Socio-economic Potentials:
1. Population and labour:
The whole commune has 1653 households, its population is 8138, and it is one of administrative units having the least population in the city (making up 1.35 percent of the city’s population). The natural population growth rate is 11 percent and the mechanical population increase rate is 2.5 percent. Compared the whole city, Tan Hanh Commune has a rather strong natural population growth rate. Its residents live mainly along the route No.760, majority of who are Kinh (also called Viet, the largest ethnic group in Vietnam) and minority of who are Chinese Vietnamese. Population density is 1,287 people per square kilometer, far lower than the city’s average density.
There are 4563 people under the working age, of who 4083 have stable jobs, 480 are jobless and 1700 are trained. The commune settles jobs for more than 400 people yearly, among whom policy beneficiaries are prioritized. People who are sent to be trained and who have stable jobs have contributed to improve the average income rate in the commune from VND6.3mil per person in 2000 to VND8.5mil per person in 2005. The gap between the rich and the poor also narrows.
2. Land:
The total land area is 606.08 hectares, of which agricultural land is 316.73 hectares, including:
Land for annual plants is 230.72 hectares, making up 82.64 percent of land for agricultural production. The using efficiency is rather high because most of vegetables are produced seasonally, which is suitable to the city’s common market demand. The remaining area of annual plants is used for rice crops, 83.54 hectares, yet the using efficiency is lower than vegetable planting area’s
Land for perennial plants: 48.45 hectares, making up 17.35 percent of land for agricultural production
Land for aquaculture: is 37.56 hectares, making up 11.86 percent of land for agricultural production.
Non-agricultural land: 289.35 hectares, making up 47.74 the natural land area, including,
Land for living is 75.45 hectares, making up 26.08 percent of non-agricultural land area. Land for living mainly lies along the route No.760 and some of hamlet connecting roads. Averagely, 481 square meters per household (102 square meters per person) indicates that the commune owns the largest average area of land for living in the city and this is a feature of a rural commune.
Land for special use is 127.54 hectares, making up 44.08 percent of non-agricultural land area. The land for public purposes accounts for 13.67 percent
Unused land: there is no unused land across the commune.
General Evaluation:
In general, land is used thoroughly and land-using structure is properly organized, suitable to conditions and characteristics of the commune.
Non-agricultural land makes up a rather large density in the land using structure in the commune, majority of which is land for non-agricultural production and business. Other non-agricultural land whose area is small yet has made an important contribution in boosting socio-economic development in the commune.
Agricultural land in the commune is rather large compared to the land for the main plants or annual plants. A wide range of agricultural land not only brings economic efficiency for land users but also protect environment, ecology and soil, making itself a potential to build and develop the city in the future.
3. Electricity - water
Currently, the national power grid has covered the whole commune and 98 percent of households already have power supplied.
The water supply does not meet the residents’ need. There is a water supply system serving for the route No.760 and it has not been expanded across the commune. Some of households that lie far away from the water pipe network have to use underground water and water from river. The rate of households being able to use clean water just gets 75 percent.
Wastewater drainage system: like some of wards and communes in the suburbs of the city, the wastewater drainage system was built just along the route No.760 so the other areas have their wastewater discharged to lakes and rivers. This shortcoming needs urgent solution in the coming time.
4. Landscape:
The commune does not have any beauty spots yet its Tan Hanh Temple is recognized as a historic relic.
5. Mineral resources: there is Dong Tan Stone Quarry
6. Traditional products: mainly ceramic art