1. Industry and Small-Handicraft Industries

For the past few years the local small and handicraft industries have gradually developed and achieved certain outcomes. Currently there are more than 15 facilities including (five limited liability companies, three private enterprises and seven production facilities) attracting over 153 employees annually.

The ward’s industrial strength is the exploitation and production of building materials, with key products such as stone, sand, bricks and pottery, etc. But those production processes have been affecting urban environment. Therefore, the city has invested in building concentrated industrial clusters in the ward with the main function of producing building materials, relocating production facilities which pollute the environment to the city’s outskirt in order to reduce their environmental impacts on the inner city. The formation and development of the industrial clusters will create strong economic growth and transform economic structure into an industry and trade – services one.

2. Agro-forestry and Fisheries

In the process of building and developing the general urban area of ​​the city, Tan Hanh ward in recent years has transformed parts of agricultural land into non-agricultural purpose land, narrowing the agricultural land area and the crop production growth is limited. In 2008, the total cultivated area of ​​the ward was about 210 hectares with a revenue of over VND21 billion.

Cultivation: in 2008 the total output value reached over VND14 billion. Compared to other wards and communes in the city, Tan Hanh is a ward with a fairly developed agriculture. However, urban construction and development have been narrowing agricultural land.

Husbandry: to implement the direction of the People's Committee of Bien Hoa city on stopping poultry and poultry raising within the city, the People's Committee of Tan Hanh ward has instructed the hamlets to follow the poultry raising restriction. However, aquaculture tends to thrive. Some households have now invested in building ponds and lakes to raise fish, especially juvenile fish and climbing perch. This model is relatively profitable, so it needs to be replicated.

In general, Tan Hanh is a ward with potential for development of industry and trade-services, in which the strength is ceramic industry and building material production. But due to the characteristics of the type of production and business in the ward it has a great impact on the local environment and ecology (the transporting of soil, rock, sand and other building materials pollutes the air and water).

3. Trade and Services

Since Bui Huu Nghia street was completed, commercial service activities in the ward have been enabled to develop strongly. Currently there are more than 200 establishments with the 2008 revenue of VND42 billion. However, an increase was seen mainly in small-scale and catering services.

In addition, there is the Tan Hanh temporary market with an area of ​​about 0.16 hectares to meet the goods and service trading needs of local people. Yet it is just an immediate solution to avoid trading activities along the street that obstructs travel. In the future, a new market with an appropriate size will be built to facilitate people's trading activities. The ward plans to build a concentrated market in Hamlet 4.

In general, commercial and service activities have not had the opportunity to develop to full potential because of local people’s long agriculture-dependent tradition while the potential for ecotourism has not been fully exploited, especially the infrastructure for tourism such as motels, gathering places, support services and so on.

TABLE OF TAN HANH WARD’S ECONOMIC STRUCTURE IN 2008 (VND)

4. Sports Culture - Education and Health

Culture: Currently the ward has no stadium and culture house. However, sports and art activities were regularly organized, which help kick start sports movement in hamlets and mass organizations of the ward. The movement "All people unite to build cultured life in residential areas" is focused, with 85 percent of the households meeting cultured family standards. The campaign “Unite to build cultured life in residential areas” is carried out. The ward’s Steering Committee has reviewed the criteria achieved by the 4 hamlets. As a result, Hamlet 2, 3 and 4 still retain their cultured hamlet titles and Hamlet 1 is recognized as a cultured hamlet. The sporting events have attracted a great deal of people from all walks of life.

Education: The quality of education has gradually increased over years; the quality of primary and secondary education has been increasingly improved, and the percentage of school-age children reaches 100 percent. Currently the ward has one primary school and one preschool with a total of 23 classrooms including one kindergarten, seven preschools and 15 primary classes. There are also three classes of compassion and one community learning center, meeting the teaching requirements for primary and kindergarten education. Teacher background is gradually qualified, equipped with teaching materials to meet the development requirements of today's education. On the other hand, Tan Hanh ward has established the Study Encouragement Association, established the Community Learning Center and run its operation to meet the needs of study and propaganda tasks in all aspects of cultural, and social fields, policies and laws of the Party and the State.

However, the ward has not had a secondary school, so secondary students must study in the nearby communes. With the current growth rate the education sector also needs to be paid more attention; schools should be invested, upgraded and newly built in order to maintain and improve teaching and learning quality in the ward.

Health: the ward has one health station located on Bui Huu Nghia Street, which provides the initial health checkup and treatment, and vaccination to prevent diseases for children under the National Health Programs. All health workers have professional qualifications. Up to now the station’s doctors have provided health checkup and treatment services to people; facilities and equipment have been gradually upgraded for public healthcare.

In addition to establishing a full network of medical collaborators in the hamlets, so the propaganda and implementation of the national health programs and population communication have been carried out timely, preventing community from dangerous epidemics and the health station were recognized as national standards in 2008. Now it still maintains good performance.

5. Public Works

Transportation: The transport system in the ward includes roads and waterway, including:

Road Transport: mainly concentrated on Bui Huu Nghia and Pham Van Dieu streets, which are two important roads of the ward as well as the city, connecting with Binh Duong province. Due to newly invested, upgraded and expanded, they greatly contribute socioeconomic development. Meanwhile Pham Van Dieu route into the ceramic industry cluster is in the process of investment and construction so it has not made full use of its potential.

The system of other transport constructions in the ward is mainly dirt road. At the same time, there is no connection between the roads to facilities traffic, so their use is very limited. In spite of investments in upgrading and expanding roads in residential areas via socializing capital (during the 2001-2008 period, over 4,400 m of internal roads has been repaired) investment rate is still limited. Therefore, the city should prioritize support budgets to improve the transport system in the ward in order to take advantage of land resources and socioeconomic development potential.

Waterway Transport: Because it is located on the banks of Dong Nai River, canals (Ong Tiep canal, Lai Bong canal, etc.) extend deep into the ward, so the waterway transport system has developed strongly. In particular, most of the major transport vehicles are concentrated on Dong Nai River, with the main purpose of transporting construction materials such as stone, sand, bricks, pottery ... This has greatly promoted the activities of production and business, economic development and specific products in the ward.

Capital Construction: having received the attention of local authorities and the mobilization of people in the ward, recently a number of key works of the ward have been built to meet working requirements as offices for Hamlet 1, 3, and 4.