I.    Trade Promotion Center functions and tasks

     1. Functions:

Help Director of the Department of Industry and Trade to organize and implement trade promoting activities in the following areas:

Trade promoting, calling for commercial investment capital, supporting and guiding investors in developing commercial infrastructure;

         Support associations, industries and businesses to develop domestic and export markets; consulting and supporting businesses to build and develop brands;

         Cooperate with domestic and foreign trade promotion organizations to promote trade development in the province;

         Draft documents to be submitted to the Provincial People's Committee for approval and organize the implementation of short-term and long-term trade promotion programs, plans and schemes.

2. Tasks:

         Coordinate in organizing and participate in trade fairs, exhibitions and seminars; promotional activities; advertising, product display; organizing trade promotion delegations, market survey; training courses, training on trade promotion and improving the competitiveness of enterprises; organizing brokerage for suppliers and customers to contact each other to set up commercial relationships through introduction, meetings, tours as well as offers.

         Process local commercial promotion on the Center's Website; provide commercial information to enterprises and rural areas.

         Research and develop export markets; focus on target markets in particular periods, propose trade promotion solutions; research products, focus on key products of Dong Nai. Simultaneously, coordinate with assorted associations to research and propose strategies, measures, market recommendations and national partner policies. Consulting and supporting businesses in the province to build, promote brands, and market products.

         Manage showroom and exhibition center; organizing showrooms, introducing products, goods and key products of Dong Nai province (including export and domestic); organize the management of the trade fair and exhibition area to provide services for businesses, organize fairs and exhibitions, thereby help to create budget revenues.

Implement other tasks directed by the Leaders of Dong Nai Department of Industry and Commerce.

II. Functions and tasks of inner sections:

1. Functions and tasks of administration and general affairs division

         Help the center director to process following tasks:

Advise and propose the managing implementation, recruitment, planning, appointment, rotation, mobilization, policies, salary regime, social insurance, health insurance, unemployment insurance, emulation and reward, discipline, professional training and retraining, etc. for the center employees. Implementation of legitimate framework, internal examine, administrative reform, assessment of public affairs.

         Showroom management, center management such as: construction investment, procurement, financial-asset management, ensuring funding and payment to be allocated in accordance with the regime, legitimate provisions (administration Dept.).

         Coordinating with professional departments to summarize and report periodically and irregularly assigned tasks according to regulations of the Department of Industry and Commerce and related units (General Administration Dept.).

         Build and collect annual budget revenue, expenditure estimates then submit for approval; guide and examine the procurement, management, use, transfer, sale, liquidation of public property, procurement of public properties according to the State's regulations and the decentralization of the Provincial People's Committee; comment on regimes, policies, standards and norms related to the financial sector at the request of all levels and branches; Report on the implementation of the agency's regime of autonomy and self-responsibility according to regulations; financial management and disclosure according to current regulations.

         Process clerical and archival work for the Center (Clerical department).

         Vehicles management and operation.

         Other tasks assigned by Director.

    2. Functions and tasks of the trade promotion division

         Help the Center Director to accelerate following tasks:

         Activities related to advertising, product display, and festival events in the province related to trade promotion.

         Propose to support enterprises in the province to process activities related to domestic and foreign fairs and exhibitions.

         Propose to implement the procurement and liquidation of professional equipment and tools for trade fairs and exhibitions.

         Help to implemente programs related to the "The Vietnamese prefer to use Vietnamese goods" campaign.

         Support associations, enterprises, other businesses to develop domestic and export markets. Advise and propose solutions to promote the export of key products of Dong Nai province.

 Organize trade, broker for suppliers and customers to contact to establish commercial relationships in the form of introducing parties, organizing trade meetings, making offers,... conferences.

         Advise and propose solutions to promote the development of major commercial markets.

         Provide commercial information to businesses and to rural areas.

         Organizing training and retraining classes related to trade promotion.

         Advise and propose activities related to domestic and foreign market survey.

      Administer the website of the Trade Promotion Center. Research the application of scientific advances to build a information system and trade promotion bases, serving the management and professional assigned work.

         Help the Director to report on professional contents within the department scope of activities.

         Organize other duties assigned by the Director.