1. Industry
The commune’s industry has not
yet developed strongly, so it has no industrial park, having only a few small
and medium firms, with some typical businesses, including
- Mr. To Phuong Khanh's starch
production and processing establishment;
- An establishment raising clean
chickens, processing canned food for export;
- The Dong Nai gas station,
supplying petrol and oil for the commune.
To be able to keep up with the
country's development pace, beside the available advantages of land, abundant
labor force Tan Hiep commune has had its own development orientation in the
coming time. Tan Hiep will build a relatively large scale small-handicraft zone
spanning 70 ha to expand production and take advantage of potential labor force,
contributing to improving people’s living standards, and taking the commune’s
position to a new height.
2.
Agro-forestry and Fishery
The commune has 645 ha of
cultivated land, with its key crops including industrial crops such as rubber,
pepper, and cashew, which are key export commodities of Vietnam and are of high
value in recent years, covering 66.7 ha, of which pepper covers a quite small
area of 5.5 ha, and cashew spans 210 ha.
Regarding forestry, the land area
designated to this sector is quite large, 93.54 ha. Currently, the protective
forest area is shrinking due to nomadism, deforestation, forest fires, etc. So
the commune has focused on making adjustments and development of the sector.
The fishery and aquaculture
sectors in the commune are not as developed as other sectors.
3. Trade,
Services and Tourism
This is a limited sector of Tan
Hiep commune. Unions and people are striving to increase the performance of
trade, services and tourism.
4. Education
This sector play an key roler in
training talents for the country in general and for Tan Hiep commune in
particular, so now the commune has made certain investments in the education.
There are 3 schools situated in the commune.
- Tan Hiep Kindergarten has 7
classes, including 220 children and 10 teachers.
- Tan Hiep Primary School has 39
teachers, and 31 classes including 789 students.
- Tan Hiep Secondary School
includes 739 students divided into 20 classes and 35 teachers.
With its school system, Tan Hiep
can meet the learning needs of students in the commune. The locality has
organized the universalization of primary education at the right age, the
universalization of the secondary and high school levels. The commune is
striving to build school facilities that meet the national standards. One more
thing to be focused is that the commune needs to invest in establishing
libraries to serve the learning needs of students in the commune.
6. Culture
The commune’s cultural
performance is quite vibrant and diverse with many useful activities.
The Culture House has been built
for a long time, creating favorable conditions for many local activities, which
is where activities and celebrations of traditional days take place.
In addition to the Culture House,
the Community Learning Center has been concretely built since 2004 and enabled
many useful activities. The center has opened many short-term vocational
training courses for local people and surrounding communes such as classes of
welding, home electric appliances, hair and makeup, bonsai care, etc.
To improve people's knowledge,
the commune has over 600 books and newspapers.
People's IT levels have also been
improved via opening computer skill classes for teens and youth wanting to
access the Internet; initially the commune is equipped with 5 computers.
Every year, cultural movements
are regularly organized such as the celebrations of establishments of the Youth
Union on March 26, the Vietnamese Teachers' Day on November 20, October 1, etc.
Especially, the Fatherland Front organizes the All-People Solidarity Festival
with many exciting emulation forms such as matches of football, volleyball,
athletics, chess, and exchanges between typical cultured families in the
commune.
In addition, Tan Hiep also has
poetry clubs, music clubs, nursing clubs, chess clubs, which vibrantly operate
monthly.