1. Industry, small-handicraft
industries
Industry: There are two
industrial factories including Tan Mai Paper Joint Stock Company and Tan Mai
Wood Joint Stock Company. Due to the development orientation of Bien Hoa city,
both establishments will have to be relocated to industrial parks according to
the roadmap prescribed by Dong Nai Provincial People's Committee.
Small-handicraft industries:
There are mainly mechanical production, candy processing, and mattress cover,
recycled paper and civil wooden product manufacturing, with 37 establishments
and over 70 workers, which in 2006 had the turnover of VND36.35 billion hitting
105 percent of the plan, up 20 percent compared to 2005.
2. Agriculture
Agricultural land is shrinking
according to progress in land acquisition for projects. The agricultural sector
has actively shifted towards urban agriculture, notably Go Me Agricultural
Production & Service Cooperative. In 2006 the cooperative’s total production
value reached nearly VND2.1 billion, with 32 households operating 87 fish rafts
in Cai River area. In 2006 more than 10 million fish were raised to produce 200
tons of products.
3. Trade and Services
With a third-class market and the
majority of small household businesses consisting of 634 households, in 2006 the
sector achieved VND86.7 billion in sales, reaching 102 percent of the plan.
Especially, there is a small-scale co-entertainment zone for recreational
fishing, gradually growing to meet the recreational needs of people in the area.
4. Culture - Sports -
Education and Health
Culture: In order to meet the
sector’s operation requirements regarding different types of activities, the
locality has a Mobile Information Team to support propaganda through the
programs of drug prevention, Building a Cultured Quarter, and joining the
cultural quarter celebrations.
Through the "All people unite to
build a cultured life" campaign there are 7 out of 7 quarters registering for
the Cultured Quarter title, and 4,109 households registering for the Cultured
Family, then 4 quarters were recognized and re-recognized as Cultured Quarters,
in which Quarter 5 was recognized for 4 consecutive years and 3,733 households,
making up 91 percent, as cultured families in 2006.
Education: There is a
kindergarten in the ward, two primary schools, a secondary school, a private
high school and a vocational technical school. The ward has completed secondary
and high school educational universalization with an effective community
learning center and a Study Encouragement Association, which annually
incorporates many divisions such as childcare, regularly giving an average of 30
scholarships worth VND300,000 each and many gifts such as books, notebooks,
schoolbags, bicycles, etc.
Health: The ward’s health station
well implements national health programs and has been proposed to be recognized
to meet the national health standard. The local Red Cross Society has many
charitable programs, annually mobilizing support and relief for poor households
in the area and is ready to participate in relief for disaster-stricken
households.
5. Public work construction
Starting as a poor locality there
was almost a lack in infrastructure. With the dynamic and autonomous mind in
earlier 2000, all the people actively took part in the construction of the
medium and low-voltage power grid, with a total length of 10 km of main line. So
far relatively covering the whole ward tap water system under the investment of
the sector and people helps lower the direct use of well and river water.
Responding to the program of transport socialization in quarters, the ward has
renovated and upgraded asphalt roads with a total length of nearly 3 km,
reaching more than 55 percent of the length, with a width of more than 4 meters,
and concrete roads covering nearly 70 percent of alleys across the ward. Due to
the fact that nearly 85 percent of the ward is planned to relocate for Bien Hoa
Administrative Center Project, the infrastructure development in residential
areas is limited.
On April 27, 2005 there was a
turning point in its infrastructure: The traffic and naming ceremony of Vo Thi
Sau Street, with a length of 2.8 km crossing Thong Nhat Ward and the development
of residential project of 31.25 ha by D2D Housing Development Company have
contributed to changing the present-day appearance of Thong Nhat Ward.