrastructure not proper; the work of the forecast of supply-demand, prices have yet to meet the operating requirements of the good economy as well as the practices of production, business; the process links and accumulation between enterprises, first of all is the commercial State enterprises has not been sharp navigation, so do not create competitive before the integration requirements; governance of the trade yet alignment are practices.
The cause of the condition is due to the mechanism of our country's economy is in transition, most enterprises are small, new private sector components began to form; aware of the departments, the business about the position, the role of the domestic market has not been fullest; the domestic market has not been focused, the lack of specific direction in the implementation of the mechanisms, the policy has.
To overcome the above shortcomings, promoting further the role of the domestic market in promoting development of the production, the country's economic growth, creating a solid basis for international economic integration, the Prime Minister asked the Ministers, heads of ministerial agencies , Chairman of the people's committees of provinces and cities under central (hereinafter referred to as the Department) to focus on directing and performing the following tasks: 1. To form and develop trade infrastructure in order to create favorable conditions for the operation of exchange purchase and sale of goods , including: market, commercial center (wholesale, retail sale of goods), supermarkets and stores network fit and meet the requirement of production development, the people's consumption on each area.
a) Ministry of Commerce is responsible for:-work closely with the provincial people's Committee in the formulation and implementation of development planning network market, the commercial centre with supermarket, the location, the scale match the specific conditions and characteristics of each; attach importance to the development of the wholesale market, market sales, commercial centers and large supermarkets in a reasonable manner.
-Chairing, in coordination with the ministries concerned research, issued a technical-economic standards, design templates for the types of markets and commercial centers to ensure be reasonableness, effectiveness and savings in construction as well as in the mining, use.
b) Ministry of planning and investment has responsibility for:-chaired, in coordination with the ministries concerned the balance of resources from the central budget to the Prime Minister for approval to the annual plan layout to support investing part of the technical infrastructure for the market construction projects in the spirit of the Decree No. 02/2003/ND-CP dated 14 January 2003 of the Chief Government on the development and management of the market. In particular, priorities for the key province of agricultural goods in the cuu Long River Delta, South Highlands, Red River Delta., focus complete the pilot build, exploit and manage the wholesale market of agricultural products and the level region in the provinces of: Nghe An Dak Lak, Vietnam to withdraw deployment experience on nationwide.
-Chairing, in coordination with the ministries concerned, regulate research, additional mechanisms, policies to encourage enterprises in the economic sectors to invest in construction of commercial infrastructure, especially in rural, mountainous areas.
c) The professional manager in collaboration with provincial people's Committee selected a number of subdivisions of the Ministry, local to steer and guide and become the leader in the construction and development of business type trade, modern civilization. Before your eyes, in two years (2004-2005), focused to consolidate and build some new commercial centre, supermarket and store network in the category I municipalities and at some major border gate economic zone.
d) Provincial Committee is responsible for:-establishing organization and approved by the project development market, commercial center and local supermarkets under the current rules.
-Taking the Land Fund and mobilize investment capital to develop the market projects, commercial centers, supermarkets in the area. Before your eyes, in two years (2004-2005), focus resources on building agricultural wholesale market (taking into account the elements of the link between the Department of Economics), the commercial center of provincial level, the population aggregate retail market in the communes and communal cluster pressing needs are on the market; in particular, the focus on developing the market in the center of the cluster in the mountainous areas, border regions and minorities with a reasonable scale, taking into account market practices in each locality.
2. Creation of linkages between the circulation of goods to production, particularly with agricultural production. Development of the method of sale of goods dealer and provide the services, materials for production and consumption under stable, long-term contracts.
a) Ministry of Commerce presiding, in cooperation with the Ministry of industry management and regulation complete dealer buy sell goods; in collaboration with agencies and local guide, encourage and create conditions for enterprises to establish business networks and agents for the sale of goods.
b) Ministry of agriculture and rural development, in coordination with the ministries concerned and the provincial people's Committee reviews the results of the decision No 80/2002/QD-TTg dated 24 June 2002 by the Prime Minister on the policy of encouraging the consumption of agricultural goods through contracts proposed, with the Prime Minister to amend, supplement the content to fit the practices.
c) Provincial Committee is responsible for directing the coordinated, links between enterprises, cooperatives, credit institutions with farmers in the consumption of agricultural products through contract; directs implementation of base administration function of propaganda, education and to the farmers fully aware of the rights, obligations and responsibilities in the implementation of the consumption of agricultural products; in collaboration with the professional body organizing professional training and experience of conclusion and execution of contract for farmers; strengthen the urge, checking, monitoring contract implementation process of consumption of agricultural products; in collaboration with central agencies perform necessary support measures in accordance with the mandate and authority to ensure the legal rights of the parties in the implementation of the contract the consumption of agricultural products.
3. Gradually formed the trade Corporation, the Corporation's commercial business towards modern civilization.

The Ministry of industry management to actively coordinate with relevant ministries and people's committees of provinces issue research, policy created the legal basis promoting the process of accumulation and concentration of commercial activities to form the trade group, the largest commercial corporation has business system throughout on the geographical diversified businesses, or specialization, import-export development medium, medium business expansion of trade in the domestic market; economic linkages in the trading system, primarily through the purchase method according to the contract, under the order and through dealer network.
4. Promote the development and enhance the efficiency of activities of the Association in the field of trade on the domestic market.
The Ministry of Interior, in coordination with the ministries concerned research, proposed the mechanism, in order to facilitate policy development and enhance the performance of associations, including the Association in the field of trade towards: protection combined the benefits of membership with the risk coverage and the sharing of benefits for the producers most are farmers; exert the role of associations in the Organization of coordination of import-export activities with business activities on the domestic market; enhance the role of the Association in the process involved in planning mechanisms, macro policy aims to stabilize the market and prices the key items.
5. Develop strong cooperative trade-services on the other, the focus is on rural areas.
a) Vietnam Cooperative Alliance hosted, in cooperation with the Ministry of agriculture and rural development, Ministry of Commerce and the provincial people's Committee on Cooperative Law (2003) direction, orientation of the construction of the cooperative-commercial services on the other, the focus is on rural areas with the model mainly agriculture (forestry cooperative fishery-commercial-business) services, activity in the service sector for agriculture (forestry, fisheries) such as: production material supply early on, finding support in the market, the source of goods and consumption goods held for farmers.
Encourage the development of cooperative models with participants including people (individuals, business households, farmers, ...), legal entities (State enterprise, limited liability company, joint stock companies, private enterprises, other cooperatives, ...). Building cooperatives became the principal clue in the signing of purchase contracts and the purchasing agents do business with agricultural products and agricultural materials on the rural market to make a large part of consumption of agricultural products to farmers and supply the critical agricultural materials for agricultural production.
b) Ministry of planning and investment, in coordination with the ministries concerned to urgently modify the Decree No. 15/CP on October 21, 2 in 1997 by the Government on the policy of encouraging cooperative development to suit the Cooperative Law (2003) and the laws related , is the policy: land rental business ground created, provided, tax breaks, support for building trade infrastructure, funding and training, fostering cooperative management, c) Finance Ministry, in coordination with the State Bank of Vietnam and relevant agencies study the Prime Minister to amend the regulation on the establishment , organization and operation of the credit guarantee Fund for small and medium enterprises attached to decision No. 193/2001/QD-TTg dated 20 December 2001 by the Prime Minister in accordance with the actual conditions of today.
6. Strengthen governance, each step can complete goods circulation management, improve the quality and efficiency the work forecast, market, prices of key commodities, ensuring the domestic market for a stable and sustainable development.
Ministry of Commerce is responsible for:-chaired, in coordination with the ministries concerned and the people's Committee of the the implementation of the provisions of the current legislation in order to execute work effectively against smuggling, production and circulation of counterfeit goods, illegal business activities and the other commercial fraud; enhanced check, controlling the implementation of the provisions of the law on intellectual property, for quality and quality management of goods in circulation in order to protect the interests of producers and consumers.
-Chairing, in coordination with the ministries concerned, the associations and a number of State companies in improving and enhancing the operational efficiency of the domestic market operating on the basis of improving the quality of the work of forecasting, analysis, reviews of bow ties-demand, prices of items of national economy; proactive solution to deal with the adverse impacts of international markets, while petitioning the Prime issues beyond jurisdiction in order to timely processing, improve the efficiency of domestic markets operating.
-Hosted, in collaboration with the other ministries concerned, the reviews of the implementation of the institutional policy and current on the circulation of goods and commercial services business on the domestic market, especially for those items and services have a major impact on the production, life the ecological environment, to timely additions, modifications or recommendations with the additional authorities, modified to fit with reality.
7. Ministry of Commerce is responsible for monitoring and periodic reporting of the Prime Minister on the implementation of the legal text issued on the domestic market management and the implementation of this directive.
8. Ministers, heads of ministerial agencies, heads of government agencies, the Chairman of the people's committees of provinces and cities under central responsibility to fulfill the tasks specified in this directive.