1. POPULATION AND LABOR

The entire commune has 6237 households, including:

- 5,123 households of permanent residence, with 20,017 people; 10,020 women; 15,153 people aged 14 and over.

- 1,114 households of temporary residence: with 2. 656 people; 1. 235 females; 2,129 aged 14 and older people.

In the commune there are 9 ethnic minorities (Thai, Cham, Choro, Muong, Nung, Tay, Khmer, Chinese, Dao) including 26 households with 123 people.

Religion: Buddhism: 4,700 Buddhists; Christianity: 1,528 Christians; Protestants: 126 followers.

2. LAND

There are 3 groups of land in the commune, including Gley soil (Gleysols) group, gray soil (Acrisols) group, and black soil (Luvisols) group.

3. AGRICULTURE

+ Cultivation:

Total cultivated area: 481.2 ha, including 405 ha of rice, with an estimated yield of 8 tons per ha; 2 ha of corn, 10 tons per ha; 8.2 ha of vegetables and fruits of all kinds, 10 tons per ha; 18 ha of small-scale rubber plantation, 1.3 tons per ha; 32 ha of wheat, 25 tons per ha, and 16 ha of cashew, 1.3 tons per ha.

+ Husbandry:

The total herd is 22,235 heads, including 21,000 poultries, 310 buffalos and cows, 275 goats, 650 pigs, all vaccinated. Due to the impact of the African swine fever and rising feed prices the number of animal heads has decreased. The aquaculture growth is stable, wit 110 ha (including shrimp, crab and seabass, ect.).

The commune has completed the documentation for 75 households with pigs infected with the African swine fever with a total of over 4,231 heads, with the proposed relief amounts worth over VND8.229 billion.

4. INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION

+ Electricity supply system construction:

Lighting system was installed on the roads of 5 hamlets, such as: Phuoc Hoa hamlet, Hamlet 5, Tap Phuoc hamlet, Xom Go - Ba Ky hamlet , Dat Moi hamlet; with the total number of 939 bulbs; the total amounts contributed by locals worth over one billion dong. The power access rate of households in the commune reaches 99.9 percent.

The electrical system meets technical requirements of the electricity industry according to Decision No. 34/2006/QD-CN dated September 13, 2006 by the Minister of Industry on safety techniques for electrical equipment and electrical use installation.

+ Rural roads:

Including 7 works: Alley 82, Area 2, Phuoc Hoa hamlet; Alley 70, Area 2, Phuoc Hoa; Alley 57/9 + 57 Long Phuoc 1 Industrial Cluster; Alley 2626/13 + Alley 110 Rocket road; phase 2 Area 2 Road; Alley 1959/34, National Highway 51; Alley 1969/67, National Highway 51, with construction costs of VND9.866 billion (including 40 percent of the provincial budget,  30 percent of the district budget and 30 percent of the commune budget and people’s contributions).

However, at present, there are still internal roads with an average roadbed of about 3-5 m, mainly earth road, unfriendly for traffic, especially in the rainy season months. Therefore, the communal People's Committee continues to apply for policy on investment and upgrade in the coming time.

5. INDUSTRY AND SMALL-HANDICRAFT INDUSTRIES

+ Industry: There are many projects at the beginning of the factory located in the area of ​​producing garments, shoe soles, bricks and gloves, etc., attracting hundreds of workers in the commune and from other localities.

+ Small and handicraft industries: The situation of production and business, traditional industries such as milling, food processing, civil carpentry and mechanical repair was stable but still grew slowly. Particularly, small business households, services thrive but most of them are spontaneous, less concentration and seasonal.

6. CULTURE AND SOCIETY

+ Culture, society and sports:

During the past 10 months, sports activities have been organized to celebrate holidays and Tet for teenagers and youths such as volleyball, folk games, performing art festival, and collective rope jumping. Results include one first prize, 2 consolation prizes, one third prize.

Currently, the commune has one Vovinam martial art club with 70 students; traditional martial art with 80 students; a fitness club of 50 trainees; bodybuilding with 30 trainees; men's football with 25 players; children's aerobic with 40 children. The clubs open regularly.

+ Education - training:

There are: one secondary school in the commune; 3 primary schools; 5 kindergartens, in which preschools meet national standards, maintaining the target of educational universalization. The rate of graduating from lower secondary school, completing primary school and mobilizing preschool children to class every year has met and exceeded the targets assigned by the district.

Results of the 2017-2018 school year: The rate of students graduating from secondary schools is 199 out of 203, reaching 98.03 percent. Students completing the Primary level program reached 100 percent. 100 percent of 6 year-old children were mobilized to attend Grade 1.

+ Healthcare:

Long Phuoc commune health station, recognized to meet national standards. The station now includes 7 staff members, including one doctor, two general practitioners, one midwife, one pharmacist; one nurse and one population official, ensuring the direct examination and treatment for people; having midwives in charge of examination and treatment of obstetrics and gynecology; effectively implementing the National Health Program; and proactively preventing epidemics.

Reducing malnutrition rate for under 5 year old children by weight by 4.6 percent, meeting the less than 5 percent target assigned by the district; educing malnutrition rare for under 5 year old children by height by 10.5 percent, meeting less than 11 percent target assigned by the district; rate of people participating in health insurance being 91 percent, exceeding the target assigned by the district of 90 percent; The natural population growth rate is 0.99 percent, meeting less than one percent target to the assigned by the district.

General assessment: Located in the key economic region of the South, Long Phuoc commune has favorable conditions for the development of infrastructure projects such as traffic system, electricity grids, etc.

Long Phuoc commune is located in the planned industrial development area along with Long Thanh town and Long Duc commune and is the gateway to Nhon Trach city in the future, so Long Phuoc will be a town or a clean industrial park with small scale, very convenient for the development of trade and services sector.

Long Phuoc commune has natural conditions that are quite suitable for land use arrangement, development of many crops, intensive farming and high yield crops. There is great potential for exploitation of building materials.

7. COMMUNICATIONS

Currently the local information system has been quite developed, with all domestic, local and international news being being timely disseminated to each locality, especially the sci-tech information and news on the weather.

8. MINERAL RESOURCES

Due to its geographical structure, so far rare and precious mineral resources in the commune have not been discovered, mainly stone and gravel for building materials, according to the results of surveys for developing land maps.

+ Endophotothionic Gleysols: distributed mainly in the west, in Phuoc Hoa hamlet formed by new alluvium, flooded in most days of the year, suitable for wet rice.

+ Light mechanical, very poor base gray soil (Venti-Arenic Acrisols): distributed in Tap Phuoc hamlet. The soil is formed on ancient alluvial, light mechanized, poor in basic base but located in high, drainable terrain, with thick soil layer suitable for many crops.

+ Endohyperferric Acrisol: distributed in Hamlet 5, with most of the area being used for construction and the rest for cashew.

9. TRADITIONAL PRODUCTS AND HANDICRAFTS

Current local products are mainly perennial rice, agricultural crops such as coffee, pepper, cashew nuts and fruit trees: durian, rambutan, oranges, tangerines and so on.

​