A ceremony to open the Union-level MSME Product Exhibition and Competition took place at Tabaung Ground near the Uppatasanti Pagoda in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning, attended by Chairman of the State Administration Council Prime Minister Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.
Chairman of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise Development Work Committee SAC Vice-Chairman Deputy Prime Minister Vice-Senior General Soe Win, Union Ministers U Win Shein, U Min Naung. U Hla Moe, Dr Charlie Than, Dr Myo Thein Kyaw and Nay Pyi Taw Council Chairman U Than Tun Oo cut the ceremonial ribbon to open the expo.
The Senior General pressed the button to inaugurate the expo.
At the opening ceremony, the Senior General and attendees enjoyed the dance performances of traditional cultural troupes with the song in honour of the opening of the expo in commemoration of the 78th Anniversary of Union Day.
The Senior General and his entourage interestingly visited the ministerial booths, and MSME booths of regions and states and asked about matters related to products, discussed work process of relevant products, use of raw materials, manufacturing of products, market shares at home and abroad, requirements of workplaces, and potentials to extend distribution of products domestically and internationally and fulfilled the needs.
In the afternoon, the Senior General viewed round MSME products at the booths of Mandalay Region, Ministry of Information, Business Matching Hall, Myanmar Banks Association, Digital Corner, Myanmar Economic Holding Public Company Limited, Myanmar Economic Corporation, Republic of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, Myanmar Traditional Medicine Producers and Medical Entrepreneurs Association and Myanmar Oil Millers Association and asked about production, supply of raw materials, grasping foreign market shars, more distribution of products at home and abroad, and gave guidance. They rode buggies to view round products displayed by small-scale industries and manufacturing cooperative societies.
Also present at the ceremony were Daw Than Than Nwe, wife of the Vice-Senior General, Council Joint Secretary General Ye Win Oo, council members and their wives, Union ministers and their wives, Union-level dignitaries and their wives, chief ministers of regions and states and their wives, senior Tatmadaw officers from the Office of the Commander-in-Chief and their wives, deputy ministers and officials.
The expo will last for five days from 10 to 14 February, at Tabaung Ground, south of Uppatasanti Pagoda in Nay Pyi Taw. The expo aims to develop cooperation among MSMEs in regions and states to fulfil requirements for each other in the production chain and analyze strong and weak points, to help businesspersons seek the significant points for manufacturing better quality products at fair prices than others, to encourage successful implementation of the One Region One Product scheme, to continuously enhance products and services of MSMEs, to produce value-added products at home as import-substitute goods and penetrate foreign markets, to further cooperate between MSMEs and local and foreign investors, to honour model product awards to MSMEs and contribute to long-standing of MSME.
The expo features product sales at 96 booths of ministries, regions and states, traditional food stalls of ethnic people, business matching process, technological booths, foreign machinery and products, small-scale industries and manufacturing cooperative societies.
Plans are underway to present digital trophies, certificates of appreciation and cash awards for products to winners in 31 genres in the product competition. Cash award winners can take cash from e-banking through the digital payment system.
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